Nastia Lukin wins gold with Shawn Johnson taking silver
Filed Under: Sports | By: Peter Chubb
Aug 15, 2008 | Comments 5
United States have taken both gold and silver for the women’s individual all-around. This Olympic gymnastics was breathtaking, but it was Nastia Lukin who finally took the gold with fellow American Shawn Johnson winning the silver.
The first three gymnastics titles were won by the Chinese, but the U.S. must have been getting sick of hearing their National Anthem, it must have been music to their ears to finally here their own anthem.
Liukin had 63.325 points her after flawless exercises on each four apparatus, her combination was great with a good mix of difficulty and quality. Johnson was only 0.600 from taking the gold, however she had to settle for silver. It was Yang Yilin of China in 62.650 who took the bronze.
The reigning world champion Johnson did not have an answer for Liukin; she did not make any mistakes it just was not meant to be today. Johnson wooed both judges and spectators and started with a great performance but she later dropped to third, before clawing it back to finish second.
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Did you see Liukin’s father kissed her on mouth and touched her butt?
The thing is, this repeated several times live on TV in the last few days. He kissed her on mouth after she completed her performance, and also touched her butt…
What’s going on here?
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Nastia Liukin, 2008 Olympic USA team gymnastics champion performed her Olympic medal winning floor routine to music from Well-Tempered Productions, a record label specializing in innovative classical music. The selection entitled ‘Variations on Dark Eyes,’ was arranged and performed by the Israeli virtuoso pianist Ilan Rechtman and features the violin playing of Lara St. John. The selection is currently only available on a CD recording entitled ‘Gypsy.’ Ilan Rechtman is the featured artist on two releases on Well-Tempered that will be available in early 2009, “Beethoven in Brazil,” and “Rechtman Plays Beethoven, Chopin & Rechtman.” The ‘Gypsy’ CD is available directly from Well-Tempered or Amazon.com. http://www.welltempered.com
“It is especially interesting to me personally that an athlete with such incredible artistry as Nastia would somehow gravitate to choose this particular recording of the ‘Dark Eyes’ work, which had so much skill, training, logistics, artistry, and intensity poured into it on every level. I think she must have somehow sensed the energy in it and related to it. I can’t imagine it otherwise. For me it is a great compliment.”
—Kathy Geisler, producer, Well-Tempered Productions
good luck in finals
i love she is so asweome
This is a really cute picture of Nastia Lukin.