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Jordyn Wieber Video Interview, U.S. Olympic Gymnast
07/18/2012
Jordyn Wieber, the 17-year-old artistic gymnast, came into the 2012 Olympic games with a specific goal in mind. Though Wieber has had much success individually — she won the all-around gold medal at the 2011 Gymnastic World Championships in Tokyo — this summer Wieber was focused on the U.
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McKayla Maroney Video Interview, U.S. Olympic Gymnast
07/18/2012
McKayla Maroney may only be 16 years old, but she’s already one of the greatest gymnasts in the world. At the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, Maroney won the gold medal for individual vault, and her impressive floor performance helped the U.
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PHOTOS: President Obama 'Not Impressed' With McKayla Maroney
11/19/2012
Now that the elections are behind him, Barack Obama can relax and have a little fun, which might explain this image of the President and U.S. Olympian McKayla Maroney posing with the gymnast's signature "not impressed" face.
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Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Will Feature The Wanted, Carly Rae Jepsen, Cody Simpson And More
11/09/2012
Macy's Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade will celebrate its 86th edition this year with 3.5 million onlookers on the streets of New York City — and 50 million viewers worldwide on television, thanks to NBC's special airing featuring celebrity hosts like Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker.
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'Fab Five' Gymnasts McKayla Maroney And Aly Raisman Injured During Post-Olympic Performance
09/10/2012
McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman — two members of the "Fab Five" (consisting also of Jordyn Wieber, Kyla Ross, Gabby Douglas), the U.S. Women's Gymnastic team that nabbed the gold in the team event and won a few individual medals to boot at the 2012 Olympics — were injured over the weekend while performing uneven bars at the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics in Ontario, California.
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Michael Strahan Debuts In The Retitled 'Live! With Kelly & Michael'
09/04/2012
Michael Strahan, 40, the former NFL defensive end for the New York Giants, will face a whole different kind of ball game now that he's permanently teaming up with Kelly Ripa, 41, on the recently renamed ABC morning show, Live! with Kelly & Michael.
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Danell Leyva, Jonathan Horton Place Fifth And Sixth On Horizontal Bar
08/08/2012
Tuesday marked the final of the 2012 London Olympic men's and women's artistic gymnastics competitions, which culminated with the individual apparatus events. While everyone knows that Team USA's women's team, comprised of "Fab Five" Gabby Douglas, 16, McKayla Maroney, 16, Jordyn Wieber, 17, Aly Raisman, 18, and Kyla Ross, 15, all but wiped the floor with competing nations' gymnasts, America's male gymnasts, comprised of Danell Leyva, 20, John Orozco, 19, Samuel Mikulak, 19, Jacob Dalton, 20, and team captain Jonathan Horton, 26, who won two medals in the 2008 Beijing games and was the only returning American male gymnast to the Olympics, didn't enjoy such glitz or glamor.
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Gabby Douglas Falls On Balance Beam, Finishes Seventh
08/08/2012
After helping win a gold medal for the "Fab Five" and the USA in the women's team final event last week and then going on to wow her teammates and her country when she secured the gold for the women's individual all-around final on August 2, new Olympic gymnastics superstar Gabby Douglas, 16, didn't fare as well on her last two days of competition, coming in eighth in the women's uneven bars final on Monday with a score of 14.
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Gymnast Aly Raisman Wins Two Individual Medals For U.S.
08/08/2012
The 2012 London Olympics has turned out to be quite an event for Team USA's "Fabulous Five" female gymnasts Jordyn Wieber, 17, Aly Raisman, 18, Gabby Douglas, 16, McKayla Maroney, 16, and Kyla Ross, 15, since the beginning.
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Team USA Olympian McKayla Maroney Falls On Vault, Takes Silver
08/06/2012
U.S. Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney, 16, went into the London games with a singular purpose — to land that gold medal in her individual vault event. While Maroney and her teammates, Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas and Kyla Ross, or the "Fab Five," pulled off winning the gold for the team final event last week, and Douglas nabbed the individual all-around gold medal for the U.
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Team USA Olympian McKayla Maroney Falls On Vault, Takes Silver
08/06/2012
U.S. Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney, 16, went into the London games with a singular purpose — to land that gold medal in her individual vault event. While Maroney and her teammates, Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas and Kyla Ross, or the "Fab Five," pulled off winning the gold for the team final event last week, and Douglas nabbed the individual all-around gold medal for the U.
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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Olympic All-Around Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas Talks 'Splurging' After Games
08/02/2012
The U.S. Olympic women's gymnastic team, dubbed the "Fab Five," are proving how "fab" they really are, with the team, consisting of Gabby Douglas, Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Kyla Ross, winning the gold medal in the final event on Tuesday, and now Douglas, 16, securing the gold in the women's all-around gymnastic event as of Thursday evening.
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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Olympic All-Around Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas Talks 'Splurging' After Games
08/02/2012
The U.S. Olympic women's gymnastic team, dubbed the "Fab Five," are proving how "fab" they really are, with the team, consisting of Gabby Douglas, Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Kyla Ross, winning the gold medal in the final event on Tuesday, and now Douglas, 16, securing the gold in the women's all-around gymnastic event as of Thursday evening.
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U.S. Women's Gymnastic Team With McKayla Maroney & Jordyn Wieber Wins Gold
07/31/2012
Jordyn Wieber, 17, may have started out the week on a low note, failing to qualify for the all-around final gymnastic competition, but her dreams were still realized when the U.S. women's gymnastics team, or the "Fabulous Five" (as Wieber, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross have been dubbed) secured the gold medal in the team final event on Tuesday with a cumulative score of 183.
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U.S. Women's Gymnastic Team With McKayla Maroney & Jordyn Wieber Wins Gold
07/31/2012
Jordyn Wieber, 17, may have started out the week on a low note, failing to qualify for the all-around final gymnastic competition, but her dreams were still realized when the U.S. women's gymnastics team, or the "Fabulous Five" (as Wieber, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross have been dubbed) secured the gold medal in the team final event on Tuesday with a cumulative score of 183.
