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Whirlwind for Nastia Liukin just beginning
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
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No worries, Liukin will have all of them with her as she returns to fanfare in North Texas today. As Liukin's unsurpassed Olympics – she tied Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Miller for the best American gymnastics medal haul in a single Games – came to an...
Tags: Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Teri Johnson
How Did China Win the Gymnastics Tie?
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The new scoring system in gymnastics was supposed to make judging more transparent...American Nastia Liukin thought her eyes were deceiving her when she saw her name ranked second behind China's He Kexin...She had earned an identical score of 16.725 as...
Tags: Nastia Liukin, China Win
Coke pins China hopes on Beijing blitz
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility In an early coup last year, Coke signed an endorsement deal with Yao, China's most famous athlete, who for years had represented PepsiCo. Since this spring, the brand's Chinese ad anthem, "Red Around the World," has become a popular tune, even at some...
Tags: olympics, gold, fina, Beijing, South China Morning Post, Nastia Liukin
The day after: World embraces jubilant Johnson
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility August 20, 2008 Shawn Johnson's four Olympic medals made a heavy, loud clunk when she set them on a table Wednesday...This Olympics might not have turned out quite as she had anticipated, but Johnson, 16, a budding writer, loves the ending. "It has been...
Tags: olympics, gold, London, Beijing, gold medals, Mr Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson
Shawn Johnson wins gold in balance beam
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Shawn Johnson finally got her Olympic gold medal in the last event of the women's competition Tuesday night, the balance beam. Johnson nailed her routine that is chock-full of difficult tricks, earning a 16.225. Her grin was a thousand times wider than...
Tags: Shawn Johnson, China, U.S, balance beam, Alexandre Despatie, Jonathan Horton, Nastia Liukin, Margo Horton, Hortons, golds medals
Chinese to dominate parallel bars [Gymnastics]
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Chinese pair Li Xiaopeng and Huang Xu will be a 1-2 punch on parallel bars, and its upstart Li Shanshan is also the top favorite for the balance beam title. But horizontal bar gold seems Germany's Fabian Hambuchen's must-have. Multi-world champion Li...
Tags: China, uneven bars, Nastia Liukin, gold medals, different medals, Kobe Bryant, Kexin
Olympics: Games' oldest female gymnast wins silver
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The oldest female gymnast at the Beijing Olympics stormed to a silver medal on the vault on Sunday against rivals who were not even born when she began competing internationally. Oksana Chusovitina powered her way to a podium place at the positively veteran...
Tags: Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, floor exercise, Sandra Izbasa, U.S, Romania, Beijing, Oksana Chusovitina, China, gold medals
China, Cuba win diamond thrillers
Havana :: Cuba | about 1 year ago
Credibility Cuba held on to beat the US and China shocked Taiwan in two politically tinged extra-inning thrillers on the Olympic baseball diamond on Friday. Wukesong Field shook with drama as China erased a 7-3 deficit with a five-run burst in the bottom of the 12th...
Tags: U.S.-Cuba, Canada, olympic baseball, Terry Tiffee, Brian Barden, Nastia Liukin, runs deficit, Brian Duensing, China, Clint Barmes
Olympic gold medalists eyed for sales potential
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The early favorites are the whale in the pool, the boomer's delight and a plucky gymnast. But converting Olympic fame into long-term corporate sponsorship deals is no sure thing, even for record-setting gold medalist Michael Phelps, seemingly ageless...
Tags: Nastia Liukin, Valeri Liukin, Shawn Johnson, olympic gold, gold medals, U.S, China
Gymnastic gold medalist Liukin fulfills family legacy
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Nastia Liukin fulfilled her family's dream and legacy Friday and maybe even kept her mother from wandering the streets. Anna Liukin, who couldn't bring herself to watch her daughter compete all these years, can come in now...Capping off her performance...
Tags: Nastia Liukin, Anna Liukin, Shawn Johnson, U.S, China, olympic champion, silver medals, floor exercise, Russian
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