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Liu Xuan
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| Liu Xuan (Simplified Chinese: 刘璇) is a Chinese Gymnast. She was born on March 12, 1979 in Changsha, China. She was coached by Guo Xinming and Zhang Zhen. |
Liu said she took up gymnastics with encouragement from her mom, who had to cease gymnastics training during her younger years because of the closure of the gym during the Cultural Revolution. In fact, Liu's decision to continue for another 4 years after a disappointing 1996 Atlanta Olympics (where she failed to make beam finals due to a fall in the team optionals) was partly to realize her mom's unfulfilled dream. |
Liu was the first female gymnast to perform a one-arm giant swing on the uneven bars which is named after her in the Gymnastic's Code of Points; she also performed this skill into a Geinger release move. However, this skill was considered too risky for women gymnasts, and hence was given a ridiculously low "C" difficulty rating so as to discourage female gymnasts from learning it. As a result, Liu herself also stopped performing it after the 1996 Olympics. |
Liu was also strong on balance beam, but weak on vault and floor exercise. |
In 2000, she was China's first Olympic Champion on balance beam as well as China's first All Around Medalist (after Andreea Răducan was disqualified from her gold medal due to a disqualification for taking an unlicensed cold medication, Liu moved up from 4th to the bronze medal position). At the 2000 Olympics Liu Xuan also led her team to a bronze medal. This is China's first and only team medal for Women's Artistic Gymnastics in a non-boycotted Olympics. Liu Xuan retired after the 2000 Olympics. As of June 2005 she was filming a movie.
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