First day of men's junior competition: 14-15 yr. olds: 1 - John Orozco (World Cup) 83.900 (1st on rings, pbar, and high bar) 2 - Sam Mikulak (SCATS HB) 82.150 (1st on vault) 3 - Joshua Wokurka (Bartlett) 81.900 4 - Jake Dalton (Gym Nevada) 81.850 (1st on floor) 5 - Yoshi Mori (New Hope Academy) 81.050 6 - Donothan Bailey (Azarian) 80.950 (1st on pommel) 7 - C.J. Maestas (Gold Cup) 80.750 8 - Glenn McCuen (WOGA) 80.550 9 - Joshua Wilson (WOGA) 80.500 10 - Matthew Chelberg (Hocking Valley) 79.550 11 - Benjamin Rudolph (Bartlett) 79.500 12 - Dylan Akers (Cypress Academy) 78.850 13 - Jeffrey Langenstein (San Mateo Gymnastics) 78.650 14 - Mackenzie Dow (Surgent's Elite) 76.100 15 - Eric Schryver (WOGA) 74.950 16 - Cameron Foreman (Iowa Gym-Nest) 74.900 17 - Christopher Turner (WCOGA) 74.400 18 - Alex Bubnov (Surgent's Elite) 73.750 16-18 yr. olds: 1 - Alexy Bilozertchev (OSU Boys Team) 84.850 (1st on pommel) 2 - Glen Ishino (SCATS HB) 84.600 (1st on rings) 3 - Kyle Bunthuwong (Golden Bear) 84.350 (1st on p-bars) 4 - D.J. Repp (Gold Cup) 82.050 5 - Josh Dixon (Champions Academy) 82.000 (1st on floor and vault) 6 - Tyler Mizoguchi (HGA) 81.050 (1st on high bar) 7 - Russell Dabritz (Yellow Jackets) 80.750 8 - Neal Thompson (San Mateo Gymnastics) 80.150 9 - Timothy Pittman (Cypress Academy) 79.900 10 - C.J. Padera (Bartlett) 79.800 11 - Anthony Beck (Intl Gym Camp) 79.550 12 - Chris Cameron (Florida Flips) 79.400 13 - Ross Cameratta (Gym World) 78.750 14 - Jacob Houder (Cypress Academy) 76.950 15 - Justin Ebueng (Diamond Elite) 76.050 16 - Michael Jiang (Chatfield) 66.350 17 - Eric Haeussler (San Mateo Gymnastics) 51.750 18 - Miguel Pineda (Hocking Valley) 40.450

"Bilozertchev, Orozco win men

Senior men's start list - competition starts 7pm tonight: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/results/RotationSchedule-Day1SrM.pdf quick hits commentary: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/quick2-SrMen15.html results: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/results/1msaa.htm

Paul Hamm (Team Chevron) gets 1st on floor on the AA competition Wednesday night. Good job! Paul and Morgan Hamm competed just on floor and pommel horse, as they said. Paul: floor: 6.200 A score, 9.500 = 15.700 1st place pommel: 5.500 A score, 8.350 = 13.850 15th Tie Morgan: floor: 6.300 A score, 8.650 = 14.950 8th place pommel: 5.100 A score, 8.600 = 13.700 18th Tie Higher A score, then lower execution score, and vice versa, but with more practice they can get them both up high. AA Top 3: David Durante (Team Chevron) 89.500 Alexander Artemev (aka Sasha) (Team Chevron) 89.500 Guillermo Alvarez (Team Chevron) 89.450 Team Chevron did well. Only 5 hundredths of a point between 1st and 3rd. Artemev's plan of taking out some of the hard skills he wasn't comfortable with and concentrating on executing the skills well and having 6 for 6 worked (see Josh's post on that article 5 posts up).

