Sunday, August 10, 2008

Deng Linlin - the talented young gymnast

Deng Linlin - the final place on the team that was (and well actual still is) hotly contended for. To me Deng Linlin's gymnastics tends to lack a bit of the grace and style that most of the other Chinese gymnasts seem to have, she seems very fearless though - like she's attacking that beam!

Deng LinLin's ability to bring home respectable numbers on VT, BB and FX must have been considered to valuable to ignore, especially since these are strong areas for the USA. Deng Linlin is NOT 16 she looks even younger than He Kexin which is quite funny actually. The Chinese are sporting their usual ugly red crushed velvet type leos with the gold swirl things.

Deng Linlin nailing her bars first up was critical to us today. Deng Linlin’s bars and Li Shanshan’s bars both won’t be usable for team finals, but for preliminaries, because Deng as the lead-off gymnast hit her routine successfully, we could do without Li Shanshan going up on bars [as the fifth gymnast].

Deng Linlin (Chinese: 邓琳琳) is a Chinese artistic gymnast. In 2008, she won World Cup titles at the event in Moscow on the balance beam and the floor exercise.

She has been named to the Chinese 2008 Olympic Team.

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