Australia names men’s world team

The Aussie men headed to London have a lot of competition experience between them. As usual, please read more here.

News from the Netherlands

Find out who’s leading after the first 2009 World Championships qualification meet in Amsterdam, who’s back in competition after five years and how fundraising for the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam is going. All here.

What do Ivana Hong, Elvire Teza, Shantessa Pama and Chanen Raygoza all have in common?

Find out here. (Five points if you post the answer without reading the article’s headline first.)

Highlights: 10 routines from the U.S. Championships

…featuring some of the women’s juniors, including Madison Kocian’s beam, McKenzie Wofford’s bars and McKayla Maroney’s stood-up Amanar vault. More here.

Some thoughts on the Russian Cup…

…are, as usual, here on Examiner.com.

Lindsay Wing returning to Stanford

Her beam routine from 1997 is well worth another look 12 years later. Check it out here.

LeDuc, Ohashi to WOGA

See here. Plus there’s an old WOGA montage to the Beatles’s “Back in the USSR.”

International assignments and women’s World selection camp

For more info, please see here.

(Almost) everyone hates the age requirement

If the Russians can’t bring Aliya Mustafina, Tatiana Nabieva or Viktoria Komova to the 2009 World Championships in London, who will they bring? Read more here.

NCAA Woman of the Year awards

Two gymnasts nominated. Read about it here.