Talk:Carly Patterson

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I removed the section entitled "Skills" because it is filled with technical gymnastic terms that only gymnasts or someone else deeply conversant with gymnastics would understand. An encyclopedia article should not require a technical manual to be understood. In fact, isn't the purpose is to make the recondite accessible?

Finally, none of the terms were referenced. The editor might want to create entries--or reference them if they already exist--of the aforementioned terms.

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== Skills == The following are the routines Carly performed at the 2004 Olympic Games:

*VAULT: Double-twisting Yurchenko (start value 9.8)

• BARS: Kip, cast to handstand, underswing full pirouette, toe shoot to high bar; kip, cast to handstand, stalder full pirouette, giant 1.5 pirouette, giant full pirouette, Tkatchev release, pak salto to low bar; kip, cast to handstand 1/2 pirouette, stalder shoot to high bar; kip, cast to handstand, giant, giant, full-twisting double back dismount (start value 9.9)
  
• BEAM: Jump to middle split, needle scale; standing Arabian; front aerial, back handspring, back layout stepout; punch front, sheep jump; switch leap, back tuck; full turn; roundoff, back handspring, Arabian double front dismount (start value 10.0)
  
• FLOOR: Popa, tuck jump double; roundoff-back handspring-half in half out somersault; roundoff-back handspring-Arabian double front; switch leap, tour jete full; roundoff-back handspring-2.5 twist-front layout; 1.5 pirouette; cat leap double, cat leap 1.5; roundoff-back handspring-double pike (start value 10.0)

Her music for floor routines was:

• 2003-2004: "Mr. Pinstripe Suit" by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

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PainMan 09:27, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:37, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Final sentence of paragraph two states:

"She won the gold medal, an achievement that had only been attained by one other American gymnast, Mary Lou Retton, exactly twenty years before during the 1984 summer games. Carly became the first American woman to ever win the Olympic All-Around title in a fully attended Olympic Games."

This is no longer true since Nastia Luikin's gold medal victory on August 15th 2008 in Beijing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Djpetric (talk • contribs) 00:32, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've just learned that Carly Patterson has a medal record where she compete in the World Championship Gymnastics and the Olympics. 100.2.114.167 (talk) 10:34, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]