1.   She is the current two-time defending national rhythmic gymnastics champion.

2.   Fong remembers the young Christy, who stayed in Kansas City to carve out her place in U.S. national gymnastics.

3.   Iowa State dropped its three-time national champion gymnastics program.

4.   The Moceanus, Romanian immigrants, said they both competed for the Romanian national gymnastics team as youths, but not in the Olympics.

5.   The national gymnastics federation could afford to buy only the barest necessities for equipment for the training center in Tashkent, and what was purchased was already outdated.

6.   The Scottsdale High School graduate was a seven-time national gymnastics champion at the University of New Mexico.

7.   A dissident under former Stalinist rulers, she is widely popular as the coach of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics team that won the world championship.

8.   Earlier, three members of the national gymnastics team were found to have been involved in doping and were banned for two years.

9.   Five-time national gymnastics champion Blaine Wilson tore his right rotator cuff and will need surgery.