Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Gabby Douglas London Olympics 2012 Gymnastics Notes



  1. The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
    1. Gabby Douglas gets most attention at NBC website

      Fox News‎ - 1 hour ago
      Gabby Douglas is golden when it comes to online popularity, too.
  2. The Official Website of Gabrielle Douglas // International Elite Gymnast

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    Gabby Douglas won gold! Gabby won the most prized possession in women's gymnastics, the Olympic all around gold medal! Gabby was the favorite going into ...
  3. Gabby Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Gabrielle Christina Victoria "GabbyDouglas (born December 31, 1995) is an American artistic gymnast. As a member of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team at ...
  4. Gabby Douglas - Video, News, Results, Photos | NBC Olympics

    www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/...gabrielle-douglas/index.html
    Check out NBCOlympics.com for full coverage of Gabby Douglas and at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Photos, video, news & more.
  5. Gabby Douglas' Mom Slams Criticism Over Daughter's Hair ...

    www.usmagazine.com/.../gabby-douglas-mom-slams-criticism...
    1 day ago – "Are you TRYING to ruin her self confidence?" Natalie Hawkins fumes about her two-time gold-winning daughter's haters.
  6. Gabrielle Douglas (gabrielledoug) on Twitter

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    Gabrielle Douglas. @gabrielledoug. 2012 US Olympian, US Olympic Trials All-
Around Champion, 2011 World Champion & 3x US National Team Member!
  • London Olympics: Gabrielle Douglas should have star power ...

    www.latimes.com/.../la-sp-oly-gabby-douglas-marketing-2012...
    18 hours ago – Douglas, the breakout gymnastics star of the London Olympics, should be able to cash in for millions in the next few years.
  • espnW -- Gabby Douglas' hair criticized on social media sites - ESPN

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    4 days ago – Gymnast Gabby Douglas' hair gets almost as much attention as her gold-medal winning performance. But not the positive kind.
  • Olympics 2012: Gabby Douglas ready to head home to the U.S. after ...

    www.nydailynews.com/.../olympics-2012-gabby-douglas-slips...
    1 day ago – Her Olympics are over, and now an exhausted Gabby Douglas will head home with her mom to Virginia Beach to visit the city for the first time in ...
  • Serena Williams: Gabby Douglas hair debate 'ridiculous - USA Today

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    4 days ago – Celebrities Serena Williams, Gabrielle Union support Douglas, whose straightened hair is being debated.
  • Gymnast Gabby Douglas' mom filed for bankruptcy – USATODAY.com

    www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/.../gabby-douglas.../1
    2 days ago – Court records from January in the Eastern District of Virginia show Natalie Hawkins has roughly $80000 in debts.

    The "Christian" Issue: Who hates gabby and white? 

    Did God help Gabrielle Douglas win?

    The gold medalist is a teenager of deep faith and gratitude -- and that can be a little unnerving


    Yet after her victory, one of the first responses that truly resonated for me was from a colleague who noted, “I would like her more if she were not so, so, so into Jesus.” Which raises the question – what is Jesus going to do now for Gabby Douglas’ career?U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas displays her gold medal (Credit: AP/Julie Jacobson)
     But her newly minted status as a champion and her unguarded outspokenness about her faith are going to give her a new platform from which to preach. After her win Thursday, Douglas said, “I give all the glory to God. It’s kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to him and the blessings fall down on me.” She’s a 16-year-old with both deep faith and profound gratitude, a girl who yesterday tweeted from the Psalms to her followers, “Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me” and Friday sent out a retweet from the Faith in God feed. And that clearly authentic image of a hardworking girl with strong values makes her a natural icon to her fellow Christians, just as it makes the somewhat less faithful uncomfortable.



