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Describes the gymnastic events of the Olympic Games and previews the athletic competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. ... Read more

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A great book
This book is quite good. The pictures are great and the information is done corretly. If your a fan of gymnastics I think you should get this book.

A great book
This book is quite good. The pictures are great and the information is done corretly. If your a fan of gymnastics I think you should get this book. ... Read more

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Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers. ... Read more

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Describes the accomplishments of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team in the 1996 Olympic games. ... Read more

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Great Book!!!
This is a great easy to read book about the greatest team ever in the best sport ever. ... Read more

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The 2000 Olympic Games are nearly here. Once again the United States sends forth its greatest athletes, both men and women, to participate in the world's greates sports competition.

In this beautiful souvenir album, filled with gripping words and stunning photos, you'll meet the stars of U.S.A. Women's Gymnastics. Vanessa Atler...Kristen Maloney...Elise Ray...Dominique Moceanu...and more. We'll also take a look back at the miraculous victoy of the 1996 team, along with profiles of Olympic heros of the past: Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci, and Mary Lou Retton.

This is the team. Now is the time.

Go, U.S.A., Go! Bring home the gold! ... Read more

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Ages 6 to 9 years. Budding gymnasts will be attracted to the engaging text and bright illustrations of this book. Displaying agility, strength, and flexibility, athletes are shown performing amazing routines on several apparatuses. The book provides a basic overview of this multi-activity sport featuring: warm-up exercises; basic techniques on the bars, rings, and pommel horse; the components of a floor routine; rhythmic gymnastics; competitions. ... Read more

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Ages 8-10. Beginning readers can practice their reading skills with this 6-book set that introduces some of the sports played during the Olympic Games. The Easy Olympic Sports Readers are fun-to-read for primary grade children and are highly motivational. These 16-page books are also filled with exciting full color photographs. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors (generally five) manipulate one or two apparatuses: rope, hoop, ball, clubs, and ribbon. Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport that combines elements of ballet, gymnastics, dance, and apparatus manipulation. The victor is the participant who earns the most points, determined by a panel of judges, for leaps, balances, pirouettes, flexibilities, apparatus handling, execution, and artistic effect. The governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), changed the Code of Points in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2008 to emphasize technical elements and reduce the subjectivity of judging. Before 2001, judging was on a scale of 10 like that of artistic gymnastics. It was changed to a 30-point scale in 2003, a 20-point scale in 2005, and in 2008 was changed back to 30. There are three values adding up to be the final points?technical, artistic, and execution. the FIG also selects which apparatus will be used in competitions, only four out of the five possible apparatuses are sanctioned. Up to 2010, the clubs were not used at the Senior level. For 2011-2016, rope will be dropped and clubs reinstated. ... Read more

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Ages 8-10. Beginning readers can practice their reading skills with this 6-book set that introduces some of the sports played during the Olympic Games. The Easy Olympic Sports Readers are fun-to-read for primary grade children and are highly motivational. These 16-page books are also filled with exciting full color photographs. Titles included: Baseball/Softball; Cycling; Gymnastics; Soccer; Swimming; Track & Field. ... Read more

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Coaching Youth Gymnastics covers all the basics of coaching and gymnastics in a concise style that is customized for entry-level gymnastics coaches. Developed by ASEP in cooperation with USA Gymnastics, this one-of-a-kind book offers a unique blend of general coaching and sport-specific information. The book’s 600-plus photos will help you understand skill technique and decide what skills to teach your athletes.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shawn Machel Johnson (born January 19, 1992) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic women's balance beam gold medalist, the individual all-around silver medalist, the 2007 all-around World Champion, and the 2007 and 2008 U.S. all-around champion.Johnson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the daughter and only child of Doug and Teri Johnson. Her parents enrolled her in a gymnastics class at age three after they noticed her climbing up cabinets and jumping down from tables. At the age of six, she was among the first students when Liang Chow opened a gymnastics school in West Des Moines. ... Read more

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Chapters: Ice Hockey, Figure Skating, Track and Field Athletics, Gymnastics, Boxing, Discus Throw, Archery, Javelin Throw, Taekwondo, Alpine Skiing, Speed Skating, Track Cycling, Rowing, Sailing, Snowboarding, Badminton, Field Hockey, Judo, Fencing, Table Tennis, Short Track Speed Skating, Cross-Country Skiing, Olympic Weightlifting, Bobsleigh, Team Handball, Ski Jumping, Luge, Biathlon, Diving, Freestyle Skiing, Water Polo, Synchronized Swimming, Triathlon, Modern Pentathlon, Curling, Nordic Combined, Dressage, Keirin, Show Jumping, Eventing, Shooting Sports, Yacht Racing, Skeleton, Bmx Racing, Cricket, Artistic Gymnastics, Mountain Biking, Road Bicycle Racing, Trampolining, Canoeing, Whitewater Slalom, Demonstration Sport, Amateur Boxing, Canoe Racing, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Colorado Time Systems, Ceremonial First Puck, Canoeing 1000m, Canoeing 500m, Canoeing 200m, Official Association of Professional Table Tennis Athletes of North America, Towy Boat Club, Degree of Difficulty. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 831. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: BMX racing is a type of off-road bicycle racing. The format of BMX was derived from motocross racing. BMX bicycle races are sprint races on purpose-built off-road single-lap race tracks. The track usually consists of a starting gate for up to eight racers, a groomed, serpentine, dirt race course made of various jumps and rollers and a finish line. The course is usually flat, about 15-foot (4.6 m) wide and has large banked corners that help the riders maintain speed. The sport of BMX racing is facilitated by a number of regional and international sanctioning bodies. They provide rules for governing the conduct of the races, specify age group and skill-level classifications among the racers, and maintain some kind of points-accumulation sys...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=430728 ... Read more

