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Jonathan Horton  Bio: Jonathan Horton is a 2008 Olympian. In Bejing, he helped lead the U.S. Olympic team to a bronze medal and brought home a silver medal of his own on the high bar. Horton competed for the University of Oklahoma for four years (05-08), earning 18 career All-American honors. Six of those honors came with first place finishes. Recently, Horton made the 2011 World Championship team, where he qualified for the rings event finals. Unfortunately, during the team finals, Horton injured his foot on vault. It was later diagnosed...

This is the final part of a two part series on the 2012 Women's Olympic Trials. This segment will include an analysis of performances on beam and floor, and how individual routines could possibly contribute to the 2012 Olympic Team. The London team will be comprised of five gymnasts and the selection committee needs three solid, difficult, and well executed routines on each of the four events for the three up, three count Olympic team finals format.  First year senior Kyla Ross executing a perfect sheep jump at Visa Championships It was o...

This is the first part of a two part series on the 2012 Olympic Trials. Gymnastike will be bringing you an analysis of each of the four events in women’s gymnastics. This series will include who has been doing the best, the worst and how their routines could possibly contribute to the 2012 Olympic Team. In the first part of the series we will be discussing the vault and uneven bars. World Vault Champion, McKayla Maroney didn’t compete at the second day of the Visa Championships due to an injury she sustained early in the day during...

We held our first ever photo caption contest today on Facebook. These are the top five captions that were submitted. Thank you to all our participants! We had some great submissions. Stay tuned for more contests in the future and don't forget to like our Facebook page! Jordyn Wieber Day 2 at the Visa Championships 1st Place -From Elizabeth Medina Zambrana (22 likes): O my god...where's the beam? where's the beam? who freakin moved it?? Oh... OK there is it is, there it is... O yeah baby... YES! I got this! 2nd Place -From Lainie Mazz...

In only a few short days, dedicated gymnastics fans will be watching the Visa Championships, wondering if their favorite gymnast will continue on in hopes of being named to the 2012 Olympic team.  This year the championships will be hosted in St. Louis, MO, which isn't new territory for this competition. The last time St. Louis was flooded with Olympic hopefuls was in 2000; however the meet was not titled the Visa Championships, but was named the John Hancock U.S. Championships.  Senior competitor Elise Ray won her first national all...