GYMN-L Digest - 5 May 1996 to 6 May 1996

There are 12 messages totalling 245 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

1. Paul IS the man...
2. 1996 US Olympic Team
3. Level 10 Nationals
4. WG: Vaulting judging question
5. NCAA beam requirement question
6. Gloria Estefan video
7. spring floors
8. RESULTS: ROM-SUI Men
9. Olga Gontar-RSG
10. "Nadia" actors and re-intro
11. Traci Sommer
12. Please help!

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 07:04:14 -0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject: Paul IS the man...

I have seen this move in person... (actually he was up before me in a meet -
not the worlds - ... man was that impressive.)

>- Layout Guczoghy
> Paul O'Neill (USA), '92 Worlds

I met Paul when he was in college at HBU, he was doing plange pushups on
pbars and floor... grrr. (Try those Power Bar guy!!) If it wasn't for
Paul... I would have never been the gymnast I was.

Thanks Paul...

Mike

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 15:29:00 -0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject: 1996 US Olympic Team

I was wondering who everyone thought the Olympic Team would be consisted of.
(Women's) This is who I think (in no order):

Shannon Miller, Dominique Dawes, Dominique Moceanu, Amanda Borden, Jaycie
Phelps, and Kerri Strug with alternate Jennie Thompson

E-Mail me with your thoughts and your lists. Please noone take offense or
become angry about my list. It's just an opinion. Thanks!!

Angeletta

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 16:00:29 -0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject: Level 10 Nationals

Gymners,

Does anyone have any results from the Level 10 Nationals held this weekend?
I'm specifically looking for results of Chrissy Van Fleet (Region 8 champ.)
from Brown's Metro. Any info. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Gymnastically yours,

DAVID

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 13:01:19 -0700
From: ***@ASU.EDU
Subject: WG: Vaulting judging question

I watched the NCAA's yesterday and noticed a lot of gymnasts
landed with their feet far apart--I'd guess some of them about 1 ft.
apart. To my nonexpert eye, these landings look ugly, and it seems to me
that it's easier to stick a landing if you land with the feet apart
rather than right next to each other.
Is there a deduction taken for this kind of landing, and if so,
how much is deducted? And how hard is it to detect this sort of landing
when the judges are sitting on the side of the horse?

Leslie

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 15:39:15 -0500
From: ***@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU
Subject: NCAA beam requirement question

On beam, gymnasts are required to still do a full turn. Does an
allusion qualify as a full turn? It IS a full turn, but it is
supported by a hand at one point.

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 18:14:49 -0400
From: ***@FIR.FBC.COM
Subject: Gloria Estefan video

Caught the end of the new Gloria Estefan video on VH1 today.
I believe the song is being used as an Olympic theme song.
It showed shots of many athletes, among them Dominique M. and
Trent Dimas. This will probably start another discussion on
whether or not they should have used shots of Dominique before
she's even made the Olympic team. (At least it's not as bad
as the "Dan and Dave" Reebok Olympic ads from a few years back.)

- Tony

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 18:16:35 -0500
From: ***@ASTRO.OCIS.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject: Re: spring floors

I'll second Stephanie's comment about improved equipment leading to more
difficult and interesting skills.

I very nearly put a layout full into my floor routine for competition
before I could consistently do one in practice. The reason? We didn't
have a spring floor, but other gyms did. I'd get to warmups and throw
nice, high fulls when in my own gym they were...well...I'd land on my feet,
but that's the nicest thing I can say about it.

Also, I remember when we first got beam that was covered with something
other than carpeting. (I preferred wood beams to carpeted ones, for the
most part). All of a sudden those side aerials didn't hurt. Nice.

Funny. A number of my fond gymnastics memories are of using new equipment
for the first time. The first vaulting board with springs that actually
worked. (Who else remembers those boards with the wooden Ss instead of
springs?) My first time on a tumbling strip (ZOWIE! Those things'll throw
you up in the air). My first time in a pit.

