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| name = Kosta Koufos<br />Κώστας Κουφός |
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|fullname = Carly Rae Patterson |
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| weight_lb = 265 |
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|country = {{USA}} |
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| league = [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] |
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| team = [[Utah Jazz]] |
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|birthdate = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1988|2|4}} |
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| number = 41 |
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|birthplace = [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]] |
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1989|2|24}} |
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|hometown = [[Allen, Texas|Allen]], [[Texas]] |
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| nationality = [[United States|American]] |
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| nationality_2 = [[Greece|Greek]] |
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| highschool = [[GlenOak High School|GlenOak]], Canton |
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|discipline = WAG |
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| college = [[Ohio State University|Ohio State]] |
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|level = Senior Elite |
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| draft = 23rd overall |
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| draft_year = 2008 |
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|club = [[World Olympic Gym Academy]] |
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| draft_team = Utah Jazz |
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| career_start = 2008 |
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|headcoach = Evgeny Marchenko |
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| awards = 2007 [[FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship]] MVP<br>[[2008 National Invitation Tournament]] MVP |
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|assistcoach = Natasha Boyarskaya |
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|choreographer = Tatiana Shegolkova |
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|eponymousskills= Patterson (balance beam) |
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|retired = 2006 |
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]]|[[Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's artistic individual all-around|All-around]]}} |
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{{MedalSilver|2004 Athens|[[Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's artistic team all-around|Team competition]]}} |
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{{MedalSilver|2004 Athens|[[Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's balance beam| Balance beam]]}} |
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{{MedalCompetition|[[World Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]}} |
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{{MedalGold|[[2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|2003 Anaheim]]|Team competition}} |
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{{MedalSilver|[[2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|2003 Anaheim]]|All Around}} |
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'''Konstantine Demetrios “Kosta” Koufos''' ([[Greek language|in Greek:]] {{lang|el|Κώστας Κουφός}} or ''{{lang|el-Latn|Kóstas Koufós}}'', born on [[February 24]], [[1989]] in [[Canton, Ohio|Canton]], [[Ohio]], [[United States|U.S.]]) is a [[Greek American]] professional basketball player. He was selected by the [[Utah Jazz]] with the 23rd overall pick in the [[2008 NBA Draft]]. Koufos played basketball for [[Ohio State University]] for one year before declaring for the [[2008 NBA Draft]]. Koufos holds [[dual citizenship]] of both the [[United States]] and [[Greece]], but has chosen to play for the [[Greece national basketball team|Greek national team]]. |
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| Instrument = [[Singing|Vocals]] |
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| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]<br>[[Pop music|Pop]] |
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| Occupation = [[Musician]], [[Sportsperson|Athlete]] |
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| Years_active = 2007—present |
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| Label = [[MusicMind Records]] |
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| URL = [http://www.carlypatterson.org CarlyPatterson.org] |
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'''Carly Rae Patterson''' (born February 4, 1988 in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]) is an American former [[gymnast]]. She is the 2004 Olympic All-Around Champion. She currently lives in [[Allen, Texas|Allen]], [[Texas]]. |
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==Biography== |
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== High school career == |
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=== Pre-Olympic career === |
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Koufos attended [[GlenOak High School]] in [[Canton, Ohio|Canton]], [[Ohio]]. He was a McDonald's All-American as a senior, and ranked #3 center of the 2007 high school class by ''[[Rivals.com]]''.<ref>[http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=1437 Rivals.com 2007 center ranking]</ref> He also played for the AAU team sponsored by [[LeBron James]]. |
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Patterson was at a cousin's birthday party at Baton Rouge's Elite Gymnastics club in 1994 when coach Johnny Moyal (a three-time Olympian for [[Israel]]) saw her and asked her mother if she was taking lessons.<ref>[http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/olympics/2004/topstories/stories/081704dnspoolypatterson.4f88.html Texas Cable News: Gymnast's world full of determination, dreams]</ref> When her mother said no, Moyal was amazed at her natural talent. Carly then began taking lessons. In 2000, Patterson participated in the [[Top Gym Tournament]] in [[Belgium]]; she won the silver medal in the all-around and the bronze medal for [[balance beam]], which she has said is her favorite event. |
