The U.S. got off to a rough start with their first of six rotations and it only got slightly better from there on out.
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If U.S. gymnast Aly Raisman has trouble sleeping Monday night it wasn’t because she was concerned about the competition at the team final at the Rio Olympic Arena on Tuesday afternoon.
When a woman tweeted to Trautwig that he should refer to Ron and Nellie as her parents, Trautwig tweeted back: “They may be mom and dad but they are NOT her parents”. “I wish they would change that”. As a result, she relocated to Spring, a community just outside of Houston.
At the end of her book, Meyers concludes: “The move toward greater complexity and difficulty is what imperiled and ultimately ended the 10”.
For Douglas, just getting to Rio was not easy, and the decision to allow her onto the five-woman US team was a controversial one. Team USA breezed to the top of the preliminaries leaderboard with a total score of 185.238. almost 10 better than second-place China through four subdivisions, a massive gap in a sport where the margins are often measured in fractions.
Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross handily won over China’s team in beach volleyball, continuing Kerri’s fantastic streak of wins at the Olympics.
The three-time all-around champion was too young to compete in London but since has won a record ten world titles and now just needs an Olympic gold to put her name among the legends. April won silver at the 2012 London Olympics.
What do Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniaki, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray have in common? The only household name still qualifying for a medal is Rafael Nadal, given that Roger Federer isn’t competing in the Olympics this year.
The defending champion US women, who have already advanced to the quarterfinals, take on Columbia. Instead, Biles chose to go for the gusto in her first Olympics, ride the momentum and continue to captivate the masses and inspire an interest in gymnastics within the African-American community with her unprecedented talents. “You wave your finger No. 1 and you’ve been caught drug cheating?”
“I hate the two-per-country rule”, Raisman said.
But Douglas will get her shot at gold Tuesday. “I nearly wanted to cry because she was crying”. I know my whole career is building toward the Olympics and it can sound like a lot of pressure, but I’m just staying focused on what I can control and do my thing.
“That’s just my personality. Everybody looked at her and said that kid’s going to do something big some day”. “I wasn’t concerned with anything else”. She recalled one early memory at one of the foster homes where there was a trampoline that the future Olympian and her sibling weren’t allowed to play on.
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The 41-year-old played coy when asked by her 17-year-old son Alisher if this is her last go-around.