Dating myself,
Ilene

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 18:18:50 -0400
From: ***@CLOUD9.NET
Subject: RESULTS: ROM-SUI Men

Results of a dual meet (optional exercises) between Switzerland and Romania,
held 27 April in Uznach, Switzerland:

1. ROM 46.10 46.875 45.95 47.00 47.00 45.75 278.675
1. Adrian Ianculescu 9.50 9.60 9.30 8.90 9.30 9.25 55.85
2. Cristian Leric 9.20 9.00 9.25 9.65 9.20 9.50 55.80
3. Nicolae Bejenaru 9.20 9.40 9.20 9.25 9.45 9.00 55.50
5. Nicu Stroia 9.00 9.35 8.95 9.30 9.20 8.95 54.75
9. Nistor Sandro 9.15 8.95 9.25 9.30 9.45 7.90 54.00
15. Dorin Petcu 9.05 9.525 8.50 9.00 8.50 8.40 52.975
-- Robert Taciulet 9.05 9.00 -- 9.50 9.60 9.05 ---

2. SUI I 45.55 45.05 45.40 46.45 46.05 46.875 275.375
4. Felipe Andres 9.45 8.85 9.20 9.00 9.30 9.40 55.20
6. Michael Engeler 9.15 9.25 9.05 9.45 9.30 8.35 54.55
7. Erich Wanner 9.25 8.85 8.60 9.30 9.15 9.15 54.30
8. Martin Fuchs 8.60 9.05 8.90 9.00 9.10 9.525 54.175
11. Dieter Rehm 8.80 8.40 9.20 9.70 9.05 8.60 53.75
12. Pascal Bollmann 8.75 8.55 9.05 8.80 9.20 9.30 53.65
13. Martin Weibel 8.90 9.05 8.45 9.00 8.65 9.50 53.55

3. SUI II 44.35 44.25 45.20 45.80 44.35 44.85 268.80
10. Matthias Wenger 8.85 8.75 9.10 9.20 9.10 8.95 53.95
14. Raphel Wey 8.70 9.35 8.65 9.10 8.20 9.25 53.25
16. Alexander Zeindler 9.05 8.35 9.05 9.20 8.65 8.65 52.95
17. Herbert Oberholzer 8.60 8.90 9.10 9.00 8.70 8.45 52.75
18. Martin Banzer 8.90 8.30 8.50 9.30 8.05 9.55 52.60
19. Sven Strassle 8.65 8.90 9.10 8.90 8.85 8.10 52.50
20. Roman Schweizer 8.85 7.55 8.85 9.00 9.05 8.25 51.55


Debbie

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 13:23:07 +0000
From: ***@ALOHA.NET
Subject: Olga Gontar-RSG

For RSG fans-please take a moment to reflect, pay tribute, and bid
farewell to Belarus' Olga Gontar on her untimely retirement due to
back problems. The 1993 European Junior Champion and 1995 European
Ball co champion was indeed one of the sport's brightest stars-the epitome of
elegance and control. Her most memorable routine(at least for me)
was her ball exercise to Pavarotti's "Caruso". I wish her
congratulations on her bright career but short lived career and good luck
in her aim to be a model as well as choreographer.
Anyone catch sight of her in the Paris runways yet?

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 20:46:12 -0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: "Nadia" actors and re-intro

Some of you were confused by my post about Trent. I don't want people to
take what I wrote the wrong way. Trent is still trying for 1996. He's just
going to a 2000 qualifier for practice. He hasn't had any meets so he's been
going to some of these types of meets just to practice competing so USAs
isn't his first meet. So, he isn't really competing against these 2000 guys.
He just wants to get himself in front of judges so he can see how his
routines score.

Sorry about the confusion.

Cindy

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 22:03:32 -0500
From: ***@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU
Subject: Traci Sommer

I know that NCAA's might have a limited interest here on the list, but
I want to take the time to point out the courageous work of Utah's Traci
Sommer last weekend. If you have seen the tape of her crash on uneven
bars (she released too late and landed on her neck on the high bar) you
have to marvel that she was even able to walk, much less nail the beam
set that CBS showed (undermarked and underappreciated at 9.90). The x-rays
were negative, and I'm assuming that Sommer was cleared by a medical staff
to compete, but the mental problems had to be just as painful. Sommer
really showed how tough she was last weekend.

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Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 23:18:11 -0400
From: ***@EMERALD.TUFTS.EDU
Subject: Please help!

I posted a note a few days ago about this and I am sorry to bother
everyone but... I am getting a new email acct and I am not sure how to
tell the listserv about it. Any help would be greatly appreciated-I don't
want to be cut off from the list! Thanks!

Melissa

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