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Corrinne Wright to Simone Biles.
Category: history
Shawn Johnson montage
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new Ellie Black interview
first World Cup medal for India
Bronze on Vault in Melbourne.
For someone who always saw herself as a reluctant gymnast, Aruna Reddy made history on Saturday when she became India’s first World Cup medal winner with a bronze in Melbourne. …
Narayan Reddy, her sports-mad accountant father had other plans in mind. He got her enrolled in an academy in Hyderabad as an eight-year old, but is not around to bask in his daughter’s success today, having passed away in 2010. …
“Every medal I will win is dedicated to my father,” she said. …
She trains with Dipa.
One of her coaches, Brij Kishore, is ill.
Andreea Răducan montage
Our 2000 Olympic Champion*.
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related – Currently the Romanian President, she’s cut off funding to Drăgulescu who was out of the country filming a TV show.
Aliya Mustafina montage
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another 10 for Maggie Nichols
She has nine perfect 10s already this season.
Svetlana Khorkina montage
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K.J. Kindler 1992 Floor
Two Arabian 1 1/4 saltos to prone!
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Her Bars is included at the end of that clip. Comanichi piked dismount
Thanks Dory.
Zamo interview
Elena Zamolodchikova was the 2000 Olympic Champion on Floor and Vault.
It was a difficult time as her father had died just months before.
Sydney was a very difficult competition where everything went wrong from the start. We were hurt and upset – we lost the team gold, made tons of mistakes. We came there for the team gold, the silver became such a tragedy for us that it was very hard to compete afterward. …
Today she’s an international judge, a coach at her old club and now head of the anti-doping at the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation.
Read the interview on gymnovosti.
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