      1. Gabby Douglas is Beautiful


        Examiner.com‎ - 3 hours ago
        Gabby Douglas and Hair? ... From a Christian and biblical perspective we should be looking at the heart and whether or not a person manifests...
      1. American Center for Law and Justice (blog)‎ - 1 day ago
    1. Gabby Douglas Tweets Bible Verses; Christian ... - The Christian Post

      www.christianpost.com/.../gabby-douglas-tweets-bible-verses-...
      2 days ago – Gymnastics' newest cover girl Gabby Douglas may be fielding tweets from A-list celebrities ranging from Oprah to Justin Bieber (and the ...
    2. Gabby Douglas Praises God; Christian Gymnast Thankful After ...

      global.christianpost.com/.../gabby-douglas-praises-god-christia...
      5 days ago – American Olympic gold medal winning gymnast Gabby Douglas has praised God following her amazing win in the Women's Gymnastics ...
    3. Gabby Douglas More Popular Than Michael ... - The Christian Post

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      21 hours ago – Gymnast Gabrielle "GabbyDouglas, who wowed the world when she captured gold in the All-Around competition and helped secure another ...
    4. Attacking Gabby Douglas's Faith? Really? | Free Speech, American ...

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      1 day ago – Gabby Douglas gold medal Olympics. By ... As a Christian myself (albeit one of those really freaky papist kinds), I've often wondered what it is ...
    5. Does the press overlook Gabby DouglasChristian faith? | Denny Burk

      www.dennyburk.com/does-the-press-overlook-gabby-douglas...
      4 days ago – When I did a Nexis computerized search of “Gabby Douglas” and “Christian” in publications yesterday and today, only Agence France Presse ...
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    7. Gabby Douglas Tweets Bible Verses; Christian ... - Praise Houston

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      19 hours ago – via:christianpost. Gymnastics' newest cover girl Gabby Douglas may be fielding tweets from A-list celebrities ranging from Oprah to Justin ...
    8. Did God help Gabrielle Douglas win? - Salon.com

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      5 days ago – We are a nation that is lousy with Christians — a fair number of whom are not nearly as nice as Gabby Douglas. A lot of them aren't super-clear ...
    9. Raising an Olympian - Gymnast Gabby Douglas - Christian Video ...

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      Watch Raising an Olympian - Gymnast Gabby Douglas and moreChristian video on Crosswalk.com ...
    10. Raising an Olympian - Gymnast Gabby Douglas - Inspirational Videos

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      Raising an Olympian - Gymnast Gabby Douglas, Inspirational Videos ... Popular video sections on Godtube ...
    11. Did NBC hype Gabby Douglas as role model for … devoutly ...

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      3 days ago – Last night I highlighted how NBC falsely was being accused of racism for running a promo for a new television series featuring a monkey after ...


      Salon Writer Frets That Teen Gold Medalist Gabby Douglas 'So, So, So Into Jesus'

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      Why does Salon.com hate the Olympics so? After Wednesday’s David Sirota piece decrying (a la Chris Hayes) how “infantile displays of hyper-patriotism” like chanting “USA” for the home team give him jingoistic hives about aiding the military-industrial complex, a Friday article asked “Did God help Gabrielle Douglas win? The gold medalist is a teenager of deep faith and gratitude -- and that can be a little unnerving.”

