GYMN-L Digest - 9 Mar 1995 to 10 Mar 1995
There
are 18 messages totalling 710 lines in this
issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Pan Am: men's prelims (2)
2. Sports Illustrated (2)
3. SI jynx
4. Pan Am: Quotes
5. Jamie Hill out of Pan Ams
6. gymnast defense (2)
7. Pan Am Compulsories Question
8. Olympic Ticket Info
9. MY (attempt at an) INTRO
10. Questions on Keeping Booster Club
NCAA-legal
11. Pan Am games
coverage in the NY Times
12. I
hate subject lines
13. Juicy
Gossip
14. Pan Am: Women's
Prelims
15. Pan Am: Quotes and
Notes
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 21:22:48
-0700
From: ***@RMII.COM
Subject:
Pan Am: men's prelims
Results from AP (I think, maybe it was
UPI...):
Pan Am Games
Mar Del Plata, Argentina
Mar 9, 1995 --
Men's prelims
Team
1, Cuba, 276.625 points
2, United States,
275.700
3, Canada, 273.600
4, Argentina, 261.400
5, Mexico,
260.550
6, Peru, 254.200
7, Brazil, 250.450.
Individual
1,
Erick Lopez, Cuba, 56.500
2, John Roethlisberger, U.S., 56.300
3, Mihai Bagiu, U.S., 55.000
4,
Chris Waller, 54.900
5 (tie), Kristan Burley,
Canada, and Lazaro Lamelas,
Cuba, 54.550
7, Peter Manifred Schmidt, Canada,
54.450
8 (tie), Bill Roth, U.S., and Steve McCain, U.S., 54.400
10,
Damian Merino, Cuba, 54.075
11, Lawrence Travis Romagnoli,
Canada, 53700
12, Victor Colon Ortiz, Peru, 53.600
13, Francisco Lopez,
Mexico, 53.050
14, Felix Aguilera, 52.900
15, Chainey
Umphrey, U.S., 52.550
16, Alan Nolet, Canada, 52.300
17 (tie), Isidro Ibarrondo, Argentina, and Diego Lizardo,
Peru, 52.250
19, Jose Bolano, Mexico, 52.200
20,
Gabriel Chevere, Peru, 52.100
21, Andres Sanchez,
Mexico,52.050
22, Sebastian Alvarez, Argentina,
51.800
23, Marcelo Palacio, Argentina, 51.350
24, Eduardo Haro, Mexico, 50.350
25, Gustavo Piso,
Argentina, 50.100
26, Marco Monteiro, Bazil, 48.950
27, Fabricio
Olsson, Bazil, 48.900
28 (tie), Jose Mario Marzagao, Brazil, and Milciades
Santiago, Dominican
Republic,
48.600
30, Alexander Rangel Pineda, Columbia, 48.200
31, Manuel Bejarno, Venezuela, 47.450
32, Gilberto Figueira, Brazil, 46.850
33, Carlos Latorre,
Peru, 46.600
34, Leonardo Gonzalez, Columbia, 46.400
35 (tie), Eric Saavedra, Chile, and Enrique Trabanino,
El Salvador, 45.950
37, Victor Solorzano,
Venezuela, 44.250
38, Juan Carlos Colon Robles, Peru, 44.200
39, Sean
Grosvenor, Barbados, 3.050
Incomplete
Jason Papp, Canada,
45.900
Abel Driggs, Cuba, 45.750
Adriano Engelke, Brazil, 42.750
Fernando Menghi,
Argentina, 42.450
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 23:43:59
-0500
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: Sports Illustrated
>Miracle of miracles, this week's _Sports
Illustrated_ (Andre Agassi is on
the cover) has a
story about Shannon Miller's approaching old age and the
recent
American Cup.
You notice that whenever SI covers gym, it's with a
negative angle...
Mara
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 23:45:34
-0500
From: ***@TIGER.HSC.EDU
Subject:
SI jynx
But then every time SI has done a
positive story, that gymnast has fallen
to the
wayside....
Or is this just a gym rumor?
