Tuesday, April 27, 2010

“Youth Sports: Silvia's Gymnastics” plus 3 more

“Youth Sports: Silvia's Gymnastics” plus 3 more

Youth Sports: Silvia's Gymnastics

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 10:40 PM PDT


Local Gymnasts Were Jungle Jammin' Meet—On April 10th-11th, gymnasts in Levels 5 through 7 from Silvia's Gymnastics in Zieglerville competed in the 2010 Jungle Jammin' gymnastics meet, hosted by Central Bucks Gymnastics in Doylestown, The competition was attended by gymnasts from Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Level 5—Silvia's Level 5 team took second place. Individual results: Ages 7-and-8: Emily Holmes-Hackerd placed second AA, and on floor, first on vault and bars. Age 9: Claire Regan placed fourth AA, and on floor, second on bars and beam, fifth on vault. Deanna Cusumano placed sixth AA, first on beam. Age 10: Katelyn Llewellyn placed first AA, and on beam, second on bars and floor, third on vault. Isabella Johnson placed fifth AA, and on vault and floor, first on bars. Morgan Fiorito placed sixth AA, and floor, fifth on bars. Age 11: Emily Slater placed second AA, and bars, first on floor. Ages 12-and-up: Kaitlyn Johnson placed first AA, second on bars, fourth on vault and floor. Julia Morgan placed third AA, first on floor, fourth on beam.

Level 6—Silvia's Level 6 team took third place. Individual Results: Age 7-9: Mackenzie Haley placed third AA, first on beam, third on bars. Jessica Hutchinson placed third on floor. Age 10: Carli Bingaman placed fourth AA, first of floor, fifth on vault and beam. Stephani Tripodi placed sixth AA, second on vault, sixth on beam and floor. Molly Martin placed fifth on bars. Age 11: Samantha Oughton placed sixth on bars. Age 12: Maia Mash placed fourth AA, third on bars and floor, fifth on vault and beam. Ages 13-and-up: Amy Thomas placed second AA, second on floor, third on vault and bars.

Level 7—Silvia's Level 7 team took first place. Individual results: Age 11-and-under: Amia Boone placed fourth on bars. Age 12: Erika Womack placed first AA, first on vault, third on bars and floor, fourth on beam. Conner Leap placed second AA, first on beam, second on vault and floor, sixth on bars. Paige Beckley placed sixth AA, fourth on bars, sixth on vault. Age 13-and-above: Emily Loughery placed first AA, first on beam, second on bars and floor, third on vault. Paige Speckhart placed third on bars.

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M. Gymnastics. Four Golden Bears Named to MPSF All-Academic Team

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 12:02 PM PDT

April 27, 2010

BERKELEY - Four members of the California men's gymnastics team have been selected as Academic All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation's scholar athletes for the 2010 season, MPSF Commissioner Al Beaird announced recently.

Receiving honors are juniors Bryan del Castillo and Eric Haeussler, sophomores Raion Sabo and Nic Blair.

Last season, del Castillo and Haeussler were also named to the team.

The student-athletes were nominated for this award by their institution based on the following criteria: 3.0 or better cumulative grade point average and at least a sophomore academically, the student-athlete must have completed one full academic year at the institution prior to the season for which the award is being received and the student-athlete must have competed in 50 percent or more of the institution's competition.

This season, the Bears finished in fifth place at the NCAA Championships with del Castillo taking fourth place in the all-around and earning All-America honors on floor. At the year conference championships, Cal took second at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships on April 3, edged by .100 of a point, 354.550-354.450, by Oklahoma. Cal's second-place finish was the highest since 2005, when the Bears also took second at the MPSFs.


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Sports agree to revenue formula for London Games

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 08:51 AM PDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Despite calls for change by swimming's governing body, international sports bodies agreed Tuesday to maintain the revenue-sharing formula that will provide track and field with the biggest share of television money from the 2012 London Olympics.

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations, which represents the 26 sports on the London program, rejected a call Tuesday by swimming body FINA to change the criteria for distributing the projected $375 million in TV revenues.

Under the formula, the International Association of Athletics Federations will remain as the undisputed No. 1 sport in the money ranking and receive $35.77 million. That's up from the $29 million the IAAF received from the 2008 Beijing Games and nearly twice as much as FINA and the other second-tier federations will get.

Swimming, basketball, cycling, football, gymnastics, tennis and volleyball will each receive $18.73 million, compared to $14.27 million from Beijing.

FINA believes it should get a bigger share because of the strong TV ratings and packed crowds in Beijing, where Michael Phelps won a record eight gold medals.

Swimming federation president Julio Maglione of Uruguay said the current ranking "does not reflect the reality of today" and that his sport deserves to be in the top group. He proposed that an independent commission be appointed to revise the formula before the London Games.

While Maglione received support from table tennis and handball, the ASOIF assembly voted to approve the current ranking and money split for London and to ask the IOC to review the formula after 2012.

