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The Fierce Five was the artistic gymnastics team that won the second team gold medal for the United States in the women's team competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Originally referred to as the Fab Five , the five members of the team were Gabby Douglas , McKayla Maroney , Aly Raisman , Kyla Ross , and Jordyn Wieber .
The 'Fierce Five' US women's gymnastics team that won gold at the 2012 London Olympics. Cork Gaines. August 8, 2016 at 9:58 AM. Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas on nerves and the 'fierce five'
2012 Olympic Team, the "Fierce Five" at the White House. Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896, [1] but women's events first appeared in 1928. American female gymnasts have participated in every Olympic Games since 1936, except for 1980. [2] A total of 90 female gymnasts have represented the United States.
McKayla Rose Maroney (born December 9, 1995) is an American retired [3] artistic gymnast.She was a member of the American women's gymnastics team dubbed the Fierce Five at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the team and an individual silver medal in the vault event.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, the U.S. gymnasts didn't just have to defeat the Russians and the Romanians. They had to defeat USA Gymnastics itself.
The new five US Olympic gymnasts look fierce. More than half of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team is of color, and each woman brings her own level of diversity in a sport that hasn't seen much of ...
She, along with Fierce Five member Kyla Ross, made history by becoming the first Olympic gold medalists to compete in NCAA gymnastics. [63] She helped the team win the 2018 NCAA Championships. [64] [65] Her career ended during her senior year on March 13, 2020, when all competitions were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United ...
Jordyn Marie Wieber (born July 12, 1995) is an American former artistic gymnast and current gymnastics coach. Since April 2019, she has been the head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks gymnastics team. Wieber was a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. Women's Gymnastics team, self-dubbed the "Fierce Five", at the 2012 Summer Olympics.