Danell Leyva Attends Gold Meets Golden Event

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Los Angeles, California - Twenty five year old gymnast Danell Leyva, who completed in Rio Olympic games, looking great wearing a colorful shirt, black jacket, pants and shoes attends the Gold Meets Golden event on Saturday, January 7, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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USA wins one gold, three silver on final day of gymnastics at 2016 Olympics

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• Men's Results: Parallel Bars | High Bar
• Women's Results: Floor Exercise
• Photo Gallery
• USAGym2016.com

RIO DE JANEIRO – Simone Biles of Spring of Texas/World Champions Centre, and Aly Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan's American Gymnastics, won the gold and silver medals, respectively, on the floor exercise at the 2016 Olympic Games at the Rio Olympic Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The medals were the eighth and ninth for the Final Five, the 2016 Olympic team champions, for the most women’s gymnastics Olympic medals won by a country since the Soviet Union’s 10 in 1972. For the men, Danell Leyva of Miami/Team Hilton (Universal Gymnastics), claimed the parallel bars and high bar silver medals on the final day of competition. The USA mined a total of 12 medals, the most since 1984.

This is the first time the U.S. women have won nine medals at an Olympic Games. The nine medals are: four gold, four silver and one bronze. Biles’ five Olympic medals make her the most decorated U.S. gymnast at the 2016 Olympics, and her four gold medals tie the Olympic record for a female gymnast in a single Games. Including her 2016 medals, Raisman’s six career Olympic medals is the second highest total in U.S. gymnastics history behind Shannon Miller.

The 12 U.S. Olympic medals are listed below.

• Women’s team: gold
• Biles: all-around, vault and floor exercise gold, and balance beam bronze
• Hernandez: balance beam silver
• Kocian, uneven bars silver
• Leyva, parallel bars and high bar silver
• Alex Naddour of Queen Creek, Ariz./Team Hilton (USA Youth Fitness Center), pommel horse bronze
• Raisman, all-around and floor exercise silver

In the women’s floor final, Biles tumbled a layout full-out; double layout half-out (Biles); tucked double-double; and tucked full-in. Her 15.966 clinched the gold medal. Opening with her trademark one-and-a-half twist to double Arabian, punch layout front, Raisman scored a 15.500 to win silver. Great Britain’s Amy Tinkler claimed the bronze at 14.933.

Leyva captured two silvers on the final day of competition. On parallel bars, he capped off his magnificent routine with a stuck double front dismount to score a 15.900 and win the silver medal. Ukraine’s Oleg Verniaiev claimed gold with a 16.041 and David Belyavskiy of Russia earned the bronze (15.783).

Leyva performed a thrilling routine in the horizontal bar final with a layout Kovacs, Kolman and a double-twisting double layout dismount to score a 15.500, which earned the silver medal. Sam Mikulak of Newport Coast, Calif./Team Hilton (U.S. Olympic Training Center), hit his routine including a Cassina, Kolman and double twisting double layout dismount to score a 15.400 for fourth place. Germany’s Fabian Hambuechen won the title with his 15.766, and Nile Wilson of Great Britain finished third (15.466).

Gymnastics competition has concluded and wraps up its Olympics with two sessions of the gala on Aug. 17 at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Rio time.

Ways to follow the action

• NBC. NBC is the broadcast and web source for coverage and news on the Olympic Games.
  • Aug. 16, individual event finals, 8 p.m. ET, NBC
• NBCOlympics.com. NBCOlympics.com carries live and archived coverage of every gymnastics session as well as all sports.
• USAGym2016.com. Original stories, athlete bios, schedules, results and more are available at usagym2016.com.
• USAGym.org. The USA Gymnastics official website is a great source for information about the sport: latest news, the schedule of its premier events, athlete biographies, videos, photo galleries and more.
• TeamUSA.org. The U.S. Olympic Committee’s website will also be a good resource for information on the Team USA in Rio.
• Social Media. USA Gymnastics is providing live updates and exclusive content, including interviews and photos, on Facebook and Twitter (@USAGym).

