At age 46, the athlete waved goodbye to the audience at her last Olympic Games.
Everyone give it up for gymnast Oksana Chusovitina!
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The eight-time Olympian and two-time medalist representing Uzbekistan received a proper and more than well-deserved send-off as she competed at her last Olympics in Tokyo.
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She has also previously represented the Soviet Union and Germany, competing in every Olympics since the 1992 Barcelona Games. That year, she won a team gold with the Soviets, and in Beijing’s 2008 Games, she won a silver medal in the vault competition for Germany.
The 46-year-old finished her historic Olympic career with a vault performance, which failed to qualify her for the finals. Her emotional parting elicited many tears and cheers — from spectators, fellow competitors, and even judges.
Standing ovation and not a dry eye in the house for the #ArtisticGymnastics legend Oksana Chusovitina ???????? as she takes her final @Olympics bow. The 46-year-old today became an 8⃣-time Olympian, competing on Vault for the last time at @Tokyo2020 ❤️
#Tokyo2020 #Olympics
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I’m fully sobbing right now?!
Uzbekistan’s Oksana Chusovitina has officially competed at her EIGHTH Olympic Games.
At 46 years old, she competed for one last time and received a standing ovation from her competitors. #TokyoOlympics
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The iconic athlete waved goodbye and tearfully hugged her coach.
“I think I am one of the pioneers to let every woman know that you can be a wife, you can be a daughter, you can be a mother, and you can be an Olympic athlete and an Olympic medalist. Anything is possible, and age is just a number,” she told Inside Gymnastics Magazine back in May.
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Here’s a closer look at her legendary career, which includes 11 world medals and a place in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame beginning in 2017:
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She competed in her first Olympics five years before Simone Biles was born.
Oksana Chusovitina 1992 Olympics floor. This is Oksana Chusovitina 8th Olympics!! No words to describe how impressive that is. Forever an icon. Wishing Oksana the best of luck! I’m so excited to watch.
Here she is, flying her way through her balance beam routine in Barcelona, when she was just 17 years old.
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Here she is in 2004, getting ready to do her vault routine in Athens.
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Here she is just casually upside-down at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Here she is in the same Olympic Games, sticking the landing after competing on the uneven bars, like the queen she is.
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Here she is with her silver medal — an absolute icon, if I do say so myself (along with thousands of other people more knowledgeable in gymnastics than myself).
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Here, she once again defies gravity on the vault during the 2012 London Olympics.
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Here she is just absolutely killing it with her landing at the 2016 Rio Games. That’s history right there, and she knows it.
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Here she is giving a hug to Simone at the same Olympics, which is very personal to me.
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Trying to hold back tears and failing.
And finally, here she is at this year’s Olympics. Her. Last. One.
We will miss you dearly, Oksana!
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Recently Pastor Jamal Bryant made headlines after he made comments about recently deceased Youtuber Kevin Samuels during one of his sermons. Not all folks were here for what he had to say, and it seems like Pastor Bryant heard folks loud and clear as he followed up with a public apology to Kevin’s family.
As previously reported, during one of his sermons, Bryant said, “To men who have no authority. How can a man say that you are of low value after 35-years-old? How can a man say that you do not have the level of traction of a high-powered man when that man has got to get a GoFundMe for his funeral?”
His words rubbed some people the wrong way, including Omarion, who stepped into The Shade Room to speak out against his comments.
Jamal later returned to his pulpit to issue an apology to the Samuels family this past Sunday. He shared a clip from his church service where he said,
“So not in a quiet place, but from the same pulpit in which I said it, I wanted to address it. Everybody wants to be an adult until its time to apologize, I am a full-grown adult, and I take full accountability of everything that I say, and everything that I do. So I wanted to take a moment and apologize to the Samuels family. I wanted to apologize to the larger community. I wanted to apologize to my noble brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi Faternity Incorporated. Hear this, an apology is only messed up if you match it with an excuse.”
He also said in his caption, “I extend my deepest condolences and apologies to #kevinsamuels family and friends. Thank you to all who purposed to keep me accountable. We grow from mistakes and birth maturity. Humility will always defeat arrogance. We grow as we go!”
When it comes to the GoFundMe campaign that Pastor Bryant referred to in his first sermon, it turns out that he was started by an imposter. TMZ reports that Kevin Samuels’ family says they were offered the money by the person who started the campaign, but they said that they won’t be accepting it.
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Picture this: You voiced a beloved character in one of the most successful Disney animated musicals of all time. So, you know the words to all the big songs, right? Not if you’re Josh Gad.
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During an appearance on Good Morning America, the actor — who, as you probably know, is the voice of everyone’s favorite snowman, Olaf — admitted that he doesn’t know the lyrics to the movie’s BIG song, “Let It Go.”
People all over the world know “Let It Go” — but Josh doesn’t.
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OK, so here’s where things get messy: Last month, he appeared on stage with Frozen costars Kristen Bell and Santino Fontana at a Carnegie Hall event honoring songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez — who, you guessed it, wrote “Let It Go.”
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“There was a little monitor, but everybody was like, ‘Yeah, Josh, just move over, you know it already, we don’t even need this,'” he said.
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“I’ve got the mic, and I’m doing, ‘The stars are bright, and the mountains are light, and you know that things are nice,’ just making up lyrics,” he continued.
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“Not a single word was correct. It was a disaster. And of course — this is a true story — I had the only working mic on the stage.” Yikes.
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“People assume that because I’m in Frozen that I know the lyrics to ‘Let It Go,'” he also correctly asserted, before clarifying that he, indeed, does not.
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Maybe we’re being too hard on Josh. I mean, if Idina Menzel — who, among other things, is famous for singing “Let It Go” — didn’t know the words…now that would be bad.