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I'm too sleepy to write anything sensible.
Here are links to the results of the Individual comeptitions.
Ryuzo Sejima (Senior; Rakunan H.S.), who had replaced Chihiro Yoshioka (Senior; Seifu H.S.), took the 2nd place with a score of 88.300, while Sho Yokoyama (Junior; Seifu H.S.) came in 5th (86.450) in the Senior Competition. In the Junior Competition, the Japanese young gymnasts did great, too. Congratulations!
I've just watched Uchimura doing "Ri Jong-Song" BEAUTIFULLY on the floor in Asahi TV's Hodo Station. I think it was taken during the warm-up time before the Nationals in November. (Tomita also appeared in the same program. He was talking about Uchi's sense of positioning in the air.)
Wow! What an amazing skill it is! I can't wait for the next season!!
The 2010 season starts with the 64th National Championships for Individual (Worlds Secondary Trials), which will take place at Yoyogi Gymnasium in Tokyo from May 8 to 9 (JGA Calender).
Before that, several top gymnasts are going to compete abroad.
According to JGA's official blog, international competitions their gymnasts are going to enter are as follows (FIG Calender):
International Gymnix (World Cup B) (Montreal, Canada; March 4-7):
To be announced.
Tyson American Cup (Worcester (MA), the US; March 6):
Koji Yamamuro (MAG), Yuko Shintake (WAG)
34th Turnier der Meister (World Cup B) (Cottbus, Germany; March 12-14):
Yosuke Hoshi, Koki Sakamoto, Takuya Niijima Yay!!!
Doha World Cup (World Cup A) (Doha, Qatar; March 22-24):
Kazuhito Tanaka, Hisashi Mizutori, Kazuki Machida
17th Internationeaux du France (World Cup A) (Paris, France; April 9-10):
Kohei Uchimura, Takuya Nakase
Hoshi, Gumba!!!
(I'm getting annoying . . .)
Makoto Okiguchi's name was suddenly dropped from the list for Cottbus. Why?
(from here)
This is the best photo of this year (to me.)
Here is a link to the official site of Valeri Liukin Invitational (WOGA). You can find some other photos of the rest of his (or her?) routines as well as those of humans.
And here is a link to the results. Takuto Kakitani (Senior; Rakunan H.S.) came in third in the individual. In the team competition, Japanese Jr. team came in second. Congratulations!
I really like this photo, too.
N. Liukin and Bhavsar.
They are beautiful people, aren't they? Very attractive.
They are American, at the same time they are not American.
That's what the greatness of America is about, I think.
Have you seen all of those photos posted on MAG's official blog?
It seemed this competition was chockablock with the chocolate snack in question.
I'll call this phenomenon "The Curse of Black Thunder" (or rather The Curse of Uchimura?)
I've no idea though who was cursed or what kind of curse it was apart from making people addicted to this snack.
I'm only worried about the diet habits of the Japanese gymnasts.
This is the "Black Thunder."
It's not so shockingly delicious, but it's extremely cheap.
I'm so happy that both Eiichi Sekiguchi and Takuya Nakase stood on the top of the podium this time because they really deserve it. They couldn't show what they could do at the Worlds, but, except that, both of them have been so great throughout this season. Overall, this year's Worlds was for event specialists (and Uchi), while their specialities are all-around and team. I'm already looking forward to their performance at the Nationals next spring.
By the way, I found Tomita in one some of those photos (wow, they keep posting tons of photos. What happened to them?).
Did you?
It's like an easier version of "Where's Waldo?"
Voronin Cup will take place tomorrow. I believe Ryuzo Sejima (Rakunan H.S. ) and Sho Yokoyama (Seifu H.S.) are going to make a senior debut in this competition. Good Luck!!!
