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Posted on 11/9/2006 by Flip
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Over the past weekend I have had the wonderful opportunity to compete in London at the David Ward Cup competition. There were teams from all over the world that attended. London of course was everything I expected; beautiful, fun, exciting, expensive, and cold. I guess three out of the five are good.
As far as competition went I did pretty well. I haven't been able to train as much as I should have. I took sixth in our synchronized competition, and 20th out of 50 over all. My team mate Stephen took first on double mini, and the boys took third overall. The competition style is much more laid back over seas it kind of threw me off a bit. They would warm up in sweatpants and a t-shirt, and just bounce around. I'm pretty sure we (the Americans) were the only ones warming up in leotards; oh well.
On the second day of competition we saw a girl brake her neck. She was doing a double front flip and came down short and the ground caught her forehead forcing her neck back and it snapped. A double front is a very dangerous skill that we usually never compete, instead we add a half twist at the end to make it a safer landing. Anyway, my coach is an ER doctor and was luckily standing right by and braced her neck and back. She was taken to the hosital and released that night. She broke her C5, but she will be ok!
Later in the week we got to actually be tourists and see the city and much much more. I saw the show Les Miserables and it was amazing. And we of course looked like tourists having to actually look down at the street to find out with way to look before crossing the street. The road acutally said "Look Left, and Look Right". My coach almost got hit by a bus a couple times :). We also had the privilage of seeing a little girl who got her head stuck in the Queen's gate at Buckingham Palace. It took them twenty minutes of struggling and then my coaches jumped in and her head was released! :)
Like I said London was amazing, and I can't wait to go again! Hopefully next time I will be more prepared!
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