Aly Raisman Wins Gold Medal

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Jewish Gymnast Wins for 'Hava Nagila' Floor Routine

American Aly Raisman won the women’s floor exercise title in the final artistic gymnastics event at the London Games on Tuesday after defending champion Sandra Izbasa fell on her last tumble.

Raisman added gold to the bronze she had earned for the balance beam 90 minutes earlier and the team gold she helped the United States to win a week ago...

The 18-year-old Raisman, who turned out to be the U.S. team’s most successful woman at the Games, produced a top-quality routine, accompanied by music from a Hebrew folk song that had the crowd at North Greenwich Arena clapping along...

source: http://forward.com/articles/160635/a...ns-gold-medal/

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Aly Raisman coming to Israel for a visit with her family!

When American sports superstars celebrate victory, they traditionally go to Disneyland.

But gold-medal winning gymnast Aly Raisman will celebrate in Jerusalem after she told Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein on Friday that she would accept his invitation to her and her family to make their first visit to Israel...

When asked why she chose to perform to “Hava Nagila,” she said she was proud to be Jewish and she wanted to represent her heritage at the Olympics. She said that while she did not choose the song in honor of the 11 Israeli sportsmen who were murdered at the Munich Olympics in 1972, she dedicated her medals to them and she would have stood for a moment of silence in their memory had the International Olympic Committee accepted requests for such a gesture...

source: http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/Jew...aspx?id=280808