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Champion gymnast Dos Santos confirmed for Pan Am Games (Peo
Champion gymnast Dos Santos confirmed for Pan Am Games (People's Daily) Brazil's gymnastics national team's head coach confirmed on Wednesday that Daiane dos Santos will participate in the Pan American Games, following a level-one torsion on her right ankle suffered on July 6. Coach Oleg Ostapenko said tha ... Publish Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:12:28 GMT Read more...
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The two floor skills Daiane dos Santos has named after her called Dos Santos are the piked and the laid-out double arabian somersaults (that 2nd one is called Dos Santos II). [quote]Renowned for her difficult tumbling, Dos Santos is unusual in gymnastics because she did not take up the sport until the age of 11[/quote] Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiane_dos_Santos for more about Dos Santos, like how at age 20 she won the floor world title at the 2003 Worlds in Anaheim, USA and also at the 2004 World Cup, over Catalina Ponor and Cheng Fei, as well as other wins.
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