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Pop Crunch
| 9 months ago
The Queen of Talk will gab with Gabby, 16, from her training ground in West Des Moines, Iowa, the network said in a statement Friday: Douglas will discuss her rise to Olympic gold and the intense and immediate media attention she found herself facing...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 9 months ago
AP Television Writer If you occasionally have trouble telling where NBC's Olympic programming ends and the commercials begin, that's no coincidence. Mark Levy, vice president and creative director for NBC Sports, heads a department responsible for...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
Rihanna, Kardashians, Gabby Douglas Updated Oprah's keeping busy, snagging chats with big stars. Tidbits from her upcoming (Aug. 19, 9 p.m. on OWN) interview with Rihanna have been released and Oprah shares her impressions of the singer. "She's...
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Money Morning
| 9 months ago
As the 2012 London Olympics slowly comes to an end this weekend, the Americans still maintain their lead in medal winnings. As of Friday morning, the United States led with 90 medals comprised of 39 golds, 25 silvers and 26 bronze. At this year's...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
Women outnumber men on the squad for the first time in history and Americans have thrilled to the sight of 16-year-old Gabby Douglas becoming the first black gymnast to stand atop the medalist's podium. New Yorkers in particular can be proud of our...
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Independent
| 9 months ago
Usain Bolt has set a new Twitter Olympic conversation record with more than 80,000 tweets per minute last night after his 200m victory. The official Twitter account revealed the new record yesterday after Bolt successfully defended his 200m title and...
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The Onion
| 9 months ago
Gabby Douglas admitted Thursday that as much as she loves all the attention she has received at the Olympics, she's looking forward to returning to her completely abnormal, fucked-up life back in the United States. "This trip has been incredible, but...
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The Olympia
| 10 months ago
Make a deal Judge to troubled Prium developers: Make a deal A judge refused Monday to dismiss the bankruptcies of two Tacoma developers, essentially telling them and their creditors to come up with a plan or he'll have to take action.
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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
The perception is that gold-winning Olympians find it easy to turn success into lucrative corporate sponsorships (Gabby Douglas is already on Corn Flakes boxes)...No sooner had Gabby Douglas dismounted from the podium clutching gymnastic gold, then...
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YourTango
| 10 months ago
The controversy over Gabby Douglas' hair exemplifies an unfair focus on appearance in the media. In a day and age when women's appearances are perpetually scrutinized, the controversy over Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas exemplifies the...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
9 August 2012 Timothy Douglas, the estranged father of Olympic superstar Gabby Douglas, has broken his silence following a string of revealing reports about his parenting. 'I feel like I've been the best father that I can be to my daughter and to my...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
The Middle East and Israel were part of this celebration..admiring the modern-day global heroes...The Olympic Games, which take place every four years, represent the greatest gathering of countries, peoples and cultures. In ancient Greece, the...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas, 16, poses with her gold medal during a news conference at the 2012 London Olympic Games August 8, 2012. Gabby Douglas said she just wanted to go home to the United States to see her family and dogs, go to the beach...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
Been there, done that Date August 10, 2012 7 reading now 1 Read later A star is born .....Gabby Douglas, the 16-year-old from Virginia who won double gymnastics gold in London and with it the hearts of millions in the US, does not have time to be...
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Houston Chronicle
| 10 months ago
Lauren Scruggs makes appearance at Olympics The Plano fashion blogger and model who lost an eye and her hand in a runway accident last December told the NBC's Today Show on Thursday that she was feeling good and hasn't had any pain since January,...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
Olympian Gabby Douglas the gymnast is golden, but her family is obscured Olympian Gabby Douglas has broken through a racial barrier in sports only to be boxed in by old canards about who she is and where she comes from. The more complex story of her...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 10 months ago
In this Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, file photo, U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas displays her gold medal during the artistic gymnastics women's individual all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London...The gymnastics gold medalist is the...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
AFP/Getty Images Olympian Gabby Douglas leaped into the hearts of Americans by winning gold at the 2012 London Games. Big Apple gymnastics fans will be flipping out when Olympic Gold Medalists Gabby (Flying Squirrel) Douglas, Aly Raisman and other...
