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    person I am today. Gymnastics has educated me in so many ways and helped me reach many achievements in my life that seemed unimaginable. It has taught me how to work towards my goals, never give up, and always strive to be excellent. Growing up with two parents that were both division one NCAA gymnasts at the University of Oklahoma can easily demonstrate why I was shown the sport that I still love and do to this day. Most of my earliest memories are from being in a gymnastics gym. My parents never

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    born. Larry Nassar. For over roughly 30 years he abused 150+ children in USA Gymnastics. The question of how this went on so long without being detected has lingered, but the answer is clear. It didn’t. It was detected, but covered up. Yet, the people least expected to know about it did. USA Gymnastics, an organization meant to protect gymnasts knew. They knew and because of that, it is brutally clear that USA Gymnastics is involved with the Larry Nassar Cases because they covered up the abuse experienced

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    Gabby Douglas is true to her beliefs, and her personality shows that she is helpful to the world, and her family and she shows exceptional execution in gymnastics Gabby shows long and beautiful lines specifically in bars, floor, and beam. She is very powerful in the vault, as well. In the text, it states, “I compete for each element with great grace and strength… I will flow beautifully” (Douglas 192). This quotation supports the thesis statement because it shows how Gabby Douglas has long and beautiful

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    Texas Best Gymnastics Everyone remembers that one place, that one place that instantly makes you feel good, that one place where you can completely act like yourself. For me, that one special location forever remains Texas Best Gymnastics, in McKinney, Tx. What I always adored was practicing with my team.I began competing there at the age of eight, and I competed my last competition shortly after my thirteenth birthday. However, even though I no longer spend half my time at the gym like I used to

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    Visualisation is a very powerful exercise to help people move towards their goal or target at an accelerated level. It is a method that has been used for thousands of years by people from all walks of life. It is thought by some researchers that even cave drawings of animals were made to help the hunter focus on what he had to kill the next day. Although this was a very basic technique, it was still a form of visualisation. Today, many sportspeople and athletes have employed designated trainers

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    After seven years of being a competitive gymnast, I have lost count of amount of times someone has said “Well, gymnastics isn’t technically a sport.” Obviously, these types of comments would send me over the edge with rage and frustration as I struggled to wrap my mind around how someone could so easily degrade the tireless effort I put into something every single day. I struggled to understand how someone could compare his or her one hour practice twice a week to my four hours six times a week.

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    Having the skill to throw someone twenty feet in the air and be able to catch them is very challenging and takes a lot of effort. Many see cheerleading as an activity, but it could be described as a sport. Cheerleading involves lots of skill, flexibility, and strengthening. For something to be a sport, one needs to have the traits listed above. Being a cheerleader takes a lot of talent which means it is considered a sport. To begin with, cheerleading meets the physical requirements that most sports

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    work just as hard as all the other sport players with training. Sports require athleticism, as does cheerleading. “There is no question that competitive cheerleading is a physically demanding sport. Teams incorporate elements of dance, tumbling and gymnastics to create performance routines.” Says Kristi Dosh. Competitive cheerleading is directed by a coach, much as other team sports are directed by a coach or coaching staff. “In order to gain and maintain those athletic qualities, a competitive cheerleader

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    It was a February night and the stuffy Dracut High School gym smelled like sweat and chalk. The Methuen High Varsity gymnastics team had just begun our beam warm-ups and I felt oddly calm. Beam has always been my best event, so competing usually leaves me either very pleased or very disappointed. My coaches, Stacy and Kevin had been encouraging me the entire season to be less nervous at meets. For example, my split jumps on beam during practice fly above the beam in a pretty split. In meets, it was

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