Julius
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 21:51:45
-0700
From: ***@RMII.COM
Subject:
Pan Am: Quotes
Pan Am notes, compiled from various newswires (AP, UPI,
Reuters):
-- Chainey Umphrey
and Steve McCain didn't complete required elements
on
compulsory high bar and received 7.45 and 7.85 respectively.
--
Canadian Jamie Hill cracked a bone in her left ankle and will not
be able to compete in the Pan-American Games. Per Lisa Simard (women's
team coach):
"It's not serious but enough to keep her out of the
competition.
She twisted her ankle when she landed badly during
practice
on Wednesday."
-- Gymnasts have faced more than the usual
difficulties polishing
their routines for the Pan
Am Games, because of what Coach Steve Nunno
described as "monsoon rain," which flooded the
practice facility and
created leaks in the
ceiling, soaking the equipment. "We brought all
the
private coaches of the athletes, so we all got together and moved
the equipment to dry areas," Nunno
said. "It made for good training
anyway."
Other
quotes:
John Roethlisberger: "As a team, we shouldn't be happy
with what we
did. We had too many misses and you
can't have that many misses in
compulsories. We'd
better come out and figure things out for
optionals, or it'll be a long trip home."
Steve
Nunno, re US women: "This is the best team the
U.S. has ever
sent to the Pan Am Games. We believe
that there is no question about
it: Our quest to
win the team gold medal will come true. At this time,
we
have the strongest contingent. There are many other strong
individuals in this competition, but we believe our goal to
win the
team gold medal comes first. Secondly, we
want to win as many
individuals medals as
possible. We are not concentrating on breaking a
record
for medals, but it very well could happen."
"Our depth is
one of our strengths. Losing any medals will come from
our
mistakes."
Kristy Powell: "I feel good and I feel confident,
but a little tired.
I'm looking forward to this competition. We have a good
team, and it
all depends on who hits their
routines."
Miller, re American Cup: "I was kind of
disappointed to not be in the
final round. But I
think it gave me some time to rest my body and to
get
ready for this competition."
Miller, re her 'old age': "I'm
not even the oldest gymnast here. I
don't think
age should have anything to do with it. It should have
more
to do with how well you perform. If I raise my difficulty (level)
this year, I can use next year to polish my routines.
Every
competition is important to me, for getting
my routines together."
--Rachele
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 00:08:20
-0500
From: ***@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU
Subject:
Re: Pan Am: men's prelims
Correction in the results: wherever you see
"Peru", substitute "Puerto Rico".
> 14, Felix
Aguilera, 52.900
WHAT?!?! Is this right? Felix had retired after Central
American-Caribbean
Games in Nov. '93 (there was a little ceremony and
everything). They must really be getting desperate
after the defections...
> 16, Alan Nolet,
Canada, 52.300
> 21, Andres Sanchez, Mexico,52.050
>
26, Marco Monteiro, Bazil,
48.950
> 31, Manuel Bejarno, Venezuela,
47.450
And besides Felix, the old men were really out in force...
:)
Adriana
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 00:20:37
-0500
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Jamie Hill out of Pan Ams
A note on Pan Ams from Reuters [snippets only <g>]
Canadian
Jamie Hill cracked a bone in her left ankle and will not be able to
compete in the Pan-American Games, women's gymnastics team
coach Lise Simard
said on Thursday.
``It's not serious but
enough to keep her out of the competition,''
Simard
said. ``She twisted her ankle when she landed badly during practice
With Lena Dejteva also not fully fit after a recent injury, the loss
of
Hill seriously hampers the Canadians' medal chances.
Mara
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 00:21:59
-0500
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: gymnast defense
All of the commentary in defense of the helpless
young lads and lasses who
participate in gymnastics
is understood and appreciated for the sentiment in
which
it is offered.
But when I see behavior akin to that of Mr. Scott
Keswick's televised
comments from Dortmund last
year, I would suggest that there is a time and a
place
when the flamethrowers should be loosed "with extreme prejudice."
In
other words, sometimes, the gymnasts EARN it,
and it is in the best interest
of the sport to
deliver the razzberries at the loudest volume
possible.
As to all other occasions, I take the side of Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, who
was known to have said
"if you can't say anything nice about somebody....come
sit by me!"
