GYMN-L Digest - 31 Oct 1995 to 1 Nov 1995 - Special Issue

There are 9 messages totalling 508 lines in this issue.

Topics in this special issue:

1. November GYMN Calendar
2. basic gymn question-the book (sorry)
3. Statistics
4. Serious injuries... (2)
5. Moceanu, Olympics, older gymnasts
6. Serious Injuries....
7. current juniors
8. Juniors and Mukhina

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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:17:04 -0500
From: ***@DELPHI.COM
Subject: November GYMN Calendar

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The Gymn Calendar

Anyone that has any events to add to this calendar, please mail them
to me. Please include date, event name,
type of event, and location. All events on this calendar are subject
to change. -- John
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November 1995
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3-4 Int'l Gymnastics Challenge (M/W)/ Pretoria, South Africa
6-13 Sports Acro World Championships/ Wroclaw, Poland
11 European Junior Team qualifier (W)/ Guildford, Great Britain
11-12 British Age Group Championships (W)/ Guildford, Great Britain
11-12 Central Florida Gymn. Assoc. Invit./ Sanford, FL
16-17 Pre-Olympic Invitational (M/W)/ Atlanta, GA
17-19 British Men's Championships/ Nottingham, Great Britain
24-26 DTB Cup/ Stuttgart, Germany
25 Individual Challenge Cup (W)/ Ashford, Kent, Great Britain
25 Yorkshire Open (M)/ Leeds, Great Britain
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December 1995
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1-3 Swiss Cup/ Zurich, Switzerland
1-3 European Junior Championships Team Final/ Charleroi, Belgium
2-3 Peppermint Twist (W)/ Champlin, MN (Twin City Twisters :)
7-9 Grand Prix/ Birmingham, England
9 Peter Tulit Memorial Cup (M)/ Kiskunhalas, Hungary
15-17 Cup of Pinokkio-Buratino (M/W)/ Novgorod, Russia
16-17 Chunichi Cup/ Nagoya, Japan
18-22 Junior International/ Canberra, Australia
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January 1996
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21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

13 West Point Open/ West Point, NY
13-14 Texas State Governor's Cup (W)/ Schreiner Col., Kerrville, TX
13-14 Maryland Classic (W)/ Quince Orchard H.S., Gaithersburg, MD
27 Reese's International Gymnastics Cup (M/W)/ Portland, OR
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February 1996
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29

1-4 Gemini Club Cup (W)/ Oldsmar, FL
2-3 USAG Winter Cup Challenge (M)/ Colorado Springs, CO
2-4 Mount Royal Chinook Classis/ ???
3 British Rhythmic Group Championships/ Hinckley, Great Britain
9-10 East Coast Classic (W)/ Showcase Arena, Upper Marlboro, MD
9-11 American Classic (W)/ Tulsa, OK
11 London Open (M)/ London, Great Britain
16-18 Buckeye Classic (W)/ Columbus, OH
17-18 British Men's Team Championships/ Liverpool, Great Britain
17-18 Columbia Challenge (W)/ U. of Maryland, MD
17-19 USAG Rhythmic Challenge/ Colorado Springs, CO
24-25 Chesapeake Challenge (W)/ Baltimore Armory, Baltimore, MD
29-3/2 American Cup (M/W)/ TBA
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March 1996
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3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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2-3 Paris International (?)/ Paris, France
2-4 Tulsa Coed Classic (M/W)/ Tulsa, OK
5 USAG International Mixed Pairs (M/W)/ TBA
8-10 Nation's Capital Cup/ Bullis School, Potomac, MD
8-10 Pikes Peak Cup (?)/ Colorado Springs, CO
23-24 British Rhythmic Championships/ Bletchley, Great Britain
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April 1996
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12 NCAA Regionals (W)/ Penn State (North)
13 NCAA Regionals (M)/ Iowa City, IA (East), TBA (West)
13 NCAA Regionals (W)/ UCLA (West), TBA (South,Central,Midwest)
15-21 Artistic Apparatus World Championships/ San Juan, Puerto Rico
18-20 USAG Collegiate Championships (M/W)/ Seattle, WA
25-27 NCAA Nationals (W)/ Tuscaloosa, AL
26-27 NCAA Nationals (M)/ Palo Alto, CA (Stanford)
27-28 USAG Elite zone championships (W)/ TBA
TBA USAG Collegiate Nat'l Invit. Tournament/ TBA
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May 1996
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5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31

