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Title: Gymnastics: Balancing Acts by Christina Lessa ISBN: 0-7893-0105-9 Publisher: Universe Publishing (NY) Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Delightful!!
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fantastic!
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: A foot fetisher's dream!
Comment: The photos in this book are very nice, but everyone featured is inexplicably barefoot. Not only that, but feet feature prominently within these pages. Weird. Anyway, as another reviewer mentioned, the text is riddled with errors even a casual fan shouldn't miss. If you can tolerate these problems, then you might like htis one.
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Title: Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters by Joan Ryan ISBN: 0446676829 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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