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Summary: Delightful!!
Review: If you like seeing pictures of your favorite gymnasts out of the gym, then this is the book for you! This book features old stars and recent stars(from '96)such as Olga Korbut, Nadia, Bart Conner, Mary Lou, Shannon Miller, Jaycie Phelps, Dominique Dawes, John Macready, and many, many more! The book also showcases the athletes emotions about gymnastics, and it shows each person's unique personality. There are also a few pictures of the athletes in the gym, which makes the book well-balanced.
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Summary: A foot fetisher's dream!
Review: It is obvious that Christina Lessa understood that the world of a gymanst goes well beyond public performances. She has done a fabulous job capturing the essence of each gymnast featured, in ways unexpected and fascinating. She has set asside "fact sheets" and scores and has captured what drives them to be great as gymnasts as well as unique and focused individuals. Easy to read and filled with great photos, this book would be a great addition to anyone's coffe table! It has also become one of my favorite books to give as a gift...specially to anyone involved in sports.
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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: This book is full of great gymnasts in their purest and most creative form. It is perhaps their best performance to date. Ms. Lessa portrays each and every one of them as unique and exciting individuals. It is a nice change of pace to see these amazing people in a non-gymnastics arena and to hear their innermost thoughts and emotions. A must-see and read book for anyone associated with the world of gymnastics!
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: This book's main focus is on photography; beautiful photos of world class gymnasts playing dress up and wearing different costumes that mostly relate to their personality. There are also pictures of them in the gym, or doing gymnastics. Comments, thoughts, and quotes from the gymnasts are printed in each of their sections throughout the book. As some have mentioned, some of the results listed in the front are wrong, so that's why I'm only giving 4 stars. And about the gymnasts being barefoot: THEY ARE GYMNASTS! THEY COMPETE BAREFOOT. So it makes since for them to be barefoot in the book. Gymnasts featured are: All Mag 7 members (Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu, Amy Chow, Amanda Borden, Jaycie Phelps, Kerri Strug), Julianne McNamara, Mary Lou Retton, Trent Dimas, John Roethlisberger, Chainey Umphrey, Cathy Rigby, Kim Zmeskal, Bart Conner, Nadia Comaneci, Peter Vidmar, Jair Lynch, Svetlana Boguinskaia, Lilia Podkopayeva, Mitch Gaylord, Abe Grossfeld, Mariel Grossfeld, Ivan Ivanov, Jordan Jovtchev, Ivan Ivankov, Vitaly Scherbo, and Olga Korbut. Bela Karolyi, Shannon Miller, and Dominique Dawes write forwards and intros. Shannon Miller is on the cover.Pictures range from Shannon looking like a princess standing on a horse (an actual live animal), to Kerri Strug dressed like a ballerina, to Bart Conner covered completely in gold body paint, to Lilia dressed like a mime, and more. There are also gymnastics poses, like Jaycie Phelps doing a tumbling series on the beam.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: This book's main focus is on photography; beautiful photos of world class gymnasts playing dress up and wearing different costumes that mostly relate to their personality. There are also pictures of them in the gym, or doing gymnastics. Comments, thoughts, and quotes from the gymnasts are printed in each of their sections throughout the book. As some have mentioned, some of the results listed in the front are wrong, so that's why I'm only giving 4 stars. And about the gymnasts being barefoot: THEY ARE GYMNASTS! THEY COMPETE BAREFOOT. So it makes since for them to be barefoot in the book. Gymnasts featured are: All Mag 7 members (Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu, Amy Chow, Amanda Borden, Jaycie Phelps, Kerri Strug), Julianne McNamara, Mary Lou Retton, Trent Dimas, John Roethlisberger, Chainey Umphrey, Cathy Rigby, Kim Zmeskal, Bart Conner, Nadia Comaneci, Peter Vidmar, Jair Lynch, Svetlana Boguinskaia, Lilia Podkopayeva, Mitch Gaylord, Abe Grossfeld, Mariel Grossfeld, Ivan Ivanov, Jordan Jovtchev, Ivan Ivankov, Vitaly Scherbo, and Olga Korbut. Bela Karolyi, Shannon Miller, and Dominique Dawes write forwards and intros. Shannon Miller is on the cover. Pictures range from Shannon looking like a princess standing on a horse (an actual live animal), to Kerri Strug dressed like a ballerina, to Bart Conner covered completely in gold body paint, to Lilia dressed like a mime, and more. There are also gymnastics poses, like Jaycie Phelps doing a tumbling series on the beam.
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