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Atrium called. Yay! I have work next week! My bank account will be happy.

Last night I checked out a bunch of gymnastic websites with video downloads. I ended up downloading a 30-second video of Nadia in '79, doing a bars routine. That 30-second video took me over five minutes to receive. *Sigh* I wish broadband weren't so expensive. Anyway, I'm going to download a bunch of other videos as well, including a bunch of Shannon Miller stuff. I found a site that has her Barcelona routines on it, and I'd better get them quick before the IOC finds them and shuts them down for copyright violation or something. (The IOC is ruthless about that--it's very difficult to view old Olympic footage because it costs so much.) I love having a new computer with new software that can actually play this stuff.

Tanned last night. Mmm...I'm all brown and sexy.

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Are you a gymnast?

I watched the Summer Games religiously when I was little.
Oh, Nadia was an angel on the uneven bars.
I have a new reason to love you.

But my favorite was Dominique Dawes.
I don't even know about these new girls. I need to bone up on that.

No, I just follow it when I can. I'm boning up now that the Summer Games are about to start.

Domino is awesome. Three Olympics. Go, girl. And Nadia was insane, a huge leap forward in the evolution of the sport--I love the pictures of the 1.0 flashing on the scoreboard, because it didn't have the capacity to notate a perfect 10.00, and the crowd confused at first, and then roaring when they realized it was not a 1, but a 10.

Our team this year kicks ass. We are definitely a threat to take home a team gold, although I must say I'm rooting for Svetlana Khorkina to take the AA gold.

I don't know if you have seen this article about the chosen members of the US women's gymnastics team. At least the team now has two women aside from the teenagers.

And here is a picture:

The U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team poses Sunday, July 18, 2004, in New Waverly, Texas. Front row from left: Courtney McCool and Mohini Bhardwaj; back row: Carly Patterson, Annia Hatch, Courtney Kupets and Terin Humphrey. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

I used to follow gymnastics like crazy and I was a gymnast before I grew much, much, much too tall. After I read Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, I had mixed emotions about the sport. Now that there seems to be a push to get women, as opposed to little girls with forged birth certs, into it, I feel better. Still, gynmastics is very unhealthy overall.

Yes, that book is very interesting. The stories about Christie Heinrich and Julissa Gomez are unbelievably sad.

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