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		<title>The &#8220;Ultimate&#8221; Sport</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gymnastics really is the "ultimate" sport. Take a gymnast and put him in pretty much any other sport, and he's likely to achieve a moderate degree of success, but taking established stars in other sports and putting them in gymnastics could results in some rather awkward moments!]]></description>
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		<title>Unsung Heroes: Tatiana Groshkova &amp; Aleftina Priakhina</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For every Boginskaya and Shushunova out there winning World and Olympic medals, there was an equally talented gymnast toiling away the Soviet Union.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gymbits.com/the-good-ol-days/unsung-heroes-tatiana-groshkova-aleftina-priakhina/</link>
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		<title>2010 Apparatus World Champions, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The men’s finals showcased the specialists on each apparatus, and indeed none of the winners even participated in the all-around final. The results didn’t change much from the qualification round to the finals; vault champion Thomas Bouhail of France was the only one who did not enter the final as the leader.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gymbits.com/news/2010-apparatus-world-champions-part-2/</link>
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		<title>2010 Apparatus World Champions, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four different gymnasts were awarded the gold medals during the women's apparatus finals of the 2010 World Championships, held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gymbits.com/news/2010-apparatus-world-champions-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Uchimura and Mustafina Win Worlds!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another World Championships has come and gone, and all is right with the (gymnastics) world. The Russian ladies finally won the team gold for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gymbits.com/news/uchimura-and-mustafina-win-worlds/</link>
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		<title>Anything But Routine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a lot of deliberating, I narrowed it down to just three terrible routines. Unfortunately, there seems to be a theme (Romanian routines from the late 1970s!).]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gymbits.com/fun/anything-but-routine/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Floor Routines Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first set out to create a Top 10 list of the best floor routines ever, I had no idea what a task it would become. How could I leave out gymnasts such as Svetlana Boginskaya, Oksana Omelianchik, Maria Filatova, Natalia Ilienko?]]></description>
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		<title>Norway&#8217;s Mainstay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What makes Espen Jansen notable in the sport of gymnastics isn't so much his skills or results, but the fact that he has participated in almost every World Championship since...not bad for a gymnast who will turn 42 in December!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gymbits.com/inspiration/norways-mainstay/</link>
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		<title>Allez Youna!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poor Youna. She has had such bad luck on the uneven bars lately! First she lost a medal at the 2010 European Championships after the coach accidentally touched her while spotting her on her Def. But what gets me is the turn of events just a few weeks later at the French National Championships.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gymbits.com/news/allez-youna/</link>
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		<title>Good News for Silver Medalists!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the most recent Olympic cycle, Krizstian Berki (HUN), Yuri van Gelder (NED), and Aljaz Pegan (SLO) all had the "misfortune" of winning the silver medals on their specialties at the 2007 World Championships. Clearly contenders for Olympic gold, they were denied the opportunity to attend the Games in Beijing simply because they had not won the event.]]></description>
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