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Chapters: List of Olympic Medalists in Athletics, List of Olympic Medalists in Gymnastics, List of Olympic Medalists in Biathlon, List of Olympic Medalists in Basketball, List of Olympic Medalists in Swimming, List of Olympic Medalists in Equestrian, List of Olympic Medalists in Shooting, List of Olympic Medalists in Rowing, List of Olympic Medalists in Boxing, List of Olympic Medalists in Speed Skating, List of Olympic Medalists in Cycling, List of Olympic Medalists in Alpine Skiing, List of Olympic Medalists in Sailing, List of Olympic Medalists in Freestyle Wrestling, List of Olympic Medalists in Cross-Country Skiing, List of Olympic Medalists in Figure Skating, List of Olympic Medalists in Greco-Roman Wrestling, List of Olympic Medalists in Weightlifting, List of Olympic Medalists in Ice Hockey, List of Olympic Medalists in Fencing, List of Olympic Medalists in Football, List of Olympic Medalists in Canoeing, List of Olympic Medalists in Field Hockey, List of Olympic Medalists in Judo, List of Olympic Medalists in Diving, List of Olympic Medalists in Volleyball, List of Olympic Medalists in Water Polo, List of Olympic Medalists in Short Track Speed Skating, List of Olympic Medalists in Handball, List of Olympic Medalists in Tennis, List of Olympic Medalists in Baseball, List of Olympic Medalists in Freestyle Skiing, List of Olympic Medalists in Table Tennis, List of Olympic Medalists in Bobsleigh, List of Olympic Medalists in Badminton, List of Olympic Medalists in Snowboarding, List of Olympic Medalists in Curling, List of Olympic Medalists in Archery, List of Olympic Medalists in Modern Pentathlon, List of Olympic Medalists in Skeleton, List of Olympic Medalists in Nordic Combined, List of Olympic Medalists in Luge, List of Olympic Medalists in Ski Jumping, List of Olympic Medalists in Triathlon, List of Olympic Medalists in Taekwondo, List of Olympic Medalists in Synchronized Swimming, List of Olympic Medalists in Rugb...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22355 ... Read more

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Chapters: Karin Büttner-Janz, Erika Zuchold, Andreas Wecker, Klaus Köste, Holger Behrendt, Lutz Hoffmann, Angelika Keilig-Hellmann, Ulf Hoffmann. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Karin Büttner-Janz (born February 17, 1952 in Hartmannsdorf a district of Lübben (Spreewald), German Democratic Republic (GDR, commonly:East Germany) is a habilitated doctor, Olympic medal winner in artistic gymnastics and, since March 1990, chief physician of the orthopedic Vivantes hospital in Friedrichshain. Her first coach was her father Guido Janz, who taught her excellent basics. Karin moved to a sports school in Forst, where she trained under Klaus Helbeck. Her final coach was Jürgen Heritz. In 1967, at the age of fifteen, Karin Janz was nominated as East German Athlete of the Year despite not yet having had any international success. She went on to win the silver medal on the asymmetric bars and a bronze medal as part of the country's gymnastics team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. At the 1970 world championships she overcame Ludmilla Tourischeva on the asymmetric bars to win the gold medal. She delivered another gold medal winning performance on the asymmetric bars at the 1972 Munich Olympics, defeating Olga Korbut on her favourite apparatus. She also won the gold medal on the vault, a silver medal as part of the East German women's gymnastic team, and bronze on the balance beam. She was the most successful sports woman of the GDR (German Democratic Republic) at the 1972 Summer Olympics and was recognized there as Sportswoman of the Year in 1972. After these successes she announced her intention of ending her competitive career to turn to the study of medicine to become a physician. Karin has an uneven bars element named after her, the Janz Salto, which she firs...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11258490 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The men'striathlon was an artistic gymnastics eventheld as part of the Gymnastics at the 1904 SummerOlympics programme. It was the only time the event washeld at the Olympics. The competition was held onFriday, July 1, 1904 and on Saturday, July 2, 1904. Onehundred and nineteen gymnasts from three nationscompeted, 111 of them represented the United States,seven Germany, and one Switzerland. ... Read more

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At the 1980 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the Sports Palace of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow from July 20th through 25th. Several teams who had qualified to compete were absent as a result of the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, including the United States, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, and West Germany.For the first time in Olympic competition, in event finals for the vault an average of two vaults was used as the final score, rather than the best of two vaults. ... Read more

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A guide to the 1992 summer and winter Olympics includes a complete list of record holders and medal winners, hundreds of facts on feats and statistics, action photographs, complete schedules, and more. ... Read more

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The Gymnastics Journal is the perfect holiday or special occasion gift for the gymnastics enthusiast in your life. Eighty journal pages with a different gymnastics illustration on each page depicting all the fun and excitement of this Olympic sport. Every young gymnast whether recreational or competitive will be able to record the excitement of their first back handspring, glide kip, or back somersault. The 2008 Olympics are just around the corner promising loads of excitement from the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics team. Get the young gymnastics enthusiast in your life a copy of the Gymnastics Journal today. ... Read more