Monday, July 30, 2012

Jordyn Wieber

  • LONDON – The sadness now behind her, Jordyn Wieber is looking to a future far different from the one she anticipated when she arrived for the Olympic Games.
  • (USA Today)
  • Its only natural that how Jordyn Wieber missed the all-around finals is getting overwhelming publicized. Ive been a part of that publicity and Wieber deserves it, just like she deserves a spot in the all-around finals.
  • (Bleacherreport.com)
  • LONDON -- The coach of reigning world champion Jordyn Wieber says its an injustice the American wont be included in Thursdays Olympic all-around finals.
  • (ESPN)
  • SALT LAKE CITY — A 2003 rule change in qualifying for the top prize in Olympic Gymnastics that has people around the world upset.
  • (ksl.com)
  • LONDON — The coach of reigning world champion Jordyn Wieber says its an injustice the American wont be included in Thursdays Olympic all-around finals.
  • (Knoxville News Sentinel)
  • Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber can find comfort in 2008 gold medalist Nastia Liukins words and own story of disappointment.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Somewhere between grueling workouts and setting world records, some of the 2012 Olympics youngest athletes still find the time to be normal teenagers.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • In 1992, one of the three all-around finalists for the Russian Unified team suffered an injury (gasp!), conveniently allowing their top gymnast, who fell on the beam and finished fourth on the team in the qualification round, to enter the all-around.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • This is perhaps the worst example of the old Olympic rulebook where only two gymnasts from each team can move to the finals.
  • (nvonews.com)
  • This afternoon, I opened my Facebook news feed to find a short cellphone video of my friend Bill Ruhl with his 12-year-old son, Ryan, and a woman. The first thing I noticed was that the blonde woman wasn't Bill's wife.
  • (Salon)

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