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At the 2001 [[Goodwill Games]] in [[Brisbane, Australia]], she was ranked second in the all-around before the final rotation. She was suffering from a stomach illness, however, and she missed three landings on the floor exercise and finished seventh overall. Nevertheless, her balance beam routine was particularly spectacular, featuring what would become her signature double Arabian dismount (later to be named "the Patterson"). |
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In 2007, Koufos finished second to Buckeye teammate Jon Diebler in the Mr. Ohio Basketball voting. During his senior season with GlenOak, Koufos was named the Division I player of the year and was first-team all-state. He also earned first-team Northeast Inland all-district honors. |
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Patterson was named the U.S. Junior National All-Around champion in 2002. She had previously received fourth place in 2000 and third place in 2001. By this time, she was largely considered the future of American gymnasts and a viable candidate for the 2004 Olympic All-Around title. From 2002 onward, she would continue to win nearly every All-Around event she entered. She was forced to sit out the 2003 U.S. National Championships because of a broken elbow (a big disappointment for Patterson, as this was to be her first senior nationals). At the 2003 World Gymnastics Championships in [[Anaheim, California]], she earned the all-around silver medal —the first time an American woman had won an all-around medal at that competition since 1994. She also helped her team to earn the team gold medal. It appeared Patterson would once again fight it out with Russia's Svetlana Khorkina in Athens. |
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The 2007 McDonald’s and EA Sports All-American, Koufos averaged 25.9 points, 15.4 rebounds and 5.2 blocks per game. He was instrumental in GlenOak snapping [[Canton McKinley High School|Canton McKinley’s]] 41-game win streak in January 2007 when he posted 32 points, 19 rebounds and 10 blocks to help the Golden Eagles edge the Bulldogs, 56-55, in overtime. The next day, Koufos recorded 32 points, 15 rebounds and seven blocks against [[Detroit Country Day School|Detroit Country Day]], the No. 2 team in the state of Michigan, to lead GlenOak to its ninth-consecutive victory. |
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Patterson won the all around at the prestigious American Cup competition in both 2003 and 2004. (This event helped to launch Nadia Comaneci's career before the Olympics in 1976.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}) In 2003, Patterson was the youngest competitor, having just turned 15, and it was her first major senior competition. In 2004, she swept the meet, winning all four events and the all around, collecting a total of $14,000 for her wins ($10,000 for the all around, $1,000 per event). |
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As a junior, Koufos averaged 24 points, 11.1 rebounds and four blocks per game and was named second-team all-state. |
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In 2004, she became a co-champion with [[Courtney Kupets]] in the all-around event at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships. She also won the floor exercise and placed second on balance beam. |
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In April 2007, Koufos was a member of the Royal team in the Jordan All-American Classic in Madison Square Garden. |
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At the 2004 Olympic trials, Patterson had two uncharacteristic falls on balance beam over the course of two days, dropping her to third place. Although she did not earn an automatic Olympic berth at this competition, her successful performances at the training camp following trials were more than enough to place her on the team. Few doubted that she was a huge contender for the Olympic All-Around title. |
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== College career == |
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In 2007, Koufos joined the [[Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball|Ohio State Buckeyes]], where he replaced [[Greg Oden]] at center. He also turned down a multi-million dollar offer by [[Olympiacos BC]], a [[A1 Ethniki|Greek League]] basketball club.<ref>[http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=285793 SportingNews: Koufos is Ohio State's Oden encore]</ref> He was named MVP of the [[2008 National Invitation Tournament|2008]] [[National Invitation Tournament|NIT]] after leading the Buckeyes to the championship by defeating [[UMass Minutemen basketball|UMass]] 92-85. |
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=== 2004 Summer Olympics === |
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At the conclusion of his freshman year at Ohio State, Koufos averaged 14.4 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 1.8 blocks per game. He scored a total of 534 points, 66 of them coming from behind the arc. |
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At the [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Olympic Games]] in [[Athens]], Patterson competed as an all-around athlete and delivered outstanding performances in the preliminary competition, finishing first overall, qualifying for the all-around and balance beam finals. In the team finals, Carly did not perform as well she did in the preliminaries. She under-rotated her vault, stubbed the low bar with her foot, and her beam routine was marred by wobbles and a lunge forward on the dismount: only on floor did Carly perform as well as she was capable of. She later admitted that she was more nervous than she had previously been in the competition. The U.S. team made other mistakes, such as [[Courtney Kupets]] costly missed turn on floor, and came away with the silver medal after having been favorites for gold. |
