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Nastia Liukin – “London’s waiting for you”
Aug 24th
Youtube user Mariafelicio19 made this video for Nastia.
As I said before, I’m not normally one for montage videos but I think the music and footage go really well together. It was a well thought out video. Very nice.
Little Links 17/8/10
Aug 17th
Wow, I came back today from being away for a short break and my Reader is flooded with all the going’s on from the US Championships, YOG and GBR V ROM – thanks to all for your great reports!
USA Gymnastics still unhappy about age rules – Marta Karolyi and Steve Penny on the age rules
Australia’s Angela Donald dreaming of 2012
Nastia will head back to the gym and then she’ll decide on London 2012
I’m not a huge fan of the gymnastics montages but I like this one:
Little Links 4/8/10
Aug 4th
August already? Wow!!
GB’s Daniel Keatings is back training since suffering an ACL injury
Vladimir Chertkov faces the uphill task of producing champions in a sport which is still in its infancy in India
BBC Sport on Shawn Johnsons return to Gymnastics
Will She or Won’t She? Nastia Mulls Another Olympics
Nastia not to return to gymnastics?
Jul 16th
According to gossip website Hollywood Life, Nastia has “exclusively revealed” that she hasn’t yet made a decision on whether she will return to gymnastics. You can see the short article here.
According to the article Nastia wants to move on to bigger and better things since achieving such a big goal at a young age. She’d like to become more involved in TV and go to college to study something in that line. Of course, there was a plug for her new clothing line too. I never take these gossip sites too seriously. It tends to happen that one gossip site reports something (often false) and the other sites pick it up and add bits on. So I’m still holding on for a proper announcement from Nastia’s website, until then she’s still a training gymnast to me!
I’d love to see Nastia come back, she’s a beautiful gymnast. My gymnasts idolize her, although in 2 years time when the 2012 Olympics are over, they’ll idolize another gymnast if she doesn’t come back and win the Games. There’s been no updates on Nastia’s site since earlier this year which is such a pity. She seems to be using a more direct approach of social media by Tweeting, although I rarely see her communicate with her fans who adore her.
What do you think? Should Nastia come back or should she continue on making money from advertising, sponsorship etc?
Nastia to appear on MIOBI?
May 5th
According to Entertainment Weekly, Nastia will be making an appearance in Make It Or Break it when it returns on June 28th. There was a bit of MIOBI chat on Nastia’s Twitter in the last few days so maybe it’s true! View the short article here.
The show has also tapped real-life Olympic gold medalist Nastia Liukin to make a special appearance. She’ll be keeping a close eye on the Rock girls as a commentator when they compete at a gymnastics meet in France.
Little Links 1/4/10
Apr 1st
An update from the GK Blog - including Nastia Liukin
USA Gymnastics invites you to enter their Chalk Full of Beauty Sweepstakes
An article from New Scientist Achilles Tendon is key to evolution of human running
Andy Thornton’s follow up What physical skills do you use to test a young kid for competitive gymnastics? to the previous post linked to in Little Links 30/3/10