The gymnast, who won a bronze medal at London 2012, had to stand with her body covered in plaster-filled bandages for an hour while the cast was made.
China's depth of talent allowed them to call on rings world champion Chen Yibing to extend the lead in the next round, the gymnast whipping the crowd into a frenzy after a 16.575-point display.
After five years working as an acrobat on his first show, the gymnast hurt his back and needed a break, so took a job as a coach for one of Cirque's traveling shows in Europe.
The Japanese gymnast Shun Fujimoto, who, in the 1976 Games, in Montreal, stuck his dismount from the rings on a broken leg and helped his team win the all-around gold medal, gave another.
China's dominance was such that the last gymnast to perform on high bar, Zou Kai, needed only 8.725 to clinch the gold.
The Tunisian gymnast will travel to London despite fearing that he would never represent his country again.
She rocked the world of sports by gracefully competing at the London Olympics and becoming the first American gymnast to win team and all-around gold in the same Olympics.
Rob was born to lead - the high school gymnast who trained so hard his coach had to kick him out at night so they could close the gym.
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Or the failed Olympian gymnast who vaulted into his top bunk with finesse.
The 27-year-old Tweddle finally reached the podium in her third trip to the Games, a fitting career finish for the greatest British gymnast of all time.
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The agony of gymnast Naoya Tsukahara, whose hopes for an individual all-around medal were dashed last Wednesday when he inexplicably fell off the pommel horse, was obvious as he seemed to sleepwalk through his other events.
Douglas was one of the most marketable athletes at the Olympics and certainly the most marketable gymnast on her team, Stephen Greyser, a sports management expert and professor at Harvard Business School, said midday on Tuesday.
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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In the 1890s, this German gymnast and patriotic teacher raged against the "foot-louts" in Germany suffering from what was called "the English disease".
After a week of Olympic overdosing, the image of a gymnast sticking a landing comes to mind.
Larissa Latynina, a gymnast for the former Soviet Union, still holds the record for the most Olympic medals: 18 (9 of them gold) won in the '56, '60 and '64 Games.
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in February decided to cancel all results obtained by gymnast Dong Fangxiao at the Sydney, Australia, Games.
The U.S. men won, and gymnast Morgan Hamm was forced out of the games by an injury.
The wine does indeed possess the balance of an Olympic gymnast.
For William Gamble, perennial critic of China and president at Providence based consultancy, Emerging Market Strategies, it would be easier to tell the age of a Chinese gymnast than who truly owns a China company.
Gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas is the latest to join an elite coterie of American gymnasts who have won the individual all around competition.
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On the American point, as you can see I also cited US gymnast Gabby Douglas for her inspiration, and I am thrilled that we Americans had the highest medal count!
Gymnast Beth Tweddle has been given the Freedom of the Borough of Cheshire East.
The photo, above, of Obama with gymnast McKayla Maroney is currently going viral.
Li Ning was founded by a former Chinese gymnast who won six medals at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Three years later he set up DMG with Wu Bing, a former gymnast, and Peter Xiao, the son of a military officer.
Mexican gymnast Elsa Garcia Rodriguez Blancas used the arrangement for her Olympics routine, quite possibly marking the first time a video game soundtrack has been used in the Olympic games.
"There's a connection that you're representing something bigger than yourself that adds to the experience and the emotions behind it, " said retired gymnast Kirk Mango, a collegiate Division I national champion who has been coaching high school sports for 30 years in Illinois.
For the purposes of his projection model, Johnson doesn't care whether China's Liu Xiang can beat Jason Richardson of the U.S. in the 110-meter hurdles, or if American gymnast Jordyn Wieber can beat back China's army of tiny tumblers.
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