Sentences with word «gymnast»

For Bridie Farrell, the revelations of the past year including the abuse of Olympic gymnasts by former team physician Larry Nassar, were not a surprise.

Hope was a 17 - year - old Olympic gymnast who captured the heart of America by winning the bronze medal at the 2004 Games despite an ankle injury.

The two appear to be close friends having dressed up as Gymnasts for Halloween and posted several dancing Vines videos together.

But Hope's competitive spirit is aroused when she encounters Lance Tucker (Sebastian Stan) an old nemesis and fellow former gymnast who tries to lure Maggie away from Hope so he can become her coach.

My 10 yr old is a competitive gymnast as well.

After listening to You Will Know Me, Megan Abbott's newest, read by Lauren Fortgang, you'll never look at those small, supremely schooled and conditioned young gymnasts in sparkling leotards the same way again.

She did two back handsprings, landing on her feet each time, and then, instead of prancing and pirouetting up and down the beam, as most other female gymnasts do, she turned at right angles and began a series of hip circles around it, above and below it, fluid, flowing, lovely to see.

This exercise is also one of the ways to progress to the planche press up which is the one you see Olympic gymnasts do on the rings as a show of upper body strength.

A 2012 study testing the physical performance of gymnasts on a ketogenic diet found that the diet decreased weight and body fat without decreasing the performance of the women.

Meanwhile the Japanese were thinking it was a pity that they had left their eight top gymnasts at home to prepare for the world championship next month at Varna, Bulgaria.

Hanging leg raises: Maston recommends this body - weight exercise often performed by gymnasts for getting your abdominals working.

The second-most decorated American gymnast of all time summed up her post with this: «Don't ever let anyone tell you how you should or shouldn't look.

There is simply no way to responsibly prescribe a flat training volume for everyone: the elite gymnast who wants to become a runner needs a different training volume than the elite runner who wants to become an endurance swimmer.

«All strong gymnastics powers have a system, a training center where gymnasts train year - long together,» Karolyi told TIME.

The crowd was much thinner in the Rio Olympic Arena, but that didn't matter for U.S. gymnast Simone Biles.

Inside, there's also the sixteenth issue of The Gentlewoman, which features Olympic gymnast Simone Biles on the cover and has yet to hit newsstands.

She hasn't competed since the Olympics and won't in 2017, but she won't need to to hold onto her status as the best gymnast in the world and perhaps all - time.

Gold medal gymnast McKayla Maroney has joined the «#MeToo» movement of women speaking out about sexual abuse.

As Sipes and his students read a story about gymnast Dominique Dawes, third - grader Alexander Coyers noted some similarities between the U.S. gymnastics team and his small reading group.

Last month, the two - time U.S Olympic gymnast made a powerful statement against former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar during his sex abuse sentencing.

This was shown by a study on elite level gymnasts who train a lot harder than anyone else in the world (4).

Although sports figures such as tennis great Billie Jean King and Olympic champion gymnast Dominique Dawes drew most of the media attention, a half - dozen scientists were in the audience.

Rationally, it shouldn't be surprising that some of the best athletes in the world are in incredible shape, but Simone Biles proved it with a picture of herself along with Team USA gymnasts Aly Raisman and Madison Kocian shortly after the Olympics ended.

Hotel executive Suraj Patel, who is running against Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the Democratic primary, posted «creepy» statements on social media joking about his attraction to Olympic gold medal gymnast McKayla Maroney — when she was just 16 - years - old.

Multiple gold medal - winning gymnast Simone Biles will be the recipient of a motorcade in Belize City.

The high bar is the equivalent of the uneven bars for men's gymnastics, but it swaps the precision of the uneven bars» transitions for the power of the flips male gymnasts pull on it.

But former artistic gymnast Dominique Dawes took her passion for health all the way to the Hill — in 2010, President Obama appointed Dawes, who competed in the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Olympics, as co-chair of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition, in conjunction with First Lady's Michelle Obama's Let's Move!

Born to former German rhythmic gymnast champion Regina Weber and former footballer and Senegalese international Souleymane Sané, the 20 - year old possesses dual French and German citizenship and opted to represent world champions Germany, making his senior debut on 13 November 2015 - ironically ag ainst France.

All in all, this trampoline makes a great buy for competitive jumpers, aspiring gymnasts as well as family fun for everyone.

When gymnasts spend years building up the position shown in the pic above, they're challenging the biceps to fire when the elbow joint is hyperextended.

USA Gymnastics has unanimously accepted 70 recommendations made by an independent investigator, who said the governing body needs a «complete cultural change, permeating the entire organization and communicated to the field in all its actions» to protect young gymnasts from abuse.

For older gymnasts serious about pursuing gymnastics as a sport and have at least three years of higher level classes (such as sapphire, diamond, jr team, or training outside of the Park District of Highland Park).

Driven by her desire for gold, U.S. National Team gymnast Christy Henrich practiced diligently for hours each day while maintaining a disciplined diet in hopes of becoming the best.

While at the event, Jamie took photos with Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman, while Miles met up with comedian Keegan - Michael Key.

Women artistic gymnasts who consumed a very low carbohydrate modified ketogenic diet for 30 days, there was no loss in athletic performance, but body weight and fat mass decreased, with a non-significant increase in muscle mass [38, 39].

My blocky little gymnast legs look ridiculous in them.

In the Budapest Sports Hall last week, the world's top gymnasts were making goulash of the sport's standards, and the U.S.S.R.'s 16 - year - old Dmitri Belozertchev was the one doing the best cooking.

Overnight summer camp with other gymnasts their own age can offer them extended personal instruction.

Gymnastic footwear should mimic what gymnasts use — nothing or very close to it.

Regret over having «failed the world» with her silver medal placement in the 2008 Games eventually led gymnast Shawn Johnson to realize that even if she won «12 more Olympic gold medals... it's not my purpose in life, and he will always be my greatest reward,» she said in a recent video for I Am Second.

Although just a boy at the time, I remember how a 17 - year - old Russian gymnast named Olga Korbut captured the world's affections at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Olympic gold medal gymnast Laurie Hernandez visits Build Series to discuss the launch of her debut clothing line ob.sess in partnership with JCPenney at Build Studio on April 12, 2018 in New York City.

When Hope's father Stan (Gary Cole) convinces her to train a young gymnast named Maggie (Haley Lu Richardson), the movie's endgame couldn't be more obvious.