Alicia Sacramone Is Hot
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August 13th, 2008
The Olympics just got interesting and it’s in the form of 21 year old Alicia Sacramone!
The Olympics might not be for everyone! But there’s one thing about it that has got web surfers going crazy and it’s in the form of 21 year old Alicia Sacramone.
Alicia makes up part of this years American Olympic Gymnastics team, and has already hit the headlines all over the globe for her physique and good looks.
Alicia may have fallen on her back and lost the gold medal, but that hasn’t dampened the spirits of her adoring fans.
In the end Alicia and her fellow American gymnasts fell to the Chinese “women”, to win the Silver medal at this years Summer Olympics.
Alicia Sacramone has been competing seriously for 12 of her 20 years. She’s the winner of 7 world championship medals in all, and now she can add Olympic Silver medallist to her long list of accomplishments in the sport.
So it’s safe to say this isn’t the last we have seen of Alicia!
Alicia Sacramone was born on December 3rd, 1987. She hails from Boston, Massachusetts. It’s been said that she started in gymnastics after she was doing cartwheels in a local shopping mall in Massachusetts. She qualified as an elite gymnast in 2000. She would place 7th in the All Around at the 2002 US Classic and 14th at the Senior Nationals in 2003.
In 2004, she was a member of the team that competed at the Pacific Alliance competition and won the Gold. Unfortunately, Alicia failed to qualify for the Olympics that year, after she had several mishaps at the nationals competition. This didn’t stop Alicia, even after missing the Olympic team, as she trained very hard the summer of 2004 and would go on to the World Cup finals, where she would win the Gold in the Vault Final.
In 2005, she qualified for the finals in Vault and Floor Exercise at the World championships in Melbourne, Australia. She would win the Bronze in the Vault Final, and would win the Gold in the Floor Exercise.
In 2006, she competed in the 2006 World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark. Unfortunately, she would be disqualified from the floor final after being deducted .5 for a pause in her leap combination. She did win the silver in the Vault final and helped her team win the silver medal.
Alicia is now enrolled at Brown University and is part of the gymnastics team there. She is hoping to be part of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Team.
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