I was stunned by how beautiful it was-like ballet meets figure skater meets gymnast meets gorgeous stripper.
Before Jones, Olympic heroines tended to be diminutive figure skaters and gymnasts.
Weight control is an issue dancers share with female gymnasts, figure skaters, marathoners and divers, who strive for lean, lithe bodies.
Shep Goldberg, a longtime agent of figure skaters and gymnasts, said the United States would not go into Vancouver without a female skater who had been anointed the next big thing.
The closest analogy to Delle Donne may be gymnasts, figure skaters and tennis players who quit their sports as teenagers after becoming too consumed at a young age, said Steven Ungerleider, a sports psychologist from Eugene, Ore., who has counseled athletes from high school to the Olympic level.
Girl sports prodigies are stock characters, too, though the athletes have tended to be gymnasts, figure skaters or swimmers, kids who excel at what Côté calls "closed sports — sports in which you learn a very specific skill and competitors don't try to prevent you from performing that skill".
She is a figure skater, not a gymnast.
I found that you have to get used to a new body, just like gymnasts and figure skaters do.
As an unintended consequence, ski jumping -- which permits only men to compete in the Olympics -- became troubled by athletes with extremely low body weight and eating disorders more commonly attributed to female gymnasts and figure skaters.
Her event and others will provide girls with a chance to see mature women competing, Ellerbe noted, in contrast to the prepubescent images of gymnasts and figure skaters frequently broadcast at the Summer and Winter Games.
