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Rita Wieber is the mother of World and US Champion Jordyn Wieber of Gedderts' Twistars USA in Michigan. Rita will be blogging about her experience throughout the Olympic Games. She most recently wrote a book, Gym Mom, giving you the ins and outs of the sport of womens gymnastics from the mom's persepective.  Below is her latest blog post. For more from Rita, visit  http://www.gymmom.net Dreams can come true...08/07/2012 by: Rita Wieber Going to the Olympics is the dream of many gymnasts.  And of the over 68,000 competitive gymna...

Rita Wieber is the mother of World and US Champion Jordyn Wieber of Gedderts' Twistars USA in Michigan. Rita will be blogging about her experience throughout the Olympic Games. She most recently wrote a book, Gym Mom, giving you the ins and outs of the sport of womens gymnastics from the mom's persepective.  Below is her latest blog post. For more from Rita, visit  http://www.gymmom.net Ten things I've learned being in London for the Olympics... 08/04/2012 by: Rita Wieber Well, one phase of our trip is over-- our family and friends h...

Rita Wieber is the mother of World and US Champion Jordyn Wieber of Gedderts' Twistars USA in Michigan. Rita will be blogging about her experience throughout the Olympic Games. She most recently wrote a book, Gym Mom, giving you the ins and outs of the sport of womens gymnastics from the mom's persepective.  Below is her latest blog post. For more from Rita, visit http://www.gymmom.net A happy heart... 08/01/2012 by: Rita Wieber    If I wrote out an hour-by-hour timeline of my emotional status over the p...

The 2011 Visa Championships have come to a close for the junior women. Here are the highlight routines from this afternoons competition. On vault the top vaulter from both nights was Cincinnati's Lexi Priessman. Her score in day 2 was a 15.9. Here is her vault from Day 2. 2nd place on vault for the junior women was McKayla Skinner from Desert Lights with a 15.2 day 2 score. On bars Katelyn Ohashi from Woga took top honors with a score of 15.1. Here is that bars performance   Finishing 1st on beam in day 2 with a 15.15 but second overall wa...

Here are some of the individual highlight routines from day 1 of the Visa Championships Junior Session. On vault, there were two Amanars performed (Lexie Priessman and Makayla Skinner) today in the competition. Kyla Ross attempted an amanar but was given double 1/1 credit for the vault.  The top vault of the day came from Cincinnati's Lexi Priessman with a 15.65. All videos are by USA Gymnastics On uneven bars the top performance of a 15.05 was put up by leader Katelyn Ohashi from Woga.  On balance beam in the final rotation Woga Kate...