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The performances included Olympic disciplines such as floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, parallel bars, horizontal bar, uneven bars, balance beam, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline gymnastics; non-Olympic discipline such as tumbling and acrobatic; and art performances such as dancing, martial art, instrument performance and chorus.
This is a list of the gymnasts who represented their country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing from 8–24 August 2008. Gymnasts across three disciplines ( artistic gymnastics , rhythmic gymnastics , and trampoline ) participated in the Games.
The Olympic Trials for women's artistic gymnastics took place on Friday, June 29, and Sunday, July 1, 2012, at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. Both nights of the competition were broadcast by NBC. [16] Heading into the Olympic Trials, Douglas, Wieber, and Raisman were considered locks for the team based on their all-around results that ...
These photos show how much Olympic gymnastics has evolved through the years from 1920s teams to Kerri Strug and now record-breaking gymnast Simone Biles.
From gold medals to grown-up and gorgeous! The women of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics US Gymnastics teams are no longer the sweet-faced teens you watched on TV.
Shawn Johnson East (born Shawn Machel Johnson; January 19, 1992) is an American former artistic gymnast.She is the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold medalist and team, all-around and floor exercise silver medalist.
Alicia Marie Sacramone Quinn (/ ˌ s æ k r ə ˈ m oʊ n i /; born December 3, 1987) is a retired American artistic gymnast.She won a silver medal with the United States team at the 2008 Summer Olympics and is the 2005 World Champion on floor exercise and the 2010 World Champion on the vault.
Women's artistic individual all-around competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held on August 15. at the Beijing National Indoor Stadium. [1] For each competitor in the women's qualification, the scores [2] for all four apparatus were summed to give an all-around qualification score. The top 24 competitors moved on to the individual all ...