Dominique
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Dawes
by Ashley
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| Beginnings: | - Born November 20, 1976, Silver Spring/Tacoma Park, Maryland, USA |
| Family: | - Not married - No children |
| Education: | - Started gymnastics at 7 years old - in 1983 at University of Maryland, USA |
| Sport(s): | - Gymnastics |
| Interests: | - Cooking, movies, singing, dancing, acting, and hiking |
| Accomplishments: | - 1st - Team Olympic games, 1996 - 3rd - floor,1996 - 4th - uneven bars, 1996 - 17th - Individual all around - 6th - Women's vault, 1996 - 3rd - Team Olympic games, 1992 |
| Interesting Facts: | - Nickname Awesome Dawesome - won more national championships than any other athlete, male or female since 1963 - In 1996 first ever African American to win an Individual medal event |
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Gymnastics- History and Present Day
Gymnastics began in 1972, with a girl named Olga Korbut. She was seen on TV. and a new sport had begun. Olga had captured the hearts of young girls all over the world, and gymnastics became popular. America has more than seven million active girls and women doing gymnastics. But the history of gymnastics did not begin with Olga and Nadia. The history is tracked back to ancient times in China, India, Persia, Greek and Rome.
Tumbling was passed down as entertainment to us today. From TV. to the Olympics various forms of gymnastics became popular. When gymnastics began in the USA it was started in 1850. Women's gymnastics began in the Olympic games in 1928. The first Olympic game was held in Greece in 776 BC. Mostly Romans and Greeks did gymnastics to increase their strength and agility. Art indicates that gymnastics was practiced 3,000 years ago in Egypt, Greece and Rome.
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The United States
Dominque Dawes represented the USA in
gymnastics at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. The USA has a population of 250,000,000
people. Its geographic location is in the Northern Hemisphere. It is between
Mexico and Canada. Dominque was originally from Silverspring Tacoma Park,
Maryland, USA. Maryland's population is 4,216.941. About 95 percent of the
people living in Maryland were born in the USA. Most people that are living in
Maryland live in Baltimore or Washington D.C.
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