HALIFAX / OTTAWA The Halifax 2014 bid committee today, Feb. 16, announced which sports it will include in its bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games. One of the most important components in the overall bid, the sport program will maximize legacy and benefits for Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and the Commonwealth.
If Canada is [...]
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I've seen and heard of more serious accidents from a seemingly harmless skill than from any other single difficult skill.
What is it?
Cast to low bar. Then jump from low to high bar. (There are 2 places where kids are often injured.)
The frequency of injury has increased steadily as the rails have widened for [...]
Sport Scoring Artistic Gymnastics:
The Team result comprises the four best results (out of a maximum of seven) of each Province/Territory on each apparatus from the Team Finals.
The Individual All-Around result is the total of the scores obtained by a gymnast during the Individual All-Around Finals.
The Apparatus Final result is [...]
Whitehorse Yukon Canada
The 2007 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse, Yukon is set to become the most televised Canada Games ever in the 40 year history of the competition.
TSN and RDS along with Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and CBC Sports will be the official broadcasters of the Games, scheduled to take place from February 24 to [...]
Gymnastics BC’s Women’s Canada Games Team won their category at this weekend’s WOGA event. The team featuring Alycia Chan (Twisters), Hannah Swift (Lion’s Pride), Nicole Pineau (Omega), Jessica Hoedel (Omega), Melissa Mann (Flicka), Maria Roche (Flicka), Brittany Rogers (Omega) and alternate Angela Walker (Flicka), took the first place trophy defeating Lehigh Valley and Universal Gym.
Individually [...]
Canada’s first food guide, the Official Food Rules, was introduced to the public in July 1942. This guide acknowledged wartime food rationing, while endeavoring to prevent nutritional deficiencies and to improve the health of Canadians. Since 1942, the food guide has been transformed many times - it has adopted new names, new looks, and new [...]
Judson (Jud) Laipply is a motivational speaker and comedian from Cleveland. He is best known for his performance in the Evolution of Dance clip, which is the #1 Most Viewed All Time Video, #1 Top Favorites Video and #4 Most Discussed Video on YouTube.com.
“Evolution of Dance” is the finale to Laipply’s show called “Inspirational Comedy”. [...]
Aerial - a stunt in which the gymnast turns completely over in the air without touching the apparatus with his or her hands.
Amplitude - the height, or degree of execution of a movement. In general, the higher the salto or the more breathtaking the movement, the better the amplitude and the score.
Apparatus - [...]
AIR FLOOR: The Air Floor is the best piece of equipment to come out in the last 10 years. John Holman, Parkettes National Gymnastics Center
Wow! The word most people use to describe the rebound of the Air Floor. You have to feel it to believe it. Designed to be used on a spring floor, tumbling [...]