Winter Cup Challenge in Las Vegas, Nevada. Re-ranking competition for the USA men's senior national tam. [quote]LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb 7, 2008

The USA men's coach for the 2008 Bejing Olympics was selected here in a meeting - more info at Houstonian will lead men's gymnastics team in Beijing (Houston Chronicle) http://www.gymchat.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?t=22584 [quote]Kevin Mazeika of Houston was selected Friday as head coach of the USA Gymnastics men's team that will compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Mazeika, who coaches at his family-owned Houston Gymnastics Academy, coached the 2004 silver medal-winning team at the Athens Games and also coached U.S. teams that won silver medals at the 2001 and 2003 world championships. ...[/quote]

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Blaine Wilson is making his comeback! The members added to the national team: [quote]Yewki Tomita, Sho Nakamori and Justin Spring also were awarded three of the final 15 spots on the team, which were filled out over the weekend at the Winter Cup Challenge. Defending Olympic champion Paul Hamm, Raj Bhavsar, Joseph Hagerty and Sean Townsend earned spots based on their scores in the all-around at Winter Cup, while Tomita, Nakamori and Wilson got theirs based on a more complex formula that factored in their scores on individual events.[/quote] [quote]Spring, who withdrew from the competition while he continues to rehabilitate his injured knee, made it on a special petition for injured athletes.[/quote] Blaine got top 10 in the 4 events he competed, he is probably working on doing all-around though, as he is so competitive! Go Blaine! More at: http://www.gymchat.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?p=25190#25190