MCSMaria's Artistic Gymnastics Blog

Aly Raisman is an Olympic Gold Medalist, a Dancing Star, World Champion and fashion designer.  Like many notable World and Olympic Champions, Aly has her own line of leotards through GK Elite. Today, yours truly was surfing Twitter while doing the laundry (ok, I'm procrastinating the laundry, whatever!). I came across this photo of Aliya Mustafina wearing what looks like an Aly Raisman original.

It was the week of gymnastics babies. Earlier this week, US Gymnastics legend Shannon Miller welcomed her second child, a baby girl into the world. Source: USAGym.org The baby girl, Sterling Diane joins Shannon, her husband John Falconetti and their son, three-year-old Rocco on June 25 at 11:49 eastern time. The 1992 Olympic Medalist and the member of the Mag 7, the 1996 Olympic Gold winning team,

With the Olympics having concluded almost a year again, it's the beginning of a new quad for the bid for Rio.  The next major competiton is the world championships in Antwerp. For the USA, they need to get through nationals, but to get through nationals, they need to get through the Secret Classic. Here is some information regarding the classic.

Age: 15 Residence: Arvada, Colorado Club: Tigars Gymnastics and Cheer Coaches: Mom Katia and father Alex Born in Moscow, Russia The inaugural junior to watch is Mile-High city gymnast, Polina Shchennikova. Polina's backgroud is much like that of 2008 Olympic All-Around Champion, Nastia Liukin. So much so, that Polina is referred to as "Baby Nastia" around the Gymternet.  Like Nastia, she is the daughter of two former junior soviet gymnasts and it shows in her gymnastics. She exhibits beautiful long lines and flexibly and elegance that is reminiscent of the artistry of the Soviet Union gymnastics machine.

Jonathan Horton is a daddy. The 2008 Team Bronze Medalist and 2012 Olympic Teammember announced via his Twitter account that he and his wife Haley, a former University of Oklahoma Gymnast, have welcomed a bouncing baby boy into the world today. Jonathan and Haley welcomed baby David Travis Horton today, what time, I am not sure, but at 11 a.m. today (I am assuming central time because he lives in Texas), he tweeted this message: Via Twitter Baby Horton has arrived! He's freakin awesome! — Jonathan Horton (@J_Horton11) June 24, 2013 Congrats to the proud parents! Via Twitter

A weekend excursion to Portugal and Anastasia Grishina, Sam Mikulak, Larisa Iordache, Jade Barbosa went home with gold medals at the Anadia World Cup Event. Not a bad weekend. Here are the highlights.

It was announced today that Procter and Gamble has extended their sponsorship of USA Gymnastics through the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janiero. That also means that the national championships gets a new title sponsor. Until today, for quite sometime, the national championships title sponsor had been VISA. "It's everywhere you want to be!" P&G has been a sponsor of USA Gymnastics for quite sometime, they have products branding the qualifier for the Nationals, the US Secret Classic.