Tweet 1996 Olympic Floor champion Ioannis Melissanidis, is rumoured to be considering returning to competition. AFP reports today that 34 year old Melissanidis who became a national hero upon winning gold on floor in Atlanta is considering returning to competition but rules out returning for the London 2012 Olympics.

“It is always there in my dreams to make a comeback,” Melissanidis told AFP during a brief trip to Paris.
“I am still training three hours a day and I am in good shape which is maybe a bad thing because it makes me believe …

Tweet I was searching for some floor routine music tonight on YouTube. I came across so many videos, watched so many routines, especially from 1996, it’s the first Olympics I can remember. Moceanu and Podkopayeva’s 1996 routines never get old! I’ll always love them. Anyway keeping in with the 1996 theme, I ended up watching the Magnificent 7 documentary “Anything to Win“. Check it out of you haven’t already seen it.
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Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5,
Also… in the end I never picked out some floor routine music…. …

Tweet Everybody involved with gymnastics has their favourite routines from the competitions and events over the years. Below are some of mine. I have chosen some performances from the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Every so often, I hope to show you my favourite routines from the past. 
My parents recorded the gymnastics from Atlanta on VCR for me to watch, over the months and years after the games, I watched the routines time and time again, hoping that some day I could be like those gymnasts.  These three floor routines I …