Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Jordyn Wieber

  • (CBS/AP) All Jordyn Wieber needed to bounce back from the biggest disappointment of her career was a little pep talk. Teammate McKayla Maroney was only too happy to provide one.
  • (CBS News)
  • LONDON – For reigning world champion Jordyn Wieber, there will be no chance to be the next Nadia or next Mary Lou. But today, in the team finals, she wrote a bigger story, perhaps a more lasting one, too.
  • (Detroit Free Press)
  • LONDON – They chanted as they streamed into the North Greenwich tube station, still buzzing from a gold-medal performance that will stand as one of the most dominant in Olympic gymnastics history.
  • (NJ.com)
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  • (Slate)
  • After losing a spot to go for the gold in the womens gymnastics all-around competition, Jordyn Wieber could have fallen apart. After all, shes 17.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Most 17-year-old girls deal with passing the SATs, relationship drama and the occasional fight with their parents. Jordyn Wieber is dealing with the weight of American womens gymnastics on her shoulders. The teenager from DeWitt, Mich.
  • (Bleacherreport.com)
  • This GIF guide on Jordyn Wiebers performance in the all-around is pretty amazing. Theres an awesome GIF toward the bottom on Aly Raismans floor work. She looks like she got bit by a radioactive spider.
  • (Atlantic Online)
  • Russia won the silver, Romania the bronze. Stu Woo has details on The News Hub. View Slideshow From left, Alexandra Raisman, Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross celebrate the U.S. gymnastics teams gold-medal win.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • Jordan Wiebers hopes of becoming just the second gymnast to follow up a world title with an Olympic win the next year quickly dwindled on Sunday, but all is not lost.
  • (Bleacherreport.com)
  • Such were the cries of outrage after yesterday's women's gymnastics qualifying rounds at the Olympics in London.
  • (patheos.com)

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