TBA Canadian National Champs. (M/W)/ Sault St. Marie, Ontario
2-5 Junior Olympic Nationals (W)/ Duluth, GA
4-5 Eastern Open (R)/ Macon, GA
10-12 Junior Olympic Nationals (M)/ Tulsa, OK
11-12 Western Open (R)/ Seattle, WA
11-12 Women's Europeans (W)/ Birmingham, England
16-19 U.S. Classic (W)/ TBA
25-27 U.S. Gymnastics Festival (?)/ TBA
28-6/1 ??? U.S. National Championships (M/W)/ Knoxville, TN
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June 1996
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5-8 ??? U.S. National Championships (M/W)/ Knoxville, TN
21-23 Rhythmic World Championships/ Budapest, Hungary
25-26 U.S. Olympic Team Trials (R)/ Wang Center, Boston, MA
Contact: Bob Colarossi, phone 617-443-4909
27-30 U.S. Olympic Team Trials (M/W)/ Fleet Center, Boston, MA
Contact: Bob Colarossi, phone 617-443-4909
29-7/1 USAG Congress/ Boston, MA
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July 1996
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7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

15-29 Olympics Artistic Competition
15-18 Podium Training
20 Men's Compulsories
21 Women's Compulsories
22 Men's Optionals
23 Women's Optionals
24 Men's All-Around
25 Women's All-Around
28 Event Finals: Men's FX, PH, SR, Women's V, UB
29 Event Finals: Men's V, PB, HB, Women's BB, FX
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August 1996
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31

1-4 Olympics Rhythmic Competition
1 Individual Preliminaries, Group Preliminaries
2 Individual Preliminaries, Group Finals
3 Individual Semifinals
4 Individual Finals
12 Gymn's Fourth Anniversary
16-27 Xth Paralympic Games/ Atlanta, Ga.
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September 1996
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8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30

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October 1996
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6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31

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November 1996
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12-17 Pacific Alliance Championships (?)/ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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December 1996
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15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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August 1997

13-16 USA National Championships (M/W)/ TBA
14-17 USAG Congress
31-9/12 World University Games, Sicily, ITA
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July 1998

25-8/9 Goodwill Games, New York, N.Y.
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Summer 1999

TBD World University Games, Palma de Mallorca, ESP
24-? XIIIth Pan American Games, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CAN
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September 2000

16-10/1 Games of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Sydney, AUS
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October 2000

21-11/1 XIth Paralympic Games, Sydney, AUS
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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 16:39:12 PST
From: ***@LSS.CO.ZA
Subject: basic gymn question-the book (sorry)

Julissa Gomez was paralyzed doing a Yurchenko at a competition in Japan.
She died a few years later, I think.
Wasn't this one of the sories in Little Girls In Pretty Boxes? Recently
there has been an article in a magazine about Julissa. The title was Little
Girls..... It only showed the bad points of gymnastics. It didn't mention
anything about clubs like Cincinnatti, (I think Mary Lee Tracy and Kelli
Hill are the two best coaches in the world!!), who encourage the gymnasts to

speak freely to their coaches and enforce a strong Christian belief.
From what I read I would never, ever want to read *THE BOOK*

Helen.

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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:48:28 -0700
From: ***@RMII.COM
Subject: Statistics

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| * Hungary 1
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| * Italy 1
| * Malaysia 1
| * Mexico 1
| * Netherlands 2
| * New Zealand 2
| * Norway 2
| * Portugal 2
| * South Africa 3
| * Spain 2
| * Sweden 3
| * Ukraine 1
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:13:00 GMT
From: ***@SHU.AC.UK
Subject: Serious injuries...

To add to the serious injuries list, Elena Mukhina (1978 world champion) was
of course paralysed from the neck down in a fall in 1980 shortly before the
opening of the Moscow Olympics. I read somewhere that she had a fall from
bars, and somewhere else that she landed on her neck during a floor routine
in training. I also remember reading that her training hadn't been going
well, and that she was training alone, whithout anyone spotting for her, in
a last ditch attempt to make the USSR team, but I don't know if this is true
or not.

