Martha Karolyi News

If the U.S. women's gymnastics team is looking for a mascot, they might consider the Six Million Dollar Man.

Now the 16-year-old Nitro native and Huntington High School junior is one of the rising stars.

LONDON, Great Britain, Oct. 16, 2009 Bridget Sloan of Pittsboro, Ind., won the women's all-around title at the 2009 World Championships at The O2 Arena in London, Great Britain, finishing just 0.050 ahead of teammate Rebecca Bross of Plano, Texas.

Bridget Sloan wore gold, Rebecca Bross wore silver. The big winner? The United States.

Bridget Sloan edged American teammate Rebecca Bross for the title at the world gymnastics championships on Friday It couldn't have been closer, with the difference being Bross' fall on her final tumbling pass on the floor, the last event.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 11, 2009 2009's third episode of "USA Gymnastics: Behind the Team" takes fans inside the men's and women's World Team Camps as members of the U.S national team prepare for their shot to wear the red, white and blue at the 2009 Artistic Gymnastics World Championship in London, site of the 2012 Olympic Games.

Olympic team silver medalist Chellsie Memmel withdrew from the final selection process for the U.S. women's team for the 2009 world gymnastics championships.

Four young female gymnasts from the Hawaiian Island Twisters Gym qualified for the USA Gymnastics National Talent Opportunity Program-TOPs, a national competition designed to find the nation's top young gymnasts.

Ten months ago, when Mackenzie Caquatto had her first invitation to the elite athlete camps at the Karolyi ranch outside Houston, it would be one of the rare times her gymnastics career would be separated from that of her younger sister, Bridgette.

13-18, in London, England. The first selection camp for the women's team is slated to start on Sept.

Olympic champion Nastia Liukin ran out of time. Liukin withdrew her name from considerationfor the world gymnastics championships Monday, saying she hasn't had enough time to train.

They're going to hold all-around gymnastics competitions without Nastia Liukin or Shawn Johnson.

DALLAS - It's hard to overlook Bridget Sloan anymore. A national title can do that for a woman.

Shawn. Nastia. Mary Lou. And with a few more nights like Saturday, maybe we'll know America's newest national champion simply as Bridget.

Twelve-year-old Kyla Ross won the junior national title Saturday, a victory that sets her up as one of the young women to watch for the next four years.

Olympian Mary Lou Retton is returning home to Fairmont from Houston this week as her husband takes a job coaching college football.

She has walked the red carpets, worn the gold medals. Yet maybe the best picture of how Olympic champion Nastia Liukin got where she is was a scene at a national training camp earlier this year.

She has walked the red carpets, worn the gold medals. Yet maybe the best picture of how Olympic champion Nastia Liukin got where she is was a scene at a national training camp earlier this year.

She has walked the red carpets, worn the gold medals. Yet maybe the best picture of how Olympic champion Nastia Liukin got where she is was a scene at a national training camp earlier this year.

Olympian Mary Lou Retton is returning home to Fairmont this week as her husband takes a job coaching college football.