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Des Moines lands marquee USA Gymnastics event for 2015
The Des Moines Register The gymnastics event that helped mold and propel Olympic gold medal-winners Shawn Johnson, Jordyn Wieber and Kyla Ross is coming to Des Moines. Iowa has landed the 2015 U.S. Women’s National Junior Olympic Championships, which is expected to attract 500 of the country’s top gymnasts May 15-16 at Hy-Vee Hall in…
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Boudia places fourth at FINA Diving World Series in London
USA Diving David Boudia (Noblesville, Ind./West Lafayette, Ind.) finished fourth in Sunday’s men’s 10-meter final at the FINA Diving World Series at the London Aquatics Centre where he won Olympic gold in 2012. Boudia scored 532.55 points in the final, which was won by China’s Yang Jian with 616.50 points. China also claimed silver as…
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Olympian Erin Hamlin on luge, Citi Kids and her celebrity crush
Examiner Erin Hamlin made American history at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia by capturing the nation’s first ever Winter Games medal in singles luge. The native New Yorker’s bronze-worthy finish came during her third stint as an Olympian and a whopping five years after she ended a 99-race win streak by German athletes to take the 2009…
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Erin Hamlin throws first pitch at NY Mets game
WIBX It wasn’t a strike but Remsen’s Olympic medalist Erin Hamlin made the ceremonial first pitch into the glove of NY Met Curtis Granderson at the start of Thursday’s afternoon game against St. Louis. Hamlin, who became the first American to medal in an Olympic Luge event, took the bronze at the Winter Games in…
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Olympic Champion David Boudia looking to reproduce London 2012 heroics
Daily Mail Olympic gold medalist David Boudia has warned Tom Daley that he is ready to revive their epic London 2012 battle when they return to the Aquatics Centre for the third round of the Diving World Series this weekend. Boudia is back in London for the first time since he snatched Olympic 10 metre…
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