Thursday, February 28, 2013

Another Quad Begins

Seven months removed from London a new crop of gymnasts with some veterans are in WorcesterMassachusetts in what will be as start of the long and twisted Road to Rio. American Cup podium training was today for the competition which is on Saturday. Katelyn Ohashi and Simone Biles are making their senior international debut with Kyla Ross doing a beam exhibition although she trained on all four apparatus. After watching both the men's and women's trainings today the ladies get more done more efficiently most of the men's rotations especially on pommel horse and parallel bars then actual routines or skills.

Women's podium training part one in full. Follows the US Women as they train beam routines, vault timers, floor timers and bar routines.


In the second training the ladies did floor routines and vaults.
Simone's Floor

Vault


Katelyn's Floor

Vault


Men's training

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Tennis Reality Show



So I saw this tweet and thought that there should be a reality show of making people do what they are going to if something happens or not. 
Like this...

LORELAI: Yes, but I've been testing people who have "honk" bumper stickers lately to see if they really want people to honk. Guess what? They don't. I lay on my horn, and this alleged scuba diver slows to a crawl in front of me just out of revenge, and I'm screwed.

EMILY: You need a hobby.

LORELAI: Yes, actually.

EMILY: Come on, Rory's waiting.

(They walk into the living room.)

RORY: Hey, what happened?

EMILY: She honked.

RORY: Oh, another bumper sticker test.

LORELAI: I just thought up a great idea for a reality show. You pull people over who have those "honk if you love whatever" bumper stickers, you kidnap them, and you make them do whatever the bumper sticker says they like to do, whether they do it or not. And then you make them eat bugs. (x)


My take on all this is that Rafa will be there if he is there and if not he won't be.  

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Reign Change?



Tomorrow Serena Willams will stand one match away from reaching the number one ranking for the first time since she surendered it on October 11th, 2010 to Caroline Wozniacki. It would be her 124 week at number one which is sixth all time weeks in the top spot. After all she has been through since she last held the ranking it will be a nice achievement to become the oldest WTA number 1 at 31 years and 4 months old. If Petra were to defeat Serena tomorrow then Maria Sharapova could take over number one for the 22nd week if she wins the title. Victoria Azerenka would retain the ranking otherwise. 

Complete Order of Play for Doha Quarterfinals:

Starting 3:30 pm Local (7:30 am est)
Sharapova (3) v. Stosur (8)
followed by: Azerenka (1) v. Errani  (6)
followed by: Kvitova (9) v. S. Willams (2)
Not Before 8:30 pm Local
Radwanska (4) vs Wozniacki (10)

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Fashion Athletes

It is fashion week in New York City and Nastia Liukin is on the case in between NYU classes of course. Maria Sharapova also seems to be keeping up with the shows from Doha.










Aly Raisman has also been taking in the new fall fashions.

Photo: Getty