Leyva, Ernst head to 2013 Tokyo World Cup

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – 2012 Olympic all-around bronze-medalist Danell Leyva of Miami/Universal Gymnastics, and Peyton Ernst of Coppell, Texas/Texas Dreams, will compete at the 2013 Tokyo World Cup, scheduled for April 6-7 at the Metropolitan Komazawa Olympic Park General Sports Ground. The event is an International Gymnastics Federation all-around World Cup competition and is the final event in the 2012-13 series.

Leyva, who is currently ranked third World Cup standings, will faceoff with fellow London Olympic all-around medalists Japan's Kohei Uchimura and Germany's Marcel Nguyen, who won gold and silver, respectively. Nguyen is the overall World Cup series leader. The remainder of the field is comprised of five men who finished in the top 12 at the Olympics: Kazuhito Tanaka of Japan (sixth), Kristian Thomas of Great Britain (seventh); Fabian Gonzalez of Spain (ninth), Sergio Sasaki of Brazil (10th), and Oleg Verniaiev of the Ukraine (11th).

Joining Ernst, who finished seventh in the all-around at last year's U.S. nationals and was named to the U.S. National Team last month, are Huang Qiushuang of China, Vanessa Ferrari of Italy and Asuka Teramoto of Japan, who finished seventh, eighth and eleventh, respectively, in the all-around at the London Olympics. 2012 Olympian Elsabeth Black of Canada, Shang Chunsong of China, Elisa Meneghini of Italy and Charlie Fellows of Great Britain complete the field.

The all-around competition is split over two days: April 6 – men's floor exercise, pommel horse and still rings, with women's vault and uneven bars; and April 7 – men's vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar, with women's balance beam and floor exercise.

Leyva, Price compete this weekend in Glasgow's World Cup

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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – 2012 Olympic all-around bronze-medalist Danell Leyva of Miami/Universal Gymnastics, and 2012 Olympic team alternate Elizabeth Price of Coopersburg, Pa./Parkettes National Gymnastics Center, are representing the United States at the World Cup event in Glasgow, Scotland, on Saturday, Dec. 8, at the National Indoor Sports Arena.

The event's official website ishttp://www.glasgowworldcup.com/. Fans can also follow the action on the Glasgow World Cup's official Twitter account,@GlasgowWCG2012,

Leyva, Price compete this weekend in Stuttgart's World Cup

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2012 Olympic all-around bronze-medalist Danell Leyva of Miami/Universal Gymnastics, and 2012 Olympic team alternate Elizabeth Price of Coopersburg, Pa./Parkettes National Gymnastics Center, are representing the United States at the World Cup in Stuttgart, Germany, Dec. 1-2. One week later, the two will compete in the World Cup event in Glasgow, Scotland, Dec. 8.

In Stuttgart's Porsche-Arena, the DTB Cup has the women's all-around scheduled on Saturday, Dec. 1, followed by the men's competition on Sunday, Dec. 2. The event's official website is www.dtbpokal.de, and live commentary on the competition will be available at www.dtb-liveticker.de in German.

The field in Stuttgart includes eight men and eight women.

Men
David Belyavskiy, Russia
Claudio Capelli, Switzerland
Gonzalez Fabian, Spain
Danell Leyva, USA
Marcel Nguyen, Germany
Daniel Purvis, Great Britain
Kazuhito Tanaka, Japan
Kristian Thomas, Great BritainWomen
Kim Bui, Germany
Vanessa Ferrari, Italy
Kristina Goryunova, Russia
Elizabeth Price, USA
Niamh Rippin, Great Britain
Elisabeth Seitz, Germany
Giulia Steingruber, Switzerland
Rebecca Tunney, Great Britain

In Glasgow, both men's and women's all-around are scheduled for Dec. 8 at the National Indoor Sports Arena. Both of these events are part of the International Gymnastics Federation's all-around World Cup series, which also includes the AT&T American Cup.

Progressive SKATING & GYMNASTICS SPECTACULAR

This event brings together two of the most popular Olympic sports: figure skating and gymnastics. Headlining the show will be Olympic gold medalists Nastia Liukin, Gabrielle Douglas, Aly Raisman and Jordyn Wieber; Olympic bronze medalist Danell Leyva; and 2011 World ice dance champions Meryl Davis & Charlie White.

