Before They Were Stars
Happy 18th Birthday Gabby Douglas: Check out the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Before the Fame!
Happy 18th Birthday to Gabby Douglas! Take a look at some of Team USA’s shining stars before they were stars... By Nina Hämmerling Smith
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Gabby Douglas as a Kid and Gabrielle Douglas in 2012
What can you say about a 18-year-old with an irrepressible smile and two Olympic gold medals to her name—including the coveted women’s gymnastics all-around? When it’s Virginia Beach native Gabby Douglas, you can say: Go, Flying Squirrel! After the first-place finish of the girls’ team, Douglas took personal gold by the slimmest of margins, with Russia’s Viktoria Komova less than three tenths of a point behind. Douglas celebrated with her coach, Liang Chow—whose instruction to avoid looking at the scoreboard she didn’t quite manage to follow, admitting that she peeked “after vault, and bars, and beam, and floor.”
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