Gymnastic Classes

With Mary-Lou Retton in the stands, these two young women dazzled on every aspect of artistic gymnastic competition at this year’s games, and took home the gold and silver medals respectively, in the all-around competition. These astounding performances have generated a lot of hype, and people are flooding the internet looking for women’s gymnastics links so they can brush up on information about these two amazing dynamos. Fans can also watch the historic performances over and over again on the internet, and those who might have missed it on T.V. still have a chance to see the performances that won the hearts of the world. Nastia Luikin wowed the world with her proud father by her side when she secured the all-around gold. Shawn Johnson seemed destined to leave the games with only silver medals, which was quite an impressive stack, but managed to grab the gold with an almost flawless performance on the balance beam. After all this drama, Nastia and Shawn’s new and old fans were swarmi …

Johnson beat her friend and teammate Nastia Liukin on the balance beam in the last of the Olympic games gymnastic events to win the Gold. Johnson performed a powerful routine, as always. The 7.0 start value of her routine was the highest in the competition. She finished with a huge grin, scoring 16.225 to take over the lead. Liukin went next. Though she is the reigning world champion on the beam, her start value was 6.6, the third lowest among the eight final competitors. Her routine was graceful and smooth, as opposed to Johnson’s routine which was filled with difficult tricks. She finished with a 16.025 score, not good enough to pass Johnson, her on-going rival and Olympic roommate. Johnson who had already won 3 Silver medals was ecstatic to finally win a Gold in her final chance of this Olympics. Nastia Liukin did win the Gold Medal in the all a round competition and Johnson took the Silver. Together the two women have won 8 medals. Earlier in the games Johnson was narrowly edged o …