• Live Show
  Saturday, December 15, 2012
  7:00 PM EST
  Jamestown Savings Bank Arena
  Jamestown, NY
 
• NBC Airdate
  Saturday, January 19, 2013
  4:00 – 6:00 PM EST
  Check your local listings!
 
• AXS TV Rebroadcast
  Sunday, February 17, 2013, &
  Sunday, February 24, 2013
  Check your local listings!

TICKETS FOR PROGRESSIVE SKATING & GYMNASTICS SPECTACULAR ARE SOLD OUT.

The ARTISTS

R5

Fresh Beat Band

The HOSTS

Bart Conner

Nadia Comaneci

Peggy Fleming

The SKATING CAST

Meryl Davis & Charlie White, 2011 World Champions

Jeremy Abbott, Three-time U.S. Champion

Ashley Wagner, 2012 U.S. Champion

TV appearances by U.S. gymnasts - Aug. 19-26

List is subject to change. Scroll down for a photo gallery of the appearances.

Sunday, Aug. 19

• Gabby Douglas on Dateline NBC

Friday, Aug. 24

• Danell Leyva on The Today Show

Sunday, Aug. 26

• Gabby Douglas on Oprah's Next Chapter

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PREVIOUS APPEARANCES

Thursday, Aug. 16

• Women's team on Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien - Video
• John Orozco on Rock Center with Brian Williams - Video

Wednesday, Aug. 15

• Women's team on Good Morning America - Video
• Women's team on Anderson Cooper 360
• Gabby Douglas on America's Got Talent results show
• Women's team on The Colbert Report - Video

Tuesday, Aug. 14

• Women's team on the Today Show
  Watch: Weather forecast | Interviewed by young gymnasts
• Women's team at the Empire State Building - Photos | Video
• Women's team ringing the NYSE bell - Photos | Video
• Women's team on Late Show with David Letterman
  Watch: Clip 1 | Clip 2 | Full Episode (25:40)

Monday, Aug. 13

• Gabby Douglas on Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  Watch: Part 1 | Part 2

Plus, catch them at the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions this fall. Tickets are on sale now.

We here at Rocky Coast News hope you can tune into this weeks TV appearances by the USA Gymnasts.

Universal Sports Network's Countdown to London

Universal Sports Network's Countdown to London


Features Olympic Medal Favorite Gymnast Danell Leyva and Reigning Gold Medalist Hurdler Dawn Harper



Los Angeles – 2011 world parallel bars champion and reigning U.S. all-around champion Danell Leyva will be featured on Universal Sports Network's Countdown to London on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET. Leyva, who will attempt to defend his title this weekend at the 2012 Visa Championships and qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games, will be one of two featured guests on Countdown to London, a show aimed to provide news, updates and features as the world prepares for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
This week's episode will also feature The Countdown Conversation with Fred Roggin presented by Budweiser with Olympic gold medalist Dawn Harper who is looking to defend her medal in the 100m hurdles.

Hosted by Craig Hummer and Amy Bender, other top news stories will include four-time Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson's retirement announcement, as well as news from the Diamond League, headlined by Usain Bolt's world leading 100m time of 9.76 seconds in Rome. Universal Sports Network/NBC analyst and four-time Olympic medalist Ato Boldon will join the show via video chat to discuss Bolt's impressive performance.

In addition to Countdown to London, Focus on Gymnastics presented by BMW will preview men's gymnastics with Olympic gold medalist and Universal Sports Network analyst Tim Daggett joining the show to provide insight and analysis.

The show's other weekly features include Reliving the Glory presented by Panasonic with flashbacks to great moments in Olympic history with the airing of archived short films by legendary Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan; On the Web presented by Dow, a social media roundup of Olympic athletes and news; Inside the Research Room to check-in with the NBC Olympics production team to see what stories they are working on heading into the Games, as well as additional content including event previews, breaking news coverage and a weekly update from a journalist from London.

Click here for a highlight from the Countdown to London's Focus on Swimming presented by BMW with three-time gold medalist and analyst Rowdy Gaines weighing in on the storylines heading into the 2012 Olympic Games.

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