Year: 2016

TIME Magazine’s Olympic issue – Simone

… Just 4 ft. 8 in.–the shortest member of the 555-person U.S. delegation in Rio–Biles pulls off moves too challenging for even her elite rivals, soaring with a preternatural comfort in the air.

She’s “in a caliber with nobody else in the world, really,” says Nastia Liukin, the 2008 Olympic all-around gold medalist, who will cover the Games for NBC. “Nobody is even close to her.” …

Simone Biles Is Taking Her Sport to New Heights

Simone Time

Here’s an older Time cover with Gabby.

Gabby Time

Thanks Dave.

the costs of Level 10 Gymnastics

Interview with U.S. Gold owner and head coach Kathy Dwyer, Level 10 gymnast Virginia Bailey and family.

Click on the image to play the video.

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The price of gold: Level 10 gymnastics

Shallon Olsen in Rio

Shallon did so much difficulty so young that many (including me) feared she wouldn’t last through to the 2016 Olympics.

In fact she’s had very few injuries over the years. 🙂

Click the image to watch a TV news spot on CTV.

Shallon

Excalibur has 2 Olympians

Both train at Excalibur Virginia Beach.

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olympic-qualifiers-ariana

Click PLAY or watch Ariana on YouTube. She’s the first Peruvian Olympic gymnast.

(via IG)

Acrozorbing? Zorbnastics?

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In 1994 Dwane van der Sluis and Andrew Akers conceived the idea for a type of sphere in Auckland, New Zealand, calling their invention the “Zorb”.

first female Presidential nominee

One of the themes of this site is empowerment of women in sport. Women in life. Every girl in America now knows she could be President.

“We’re on our way to breaking the highest and hardest glass ceiling.”

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Watch the Morgan Freeman narrated VIDEO aired before Clinton officially accepted her historic nomination.