Qualifiers to Visa Championships Men's Senior Finals Men's Senior Finals competition on Friday august 19th (top 36 qualify, based on a points system on performances) # Name AA Total Points 2 Guillermo Alvarez 89.45 140 3 David Durante 89.5 130 6 Alexander Artemev 89.5 129 37 Sho Nakamori 89.1 127 12 Joseph Hagerty 74.55 116 42 David Sender 88.3 112 47 Kevin Tan 60.4 106 19 Yewki Tomita 73.65 100 11 Jonathan Horton 87.95 98 46 Clay Strother 72.5 96 10 Todd Thornton 87.15 87 18 Sean Golden 47 83 44 Justin Spring 73.9 83 26 Jamie Henderson 85.85 75 32 Steven Legendre 83.6 69 38 Philip Onorato 85.1 67 33 Danell Leyva 86.05 65 202 Geoff Corrigan 84.95 64 208 Cole Storer 44.3 63 30 Justin Laury 85.55 59 92 John Orozco 83.9 57 16 Andrew Elkind 85.2 54 25 David Henderson 83.3 54 61 Alexy Bilozertchev 84.85 54 17 Tim Gentry 84.65 51 5 Raj Bhavsar 72.4 46 9 Alex Buscaglia 79.85 46 24 Derek Helsby 82.25 45 205 Paul Hamm 29.55 44 8 DJ Bucher 43 41 201 Kyle Bunthuwong 84.35 39 67 Josh Dixon 82 37 43 Chris Silcox 43.5 33 204 Morgan Hamm 28.65 32 71 Glen Ishino 84.6 30 84 Jake Dalton 81.85 29 listed points for those who did not qualify: 48 John Vogtman 81.4 29 90 Sam Mikulak 82.15 27 27 Zeke Jackson 78.45 25 13 Joe Catrambone 82.65 23 73 Tyler Mizoguchi 81.05 22 7 Andre Berry 82.35 18 34 Ryan Lieberman 83.3 18 81 Donothan Bailey 80.95 18 15 Sergei Dmitriev 39.75 17 28 Thomas Kelley 80.25 17 206 Jake Lee 51.9 15 203 Wesley Haagensen 78.9 14 36 Edward Mesa 80.9 12 65 Russell Dabritz 80.75 12 49 Tyler Yamauchi 56.5 11 40 Sean Regan 82.85 7 41 Mel Anton Santander 82 7 64 Chris Cameron 79.4 7 68 Justin Ebueng 76.05 6 98 Joshua Wokurka 81.9 5 78 Neal Thompson 80.15 4 (Junior division, San Mateo Gymnastics) 97 Joshua Wilson 80.5 4 77 D.J. Repp 82.05 3 39 Viorel Popescu 54.25 1 Start list for men's finals competition on Friday: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/m-07VCFinalDraw.pdf

Paul wins floor!! competing for the first time since 2004 Olympic Games. Good job! The event winners: [quote]Two gymnasts lead the individual events they won last year at the Visa Championships: Sender on vault and Kevin Tan of Fremont, Calif., on still rings. The highest scores of the night in the senior men

I know Neal Thomson from IGA, he got his basics there - that was such a great gym; you don't find gyms that feel more like a family club rather than a business after just $ so easily.

Shawn Johnson the leader! check out articles at the blogs/news rss category, this one on Shawn: "Johnson flies high at U.S. gymnastics (AP via Yahoo! News)" - http://www.gymchat.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?t=1215

Nastia had a really hard bars routine that she fell on her dismount and still made 1st. Nastia prob. had lots of time on bars with her ankle injury, but not much for practicing the dismount, to not aggravate her ankle.

ya, Nastia got 1st on bars by a tenth of a point over Shawn. Nastia: A score 7.1, execution score 8.250, total 15.350 Shawn: A score 6.2, execution score 9.050, total 15.250 Nastia also gets 2nd on beam, .15 less than Shawn who gets 1st. Shawn also gets first on floor. Scores are at: http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/results/1wsaa.htm 1 117 Shawn Johnson Chow's 2 113 Ivana Hong GAGE 3 135 Bridget Sloan Sharp's 4 146 Shayla Worley Orlando Metro 5 120 Nastia Liukin WOGA The page now lists Shawn as 1st on vault with a 15.2 total vault score, but it's actually Alicia Sacramone with a 15.450. Sac has a good vault, the only one in the 6's for the A score, (A score of 6.300 and execution score of 9.150).