The gymnastics week in review: U.S. best at Pan Am Championships, and the scoop on Viktoria Komova

Sandra Izbasa cleared to compete: The Olympic floor champion, who tore her Achilles tendon right before the 2009 Worlds, is set to compete at the Ghent World Cup next weekend. (ProSport)

Imagine being nine years of age and training for 37 hours a week: That's the lede of the Inner West Courier's profile on former Australian Institute of Sport gymnast Elycia Paredes. Too much too soon? I'd say so. Not too surprisingly, after a few years of that Paredes moved to Sydney and now trains level eight, for far fewer hours per week. (Inner West Courier)

U.S. dominates Pan American Championships: American gymnasts took home 15 medals in all and qualified in first place in both the men's and women's team competition for next year's Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. Congratulations to women's all-around medalists Kyla Ross, Sabrina Vega and Jessica Lopez, men's all-around medalists Daniel Corral, Glen Ishino and Jorge Hugo Giraldo, as well as individual event champions McKayla Maroney (vault and floor), Gabrielle Douglas (uneven bars), Vega (beam), Ishino (pommel horse), Corral (parallel bars), Santiago Lopez (floor), Regulo Carmona (rings), Enrique Gonzalez (vault), and Alex Buscaglia (high bar). (Examiner.com)

Fabian Hambuchen autobiography: The story of fab Fabian is being released later this month. (Gymnastics Coaching)

Wheeler gets call for injured Monckton: Mary Anne Monckton, the somewhat surprise runner up at the Australian Championships, has been replaced on Australia's Commonwealth Games team with alternate Georgia Wheeler. Monckton was also named to Australia's World team (the Aussies, unlike the Brits, have no fears about Delhi belly and are sending their A-teams to India.) She has reportedly injured her leg in training. (Gymnastics Australia)

Intriguing Glen Ishino interview: One of the U.S.'s up-and-comers (remember that he won all-around silver at the Pan American Championships) indicates that new Cal coach Tim McNeill may not be done competing. (International Gymnast Magazine)

Redefining what's old in gymnastics: At 19, Australia's Ashleigh Brennan is on track for the 2011 World Championships, if not a second Olympics. (The Age)

MyKayla Skinner's Olympic dreams: As Arizona's Elite Gymnast of the Year, this 13-year-old supertumbler is balancing school, coaching, and -- oh right -- elite gymnastics, all with an eye on London 2012. (AZ Central)

Japan: Men's World team champions?: Andy Thornton makes a case. (Universal Sports with in-depth analysis on American Gymnast)

Introducing the ultra-competitive Viktoria Komova: The 15-year-old from Russia is almost unquestionably the best in the world right now. But before this article, which paints her as the next Svetlana Khorkina, we knew little about her beside the fact that she was 1986 Goodwill Games champion Vera Kolesnikova's daughter. This story sheds a little more light on the character of the girl who's already expected to win some hardware in 2012. (Read it in English here.)

A new skill for Shawn?: Well on the comeback trail, Shawn Johnson is regaining her old skills, and has reportedly bagged a very difficult new one. (Examiner.com)

Marking success in Austria: For Austria's Fabian Leimlehner, victory at the World Championships would mean making the all-around final, something no one from his county has ever accomplished. (International Gymnast Magazine)

Beth Rybacki interview: The youngest member of the 1980 Olympic team on her personal journey to the Olympics, which began in 1980 and really only ended in 2000. (Examiner.com)

Canada's Commonwealth Games teams: Drumroll, please: Men: Robert Watson, Tariq Dowers, Ian Galvan, Anderson Loran and Jason Scott. Women: Catherine Dion, Cynthia Lemieux, Gabrielle May and Kristin Klarenbach. (CBC)

Britain's Commonwealth Games teams: Women: Imogen Cairns, Jocelyn Hunt, Marissa King, Rebecca Wing and Laura Edwards. Men: Max Whitlock, Reiss Beckford (both making their senior international debuts after having competed as juniors at the European Championships this spring), Luke Folwell, Steven Jehu and Danny Lawrence. (BBC)

India's Commonwealth Games teams: Men: Ashish Kumar, Partha Mondal, Mayank Srivastava, Rakesh Patra and Rohit Jaiswal. Women: Deepa Karmakar, Priti Das, Debjani Samanta Meenakshi and Roma Dilip Jogalekar. (Hindustan Times)

Britain's World teams: Women: Beth Tweddle, Rebecca Downie, Danusia Francis, Nicole Hibbert, Jennifer Pinches and Hannah Whelan. Men: Sam Hunter, Ruslan Panteleymonov, Daniel Purvis, Theo Seager, Louis Smith and Kristian Thomas. (British Gymnastics)

Two vault specialists?: Rick McCharles weighs McKayla Maroney against Alicia Sacramone. (Gymnastics Coaching)

Cassie Whitcomb injures leg: Though the exact nature of how badly she was hurt has been a bit fuzzy. According to The Couch Gymnast, Whitcomb has been having ankle problems and is still hoping to do uneven bars at the World selection camp while working to get her other events back. (The Couch Gymnast)

Dana Andrei on the rise: This young Romanian is one to watch for the future, having "amazed" national team coaches with her performances over the past several months, and could make the Romanian World team. (Fangymnastics)

This week in non-gymnastics gymnastics news: USA Gymnastics is going to sanction competitive college cheerleading. (Associated Press)

In other random blog news: Spanny Tampson goes on a rant about flexed wrists. (Spanny's Big Fake Smile)

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