Chalked Up

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Chalked Up is a coming of age story that is about my early life spent as a gymnast. I hope you’ll find it has relevance beyond athletics. It’s intended to be the story of one child – me – not an exposé about the sport. It touches on broader issues than gymnastics: athletes who are willing to do anything to be the very best, a culture in which second place means nothing because only winning matters, mother daughter relationships, eating disorders, coming into one’s own. Ultimately, it is for anyone who has ever felt they weren’t good enough, ached to be better than they are, and has grown up to accept the person they were meant to be.
I hope you enjoy the book. Jen Sey website.

At seventeen years old, Jennifer Sey, the 1986 United States National Gymnastics Champion and seven time national team member, was pursuing a path to Olympic fame and gymnastics glory. After an extraordinary comeback from a devastating injury, she was at the top of elite gymnastics — until she gave up her sport and walked away.

CHALKED UP: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams (May 1, 2008 • William Morrow) is the story of one gymnast. But it’s also the story of many championship level athletes who are willing to do anything to be the best. To win at their game, they endure: brutal competition; abusive coaches; dangerous training regimes; intense parental pressure, and a pervasive win-at-all-costs attitude. Now, this former national champion takes us behind the scenes for an eye-opening look at the real world of gymnastics, just in time for the start of the 2008 Olympic Games

“athletes who are willing to do anything to be the very best”

Kerri Strug’s vault on torn ankle ligaments in 1996 in Atlanta captured American hearts and secured Olympic gold for Bela Karolyi’s U.S. team.

4th ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS WORLD CUP MARIBOR

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NANSY DAMIANOVA - KRISTINA VACULIK and EMMA WILLIS

Nansy Daminova is competing VT and FX, Emma Willis is competing on FX, UB & BB and Kristina Vaculik is competing on all 4 events. April 25-27/2008

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Results from this event will be posted here: World Cup Maribor

Dear gymnastics friends

We are appealing to you to support our application for the Olympic games wild card nomination for Slovenian gymnast Aljaz Pegan.

His first participation at the World Championships reach back to Stutgart in 1989 and since then he has won more than fifty medals at the biggest international competitions. He is the top ranked gymnast on the FIG Ranking List (Horizontal bar). He also has an element, pegan, named after him.

In the last three World Championships he has won one gold and two silver medals, yet he is denied the participation at the Olympic Games.

The support and demands of Slovenian public regarding his Olympic qualification have reached immense proportion and in this light we are obliged to turn also to international community to extend its help to country with a long-standing gymnastics tradition.

We are appealing to you to support our quest for his participation at the Olympic Games.

Yours faithfully,

Klemen Bedenik, President of Slovenian Gymnastics Federation
Janez Kocijancic, President of Slovenian Olympic Commitee
Miroslav Cerar, President of Slovenian Olympic Academy

Help Aljaž Pegan to the Olympics

He Kexin - Cottbus World Cup

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Results women’s uneven bars

1. He, Kexin (CHN) 16.850
2. Rebecca Downie (GBR) 14.975
3. Katja Abel (GER) 14.425
4. Jenny Brunner (GER) 14.400
5. Anastasiya Koval (UKR) 13.700
6. Jade Barbosa (BRA) 13,650
7. Kristina Goryunova (RUS) 12.975
7. Lenika de Simone (ESP) 12.975

The gymnast, dubbed “the princess of crazy uneven bars” by her foreign fans, stunned the audience by combining excellent technique with a perfect body line.

He Kexin 2008 World Cup Cottbus Finals UB

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