Gabby win Gold whey di stats man dem deh ?

[Sir X]

Is it the Gene ? or the enviroment ? a mean its not as if we have an abundance of west african gene in gymnastics.Maybe she is the exception based on the %.

You think if more entered we would see more gold , same goes for swimming.

[Islandman]

You getting more ridiculous by the day, but it was expected.

[HL]

Believe it or not, this forum is excellent stress relief.

[Rudi]

It's got to be the yellow yam. Or more to the point there is something to be said for being in the minority of black women not wearing hair from India, Brazil or Maine(if you get my drift)

[MdmeX]

Believe it or not, this forum is excellent stress relief.

Morning, noon and night; seven days a week who needs any flippin "the rapist"..........

[Me]

What does the running argument have to do with this? X look like him forget him meds sometimes. LOL

[Jangle]

Who is her father or rather where is her father? There is no mention of him. For some strange reason I get the feeling that he is Jamaican.

[Skeng DX]

. When she was 9, her father, Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Douglas, went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I just had to pray to God just to keep him safe and tell the angels to keep my dad safe and come home," she recently explained to NBC Nightly News of her father being away.
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After having to miss many of her competitions, Gabby's father was able to attend her U.S. Olympic trials on June 29. It was the first time he had seen his daughter for the first time since October 2010, according to USA Today. Holding an American flag with "Go Gabby Douglas, Love, Dad" on the front, Gabby was thrilled to see her dad in the stands.

Gabrielle Douglas of the United States competes on the balance beam in the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Individual All-Around final on Day 6 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at North Greenwich Arena on August 2, 2012 in London, England.
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"I'm like, 'Who's calling my name?' And then I look up. It was my dad and his friend, and I haven't seen him in a while," Gabby explained. "They were holding up the flag. And I almost felt like bawling. I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, Dad!"
"I just missed her so much," Timothy said at the trials. "It's just so thrilling what's going on."
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Her parents have separated and are in the process of a divorce, but both supported their daughter's Olympic dreams and made sacrifices to pay for her expensive training and travel. While Timothy didn't appear to have been able to attend the London Games to see his daughter win the gold, her mother Natalie Hawkins was there every step of the way.


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[Jangle]

Thank you. Bwoy you must have a PhD in Google.

[Skeng DX]

no...i read it this morning

[Skeng DX]

Gabby Douglas' proud airman father has watched her from afar



While Gabby Douglas has been preparing to capture American hearts in the London Olympics, her father has been serving in the Air Force.
The 4-foot-11, 16-year-old gymnast nicknamed the “Flying Squirrel” made history Thursday when she won the gold medal in the women’s all-around competition. Her father, Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Douglas, who has served multiple deployments throughout her childhood, was not on hand. But he first saw in June what the world has witnessed this week in his talented and charismatic daughter.

“There’s an exuberance,” Douglas told the Des Moines Register in late June, after surprising his daughter at the Olympic Trials in San Jose. “There’s a feeling that you can’t describe.”

For much of the last several years, Douglas, who has done three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has made do with YouTube videos of his daughter’s routines as he served with the 203rd Red Horse civil engineering squadron, either in Virginia Beach or in Kandahar. Although his last tour ended in October of 2011, when he showed up to see her qualify for the U.S. Olympic team, it was one of the rare times he has seen Gabby compete in person.

Gabby, who began training at age six, was just nine when her father was first called up. Two years ago, she moved from her family in Virginia Beach to live with a sponsoring family in Des Moines, Iowa, where she trained with Liang Chow, who previously coached Shawn Johnson, the 2008 Olympic silver medalist. But the girl who did perfect cartwheels at age 3 says praying for her father’s safety has been a regular part of her life, almost like her training regimen.

"I just had to pray to God just to keep him safe and tell the angels to keep my dad safe and come home," she told NBC.

On Thursday, Gabby tallied 62.232 points to win the all-around gold medal, besting Russian Viktoria Komova, who scored 61.973 points to win the silver. Earlier in the games, Douglas played a major role in helping Team USA clinch its first team gold medal in women's gymnastics since the 1996 games in Atlanta.

Even if Sgt. Douglas couldn’t see Gabby win the gold in person, the surprise visit to the trials, which marked the first time he’d seen her in nearly two years, resulted in a joyful reunion. Douglas held up an American flag with "Go Gabby Douglas, Love, Dad" on the front and his daughter had no idea he was in the crowd.

"I'm like, 'Who's calling my name?' And then I look up,” she told the Des Moines Register. “It was my dad and his friend, and I haven't seen him in a while," Gabby said later. "They were holding up the flag. And I almost felt like bawling. I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, Dad!"

"I just missed her so much," Timothy Douglas told the paper. "It's just so thrilling what's going on."

Douglas’ mother, Natalie Hawkins, is in the process of divorcing Timothy Douglas. But both parents have supported the plucky superstar, helping to pay for her training and travel.

"I'm so happy for her, so thrilled," Hawkins told reporters in London after her daughter’s second gold performance. "I love her and I'm so proud of her."

As her father no doubt watched from afar and Gabby took her place atop the podium, her own feelings of national pride were stoked.

"That was awesome, seeing the flag raised and you're on top and the national anthem just playing," Douglas told reporters. "You feel like you’re in a concert. All these flashes ... I'm living on Cloud Nine."


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