http://www.intlgymnast.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-05-15T23:59:35-05:00 http://www.intlgymnast.com/Online-Features/opinion/opinion_stretching-out/336.html 2008-05-15T16:21:00-05:00 2008-05-15T16:21:00-05:00 Dwight Normile The Olympic Draw was just conducted in Tianjin, China, and if the rules for 2008 were the same as, say, 1996, then the American men http://www.intlgymnast.com/Online-Features/opinion/opinion_stretching-out/314.html 2008-04-29T14:53:00-05:00 2008-04-29T14:53:00-05:00 Dwight Normile The backlash has begun now that Jennifer Sey's "Chalked Up" is out. http://www.intlgymnast.com/Online-Features/opinion/opinion_stretching-out/291.html 2008-04-16T17:02:00-05:00 2008-04-16T17:02:00-05:00 Dwight Normile I watched "E:60 Roundtable: Violated" on ESPN this week. Compelling stuff. Male coach touches young girl in wrong places. Girl comes forth, coach goes to http://www.intlgymnast.com/Online-Features/opinion/opinion_stretching-out/285.html 2008-04-10T12:11:00-05:00 2008-04-10T12:11:00-05:00 Dwight Normile European Championships: Romania proved its superiority within European borders last week, but its winning total of 181.525 is still well shy of challenging for anything http://www.intlgymnast.com/Online-Features/opinion/opinion_stretching-out/35.html 2005-08-02T20:01:00-05:00 2005-08-02T20:01:00-05:00 Dwight Normile Ever since the FIG held the first apparatus-only world championships in 1992, more and more international events have followed suit and eliminated the all-around competition. http://www.intlgymnast.com/Online-Features/opinion/opinion_stretching-out/32.html 2008-03-11T18:46:00-05:00 2008-03-11T18:46:00-05:00 Dwight Normile When Shawn Johnson fell on her Amanar vault at the American Cup March 1, so too did the suffocating expectations that she would continue a http://www.intlgymnast.com/Online-Features/opinion/opinion_stretching-out/31.html 2008-03-03T18:37:00-06:00 2008-03-03T18:37:00-06:00 Dwight Normile One spot remains open for the 2008 Olympics for both men and women. The other 97 berths for each gender were determined by the results http://www.intlgymnast.com/Online-Features/opinion/opinion_stretching-out/30.html 2008-02-14T18:30:00-06:00 2008-02-14T18:30:00-06:00 Dwight Normile The pecking order of men's gymnastics got a whole lot more interesting with the complete and impressive return of Paul Hamm at the Winter Cup http://www.intlgymnast.com/Online-Features/opinion/opinion_stretching-out/29.html 2008-01-22T18:27:00-06:00 2008-01-22T18:27:00-06:00 Dwight Normile My last column, "Skills and Combinations I'd Love to See," created some lively discussion, as well as some really great new combinations I hadn't thought http://www.intlgymnast.com/Online-Features/opinion/opinion_stretching-out/28.html 2008-01-14T18:25:00-06:00 2008-01-14T18:25:00-06:00 Dwight Normile The Code of Points has a way of dictating which skills and combinations appear in routines, but that doesn't mean we can't dream. Following is