The third-tier sports — rowing, equestrian, handball and field hockey — will each get $13.17 million, compared to $9.61 million from Beijing. The fourth and lowest group — boxing, badminton, canoeing, fencing, judo, wrestling, modern pentathlon, table tennis, shooting, archery, weightlifting, sailing, taekwondo and triathlon — will each receive $11.19 million.

The revenue-sharing formula was first implemented ahead of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics based on a ranking of the sports by the International Olympic Committee, with TV ratings, attendance and ticket sales among the leading criteria. The IAAF was classified as the No. 1-ranked sport and has remained so, but some federations are upset that the IAAF receives most of the pie.

"The problem is if you give more (money) to one, you have to take it from other federations," AFOIF president Denis Oswald, who also heads the rowing federation, told The Associated Press. "A lot of federations feel that that the gap between athletics and other sports is too big. It might be fair that their share is reduced a bit but of course it's asking them to make that concession. It's difficult for them to do it."

IAAF president Lamine Diack urged the federations to accept the formula out of "solidarity."

The federations will put the issue to the IOC executive board on Wednesday.

During its two-day meeting, the IOC board is expected to strip China of an Olympic bronze medal in gymnastics from the 2000 Sydney Games because one of its athletes was only 14 at the time.

In February, the International Gymnastics Federation nullified all of Dong Fangxiao's results from Sydney and recommended that the IOC take the medal from the Chinese. The United States finished fourth and would move up to the bronze.

Age falsification has been a problem in gymnastics since the 1980s, after the minimum age was raised from 14 to 15 in an effort to protect young athletes, whose bodies are still developing, from serious injuries. The minimum age was raised to its current 16 in 1997.

The IOC also will hear a progress report from organizers of the London Olympics, including a sneak peek at plans for their mascot. Organizers hope to introduce the mascot next month in London.

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Sports agree to revenue formula for London Games

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 08:04 AM PDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP)—Despite calls for change by swimming's governing body, international sports bodies agreed Tuesday to maintain the revenue-sharing formula that will provide track and field with the biggest share of television money from the 2012 London Olympics.

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations, which represents the 26 sports on the London program, rejected a call Tuesday by swimming body FINA to change the criteria for distributing the projected $375 million in TV revenues.

Under the formula, the International Association of Athletics Federations will remain as the undisputed No. 1 sport in the money ranking and receive $35.77 million. That's up from the $29 million the IAAF received from the 2008 Beijing Games and nearly twice as much as FINA and the other second-tier federations will get.

Swimming, basketball, cycling, football, gymnastics, tennis and volleyball will each receive $18.73 million, compared to $14.27 million from Beijing.

FINA believes it should get a bigger share because of the strong TV ratings and packed crowds in Beijing, where Michael Phelps won a record eight gold medals.

Swimming federation president Julio Maglione of Uruguay said the current ranking "does not reflect the reality of today" and that his sport deserves to be in the top group. He proposed that an independent commission be appointed to revise the formula before the London Games.

While Maglione received support from table tennis and handball, the ASOIF assembly voted to approve the current ranking and money split for London and to ask the IOC to review the formula after 2012.

The third-tier sports—rowing, equestrian, handball and field hockey—will each get $13.17 million, compared to $9.61 million from Beijing. The fourth and lowest group—boxing, badminton, canoeing, fencing, judo, wrestling, modern pentathlon, table tennis, shooting, archery, weightlifting, sailing, taekwondo and triathlon—will each receive $11.19 million.

The revenue-sharing formula was first implemented ahead of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics based on a ranking of the sports by the International Olympic Committee, with TV ratings, attendance and ticket sales among the leading criteria. The IAAF was classified as the No. 1-ranked sport and has remained so, but some federations are upset that the IAAF receives most of the pie.

"The problem is if you give more (money) to one, you have to take it from other federations," AFOIF president Denis Oswald, who also heads the rowing federation, told The Associated Press. "A lot of federations feel that that the gap between athletics and other sports is too big. It might be fair that their share is reduced a bit but of course it's asking them to make that concession. It's difficult for them to do it."

IAAF president Lamine Diack urged the federations to accept the formula out of "solidarity."

The federations will put the issue to the IOC executive board on Wednesday.

During its two-day meeting, the IOC board is expected to strip China of an Olympic bronze medal in gymnastics from the 2000 Sydney Games because one of its athletes was only 14 at the time.

In February, the International Gymnastics Federation nullified all of Dong Fangxiao's results from Sydney and recommended that the IOC take the medal from the Chinese. The United States finished fourth and would move up to the bronze.

Age falsification has been a problem in gymnastics since the 1980s, after the minimum age was raised from 14 to 15 in an effort to protect young athletes, whose bodies are still developing, from serious injuries. The minimum age was raised to its current 16 in 1997.

The IOC also will hear a progress report from organizers of the London Olympics, including a sneak peek at plans for their mascot. Organizers hope to introduce the mascot next month in London.

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