Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Nastia Liukin

  • You could theorize ad nauseum—and many people have—about why Nastia Liukin decided to pursue a spot on the 2012 United States Womens Olympic Gymnastics team. She wanted to test her physical limits. She wanted to prove her doubters wrong.
  • (Bleacherreport.com)
  • July 3, 2012 (SAN JOSE, Calif.) -- Nastia Liukin laid face-first on the mat, her hopes of making a second Olympic team officially gone, and she knew it. For a split second Liukin remained motionless.
  • (Abc Local Web)
  • Nastia Liukin, the Olympic gold medalist who was hoping to secure at spot at this year's Summer Olympics in London, watched her dreams shatter as she fell hard onto the mat during Sunday's finals.
  • (WebProNews)
  • Okay, I'll admit it, work just isn't my priority today. Then again after checking out Googles Top 20 searches, I'm sure I'm not alone.
  • (policymic.com)
  • Nastia Liukin went out with a bang on Sunday. The only problem is that it wasnt necessarily a positive. That bang was actually the sound of her faceplanting on the uneven bars during the U.S.
  • (NESN.com)
  • Here is the video of former USA Olympian gymnast Nastia Liukin falling off the uneven bars and doing a face plant during the 2012 Olympic Trials in San Jose, California.Liukin will most likely not make the USA team this year and go to the Olympics in London.
  • (YardBarker)
  • SALT LAKE CITY — Im old enough to remember the introduction to ABCs Wide World of Sports. The late, great Jim McKay coined the famous phrase: The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. The human drama of athletic competition.
  • (ksl.com)
  • Liukin was born on October 30, 1989, in Moscow, Russia SFSR, Soviet Union.
  • (Worldnews.com)
  • SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nastia Liukin lay face-first on the mat, her hopes of making a second Olympic team officially gone, and she knew it. For a split second Liukin remained motionless.
  • (Sporting News)
  • SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nastia Liukin rolled through the first 30 seconds of her uneven bars routine Friday night, displaying the form that helped make her an Olympic champion in Beijing four years ago. Only, it's not four years ago.
  • (Washington Post)

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