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New York Post
| 10 months ago
August 8, 2012 The results are in for the most popular Olympic athlete...The gymnastics gold medalist has the most clicks on the NBC Olympics Web site...And she was the runaway favorite swimming phenom Michael Phelps's profile came in second, with...
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Just Jared
| 10 months ago
Women's Gymnastics Team Jordyn Wieber , Kyla Ross , McKayla Maroney , Aly Raisman , and Gabby Douglas show off their gold medals at the adidas Olympic Media Lounge at Westfield Stratford City on Wednesday (August 8) in London, England. The girls all...
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US Magazine
| 10 months ago
Another dream has come true for 16-year-old Gabby Douglas . Shortly after the Virginia Beach native became the fourth American to win the women's gymnastics all-around gold medal at the London Olympics August 2, the cast of The CW's Vampire Diaries...
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GMA News
| 10 months ago
Their gold medals in hand, gymnastics 'Fierce Five' posed for pictures and talked up their 40 city United States tour on Wednesday, promising to play all their London Olympic hits. And U.S. gymnastics chief Steve Penny is adamant not since the mid-...
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San Francisco Chronicle
| 10 months ago
The London Games end Sunday, and through the past couple of weeks we've seen amazing performances from the likes of Michael Phelps , Gabby Douglas and many other athletes from around the world...Recreation and Park Department is celebrating the...
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OK! Magazine
| 10 months ago
Looks like Julie, who Tweeted a similar invitation to gymnast Gabby Douglas , made good on her word! Clare Holt , who plays Rebekeh, shared a picture of herself with Kelly on Twitter, with the message: "Special visitor on set today! So great to meet...
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The Hutchinson News
| 10 months ago
I've witnessed dramatic moments that have brought tears from time to time. I've seen Gabby, the "Flying Squirrel," roar into the air; Phelps become the most decorated Olympian; double amputee, Pistonius, making the finals to achieve his goal; and the...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Now it's time to turn those golds into some green.
With gymnastics competition over, the Fierce Five got an idea of what life is going to be like now.
The U.S. women's gymnastics team got a sneak peek at their Corn Flakes...
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Asian Week
| 10 months ago
I didn't even notice the Time cover that featured rising star Gabby Douglas who appears to be the biggest draw of the 2012 olympics. She's even more popular than Michael Phelps if television interest is any measure. It's a big deal probably because...
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The Superficial
| 10 months ago
And if there's one thing FOX News' audience hates, it's black people winning things for the first time, so here's Alisyn Camerota calling Gabby's outfit anti-American because it didn't explode into red, white and blue fireworks as the ashes floated...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
The results can be spectacular, from the dominance of swimmer Michael Phelps (below, left) to the clutch performances of American gymnasts Aly Raisman (top) and Gabby Douglas. After training for so long and finally accomplishing their goal, many...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Gabby Douglas is golden when it comes to online popularity, too.
The gymnastics gold medalist is the most clicked-upon athlete on NBC's Olympics website, the network said. Through Sunday, her profile on the site had more than 18 million...
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MamaPop
| 10 months ago
Comments have ranged from she needs a style intervention to where's her fro?! Her mother, Natalie Hawkins, revealed, It's really been African American women that have come out and attacked her...She has to keep her hair in a ponytail 28 to 30 hours a...
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USA Today Life
| 10 months ago
In an interview with Fashionista.com , Hawkins admits that this wasn't the first time her daughter's hair had come up. "I started hearing about [her hair] earlier this year actually. I started trying to be proactive about her hair before all of that...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| 10 months ago
The American gymnast burst onto the scene with gold medals in the team competition and the all-around, saw her face on a cereal box and dealt with the crushing media demands that come with stardom...Douglas says she wore down mentally as the...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 10 months ago
When the curtain was raised on the gymnastics competition at the London Olympics, reigning world champion Jordyn Wieber was expected to dominate, while her American teammate Gabby Douglas was pegged as a fast-rising dynamo to watch. But 18-year-old...