If you have any scathing commentary, please feel free to email
it to me for my personal, politically incorrect enjoyment.
;-) <-- Evil
Wink.
Perhaps
Gene and Ann Marie should see a copy of the Mogilny?
;-) <--- Satanic
Wink.
Take care, all.
David
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 00:49:34
-0500
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Pan Am Compulsories Question
At Santiago '91, they used watered-down
compulsories. Are they doing
that
here also?
Mara
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 05:40:50
-0700
From: ***@RMII.COM
Subject:
Olympic Ticket Info
This is reposted from rec.sport.olympics
for those of you who do not
have Usenet
access:
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject:
1996 Atlanta Ticket and Lodging information from USOC Ticket office
Date:
Thu, 9 Mar 1995 23:42:08 LOCAL
Organization: USA Volleyball National
Office
With the USOC still not on the Internet, I am taking
the time to post this information recently received at
USA
Volleyball National offices, as part of the help in
"keeping others informed."
From Warren Shanahan
- USOC Ticket Office
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 08:23:00
-0600
From: ***@HARRIER.SASKNET.SK.CA
Subject:
MY (attempt at an) INTRO
Hi everyone,
Here goes...
I'm
Dory ... a guy from Canada. I'm new
to PCs, new to the internet,
and
most obviously new to Gymn. I've been a gymnastics fan(atic) for about
13 or so years.
I did gymnastics myself at a recreational level for about
10 years (including back-yard gym!) learning little more than basic
tumbling.
I stay very involved with the sport as a fan,
photographer, penpal, video
collector, and overall gym-freak. Some of my photos have been in *IG*
over the past few years ... I try to get to several major
Canadian meets
every year (int'l would be nice,
but...$$$$).
I'll try to keep everyone up to date on what's going on
in Canada. (I
haven't seen much Canadian stuff in the back issues.) If you have any
questions,
let me know and I'll try to help.
Drop me a note and say hi
sometime.
Dory
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 13:36:25
-0500
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: gymnast defense
>Had the televised comment been shown in
>itsENTIRETY well, I don't think many people on gymn would have been upset,
>since
it was entirely directed to the coaches and NOT the girls. He was
>very
upset, as were the other guys and female gymnast that the coaches had
>multiple slots (due to their standing) to train and they
chose the one that
>conflicted with the men's
competition.
I had no intention about rehashing the entire Keswick
thing again. All
personal feelings, for or
against, aside, the facts in Mr. Keswick's case are
simple.
1.
He was upset with something the U.S. coaches did.
2. He chose to take the
entire issue to the media in his interview, rather
than
simply gloss it over.
3. He chose a public forum rather than an intramural
one.
4. As a result, his actions and his words cast American gymnastics
and
gymnasts in a highly negative light in front
of the world.
5. The wrong was in the method, NOT the message, so who he was upset with is
not
the issue.
Ergo sum, IMHO, a personal criticism of the man was
justified.
You may argue with that. This is your right, and THIS,
GYMN, is certainly the
forum to do so. My whole
point (the forest has been lost for the trees,
again)
is that we shouldn't shy away from criticizing gymnasts if, in our
opinion, they genuinely did something wrong, as long as such
criticism is
within the guidelines of the forum.
We can then debate it, as Mayland and I
have just done. But to return to the origin of this
thread--to put a
moratorium on criticizing
gymnasts because they are young, their feelings may
get
hurt, and we can't do what they do is to sink to the level of becoming
the Barneys of gymnastics, and I say that's dead wrong.
Disagree?
Email me.
David
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 14:44:01
-0500
From: ***@CAPACCESS.ORG
Subject:
Re: Sports Illustrated
I did once see and article in SI junior about
Dominique Moceanu
and
Jenny Thompson that wasn't bad.
Megan
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 14:21:20
-0700
From: ***@CSN.ORG
Subject:
Questions on Keeping Booster Club NCAA-legal
Hello,
I'm new
to this mailing list but need some advice before I have a chance to
lurk for a couple of months.
I'm the secretary of
the Berthoud Gymnastics Parents Group in Colorado. We
have a
couple of good Level 10 gymnasts and some very promising Level 8s.
