Tide detergent ad.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Of course Simone is not the smallest gymnast “in the history of the sport“. Don’t believe everything you hear in a detergent ad. 🙂
Thanks Cordelia.
Category: history
Made in America 2012
I haven’t been linking to the MADE IN AMERICA episodes for one reason.
In general I try not to promote things geo-blocked. (Of course I do have a VPN and can watch from anywhere in the world, if I choose.)
The Facebook promo is not blocked, however. Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
1988 U.S. Olympic team
via Cordelia
Simone 4 time U.S. Champion
Leslie King:
Biles, the first woman to win four-straight U.S. titles since Joan Moore Gnat in 1971-74, tallied an all-around score of 125.000 to seal the title. Two-time Olympic gold-medalist Aly Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics, was second at 121.100, followed by MG Elite’s Laurie Hernandez of Morganville, N.J., in third with 120.500. Two-time 2012 Olympic gold-medalist Gabby Douglas of Virginia Beach, Va./Buckeye Gymnastics, was fourth (117.800), and Madison Kocian of Dallas/WOGA, took fifth (116.450). …
The members of the senior women’s national team advance to compete in the women’s Olympic Trials in San Jose, Calif. July 8 and 10:
Alyssa Baumann
Simone Biles
Christina Desiderio
Gabby Douglas
Brenna Dowell
Rachel Gowey
Laurie Hernandez
Amelia Hundley
Madison Kocian
Ashton Locklear
Maggie Nichols
Aly Raisman
Emily Schild
MyKayla Skinner
Ragan Smith
Troy Dumais’ last dive
With tears in his eyes.
A four-time Olympian. An Olympic bronze medalist. A 38-time national champion. A national team member since 1996.
Few have had the career that Troy Dumais has had.
And on Saturday, that career came to end in front a crowd that gave him a standing ovation before his emotional final dive at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, at which he finished fourth in the men’s 3-meter contest. …
Click through to watch the very emotional end of Troy’s great career.
Thanks Tom.
top 10 European Vault competitors
Kohei Uchimura in his own words
top 10 European Bars
Khorkina #1
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Correction: #9 Mustafina (1G; 2S, 1B) – #10 Latynina – (1G, 2S)
McKayla Maroney on #MadeInAmerica
The video series is geoblocked. But non-Americans can watch teasers.
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
Donnell Whittenburg’s story
Is amazing.
If African American kids have a chance to try Gymnastics – an expensive sport – they often excel.
Dave Shzinin:
… Brown, a single mother of three, was desperate to find the boy an outlet, so one day she scraped together some money and drove him out to the suburbs north of town. He was 7 years old. And on the third day of the beginners’ gymnastics class, someone tapped her on the shoulder: A woman said the coach of the elite boys’ team wanted to talk to her. He had seen Donnell. He wanted to coach him. …
It is likely he would have never made it this far were it not for the keen eye and soft heart of Abdul Mammeri, the youth gymnastics coach who first spotted young Donnell’s talent and then nurtured it through his difficult childhood — the father figure Whittenburg never otherwise had. …
… Whittenburg’s physique — defined by a stunning degree of muscularity — stands out even among other gymnasts. His biceps are so large, Whittenburg struggles to find clothes that fit. The sleeves of normal polo shirts, such as those Team USA members are frequently asked to wear at team appearances, simply can’t accommodate his arms, so Whittenburg pushes the sleeves up between his biceps and deltoid, which only accentuates their size. …
Donnell Whittenburg closes in on stardom, one vault at a time
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