Martha Karolyi Gymnastics

She’s just a girl who had won over 14 champion medals. Who is that you are probably wondering. Well “that girl” is Simone Biles. Biles won over 10 gold medals in the sport of gymnastics. Some people say that simone can do tumbling passes on the balance beam that some olympians can’t even do on floor. Some say that is true some say that is false.

Gabby Douglas, Olympic gold medalist. She is known for being the first African American gymnast to be the Individual All Round Champion at the Olympics. In pursuance of her dream, Gabby Douglas had to sacrifice the things most important to her. This would include leaving her home and family behind to go to Iowa in the interest of training as a serious gymnast at age fourteen. Not only did Gabby Douglas make sacrifices, but her family also had to, financially and emotionally. In fact, most Olympians give up all of these things so that they can achieve their objective. Luckily, the sacrifice paid off and Gabby Douglas achieved her dream. Much like Gabby Douglas, Asher Lev has to sacrifice his family and community for the sake of following his

Have you ever heard of the Olympic gymnast, Simone Biles? She has been a gymnast since she was eight years old. She is a gymnast that went to the 2016 Rio Olympics. I hope in the paper you learn about her.

At the team competition, she delivered impressive performances, scoring 15.100 on the vault, 15.233 on the balance beam and 14.833 on floor exercise, helping the U.S. win gold. Hernandez was now part of the team they call “The Final Five.” The Final Five was the third American team to win gold medals, followed by victories in 1996 and 2012. (Biography)

Mary Lou Retton is the greatest gymnast ever. She was the first American gymnast to win the gold, for male and females. In this paper, I'm going to be telling you about Mary Lou's childhood, her Olympic experience and her achievements.

As Gabby first walked on stage to observe she “scanned the 16,500 seats. Some were so high that she could barely see” (197). As she left for the Olympics, her host mom, Missy, gave her an enveloped with a note for each day at the Olympics. The first card came from her mom, it read “Breeeeeezy, you’re an Olympian! You did it! When you’re preparing to compete, I want you to always end up on top. Never forget that god has made you the head, and not the tail” (198). This gave Gabby so much confidence that she was ready to take on the floor. Team USA put itself in a strong position with the all around competition. Gabby came in third which is all she needed to stay here and compete with her teammates she has dreamed of all along.

As in the next Olympics there will only be 4 members. The Final Five are America’s 3rd gymnastic team to win gold. Simone also went on and dominated the individual performances, by becoming the first woman in two decades to win back-to-back Olympic all-around and world titles. By the end, Simone Biles had earned herself 19 Olympic and World titles, making herself the most decorated American gymnast in history.

She launched a company in 2010 called Shannon Miller Lifestyle: Health and Fitness for Women where it gives tutorial videos on different gymnastic tricks like the Back Extension Roll, Pullovers, Straddle Jump, and more. The website also gives news updates on recent gymnastics events, gives lifestyle advice on how to maintain health, nutrition, fitness, motherhood, and motivation, shows different foundations created by Shannon, shares her speech topics, and even includes a shop for Shannon merchandise. To this day, she has been traveling all around the country as a motivational speaker by promoting women and children's health and wellness. In an article entitled, “Shannon Miller”, the author details how Shannon seeks to empower women to make their health a priority through education and awareness.” (Shannon Miller, 4)

This article describes how Simone Biles and Aly Raisman took home a gold and silver medal for the United states. Competing in gymnastics, the ladies were overjoyed to be able to represent their country. Aliya Mustafina, from Russia, came in third place, taking home the bronze medal. Together the ladies from the United States, wept together in celebration. To them there was no shining star, only two ladies who had represented their country with honor.

Gabrielle was a member of the U.S. team that won the gold medal in the team finals at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. She also won the 2012 Olympic Trials, which took place in San Jose, California, and was selected to the national team that will represent the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London,

Aly has experienced so many different situations as an olympic gymnast, including both bad and good ones. “Aly Raisman is the reigning Olympic champion in floor exercise and has another gold medal as part of the Fierce Five” (Armour). Aly has had a very impressive gymnastics career and her floor exercise performances are flawless. Aly is one of the two gymnasts to make the Olympic gymnastics team twice since 2000 (Armour). She is a solid competitor

Simone biles had a very tough childhood. She and her siblings were put up for adoption at a very young age. Simone had always relied on her brothers to take care of her when she couldn't sleep or needed help. Finally, simones grandparent decided to adopt them. Simeone loved her grandparents very much. Simone loved that they had a huge trampoline that she could spend hours and hours flipping on. One day at daycare something changed her whole entire life, they were supposed to take a fieldtrip to farm but it unexpectedly started raining. The only place to go was a gymnastics gym. One boy said: ¨bet you can do a better flip than me!¨

When born with a Apgar score of zero, a test given to all newborns contrary to belief Shawn Johnson would never be thought to be a world champion today. Although, this was near to impossible for Shawn, she overcame the impossibilities by winning gold at the Beijing Summer Olympics. Her gymnast career began to emerge at the age of three, when she was placed into Chow’s Gymnastics in Des Moines, Iowa (“Shawn Johnson”). By the age of twelve she was already competing at the national level. Shawn was winning a significant amount of titles before she began to make herself known. Amazing achievements were in Johnson’s favor, being a three-time holder of US all around championship. This is not the only accomplishment Johnson should be proud of, in 2007 she won gold

Female Gymnast, Gabrielle Douglas was born on December 31, 1995, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Her first experience with gymnastics was at the age of three, when she perfected a cartwheel with her sister. She started training in formal Gymnastics when she was 6 and won a state championship by the time she was 8. In 2010, she moved from her hometown in order to train with an Olympic trainer and was chosen to compete in the Olympics with the U.S team in 2012. At that Olympic she earned the title of the First American to win gold. She also won a gold medal at the olympic games 2012 In 2013, Gabby moved to Los Angeles and in 2014 began training with her original trainer again. Later in the year, she trained with a different, professional person.

She began her career of gymnastics in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona. By the time she was 12, she knew that the dream of being in the Olympics was actually becoming a reality, but she needed a better coach. The coach that she knew could take her to the top was none other than Béla Károlyi. She would have to sacrifice everything including her family to train with him, and she did. “I wanted to really go somewhere in gymnastics, so I figured I would have to leave home,” she said. “And if you’re going to leave home, you might as well come to the best.” So Strug packed her bags and left to go train