Cal sophomore Kyle Bunthuwong was added to the previously announced U.S. squad that will compete in next month's Japan Cup. Bunthuwong, a current member of the U.S. Senior National Team, will be joining his former Cal teammate, [...more]
Gymnastike posted an interesting interview with Ron Brandt, the National Team Coordinator for USAG. Brandt discussed the growing amount of scholarship opportunities for men who wish to continue in the sport at the collegiate level. USAG has a scholarship fund which doles out about $30,000 to athletes every year. Fifty percent of the money collected each year is awarded each year, with the remaining half staying in the fund. The fund now has over $700,000, [...more]
The 2009 Japan Cup will take place July 18-20 in Chiba City. The event will feature individual and international team competition with teams from the U.S., Australia, China, Japan, Germany, Russia and Korea. It will be the first team competition under the new 5-3-3 system. According to the event's website, [...more]
Featured on the USOC website, the irreverent Mike and Myles Show took to the gym to find out exactly how tough men's gymnastics really is. Mike Blatchford and Myles Porter both train at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. Blatchford is an Olympic Track cyclist and Porter is a visually-impaired Paralympian in judo. This year they have teamed together to put together [...more]
Sho Nakamori is a hard-working, cerebral member of the men's gymnastics community. Not only is he an eight time All-American and member of the U.S. Senior National Team, he is also a CGA National Academic All-American. Nakamori just completed his undergraduate career by earning degrees in International Relations and Japanese Studies. His recent tweet on Twitter said it all - "snakamori done with school. now, focus=gymnastics." Now that his studying days are over, for the time being at least, Nakamori is focused like a laser beam to earn [...more]
As expected, Chuck Chmelka has replaced Francis Allen as Nebraska's men's gymnastics head coach. Allen announced his resignation last week after forty years on the job. Chmelka has been coaching at Nebraska since 1982, after competing there from 1978-1981. Current assistant coach, Jim Hartung, will remain on staff as assistant coach. Chmelka and Hartung know what it's like to win a national championship as they won three titles when they competed together in '79, '80 and '81. Hartung went on to enjoy one more title in 1982, and is a two-time Olympian. Apparently Chmelka and Hartung will be under the gun [...more]
Today on her nationally syndicated radio program, Dr. Laura Schlessinger tore into the sport of gymnastics in response to one of her caller’s inquiries about her seven-year-old daughter. Apparently Dr. Laura did not approve of the sport for children at all, saying that it was bad for the child’s physical development and that it was […] [...more]
Legendary Nebraska Head Gymnastics Coach Francis Allen announced his retirement effective July 1. Allen has had an amazing career which spans forty years, in which his teams won eight national championships. Hired at the age of 26, he is still a very young man. Among the highlights of his career was coaching Nebraska gymnast Trent Dimas to a gold medal on high bar at the '92 Barcelona Olympics, which were the games where Vitaly Scherbo won an unprecedented six gold medals. Allen had the pleasure of rubbing elbows with such luminary football coaches as [...more]
Stanford All-American gymnast, Sho Nakamori, has launched a new blog that will chronicle his quest to make the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team. The blog, while new, is jam-packed with interesting information about Nakamori's life, interests, and hopes. His about page is a very interesting bio including his fond memories of [...more]
U.S. Olympian Joey Hagerty finished third out of a field of eight at the Champions Trophy event today in Frankfurt, Germany. The competition was the first of four All-Around meets being held this year in German cities. According to Hagerty, it is doubtful that he will compete [...more]
