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Tweet 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 …
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Tweet This article from February was posted on Shannon Miller’s new Facebook fan page. It’s short and sweet, I enjoyed it.
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Tweet With 895 days to go until the London 2010 Olympics, a decision has been made to hold the rhythmic gymnastics competition in Wembley Arena, BBC Sport have an update on the decision.
International Olympic Committee website is great! They have a great list of the calender of events in Artistic Gymnastics and also a fantastic database that you can search for all of the medal winners, over all of the sporting categories since 1896!
Following on from my Coping with injuries post, here is a post I came across about Refusing to break: General Gymnasts …
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With the Winter Olympics fast approaching wired.com have compiled a list of all of the American Olympians who are on Twitter. It’s great, over a third of the American team for the Olympics have Twitter accounts! Check it out here
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Tweet 1. There are 9 different disciplines in Irish Gymnastics (IG)
Womens Artistic (WAG)
Mens Artistic (MAG)
Tumbling
Acrobatics
Special Needs
All Disciplines
Aerobics
Trampolining
Rhythmic
2. There are eight different regions throughout the country in IG. In these eight regions, there are currently 92 clubs registered with IG, the governing body.
3. While Ireland is not renowned for producing gymnasts to the standard required for Olympic competition, Barry MacDonald became the first and only Irish Gymnast to compete in the Olympic Games when he performed at the 1996 Atlanta Games
4. In Ireland, Salto Gymnastics Club in Lisburn, Co Antrim …

