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Gomez was born in San Antonio, Texas, the older of two daughters born to a pair of former migrant farm workers from Laredo, Texas. [1] Her parents, mother Otilia and father Ramiro, worked their way up from their farm working days to become a teacher and a welder, respectively, and struggled to keep their family together while giving 10-year-old budding gymnast Julissa a chance to train with ...
Viewers are used to having their minds blown by the athletes at every Olympic Games, but the rhythmic gymnasts at the Summer 2024 Paris Olympics have taken it to a whole new level—and fans are ...
The United States women's national artistic gymnastics team represents the United States in FIG international competitions. As of 2024, the U.S. team is the reigning World team champion and the reigning Olympic team gold medalists, with the five gymnasts nicknamed the "Golden Girls."
The Golden Girls was the artistic gymnastics team that won the team gold medal for the United States in the women's team competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The five members of the team were Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, and Hezly Rivera. Later in the Olympic Games, Biles won a gold medal in the individual all ...
Alexandra Rose Raisman (born May 25, 1994) [2] is an American retired artistic gymnast and two-time Olympian. She was captain of both the 2012 "Fierce Five" and 2016 "Final Five" U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics teams, which won their respective team competitions.
Since the first edition, three disciplines are contested: artistic gymnastics and trampoline gymnastics—both for boys and girls, and rhythmic gymnastics only for girls. In 2018, acrobatic gymnastics joined the programme, as well as an international team competition gathering gymnasts from all disciplines.
Christina "Christy" Renée Henrich (July 18, 1972 – July 26, 1994) was an American artistic gymnast.Her death from anorexia nervosa at age 22 led to major reforms in the way women's gymnastics is covered on television and in the news media.
DiCello was born to Matt and Kecia DiCello in 2004, and has three siblings, two sisters named Karleigh and Kyra and a brother named Hunter. She began gymnastics when she was two. [4] Kayla is of Italian descent on her father's side and German on her mother's. [5] Kayla is a 2022 graduate of Northwest High School in Germantown, Maryland. [6]