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The Fierce Five was the artistic gymnastics team that won the second team gold medal for the United States, and the first gold medal on international soil, in the women's team competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
The USA Gymnastics women have won the Olympic Gold four times, in 1996, 2012, 2016, and 2024 Summer Olympics. These successes led to the nicknames Magnificent Seven , Fierce Five , Final Five , and Golden Girls, respectively.
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.
On Sunday, the United States Women's Gymnastics Team began their quest to repeat as Olympic champions in the team all-around event. The bar has been set high in Rio for Team USA thanks to the ...
USA Gymnastics, the governing body for gymnastics in the United States, generally names the teams each summer after the National Championships, but gymnasts are sometimes added to or removed from the rosters based on their performance at training camps throughout the year. Thus, some gymnasts listed under a given year were on the national team ...
The women of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics US Gymnastics teams are no longer the sweet-faced teens you watched on TV. ... Gabby Douglas and other incredible women from the victorious 2008 and 2012 ...
The final of the women's artistic team all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held at the North Greenwich Arena in London on 31 July 2012. Eight teams qualified for the final, from a total of twelve that competed in the qualification round. Each team was composed of five gymnasts. In the final, each team selected three gymnasts ...
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 ...