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Article: GYMNASTICS; MEN'S AND WOMEN'S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP; What are the men to do? Though its participants remain among the best in the world, U.S. men's gymnastics faces several perplexing dilemmas.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 16, 2006
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Byline: Jay Weiner; Staff Writer
When he was a little boy - a very little boy - Micah Elofson performed his first trick. His parents quickly figured he had the right stuff to be a gymnast.
"He was three months old," said Rod Elofson, his dad. "My wife [Sonja] had him laying on her lap. She had a hold of his hand. All of a sudden he did one of these" - and Rod Elofson made a flipping-twisting movement with his hands - "and landed with both feet on the floor." Today, 16 years later, Micah Elofson still sticks his landings. He's Minnesota's best young gymnast and third all-around among U.S. junior gymnasts. At this week's Visa Championships, the U.S. ...