Raisman, the last performer on the beam, paced in front of the beam as officials reviewed video of her routine.
Managing stress takes a lot of work on top of training to become the fastest hurdler in the world or the best on the beam.
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The 18-year-old Raisman, who also won a bronze medal on the balance beam, is the elder statesman on a team whose average age is just 16.
But it amazes him that those young women can do what they do on the balance beam and the parallel bars and the vault.
The 18-year-old gymnast won gold on the balance beam for the United States at the Beijing Games in 2008, alongside three more silver medals, installing herself as a poster child of US sporting success and garnering a host of accolades, as much for her likeable personality as her achievements.
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After winning Olympic gold on the balance beam aged 16, she was catapulted into the limelight of American celebrity, endorsing dozens of products, appearing on numerous chat shows and attending countless premieres.
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Having been pipped to the all-around title (which takes into account performances on all four pieces of apparatus) by team-mate Nastia Liukin, Johnson exacted revenge on the balance beam, the final women's gymnastics event of the Beijing Games.
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It is to be displayed on the timber ring beam which crowns the rotunda at the heritage site.
As the officers crawled on a beam, the span "seemed to shift, " and they could hear rivets popping amid victims' cries for help, Nelson said.
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Next demo: Packet Video CTO Osama Alshaykh is demonstrating their Twonky Beam Browser, which lets you discover video on the Web and beam it to your TV.
She is working on focusing the transmitted beam into a much smaller area, so that less energy is lost along its way.
We hear complaints that it's possible for someone on the West Coast to get a friend on the East Coast to beam them "Desperate Housewives" three hours ahead of time.
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Just press and hold a button on the remote control and the My Beam function will instantly "beam" the sound in your direction -- useful for the hard-of-hearing or late-night movie fests while the rest of the household slumbers.
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John McCain, the answer has been to pretty much ignore Iowa, and focus like a laser beam on the first primary state of New Hampshire.
Mr Ramshaw said he put his headlights on full-beam and described driving on the mountain as "good".
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They have focused like a laser beam on the holy grail of compensation carried interest.
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"Einstein Tomb, " Woods mischievously submitted, would be transported throughout the heavens on a beam of light.
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If the likes of Messrs Thackara and Frayn have helped to illuminate the nuclear drama by spotlighting its main actors, Ms Wiggins has also done a literary service in throwing her beam on the bit players.
The pump beam had a large effect on the reflectivity of the mirror, but only over a narrow range of temperatures.
While the patient is still on the operating table, a lead disc is slipped behind the breast tissue to protect the chest cavity, and an eight inch wide electron beam focused directly on the area surrounding the tumour.
Then I turned to the left and, caught in my beam, the tape on a lone tent off in the distance shone.
That means the parts of the beam falling on different steps are retarded by different amounts with respect to each other.
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Later that evening the police helicopter also had a laser beam shone on it, when it was sent to investigate the earlier incident.
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Now new computer-guided systems cut down on collateral damage by molding the radiation beam to the precise contours of the prostate, reducing side effects and boosting cure rates.
He had the entire traditional political press corps and mainstream media focused on him like a laser beam by utilizing one of the most old school tools available to a senator -- the filibuster.
Since there's no physical interface on the device to configure WiFi, the company's developed Blinkup, a way to enter SSID and password information on any iOS and Android smartphone and beam it to the Electric Imp's light sensor by rapidly pulsing the handset's screen on and off.
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The laser-beam projectors represent far more than simply an academic exercise on the part of the engineers and designers at Mercedes-Benz.
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When the two meet, the interference pattern produced, if captured on photographic film, has the ability to change a new reference beam into a new object beam.
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