CCTV news on Tan Sixin & Yao Jinnan

Tokyo WC hopefuls Tan and Yao are going for Cottbus Challenge Cup in 3/11-3/13, and the Doha Challenge Cup in 3/31-4/1 (2 category-B World Cup events).

Yao's coach Wang Qunce on Yao's tumbling ability: she might not have the highest tumble, but she can manage to stay longer in the air.

As this is only Yao's senior international debut, the international competition experience itself is more important to Yao and the coaches won't give her the most difficulty routines to compete yet.



On the most recent update from Coach Lu's blog, he mentioned the newly introduced circuit of world cup events (category A&B). His only compliant was on individual apparatus event (French Internationals in Pairs) - it takes a little bit too much in term of both time and cost to fly Chinese gymnasts all the way to Europe to compete on one event only (He & Huang on UB, Deng & Wu on BB, Sui on FX).

New Updates from Coach Lu's Blogs

Coach Lu updated 4 blogs with his comments on the Asians Games regards Chinese WAG TF, AA, EF Day 1, EF Day 2.

Here the translation from IG

On the competition in Asian Games

The Asian Games had a relatively relaxed atmosphere without pressure. As long as the there were no major mistakes they would take gold, which affected the attitude of our gymnasts. At the world championships and Olympic Games, with teams from the United States and Europe, the question is if our gymnasts can withstand that kind of tension and stress and compete with high morale, confidence and peace of mind.

Both Lu and Jiang herself actually mentioned in a post-competition interview that Jiang was "under the weather"(a sudden period) in the TF.

On Chinese WAG's Golden Sweep in Guangzhou .

The Asian Games results don't really represent how powerful our team is. Despite the so-called 'grand slam' of the Asian Games gold medals, we should keep a clear head. The success at the games is only the beginning. The Chinese team has a long way to go toward the 2012 Olympics!

On the Jiang Yuyuan's performance in TF

Despite the joy in taking all the golds, we can't ignore the many problems, such as the inconsistency of Jiang Yuyuan and Huang Qiushuang. Jiang Yuyuan was not at her best in the team competition, and although we can understand an error, as an elite athlete she should not be allowing multiple mistakes. And as the women's team captain, her performance is critical in stabilizing the team.

On Huang Qiushuang's overall performance.

Huang Qiushuang was wildly inconsistent at this meet. In the all-around final, in fact, she had a better chance of Sui than winning. "In the competition she is always unstable... she needs psychological counseling and guidance to learn how to control herself.

His Comments on Chinese WAG's Vault.

The Asian Games served as a warning, that especially on vault we need to make great efforts to improve.

Words on the street that Huang can do a Amanar, but never compete one yet. Another Chinese junior Yao Jinnan is training Y900. The main theme for Chinese WAG's traditional "winter training" will be upgrade upgrade, as usual. Let's all wait till next Spring to see those new skills.

Yilin, the crying baby ---a new blog from Coach Lu

The newly updated blog from Coach Lu

Our flight arrived in Guangzhou for the Asian Games at 11am Friday (Nov. 5th), and we all settled down at athlete Village around 4 in the afternoon. Village accommodations are pretty good. Only issue is that there is no TV and computer in our rooms. The internet access we can get is in the Games entertainment center. It will take a while for the coaches and athletes to get used to it. We believe such an arrangement from the Games organizing committee is to guarantee a well rested and focused game for the athletes.

6:30 pm, the team headed out for our training gym- Guangzhou Sports Training and Technical College (used to be known as Weilun Sports School)- which is one hour drive away from the village. The gym is also the training base for Guangzhou Gymnastics team. Once arrival, Yang Yilin was so excited, as this is her alma mater, which ingrained her most wonderful childhood memories. Through the familiar campus, here is the gym Yilin shed countless sweat and tears in. From her eyes, we can pretty much see training memories start to come back to her. Polite as she always is, Yilin-now a Olympic Champ- greets her old coaches. During our spare time from training , her old coaches sat with us and shared some old stories about our little Yilin. Not only did the coach tell us what a crying baby little Yilin was, they also pointed out the exact spot Yiling used to stand when crying. We can easily picture a skinny girl standing all alone over there, tears in her eyes, sobbing with tears flowing down the cheeks. Yang Yilin is indeed known as a crying gymnast. It was not until she got into national team that it became all better. We joked to make Yilin cry once more time during this Asian Games, so that we can all see what a crying baby she really is. From a little crying girl to our Olympic champ, only Yilin knows how much hard work it involved in such a metamorphosis. In the next two weeks time, Yilin will certainly treat her hometown and nurturing alma mater with her excellent performance and results from the Asian Games.

Note, Guanzhou, hosting city of 16th Asian Games, is Yang Yilin’s hometown.

Gymnastics training milestones of Yilin(Born in August 26th 1992)

1997-7/1999, trained in Huadu Sports School, Huadu(district), Guangzhou, Guangdong
7/1999-3/2003, trained in Weilun sports school, Guangzhou, Guangdong
3/2003-1/2007, member Guangdong Provincial Team
1/2007- member of Chinese National WAG Team



Yilin is known for her pencil-straight handstand and "textbook pirouette" on the Uneven bars.


Yang Yilin Tribute by IRunFastest