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The Dish Rag
| 10 months ago
Douglas, who won gold medals for her all-around performance and for her performance with Team USA, hit a sour note in the balance beam finals. She slipped off the beam after a back handspring didn't quite land, and she was forced to grab the beam...
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Chicago Tribune
| 10 months ago
Gabby Douglas can't keep her smile away, not when she's doing a complicated sequence of leaps and somersaults on the balance beam, not when she giggles and says she'd like to get an Acura NSX Roadster "Just like the one in 'The Avengers' " and...
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Chicago Tribune
| 10 months ago
With Wieber's every word, reporters studied her face a London tube map...After all, that was supposed to be Wieber, the world champion, standing where Raisman stood. This was supposed to be the most memorable 10 days of the teen-ager's career, not a...
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EW - PopWatch
| 10 months ago
Watch it below. (No spoilers in the comments, please!) Nina Dobrev, a former artistic and rhythmic gymnast, was behind the group effort...They're starting to tell me I'm looking tired on set, and it's because I'm up until, like, two in the morning...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Two Olympic gold medals are just fine with Gabby Douglas. Same for Aly Raisman, though that bronze was pretty sweet, too.
While the all-around champion failed to add to her medal haul Tuesday, Raisman wrapped up the London Olympics in...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
Even though Americans may get a little carried away at the Olympics, Germans could express a bit more public patriotism...David Webb , syndicated radio show host and spokesperson for the National Tea Party Federation complained about the lack of...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Topics Gabrielle Douglas of the U.S. competes in the women's gymnastics balance beam final in the North Greenwich Arena during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 7, 2012. Gabby Douglas, the first U.S. gymnast to win the Olympic all-around and team...
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People.com
| 10 months ago
The anchor for Team USA at the Atlanta Olympics, she competed on an injured ankle to help secure women's gymnastics their first-ever team gold medal and Tuesday, she watched this year's 'Fab Five' win the second team gold . The now married mom of one...
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OK! Magzine
| 10 months ago
The 16-year-old Olympian's favorite show happens to be the CW's Vampire Diaries and her celebrity crush, the show's star, Ian Somerhalder. When the show's executive producer, Julie Plec , Tweeted the athlete last week to congratulate her on the win,...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Gabby Douglas slips off the balance beam and again fails to earn a medal in individual event Teammate Aly Raisman earned the bronze in the event after an appeal by Team USA. Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 10:53 AM Michael Regan/Getty Images All-around...
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E! Online
| 10 months ago
He surprised Gabby, who earned the nickname "the Flying Squirrel," by showing up at her Olympic trials in June, where he called out to her from the bleachers while carrying a U.S. flag. "I'm like, 'Who's calling my name?' And then I look up.
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Gabby Douglas is racking up fans left and right -- and a handful of them just happen to be part of "The Vampire Diaries" family! The 16-year-old Olympic medalist has been receiving support from the cast and crew of the hit CW supernatural drama...
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PRWeb
| 10 months ago
Visualization is the Secret to Success for Two-Time Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas, Who Last Week Became the First African-American to Win the Women's All-Around Gymnastics Title at the London 2012 Olympics. June that she visualizes each routine...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Olga Korbut said she knew immediately that Gabby Douglas was different, special, from the very moment the American walked out of the tunnel at North Greenwich Arena to embrace the Olympics. I keep my eye on her right away, the 1972 gold medalist said...
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Celebrity Gossip
| 10 months ago
After already nabbing two gold medals, Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas had high hopes for her uneven bars final on Monday (August 6), but unfortunately she didn't finish as planned. The 16-year-old all-around champion finished in last place with a...
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Contra Costa Times
| 10 months ago
Yet the real alchemy that took place when this black girl struck gold last week was the transformation in the hearts of young gymnasts of color everywhere. "This changed everything for me," said 9-year-old Theodora Uzozie of Alameda, who trains at...