I remember in the British press at the time, that there were rumours that
she had been killed, but these proved to be unfounded.

Claire.

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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 08:36:14 -0500
From: ***@EAGLE.LHUP.EDU
Subject: Re: Moceanu, Olympics, older gymnasts

A full twisting Shush is a "D" value.

Julie

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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:40:21 -0500
From: ***@MOOSE.UVM.EDU
Subject: Serious Injuries....

Hi, my name is Liz, and I'm a new subscriber. I am a freshman at
the University of Vermont, and I'm on the gymnastics team. I was a Level
9 in Connecticut last year, and I had a serious injury at the beginning
of the season last year.
I was warming up a handspring front vault in a meet and I opened up
too soon and landed on my neck. I had to have surgery done (a spinal
fusion) and my doctor told me that in my type of injury (dislocated
cervical vertabrae) only 5% of the people ever move again. My vertabrae
were about 1 mm away from severing my spinal cord, and every one thinks
that I'm crazy to try to do gymnastics again, but I only saw it as
another injury. I'm very lucky and by all means I should be a
quadrapeligic right now, but someone must be looking out for me.
Gymnastics is a very serious and dangerous sport, but with proper
training, accidents and injuries are avoidable. People only usually
hear about the famous and/or well known gymnasts that sustain serious
injuries but I just wanted every one to know that there are more than
just one or two gymnasts out there that have been seriously injured and
at risk of paralysis.
I just wanted to say, also , that I very much enjoy reading posts
from the Gymn Forum and that they are very informative. :)

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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:55:37 -0400
From: ***@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU
Subject: current juniors

Is there an age limit to the junior competition level? Is there a ranking for
gymnasts who are currently at the junior level? If so, who are the top 10? If
not, which gymnasts are consistently at the top of junior competitions? Also I
am new to this forum and I was wondering how a gymnast progresses to
competition at the elite level? Also is the cost of training at the elite level
at gyms such as Karolyis, Nonno's, and Hill's staggering?
LeeAnne

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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:59:07 -0500
From: ***@GATEWAY.US.SIDWELL.EDU
Subject: Re: Serious injuries...

> To add to the serious injuries list, Elena Mukhina (1978 world champion) was
> of course paralysed from the neck down in a fall in 1980 shortly before the
> opening of the Moscow Olympics. I read somewhere that she had a fall from
> bars, and somewhere else that she landed on her neck during a floor routine
> in training.

I heard she got injured on floor. This was mentioned in the videotape
"Gymnastics Greatest Stars" (which, BTW, is a pretty decent historical
overview of men's and women's gymnastics from the 1964 Olympics to the 1984
Olympics, with few glimpses of people before and after that. Some great
footage of old bars routines, when the women would pause in between
difficult tricks. Kind of like my routine now :). Watch any gymn
competition on ABC and you'll see a commercial for it.)

> I also remember reading that her training hadn't been going well, and that
> she was training alone, whithout anyone spotting for her, in a last ditch
> attempt to make the USSR team, but I don't know if this is true or not.

I think she was trying to come back from another injury a few weeks
before the Moscow Olympics. A coach (not her regular coach) was pushing
her to try a really hard skill (a Thomas? Although I couldn't tell you
what a Thomas was :) and she was kind of scared, but she went for it
anyway, landed on her neck, and cracked her spine.

Someone (Beth?) posted an article about Mukhina a while back; maybe she
still has it and could repost it? At any rate, it's in the
digests...somewhere :).

Lisa

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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:25:56 -0600
From: ***@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU
Subject: Juniors and Mukhina

I don't know about a junior international ranking, since there is not
a junior world championships, but there is the Japan meet, which has
fielded some pretty impressive gymnasts over the years. As for the US
juniors, I would assume their ranking would be based on the US Junior
Championships right now. So, this would be the ranking...

1)Mina Kim
2)Vanessa Atler
3)Alexis Brion
4)Kristen Stucky
5)Robin Phelps
6)Jamie Dantzscher
7)Breanne Rutherford
8)Kaitie Dyson
9)Jeanette Antolin
10)Rebecca Whitehurst

The complete nationals results are on the GYMN homepage.

BTW, Atler and Dantzscher were fourth and seventh, respectively at the
Japan junior competition.

And the Mukhina article on GYMN is probably somehwere around March or
April of 1995.

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