Because
things are getting more expensive, traveling to meets, clinics, etc.
we need to start
doing some fundraising as a booster club.
I called USGF & they
said that basically anything goes.
However, they also
said that we should
check with NCAA since our 10s are potentially going to
want
to qualify for scholarships.
This is where it gets tricky. NCAA told me that the rules are so
complicated that I need to talk with NCAA compliance
officers at colleges to
get the guidelines on
what's appropriate. I have called
every college in my
state (Colorado) & can't
get the compliance officers to get back to me.
Meanwhile, we have state
& regional competitions coming up with some
potentially
huge bills for the parents of the kids who qualify. The other
parents
& kids are ready to start raising funds to help so we need to know
what has to be done to keep these kids eligible. (I understand that getting
them requalified can get
ugly. We'd rather do things right
from the start.)
Can someone, or several someones
on this list, offer me advice that you know
is
accurate? All I know now is that we
either need to base funding help on
need or to distribute it evenly. But I don't know what that means. Can we
distribute
funding evenly to all of the kids in a particular level or do we
have to fund our Level 10s equally with our Level 5s? What would cover the
yearly meet fees (including coaching expenses) for every
Level 5 would only
make a dent in one out-of-state
meet for our Level 10s. While we
don't
expect every one of our kids to get a
scholarship, we'd sure hate to mess
things up if
one of them did get an offer.
Thanks in advance,
Cindy
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 18:58:32
EST
From: ***@BBN.COM
Subject:
Pan Am games coverage in the NY Times
The coverage is in today's
(Friday 3/10) NY Times.
Actually, the coverage is of the fact that
money troubles are
causing countries to decrease
their participation, and that
the U.S.'s
participation may be even less next year.
For example, the U.S. this year
has sent "Olympic-caliber"
teams in
sports such as gymnastics, boxing, and cycling,
but
the men's basketball team was hampered by the
fact
that it's getting to NCAA playoff time.
As a tag/pointer to the
article about the PanAm games,
the
cover of the Times' Metro/Sports section features a picture
of a very focussed John
Roethlisberger in vault preflight.
(It's interesting in that it's a head-on
shot [as if you
were standing on the opposite side
of the horse, waiting
for him to either vault over
or into you!].)
>>Kathy
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 17:34:00
PST
From: ***@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU
Subject:
I hate subject lines
If you don't have anything nice to say..
..shout it from the highest mountaintop.
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 22:11:01
-0500
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: Juicy Gossip
>> This is as of yet
unsubstantiated, but I heard through my grapevine
> that
the REAL reason Stobvtchataia did not compete in the olympics
> is that she
refused to continue as an artist until Lyssenko
>>
put on a hairnet.
>I knew it. See, Lyssenko
again. Lyssenko,
Lyssenko, Lyssenko!
>She
always barges in. Remember Abrashitova? Hmph.
Lyudmila is just soooooooo
jealous of Tanya!
