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Is Winning the American Cup in the Olympic Year a Good Omen?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Andy Thornton
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American Cup Champions In Olympic Years Year Men’s Champion Women’s Champion 1976 Bart Conner (USA) Nadia Comaneci (ROM) 1980 Kurt Thomas (USA) Tracee Talavera (USA) 1984 Peter Vidmar (USA) Mary Lou Retton (USA) 1988 Marius Toba (ROM) Phoebe Mills (USA) 1992 Jarrod Hanks (USA) Kim Zmeskal (USA) 1996 John Roethlisberger (USA) Kerri Strug (USA) 2000 Eric Lopez (CUB) Elena Produnova (RUS) 2004 Jason Gatson (USA) Carly Patterson (USA) 2008 Paul Hamm (USA) Nastia Liukin (USA) 2012 ? ?   Nearly all of these gymnasts made their respective Olympic teams in ...

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Great American Cup Moments…Los Angeles Foreshadowed

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Andy Thornton
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1984 American Cup Highlights Thanks again to USA Gymnastics for posting these highlight videos! Here’s a look at the all-around results from that competition: Men 1.  Peter Vidmar                        59.2 2.  Jim Hartung                        59.0 3.  Yang Yueshan                     58.7 4.  Li Ning                                 58.5 5.  Mitsuaki Watanabe            58.3 6.  Zsolt Borkai                        58.0 7.  Koji Sotomura     ...

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Great American Cup Moments…The REAL First Perfect Ten?

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Andy Thornton
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In honor of this weekend’s American Cup in Jacksonville, Florida, I’ll be doing a few posts this week on “Great American Cup” Moments. It turns out that two years ago USA Gymnastics actually put out several videos highlighting some of the past American Cups, which date back to 1976.  Here’s a look at one of these ...

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