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Olympic champ Nastia Liukin honored with parade in Parker

Fans and supporters wave as Olympic gold medal winner Nastia Liukin drives by in a pink car during a parade in her honor August 30, 2008 in her native Parker. The parade, which began shortly after 9 a.m. followed a route along Parker Road, east of Plano. Thousands of people watched the parade, which included scores of floats and performers.

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The 18-year-old gymnast waved to the crowd while riding on the back of a pink Saab convertible. Liukin won five medals at the Olympics in Beijing, including gold in the all-around competition.

Photos: Nastia Liukin's parade

08/28/2008

Olympic gymnast Nastia Liukin lands on Wheaties cereal box
The 18-year-old Parker resident joins Olympic decathlon gold-medalist Bryan Clay as the new faces for Wheaties, said Greg Zimprich, a General Mills spokesman. The new designs on the "Breakfast of Champions" boxes will be available starting in September.

08/22/2008

Crowds, cheers welcome Nastia Liukin back from Beijing

Nastia Liukin arrives at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

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Cheers of "NAS-TI-A! NAS-TI-A!" rang through the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport terminal as Parker's star gymnast made her way through the screaming crowd.
Video: Warm welcome at airport
Photos: Bringing home the gold
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08/21/2008

Whirlwind for Nastia Liukin just beginning
More than making for great accessories, the gold, bronze and three silvers represent Nastia Liukin's life work turned into her family's dream fulfilled at the Beijing Games. Liukin will have all of them with her as she returns to fanfare in North Texas today.

08/20/2008

Gymnasts Liukin, Johnson end with eight medals
Olympic competition ended appropriately Tuesday for Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson – on the medal stand, together, one last time. "I think Nastia is gorgeous," said Martha Karolyi, the U.S. national team coordinator. "She's probably one of the greatest gymnasts [ever] for USA."

08/15/2008

Olympics blog: Nastia Liukin coverage
Dallasnews.com blog updates on Parker gymnast Nastia Liukin at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Photos: Liukin wins gold

Video: Training for gold

Audio: Tale of two Olympians

08/19/2008

Celebrations planned for Nastia Liukin's homecoming this week

Nastia Liukin won the gold medal in the all-around gymnastics competition in Beijing.

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World Olympic Gymnastics Academy officials say Liukin and her parents will arrive Thursday on United Airlines Flight 478 from San Francisco.
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08/18/2008

Liukin takes silver in uneven bars despite even score
A headache-inducing tiebreaker determined Monday that China's He Kexin was the gold medalist on the uneven bars. Never mind that Nastia Liukin scored the same as He, 16.725. The Texan took home the silver, her fourth medal of the Beijing Games.

Controversial tiebreaker keeps Nastia Liukin from another gold
Parker gymnast Nastia Liukin and China's He Kexin finished with the same score on the uneven bars. But a tiebreaker left Liukin with a silver medal. Welcome to the controversial world of Olympic gymnastics.

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08/17/2008

Liukin adds bronze in floor exercise to medal tally
Nastia Liukin wants to beat her dad's Olympic medal tally of four from 20 years before. She is one away from tying him after winning bronze in the individual floor exercise final Sunday night at National Indoor Stadium.

08/16/2008

Liukin will be on her own now
As individual finals begin, confident Nastia looks to realize her dreams

Olympic gymnast Nastia Liukin's North Texas pals share in her triumph
A lot of Dallas-area gymnasts were flipping out Friday. The girls who train with Nastia Liukin at the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy in Plano could hardly contain themselves hours after they watched her become an Olympic champion -- some on less than three hours of sleep.

08/15/2008

Nastia Liukin wins all-around gold
Parker gymnast Nastia Liukin won the gold medal in the all-around competition in Beijing.

Nastia Liukin fulfills family legacy

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Gymnast Nastia Liukin hugs her dad and coach Valeri after winning the all-around gold medal.

Nastia Liukin fulfilled her family's dream and legacy, and maybe even kept her mother from wandering the streets, writes Kevin Sherrington. Anna Liukin, who couldn't bear to watch her daughter compete all these years, can come in now. Nastia won gold, Mom.
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Friends – Liukin and Johnson – meet for gymnastics' top prize
Parker's Nastia Liukin looked like a contender for the Olympic all-around gold medal during Wednesday's team finals for women's gymnastics.

Gymnast Liukin, teammates show grit
The most memorable image of Nastia Liukin from Sunday's qualifying round at the Beijing Olympics will be the Parker gymnast falling flat on her back after her somersaulting dismount from her signature event, the uneven bars. But it won't be the defining one.

Nowitzki has a fan in gymnast Liukin
Dirk Nowitzki didn't really know who Nastia Liukin was when she approached him Thursday morning in the Olympic Village.

Parents' support, coaching and great DNA helped make gymnast Nastia Liukin an Olympian

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Olympic gymnast Nastia Liukin of Parker is a hybrid of mother Anna's dancer's build and father Valeri's intensity.

The lithe, outgoing only child of Valeri and Anna – Olympic and world champions for the Soviet Union in the 1980s – Nastia Liukin dreams her own Olympic dream, which she'll go for as the Beijing Games begin.
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Raising the bar

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When Nastia Liukin's turn to fly, pirouette and loop around the uneven bars comes – whether it be in front of NBC's cameras or at a national team practice at Camp Karolyi in rural New Waverly, Texas – every eye is glued on the lithe 18-year-old from Parker.

Gymnastics preview: Grace under pressure
The U.S. women's gymnastics roster is overflowing with talent and depth. Heck, Chellsie Memmel, the 2005 all-around world champion, is considered the team's third-best all-arounder, behind reigning world champion Shawn Johnson and Parker's Nastia Liukin, winner of nine World Championships medals.

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