16 5 / 2013
Jordyn Wieber Wins Sportsmanship Award
Olympic Team gold medalist Jordyn Wieber will be on hand in Oklahoma this week when she’s awarded the first ever Nadia Comaneci Sportsmanship Award by the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.The award, named after the famous Romanian gold medalist best known for her prefect 10 on the bars at the 1976 Olympic Games, is given to an active or retired gymnast “who has demonstrated great sportsmanship or fair play.”
Comaneci said she was happy to present the inaugural award to Jordyn because, as the reigning world champion, “she showed great sportsmanship by overcoming her personal disappointment to help lead the U.S. Women’s Team to the gold medal,” after failing to make the all-around finals in London.
Gymnastics legends Gina Gogean of Romania, Albert Azaryan of Armenia, and Yuri Korolev and Lyubov Burda of Russia will also be inducted as part of the Hall’s 2013 class.
`as reported on usagym.org
(via justsomegymnastics)
16 5 / 2013
I made this for Gymnastics-Graphics’ Instagram account, but I thought I’d post it on here too.
15 5 / 2013
tbh i think the gymnternet should just team up and get a subscription to gymnastike and we could all have the password and share it would be lovely
(via gymnasticsaddiction)
15 5 / 2013
People ask me why I love Chinese gymnasts so much
I do agree with the form but this isn’t even the same type of move. It looks like aly’s was supposed to be a back handspring with legs apart in the air and the Chinese gymnast’s looked like a backhand spring to 2 feet. The chinese’s form is better though.
(via ikttruth)
14 5 / 2013
I think this is one of the most beautiful pictures taken of her
(Source: fiercefivegymnastics)
14 5 / 2013
I remember when that happened with me and baseball. How the hell did I get older than them:)
Same! I would be a first year senior this year. It’s so weird!
(Source: gymfanconfessions)
