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Steve Nunno. Steve Nunno coaches at Dynamo Gymnastics in Oklahoma
Kerri Strug. Kerri Strug's injuring vault won the gold medal for the women's gymnastics team
| Who was the youngest member of the 1996 US Women's Olympic gymnastics team? | Basic Gymnastics
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| Who was co-champion along with Vanessa Atler at the 1997 Nationals? | Basic Gymnastics
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| Who won an individual silver medal on uneven parallel bars at the 1996 Olympics? | Basic Gymnastics
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| In which level will you have a required round-off into two back handsprings in your floor routine? | Lower Level Gymnastics
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| If you are in level 6, what is one element listed below that is a requirement for your balance beam routine? | Lower Level Gymnastics
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Bela Karolyi. Other notable Karolyi gymnasts include Teodora Ungureanu, Mary Lou Retton, Phoebe Mills, Kerri Strug, Betty Okino, and Dominique Moceanu. That list could go on for quite a while.
Steve and Beth Rybacki. After many years with the Rybackis, Atler later left them and subsequently dropped out of gymnastics altogether. Dantszcher went on to make the 2000 Olympic team and then to collegiate gymnastics at UCLA.
Kelli Hill. They were teammates at Hill's Angels. Dominique Dawes was a three-time Olympian (1992, 1996, and 2000). Elise Ray was her Olympic teammate in 2000 and then competed in college gymnastics for the University of Michigan.
| Lavinia Milosovici, Gina Gogean, and Simona Amanar were all trained by _____________ ? | Gymnastics Coaches
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Octavian Belu. Belu was the national team coach for Romania, and saw quite a few talented gymnasts. However, he has lamented that the clubs were getting "very few talented girls" and he longed for another Milosovici.
| Anna Kovalyova, Yelena Grosheva, Yelena Zamolodchikova, and Yelena Produnova were all trained by ___________ ? | Gymnastics Coaches
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Leonid Arkayev. Arkaev coaches the Russian national team. After their disappointing second-place finish in the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, he was livid when his girls lost the Olympic team title once again in Sydney 2000 - this time to the Romanians.
Bill and Donna Strauss. Bill and Donna Strauss head up the Parkettes Club in PA (my home state). They tried unsuccessfully for years to get one of their girls in the Olympics, and came close several times. Their dreams finally came true in 2000 with Kristen Maloney, who is from Penn Argyle, PA.
Boris Pilkin. Pilkin was the one who went against all of the naysayers that said the young "Svieta" was going to be too tall for gymnastics (she's 5ft 5in) and that it was useless to train her. He worked with and around her height, and in the process they created a new look for gymnastics.
Oleg Ostapenko. Ostapenko believed that Viktoriya was the most talented gymnast he'd ever seen. Unfortunately, she always managed to slip herself right out of big titles such as the Worlds and the Olympics - whether with injury (as in the 1996 Olympic Games) or with a careless mistake (2000 Olympic Games).
| Shannon Miller, Jennie Thompson, Sunni Meduna, and Marianna Webster were all coached by _____________ ? | Gymnastics Coaches
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Steve Nunno. Nunno is the only coach that fits all four girls, although Thompson was a Karolyi gymnast as a child. Nunno originally worked as a coach at Karolyi's Gymnastics for nine months and then left, saying that Bela had his ways, and he had his own.
Liubov Miromanova. Miromanova committed suicide three days after the 1988 Olympics, in which Boginskaya had won four medals. Boginskaya was devastated, but went on to win the World Championships the next year. She dedicated the medal to her coach.
| What is the name associated with a triple backflip on the floor? | Men's Gymnastics
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Liukin. The gymnast that first did this is named Valery Liukin. It is insanely impossible to think of doing. It is worth a SUPER E which is worth 4 tenths of a point bonus for the Olympians.
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