Sports Illustrated has named World Champion and Olympic gymnasts Chellsie Memmel and Shawn Johnson Named to the SI “2011 U.S. Championships: Gymnasts To Watch List.”
The VISA U.S. Gymnastics Championships begin Wednesday, August 17, 2011 in St. Paul, Minn.
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Taylor Phinney (BMC) won the prologue of the Eneco Tour Monday and took the first leader’s jersey of the race.
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Congrats Shawn! Shawn Johnson Wins 2011 Teen Choice Award- Choice Female Athlete!
Live award show aired Sunday, August 7 on FOX.
This is the second Teen Choice Award for Shawn. She won previously won the Choice Female Athlete Award in 2008. (read more)
Sports Illustrated
Hockey great Angela Ruggiero named to SportsIllustrated.com’s list of Top 100 Most Influential Twitter Handles in Sports (@angelaruggiero)
As we mark Twitter’s fifth anniversary (July 15), it’s a good time to acknowledge the social media site’s influence on the sports landscape. Every NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL franchise has a Twitter presence and its impact on news has been profound, as SI.com’s Jon Wertheim reports in this story. With social networking growing at a rapid pace, the writers and editors at SI.com decided to put together a package on the most influential twitter handles in the world of sports for Twitter’s fifth anniversary.
The first annual Twitter 100 is the result of a month-long conversation about the best people to follow in sports. For SI.com’s inaugural Twitter 100, we polled more than 50 Sports Illustrated staffers — from reporters to writers to editors — who are hard-core Twitter users and asked them which feeds they considered essential to their daily routine for finding news, information and entertainment from the sports world. We gave them one guideline: You could not choose anyone associated with SI. After weeks of debating the endless possibilities, we’ve whittled down the list to our top 100, which we present in alphabetical order. The list covers a variety of sports and includes a diverse group of interesting feeds: SI.com The Twitter Top 100
An IOC member, Harvard graduate and one of the greatest women’s hockey players ever, Angela Ruggiero has been named to this select list. Follow Angela on Twitter @angelaruggiero
Universal Sports
Olympic beam champion Shawn Johnson took a moment to speak with UniversalSports.com on Sunday while promoting the VISA National Gymnastics Championships in St. Paul, Minnesota this August.
Johnson is set to return to competition at this month’s CoverGirl Classic. We talked to her about the nerves, excitement, and her progress.
Is being in St. Paul to promote Nationals a reality check that yes, you are really coming back?
It definitely makes it more real now. It’s kind of scary because now people really know for sure I’m competing, but it’s exciting, too.
Your coach recently said you would compete at CoverGirl Class later this month, but then you Tweeted it was not a sure thing. What is your current status?
I’m doing CoverGirl as of right now. We’re using CoverGirl as a test run. My first one out. Testing the waters and getting my confidence back and Nationals will be my first real competition. That’s the plan so far. I’ll do three events at each meet – maybe four at Championships. (read more)
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