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In the Individual All-Around, Carly was back to her best and the competition proved to be the much-anticipated battle between Carly and legend [[Svetlana Khorkina]]. After scoring lower than usual on the vault (9.375), Carly was stronger on her last three events, scoring 9.575 on uneven bars, 9.725 on the balance beam, and 9.712 on the floor exercise. She won the gold medal, an achievement that had only been attained by one other American gymnast, [[Mary Lou Retton]], exactly twenty years before during the [[1984 Summer Olympics|1984 summer games]]. Carly became the first American woman to ever win the Olympic All-Around title in a fully attended Olympic Games. |
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==NBA career== |
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On [[April 21]], [[2008]], Koufos declared himself eligible for the [[2008 NBA Draft]], but initially chose not to hire an [[sports agent|agent]]; this would have allowed him to return to Ohio State if he withdrew from the draft on or before the [[June 16]] withdrawal deadline. However, at the same time, it was speculated that he would leave the Buckeyes anyway to sign a professional contract in Greece.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/8056224/Buckeyes'-Koufos-will-declare,-won't-hire-agent |title=Buckeyes' Koufos will declare, won't hire agent |first=Jeff |last=Goodman |publisher=''[[Fox Sports (USA)|FoxSports.com]]'' |date=[[2008-04-21]] |accessdate=2008-04-22}}</ref> On [[May 8]], the ''[[Canton Repository]]'' reported that Koufos signed with Cleveland-based agent [[Mark Termini]], thereby ending his college eligibility.<ref>[http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=17&ID=411404&subCategoryID=30 Koufos hires Cleveland-based agent]</ref> |
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On August 23, 2004 she competed in the finals for the [[Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics#Women's Balance Beam|beam event]] where she received a score of 9.775 and won the silver medal behind [[Catalina Ponor]] of [[Romania]]. |
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Koufos was selected by the [[NBA]] team the [[Utah Jazz]] with the 23rd overall pick in the [[2008 NBA Draft]]. |
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Leading up to the [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Olympic Games]], she was prepared by her two former [[Soviet]] coaches: the famous Russian [[Acrobatics|acrobat]] [[Evgeny Marchenko]], who immigrated to the United States from [[Latvia]] after the [[Collapse of the Soviet Union]], and [[Natalya Boyarskaya]]. |
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== International career == |
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Koufos was a member of the Greek junior national team at the 2007 [[FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship]] in [[Spain]]. He led his team to the final game and although Greece lost to Serbia, Koufos won the tournament's [[MVP]] award after leading the competition in points, rebounds and blocked shots.<ref>[http://www.fibaeurope-u18men.com/en/default.asp?coid={E86B7310-B1A7-41B0-BD1E-4BB884CF96EA}&articleMode=on FIBA Europe: Koufos Named MVP]</ref> Koufos is considered the top Greek basketball talent since [[Efthimios Rentzias]], who was named the [[MVP]] of the 1995 [[FIBA Under-21 World Championship]]. |
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=== After Athens === |
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Soon after the Olympic games ended, it was discovered that Carly had a couple of bulging disks in her lower back. The problem had apparently been festering for years, but had somehow gone without notice. Carly announced after the injury was made public that she would be taking some time off from gymnastics to nurse the injury. Even at full health, Carly would not have been able to train as intensely after the Olympics as she did before because of her new tight schedule. |
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Koufos is the son of Katerina and the late Alex Koufos. He has one brother, Vasilios, and a sister, Maria. |
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Carly Patterson has done the talk show circuit and has made numerous guest appearances since the Athens Games. Although some hoped that she would return to full training to defend her all-around gold, Patterson decided in 2006 she would not plan to participate in the [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Olympic Games]] and would retire from Gymnastics. Her coach said in a TV interview{{Fact|date=February 2007}}, "It's hard to top an All-Around Gold." |
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She has stayed occupied with event appearances, gymnastics-related and otherwise. She has also landed a number of high profile corporate sponsorships; she appeared in a Mobile ESPN commercial aired during Super Bowl XL. She also has finished her authorized [[biography]], which was released in April 2006. |
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==== ''Celebrity Duets'' TV show ==== |
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On August 29, 2006, she started her appearance on the show ''[[Celebrity Duets]]''. The program was a [[reality show]] executive produced by [[Simon Cowell]] of ''[[American Idol]]'' fame. Celebrities not known for singing were teamed up with professional singers; one of the eight celebrities was voted off each week. The show aired every Thursday on FOX with a results show each Friday, from September 7, 2006 to October 13, 2006. |
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On September 8, 2006, during the "results" show, she joined [[Cheech Marin]] and [[Lea Thompson]] in the bottom three. The audience, however, spared Patterson from elimination to continue competing the next week on Thursday, September 14. |
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On September 15, 2006, during the "results" show, Carly Patterson was eliminated from the competition (singing a duet with [[Jesse McCartney]]). Patterson said that she would continue to sing. She also encouraged the audience to continue voting for the remaining celebrities because the cause is charity. |
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==== Music career ==== |