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 20:19:12
-0700
From: ***@RMII.COM
Subject:
Pan Am: Women's Prelims
This is from UPI newswires:
Pan
American Games
Mar del Plata, Argentina
March 10, 1995
Women's
Preliminaries
Team Competition
1, United States, 193.475
points
2, Argentina, 183.275
3, Canada 183.100
4, Cuba,
182.775
5, Brazil, 176.700
6, Bolivia, 134.800
Individual
standings
1, Shannon Miller, U.S., 39.375
2, Amanda Borden, U.S.,
38.925
3, Katie Teft, U.S., 38.525
4, Amy
Chow, U.S., 38.325
5, Annia Portuondo,
Cuba, 37.900
6, Kristy Powell, U.S., 37.275
7, Soraya
Carvalho, Brazil, 37.125
8, Leyanet
Gonzalez, Cuba, 36.875
9, Marleen Lavoie, Canada,
36.850
10, Aldana Simone, Argentina, 36.800
11,
Shanyn MacEachern, Canada,
36.750
12, Ana Destefano, Argentina, 36.725
13,
Jennifer Exaltacion, Canada, 36.750
14, Romina Plataroti, 36.525
15, Romina Mazzoni, Argentina,
36.375
16 (tie), Laura Alvarez, Argentina, and Theresa Wolf, Canada,
36.275
18, Lidia Hidalgo, Cuba, 35.900
19, Eileen Diaz, Peru,
35.850
20, Natalie Barrington, Canada, 35.350
21, Yureisy
Bermudez, Cuba, 35.300
22, Mariana Goncalvez,
Brazil, 35.250
23, Yaritza Yulian,
Peru, 34.650
24, Adriana Silami, Brazil,
34.200
25, Keli Tiemi Kitaura, Brazil, 34.050
26, Rocio
Salazar, Guatemala, 33.500
27, Graziella Emy Guerra, Brazil, 33.475
28, Veronica Maturana, Bolivia, 33.075
29, Jimena
Murtado, Bolivia, 28.875
30, Vera Maturana, Bolivia, 28.650
31, Lena Degteva,
Canada, 26.975
32, Maria Ines Mendez, Bolivia, 24.175
33, Maria Andrea
Velazquez, Bolivia, 20.025
34, Olivia Bogarin,
Paraguay, 13.700
35, Patricia Ramos, Paraguay, 8.200
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 20:44:44
-0700
From: ***@RMII.COM
Subject:
Pan Am: Quotes and Notes
Pan Am Quotes and Notes ... from UPI and
Reuters
-- Miller scored 9.9 on floor, 9.85 on beam, and her lowest
score of
the night was 9.825. She received a standing ovation from a
full
house after her floor. Her outstanding performance comes on her
18th
birthday. Romina Plataroti, ARG, is one day older than Miller, and
was serenaded by the crowd in the morning session.
--
Asked how she would celebrate her birthday, Miller replied: "I just
did."
Alex Bard, Canadian coach, re his team's
performance: "They pulled
together
tremendously and worked as a team to get over a spate of bad
luck." [Jamie Hill is out with an ankle injury and
three of the six
remaining competitors had their
ankles bandaged.] "It's a very
young
team. Only three had international
experience before. We're preparing
for the world
championships and then we'll see what gap we have left
(to
close) for the Olympics."
-- Steve Nunno
had picked Argentina for a medal.
Steve Nunno:
"This is the best we've brought to the Pan Ams.
We went
in rank order, with one exception, so this
is the best we could send.
They did a great job. We've never had this kind of depth
before. As
the U.S. team has gotten better and
better, many coaches have gotten
to work. We've
got a good mix of many girls from across the country."
Amanda
Borden: "We really pay a lot of attention to compulsories. In
our national competition, compulsories count for 60 percent
of our
final scores. That has made us really focus
on compulsories."
Nunno, re Miller's 'bounce
back': "If she has one bad meet, people
tend
to write her off. But she's missed before and come back. There's
no better gymnast in compulsories, and she proved that
tonight."
Miller: "I think any confidence I did lose, I
gained back here. But
I've still got three hard competitions left (team
finals, the all-
around and event finals). I've
got to work hard."
US Men...
Chainey
Umphrey: "We have a higher degree of difficulty,
but if you
miss your routine, it can take out a
lot of steam." ; "I don't know
how many
more points (the U.S. has in degree of difficulty), but
sometimes
that's not quite enough. We need to hit our routines. But
I'm sure that's
what (the Cuban coaches are) telling their guys. The
team
that wins is the one that hits their routines."
Bill Roth:
"What's done is done. We can't change that. We've already
put that out of our minds and we'll go on to tomorrow. We
have to do
our routines and get through them
unscathed. It comes down to who can
stay on the
apparatus."
-- The U.S. men held a team meeting before workouts
Friday, talking
about the importance of staying
focused and reducing mental
errors. Chris Waller:
"If we do as we discussed, we have a good
chance.
What we need to do is focus and come out doing what we know we
can do."
-- Mihai Bagiu said somebody on the U.S. staff will
keep and eye on
the Cubans' scores and monitor
their progress, but the gymnasts
themselves
weren't likely to do any scoreboard-watching. "They don't
tell us. It's better for us to just concentrate on our routines
and
see the scores at the end."
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End of
GYMN-L Digest - 9 Mar 1995 to 10 Mar 1995
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