      Writer Mary Elizabeth Williams found it creepy that any athlete would credit Jesus after a victory, and wrote of how she agreed with a colleague that “I would like her more if she were not so, so, so into Jesus.”
      If her performance in the women’s individual all-around didn’t blow your mind, you cannot possibly have been paying attention. Yet after her victory, one of the first responses that truly resonated for me was from a colleague who noted, “I would like her more if she were not so, so, so into Jesus.” Which raises the question – what is Jesus going to do now for Gabby Douglas’ career?
      Williams finds most American Christians to be a scary lot that is too wedded to "proselytism" and doesn't know when to hide their lights and tone down the creepiness of their faith:
      We are a nation that is lousy with Christians — a fair number of whom are not nearly as nice as Gabby Douglas. A lot of them aren’t super-clear on the whole “freedom of religion” thing and can get pretty gung-go about trying to shut down people with different beliefs. A lot of them are insistent that everybody in the world should conform to what they know for an absolute fact is the one and only truth. So even when Douglas is merely expressing her personal philosophy, posting #christmotivation quotes in her Twitter feed or talking about how she meditates daily on Scripture, there’s always that lurking hint of proselytism. Dear Christians: It’s a fine line between sharing your beliefs and selling them. And there’s something else too.
      As a Christian myself (albeit one of those really freaky papist kinds), I’ve often wondered what it is about Christians like Douglas that unnerves me so. The closest I’ve been able to figure it is that Douglas and her ilk seem to espouse a faith based on what is commonly referred to as “The God of Parking Spaces.” It’s the deity that grants wishes to those who ask nicely. Douglas is a girl who has described God as the figure who’s “waking me up every morning and keeping me safe in the gym every day.” She told People Thursday, “I was on the bus and it was raining and I thought, ‘It’s going to be a great day.’ My mom used to tell me when I was little, ‘When it rains, it’s God’s manifestation, a big day’s waiting to happen.’ I texted my mom, ‘It’s raining. You know what that means.’”It means that Russian girl is going down, I guess.
      I don’t think the force that I, for want of a better word, call God rains down sufferings or blessings based on individual piety. I believe in a grace that gives me the strength to muscle through the sufferings, and the gratitude to appreciate the blessings. That’s why the subtle implication, when an athlete or an artist says that God was with them on a winning day, seems so strange, and why, I imagine, it rings so hollow for others. And though I am in awe of a young girl whose talent is damn near miraculous, I likewise don’t believe in a God who made it rain for her to win.
      Williams wasn't happy with the reader reaction from some, tweeting:  "Reminded again today that Jesus has some really, really angry fans."
      But then, commenters underneath her piece were angry, too, and somehow a teenaged girl gymnast is a mafia don:
      Exactly. A God who plays favorites -- and that's what these athletes are praying for, no more, no less, because they want someone else to lose what in a "neutral" situation would have been theirs -- is nothing more than a Mafia don demanding that his ring be kissed.
      [Hat tip: Dan Likes Ephesians]


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      The Coach Liang Chow 


      Olympics: Gabby Douglas finds coach Liang Chow at the right time ...

      www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/.../Olympics-Gabby-Douglas-f...
      Jul 31, 2012 – Liang Chow never made it to the Olympics as an athlete. The promising Chinese gymnast was a little too young to make the team for Seoul ...
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      1. For Gabby Douglas, here comes the fun

        DesMoinesRegister.com (blog)‎ - 4 minutes ago
        Gabby Douglas is springing free – for now — from a life spent in the ... as the U.S. women's gymnastics team gathered one last time for the media. ... with coach LiangChow in West Des Moines, quickly emerged as one of the ...
    13. Gabby Douglas's Long Journey to Gymnastics Gold - NYTimes.com

      www.nytimes.com/.../gabby-douglas-of-united-states-wins-gy...
      5 days ago – Gabby Douglas, a 16-year-old from Virginia Beach, became the first ...But it was time to take the leap, however heartbreaking and awkward it would be. ...Liang Chow, who had coached the Olympic gold medalist Shawn ...

      Gabby Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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      Gabby Douglas at the Secret U.S. Classic in 2012 ... The impetus for Douglas's move to Iowa was when Walker had invited Chow to teach a clinic at her gym, Excalibur. ...This marked the first time an entire Olympic gymnastics team had been ...

      Douglas' all-around title is redemption for coach - Gymnastics News ...

      www.nbcolympics.com/.../douglas-all-around-title-is-redempti...
      1 day ago – LONDON (AP) Liang Chow stood next to Gabby Douglas, looked over and figured it was time for a chat. Just a friendly talk. No need to mention ...

      As a strong-willed child, Gabby Douglas charted her own ... - CNN

      articles.cnn.com/.../sport_olympics-gabby-douglas-profile_1_...
      4 days ago – In the end, Gabby Douglas' massive gamble paid off. ... falls during her early days with Chow to bounce back in time for the 2012 Olympic trials ...

      As a strong-willed child, Gabby Douglas charted her own ... - CNN

      edition.cnn.com/2012/08/03/...gabby-douglas.../index.html
      1 day ago – In the end, Gabby Douglas' massive gamble paid off: She's now the women's ... Liang Chow soared to international fame as a Chinese gymnast before ....Clary beat Ryan Lochte with an Olympic-record time of 1:53.41.


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