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First announced in a March 2005 interview, Patterson has expressed interest in becoming a professional singer. On August 21, 2005, she gave an interview on FOX Sports Net's Sports Sunday in which she gave more details on her future career. She sang a small segment of "Damaged" and said that she went to [[New York City]] to record the demo. On December 18, 2005, she announced that she signed a demo contract for four songs with Papa Joe's Records, owned by [[Joe Simpson (manager)|Joe Simpson]], father of [[Jessica Simpson|Jessica]] and [[Ashlee Simpson]]. She worked with singer and writer Chris Megert. They wrote and produced songs titled "Time to Wake Up" and "Lost in Me". The demo contract with Papa Joe Records has since expired. |
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On February 4, 2008, Carly signed a recording contract with MusicMind Records, a [[Chicago]] based Indie label. Her new single ''[[Temporary Life (Ordinary Girl)]]'' was released on March 25, 2008. Her debut album (title unknown) was scheduled for release August 5, 2008, coincidentally, the same week as the start of the [[2008 Olympic Games]] in [[Beijing]]. The CD did not release on the day it was supposed to. Carly is still working on it and it may come out soon. |
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On September 10, 2008, a remixed version of Carly's Temporary Life single was played on the [[Bobby Bones Show]]. The mixed version featured the new artist, Captain Caucasian (Bobby Bones's rapper [[pseudonym]]). |
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== External links == |
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*[http://www.carlypatterson.org/ Official Web Site] |
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*{{youtube|q1PoFEVY4zo|Koufos' highlights from 2007 Under-18 Euro}} |
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*{{ fig | id=5614 | name=Carly Patterson}} |
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*[http://www.nba.com/draft2008/profiles/KostaKoufos.html NBA.com draft 2008 profile] |
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*[http://www.carlypattersononline.com Official Fan Site] |
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*[http://www.carlypattersonmusic.com Official Music Page] |
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== See also == |
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* [[United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics]] |
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{{2008 NBA Draft}} |
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| Full name | Carly Rae Patterson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Allen, Texas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 152 cm (5 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior Elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | World Olympic Gym Academy | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Evgeny Marchenko | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Natasha Boyarskaya | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Tatiana Shegolkova | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Patterson (balance beam) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Carly Rae Patterson (born February 4, 1988 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American former gymnast. She is the 2004 Olympic All-Around Champion. She currently lives in Allen, Texas.
Biography
Pre-Olympic career
Patterson was at a cousin's birthday party at Baton Rouge's Elite Gymnastics club in 1994 when coach Johnny Moyal (a three-time Olympian for Israel) saw her and asked her mother if she was taking lessons.[1] When her mother said no, Moyal was amazed at her natural talent. Carly then began taking lessons. In 2000, Patterson participated in the Top Gym Tournament in Belgium; she won the silver medal in the all-around and the bronze medal for balance beam, which she has said is her favorite event.
At the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, she was ranked second in the all-around before the final rotation. She was suffering from a stomach illness, however, and she missed three landings on the floor exercise and finished seventh overall. Nevertheless, her balance beam routine was particularly spectacular, featuring what would become her signature double Arabian dismount (later to be named "the Patterson").
Patterson was named the U.S. Junior National All-Around champion in 2002. She had previously received fourth place in 2000 and third place in 2001. By this time, she was largely considered the future of American gymnasts and a viable candidate for the 2004 Olympic All-Around title. From 2002 onward, she would continue to win nearly every All-Around event she entered. She was forced to sit out the 2003 U.S. National Championships because of a broken elbow (a big disappointment for Patterson, as this was to be her first senior nationals). At the 2003 World Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, California, she earned the all-around silver medal —the first time an American woman had won an all-around medal at that competition since 1994. She also helped her team to earn the team gold medal. It appeared Patterson would once again fight it out with Russia's Svetlana Khorkina in Athens.
Patterson won the all around at the prestigious American Cup competition in both 2003 and 2004. (This event helped to launch Nadia Comaneci's career before the Olympics in 1976.[citation needed]) In 2003, Patterson was the youngest competitor, having just turned 15, and it was her first major senior competition. In 2004, she swept the meet, winning all four events and the all around, collecting a total of $14,000 for her wins ($10,000 for the all around, $1,000 per event).
In 2004, she became a co-champion with Courtney Kupets in the all-around event at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships. She also won the floor exercise and placed second on balance beam.
At the 2004 Olympic trials, Patterson had two uncharacteristic falls on balance beam over the course of two days, dropping her to third place. Although she did not earn an automatic Olympic berth at this competition, her successful performances at the training camp following trials were more than enough to place her on the team. Few doubted that she was a huge contender for the Olympic All-Around title.
