We wish much luck to Stanford grad and '08 Olympic Team alternate, David Durante, as he prepares to take time off from gymnastics to live in Europe. Durante's friends and former teammates recently gathered at Stanford Coach Thom Glielmi's house for a farewell bash. Read about it at [...more]
Jonathan Horton signed an endorsement deal with GK Elite Sportswear, the world’s leading supplier of gymnastics apparel. The 2008 Olympic silver medalist on high bar, Horton is America’s leading gymnast and a force on the world scene. The former All-American Oklahoma gymnast is now training in Houston under Coach Tom Meadows. Horton, the newly crowned […] [...more]
What a great two days of gymnastics last week in Dallas! The 2009 U.S. Championships had unprecedented media coverage, led by a deluge of Twitter updates, topped off with a live Friday night webcast by Universal Sports and NBC's one-hour recap of the men's action on Saturday. @gymnastike and @Michigan_MGym provided great timely tweets and [...more]
According to Blythe Lawrence's blog at Examiner.com, a lot of exciting Junior assignments have been doled out by USA Gymnastics. Jake Dalton and John Orozco will be competing at the Japan Junior International Competition in Yokohama September 20-25. Dalton is now a freshman at Oklahoma. In fact he went straight from Dallas to Norman, OK right after VISAs. Dalton is also reportedly first in line for [...more]
The 2009 Men's World Team selections are now in the books. Leading the way, of course, is newly crowned U.S. All-Around Champion Jonathan Horton. Despite starting vet school next week, David Sender was selected to the team. Sasha Artemev successfully petitioned on to the team, but will have to prove he is adequately competitive by September. Danell Leyva proved at VISAs that he is now ready for [...more]
Jonathan Horton can finally claim that elusive prize of U.S. Men's Gymnastics National Champion. The anchorman of our men's program ran away with the title by a margin of 3.4 points over surprise runner-up Tim McNeill. Running on sheer talent and adrenaline, Horton was easily able to absorb a fall on [...more]
What a night! Jonathan Horton launched a late drive to overcome David Sender's otherwise dominating performance. Horton's 15.90 on what else, high bar, did the trick. Didn't he do something similar about this time last year in Beijing? Horton posted an astounding 91.25 to take the lead after Day 1. Who said he wasn't ready? David Sender charged to a commanding lead after posting outstanding scores of 15.85 on rings and 17.05 on vault. Correct us if we're wrong, but [...more]
It was John Orozco Day in Dallas. The Bronx Bomber started out with great scores on pommel (14.70) and rings (14.55) and never looked back. Orozco won a staggering five out of six events and finished fifth on vault. Every score was over 14.00 in a fascinating display of power and consistency. His all-around score of 86.85 blew away the field. As Gymnastike's Anne Phillips tweeted after the meet, "seriously we should just go ahead and put him on the senior team." [...more]
For those unable to attend, it looks like there will be live scoring for each session of the men's competition at VISAs. Additionally, there will also be a "quick hits" running commentary section. As a reminder, the second day of the Men's Senior Division competition will be webcast on Universal Sports. For those who have Universal Sports on their cable system, Day 2 [...more]
While the Senior Division will get all the television and webcast coverage this week, the Junior Division will also be providing some great competition. Looks like we'll have to rely on YouTube to see how these guys do. The 14-15 division will be awesome. As for the 16-18 division, the field is strong, but is weaker compared to the field that competed at JO Nationals. The top gymnasts who competed at JOs have either [...more]
