Zitat des Tages über Gymnastik / Gymnastics:
But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.
In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.
I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.
I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.
Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.
People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.
But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
I've always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
I want to bring more gymnastics on television.
It's a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I'm going to come out with next - and neither do I.
I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
Because I did gymnastics for such a long time, it's allowed me to stay really physical, and with the krav maga and all that, I can actually do a lot of my own stunts.
I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.
We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.
I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
My parents have tried not to intrude. They kind of stayed apart from my gymnastics but are very supportive, and that's very helpful as a gymnast to not have your parents say, 'Did you do this today?' and just be very on top of you.
And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.
I was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. I was very athletic, playing volleyball and softball. I did gymnastics for about ten years, too.
When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.
My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.
I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.
When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.
I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.
Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.
Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.
