Great news from Brussels: Romania won the team European gold last night, at the end of a wonderful competition! As Brigid said on ”The Couch Gymnast” page: “It sounds like the start of a joke. What do you get when you cross a senior citizen, an injury-addled Olympian, a wunderkind, a quiet achiever and a nervous [...]
Sandra Izbasa is working on a new vault. Actually she upgraded her layout Podkopayeva to a round off flic-flac with 1/2 turn on - stretched salto forward with 1/1 turn (6.1 difficulty score). With this vault and with her double twisting Yurchenko, she has a real shot to keep the European title she won last [...]
He is the first Youth Olympic Champion in the history of Romanian artistic gymnastics. He has also won Junior European gold on parallel bars in 2010. These two medals have come to complete the other silver and bronze medals he has won throughout his career. You might think we are talking [...]
Usually, we dont post about gymnastics from other countries, but this time I’ll make an exception because the routine I want to speak about really impressed me. In the last few days I have watched 3 uneven bars routines from Aliya Mustafina, the ones she performed at the Russian Nationals. Day by day her routine [...]
TRANSLATION:
Andreea Raducan: Diana, you´ve just come back from the American Cup but you are down with the flu now. Are you happy with your performance there?
Diana Chelaru: I´m not very happy, I didn´t do my routines the way I would have wanted to. I hesitated while I was hoping to do better. But these things [...]
From CovasnaMedia:
Catalina Ponor, the 2004 Athens Olympic Champion, gives us a lesson of will and strength in everything she does. At an age when many gymnasts are giving up the sport, Catalina, 24, decided to come out of retirement and reconfirm her position in elite gymnastics.
After a 4 year break, a coaching experience in the [...]
Sandra had to go through 2 other surgeries last year but says she will go till the end and get to her second Olympics.
She has experienced all possible emotions from the joy of the Olympic, World and European medals to the disappointment of failures and injuries but she is still anxious for the London [...]
An interview with Ana Porgras about her retirement, via Prosport:
Prosport: Ana, how are you?
Ana: I’m fine, at home with my sister.
Prosport: With or without gymnastics?
Ana: Without. I retired from gymnastics.
Prosport: Why did you make this decision?
Ana: I had my reasons and I would like not to speak about them. But I reached one point where [...]
From GSP:
There´s snow and sun. And there has been snow and sun since Tuesday at the National Sports Complex in Piatra Arsa, in the Bucegi mountains. “Only the rainbow is missing!” says one of the employees.
- Where do the snow flakes come from when the sky is blue?
- I think the window blowing [...]
From Adevarul:
“I didn’t want to regret not trying, so I said I would try first and see what would happen.
Nadia supports me emotionally; any support from her is welcome.
My dream is to play the piano, I like it.”
Adevarul: You bravely decided to come back this year after a pretty long break, a tough decision to [...]