2004 Summer Olympics
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Patterson competed as an all-around athlete and delivered outstanding performances in the preliminary competition, finishing first overall, qualifying for the all-around and balance beam finals. In the team finals, Carly did not perform as well she did in the preliminaries. She under-rotated her vault, stubbed the low bar with her foot, and her beam routine was marred by wobbles and a lunge forward on the dismount: only on floor did Carly perform as well as she was capable of. She later admitted that she was more nervous than she had previously been in the competition. The U.S. team made other mistakes, such as Courtney Kupets costly missed turn on floor, and came away with the silver medal after having been favorites for gold.
In the Individual All-Around, Carly was back to her best and the competition proved to be the much-anticipated battle between Carly and legend Svetlana Khorkina. After scoring lower than usual on the vault (9.375), Carly was stronger on her last three events, scoring 9.575 on uneven bars, 9.725 on the balance beam, and 9.712 on the floor exercise. She won the gold medal, an achievement that had only been attained by one other American gymnast, Mary Lou Retton, exactly twenty years before during the 1984 summer games. Carly became the first American woman to ever win the Olympic All-Around title in a fully attended Olympic Games.
On August 23, 2004 she competed in the finals for the beam event where she received a score of 9.775 and won the silver medal behind Catalina Ponor of Romania.
Leading up to the 2004 Olympic Games, she was prepared by her two former Soviet coaches: the famous Russian acrobat Evgeny Marchenko, who immigrated to the United States from Latvia after the Collapse of the Soviet Union, and Natalya Boyarskaya.
After Athens
Soon after the Olympic games ended, it was discovered that Carly had a couple of bulging disks in her lower back. The problem had apparently been festering for years, but had somehow gone without notice. Carly announced after the injury was made public that she would be taking some time off from gymnastics to nurse the injury. Even at full health, Carly would not have been able to train as intensely after the Olympics as she did before because of her new tight schedule.
Carly Patterson has done the talk show circuit and has made numerous guest appearances since the Athens Games. Although some hoped that she would return to full training to defend her all-around gold, Patterson decided in 2006 she would not plan to participate in the 2008 Olympic Games and would retire from Gymnastics. Her coach said in a TV interview[citation needed], "It's hard to top an All-Around Gold."
She has stayed occupied with event appearances, gymnastics-related and otherwise. She has also landed a number of high profile corporate sponsorships; she appeared in a Mobile ESPN commercial aired during Super Bowl XL. She also has finished her authorized biography, which was released in April 2006.
Celebrity Duets TV show
On August 29, 2006, she started her appearance on the show Celebrity Duets. The program was a reality show executive produced by Simon Cowell of American Idol fame. Celebrities not known for singing were teamed up with professional singers; one of the eight celebrities was voted off each week. The show aired every Thursday on FOX with a results show each Friday, from September 7, 2006 to October 13, 2006.
On September 8, 2006, during the "results" show, she joined Cheech Marin and Lea Thompson in the bottom three. The audience, however, spared Patterson from elimination to continue competing the next week on Thursday, September 14.
On September 15, 2006, during the "results" show, Carly Patterson was eliminated from the competition (singing a duet with Jesse McCartney). Patterson said that she would continue to sing. She also encouraged the audience to continue voting for the remaining celebrities because the cause is charity.
Music career
First announced in a March 2005 interview, Patterson has expressed interest in becoming a professional singer. On August 21, 2005, she gave an interview on FOX Sports Net's Sports Sunday in which she gave more details on her future career. She sang a small segment of "Damaged" and said that she went to New York City to record the demo. On December 18, 2005, she announced that she signed a demo contract for four songs with Papa Joe's Records, owned by Joe Simpson, father of Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. She worked with singer and writer Chris Megert. They wrote and produced songs titled "Time to Wake Up" and "Lost in Me". The demo contract with Papa Joe Records has since expired.
On February 4, 2008, Carly signed a recording contract with MusicMind Records, a Chicago based Indie label. Her new single Temporary Life (Ordinary Girl) was released on March 25, 2008. Her debut album (title unknown) was scheduled for release August 5, 2008, coincidentally, the same week as the start of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The CD did not release on the day it was supposed to. Carly is still working on it and it may come out soon.
On September 10, 2008, a remixed version of Carly's Temporary Life single was played on the Bobby Bones Show. The mixed version featured the new artist, Captain Caucasian (Bobby Bones's rapper pseudonym).
Notes
External links
- Official Web Site
- Carly Patterson at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Official Fan Site
- Official Music Page
See also
- 1988 births
- Living people
- American artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- People from Louisiana
- People from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area
- Olympic gymnasts of the United States
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States
- Medalists at World Gymnastics Championships