Enjoy the Last Few Moments

The qualification rounds have come to an end...unfortunately with Alex's 18th placing, she didn't make it to the top 10, which would have brought her to the finals.

I managed to watch two of the four routines on TV...since Germany didn't qualify at all for this Olympic sport, they hardly show any of it. Eurosport is only showing 1 hour of the 4 day competition. Luckily there are other channels which seem to appreciate the most beautiful Olympic sport.

Both routines that I had missed (once due to channel surfing, trying to find out where they televised the sport, and the second time since the network decided to cut halfway through the 3rd round and show 3 hours of news) didn't seem to go as perfectly as she would have liked...Alex placed 8th at the Good Luck Beijing competition and now 18th...I guess with all the nerves and pressure...To see the preliminary individual results, click here. Group preliminary results are shown here.

Anyways, what counts is that she actually made it to the Olympics, a childhood dream of hers, and now she can finally relax and enjoy the moment for a few more days.

HOOP score 16.550 (14th)

CLUBS score 16.175 (18th)

The Final Warm Up

Alex's last competition before flying off to Beijing was the E-ON Cup 'Queen Margarita' in Varna, Bulgaria, where she ended up getting four bronze medals! =)

Hoop (16.575)


Clubs (16.300)


Ribbon (16.650)


Rope (16.300)

Sexiest Female Olympian....ALEX!

So I promised I would add some videos of Alex performing, and I just stumbled upon a recent video of her (from August 3rd). The video was taken place in the Sport Seneca gym where I used to train 6 days a week...and even my former coach who used to weigh us practically everyday, was interviewed! Quite shocking to hear her voice so suddenly, after 10 years. She still looks the same though.

Anyways, this blog IS about Alex and not any other past turmoil. =) The Olympics start in 3 days and I'm so excited!

It also happens that she was picked as the Sexiest Female Olympian competing at the Beijing Games, from an internet magazine list of 50, beating out Russian tennis star, Maria Sharapova!

Thanks to Alex, rhythmic gymnastics is finally making a better name for itself.