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Notes from Brussels -1

Chusovitina announces retirement
Well, sort of. She told the German media after team prelims that she plans on calling it quits after the London Games, indicating that she would then concentrate on her role as head coach of the Uzbek team. Chusovitina, who turns 37 next …

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2012 Europeans: Junior Qualifications Subdivision 3

Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Czech Republic, Belarus, Austria and Latvia are in this last subdivision.
Rotation 4
Switzerland FX
Hitz -double pike (stuck), double turn, double back, front layout – front 1/1 (fall), 2/1.
Schreiber – double pike, double back, front layout – front tuck, front 1/1.
Schulte – …

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2012 Europeans: Junior Qualifications Subdivision 2

At the second subdivision there is Belgium Hungary, Russia, Norway, Germany, France, Spain, Ireland.
Rotation 4
Spain BB
Colom – free aerial, flic – layout (fall), switch leap – free cartwheel, Y turn (fall), tour jeté, split sequence, front layout off.
Gamell – free aerial (check), free cartwheel, wolf …

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2012 Europeans: Junior Qualifications Subdivision 1

Good morning from Brussels. Junior qualifications start at 13:00 (CET Time) with Romania in the first subdivision.
Rotation 5
Great Britain BB
Hockenhull -wolf jump – scissone, free aerial – flic, switch leap, switch 1/2, turn, free cartwheel (tiny wobble), side somi, side split jump, ro – double …

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2012 Europeans: WAG Senior Podium Training

Good morning from Brussels, today it is WAG Senior Podium training with the three main contenders for the European title Italy, Romania and Russia are competing in the first subdivision. Since The All Around will, unfortunately, leave before Senior qualifications for a last minute schedule …

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2012 Europeans: WAG Predictions Teams

The All Around, as usual for a big competition, has tried to predict the outcome of this year European Championships. To do this, we have used our scores database.
This is a prediction based on actual competition results. We aknowledge the difference in scoring between competitions …

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Interview with Octavian Bellu

Romania left the 2011 World Championships with no medals at all for the first time in 30 years. Probably not what coaches Octavian Bellu and Mariana Bitang had expected. The couple was brought in to revamp the stagnating programme after the Romanian team placed only …

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Romania Dominates, Jarosch in Doubt for Europeans

Hosts Germany took on Romania and Great Britain in a tri-meet in Ulm – a town between Stuttgart and Munich which is home to the world’s highest church tower -  on 28 April. Romania, Great Britain and Germany placed fourth, fifth and sixth respectively at …

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WAG Rankings

The All Around is tracking 2012 Scores and with all this data we have compiled a ranking of the top gymnasts of the year.
Methodology: All Around Total and D scores are from a single competition, we have not taken the highest scores from different competitions …

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Germany Names Team for Brussels

The German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) today named the junior and senior teams that will compete at the European Championships in Brussels in two weeks. Well almost. Head coach Ulla Koch named only seven of the ten gymnasts today – four seniors and three juniors. The …

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