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[5 Jan 2012 | One Comment | ]

Tweet Atlanta 1996 USA Team gold medallist Dominique Moceanu is set to release a memoir “Off Balance” on June 5th:
An unflinchingly honest memoir from Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu that reveals the often dark underbelly of Olympic gymnastics as only an insider can—and the secrets she learned about the past that nearly tore apart her family.At fourteen years old, Dominique Moceanu was the youngest member of the 1996 U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastic team, the first and only American women’s team to take gold at the Olympics. Her pixie-like appearance, passion …

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[8 Feb 2011 | No Comment | ]

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.
Part 1

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5,
Also… in the end I never picked out some floor routine music…. …

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[4 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]

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Dominique Moceanu tweeted a link to this – a “Gymnastics Cruise“. It’s a week long cruise stopping at Texas, Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Mexico. From the prices it looks like the cheapest you would pay for it is just under $1,500 .
The only connections to gymnastics are the following:

Fun Activities with Special Guest Dominique Moceanu
Meet & Greet, Autograph and Photo Session….More to be announced

There are some gymnastics related activities:

Handstand Contest (lets see how long you can hold it on a boat)
Gymnastics Trivia
Private Showing of Stick It!
Scavenger Hunt (Find passengers …

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[26 Aug 2010 | One Comment | ]

Tweet Elite Gymnastics Stars linked to and wrote about this video. What do you think? Fantastic that she can still do so many moves! It’s the first time I’ve seen it and it’s been uploaded to YouTube for a few months by now.

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[7 May 2009 | 5 Comments | ]

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 …