GYMN-L Digest - 31 May 1996 to 1 Jun 1996

There are 10 messages totalling 241 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

1. GRAND PRIX OF ROME: 1996 (WAG).
2. Chari Knight/JO Results (3)
3. Statistics
4. More announcer bloopers
5. Elena
6. Olympic Trials TIME CHANGE (Men)
7. Olympic Trials Tickets
8. Rhythmic Euro's Team Results...

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Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 17:21:32 -0600
From: ***@ZEPHYR.MEDCHEM.PURDUE.EDU
Subject: GRAND PRIX OF ROME: 1996 (WAG).

I just wanted to add some information about this competition for the list.
I gathered from what I saw at the WWW page (which is in Italian!) that
Pods won the event plus every event final. However, DINA KOTCHEKOVA (YEAH!)
was second on all events except one (including all around). Piskun was third.
Two romanians also competed but were out of the medals. However, one
INTERESTING note is the fact that Piskun, Pods, and Dina all scored 9.80
on beam. I haven't seen Piskun be this consistent on this apparatus
in awhile. I guess she has finally gotten the mental stuff down pat and
can just perform. Is she still throwing the tucked full that used to
give her problems?


Jeff

Dina, Dina, Dina.

Thanks for the info about FIGU.

Chechi only did two (or three) events in all around.

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Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 17:46:28 +0000
From: ***@RMII.COM
Subject: Re: Chari Knight/JO Results

> I was just looking at the results of the '96 Jr. Olympic
> Championships that was held in Georgia earlier this month, on USA
> Gymnastics Online
> and it had Chari Knight Hunter as the AA winner in the 17 an up
> group.
> This couldn't be the same Chari Knight formerly of Oregon State
> could it?

Yes, it's the same one! She decided she wasn't finished competing,
and so six weeks before JOs she went into the gym, trained her sets,
and tied for first AA. I think it's great! Reportedly she looked
fantastic. However, some parents were disgruntled, saying she
shouldn't be allowed to compete since she was so much older and had
so much more experience.

Rachele

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Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 18:15:23 +0000
From: ***@RMII.COM
Subject: Statistics

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Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 19:24:50 -0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: Chari Knight/JO Results

It sure was the very same Chari Knight. I judged beam at our Regionals, and
she has lost nothing since college!

>
>I was just looking at the results of the '96 Jr. Olympic Championships
>that was held in Georgia earlier this month, on USA Gymnastics Online
> and it had Chari Knight Hunter as the AA winner in the 17 an up group.
>This couldn't be the same Chari Knight formerly of Oregon State could it?
> Does anyone know about this? It had her gym listed as NAAG in Oregon.
>She also won balance beam so it makes me wonder even more.

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Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 19:27:30 -0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: Chari Knight/JO Results

My guess is that those parents wouldn't have been upset had their daughter
beat Chari. Where else is a 24 year old supposed to compete? This sport
does not have a Master's category or anything of the sort. Perhaps if all
our college athletes started to compete JO after they graduated we would have
a program that could keep competitors going well into their 30's or beyond.

>Yes, it's the same one! She decided she wasn't finished competing,
>and so six weeks before JOs she went into the gym, trained her sets,
>and tied for first AA. I think it's great! Reportedly she looked
>fantastic. However, some parents were disgruntled, saying she
>shouldn't be allowed to compete since she was so much older and had
>so much more experience.

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Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 20:52:28 -0400
From: ***@UKY.CAMPUS.MCI.NET
Subject: Re: More announcer bloopers

Peter Vidmar asked me to post this for him:

>Joy Anne,
>Thanks for the honest criricism of my commentary about Silvia Mitova's dance
>in her floor routine on the Triplecast. You should see *my* lack of dance
>skills! I'll try to do better next time.
>P.S. I'm glad to see there's another person out there that actually
>subscribed to the triplecast. For a while I thought just my family signed up.
>Maybe we reached a double digit audience after all! All the best,
> Peter Vidmar
>
>

Chris

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Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 22:37:50 -0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject: Elena

I thought the move Elena Mokina was paralysed by was a full twisting double
back, or did she just invent the move?

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Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:04:51 +0000
From: ***@RMII.COM
Subject: Olympic Trials TIME CHANGE (Men)

I just received the following from USA Gymnastics:

Men's 1996 Olympic Trials Optional Competition Time Change

USA Gymnastics has been notified by NBC that they now plan to show LIVE
coverage of the Men's Optional Competition on Saturday evening June 29. This
is a great opportunity to promote men's gymnastics to the American public.
However, in order to do the live coverage, it is necessary to move the start
time of the Saturday competition from 4:00 pm to 3:00 pm.

USA Gymnastics and Massachusetts Sports Partnership regret any inconvenience
that this will mean for gymnastics fans that have purchased tickets to this
competition in the Fleet Center, but hope that the fans will realize the
tremendous benefit to men's gymnastics offered by the LIVE coverage. For
attendees of the 1996 USA Gymnastics National Congress, the 2:00-3:00 pm round
of presentations has been CANCELED (except for one rhythmic session). The
final round of sessions offered on Saturday will be #4, 12:45-1:45 pm. PLEASE
NOTE: All Congress sessions that were scheduled for the 2:00-3:00 pm time-slot
have been rescheduled during other posted Congress time-slots. (None of these
sessions were eliminated)

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rachele

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Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 01:25:27 -0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject: Olympic Trials Tickets

Hello Everyone!

One of the coaches at our gym has three full packages of tickets (meaning
three seats at each event, men's and women's) available for sale at face
value. He is willing to sell them individually or as a package. If you are
interested, send me email privately and I will send you his name and phone
number. Anyone who responds will have "first come, first serve" priority so
respond quickly! Respond to: ***@AOL.COM See ya!

Doug

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Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 09:53:43 GMT
From: ***@YUCCAMAN.DEMON.CO.UK
Subject: Rhythmic Euro's Team Results...

From a hastily read German teletext page, it appears the Euro 96 Rhythmic
Team medalists are:

1 - Ukraine
2 - Belarus
3 - Bulgaria

Hope to provide the individual results later today....

Rob

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