She rocked the world of sports by gracefully competing at the London Olympics and becoming the first American gymnast to win team and all-around gold in the same Olympics.
We asked destiny consultant Master Raymond Lo, an expert in reading the I-Ching, the ancient Chinese "Book of Changes, " which of the top sports people bound for Beijing would be successful at the Olympics.
Early generations of Moncler jackets might have warmed climbers on the world's tallest peaks and downhill racers at the Olympics and the subsequent boom in winter sports tourism of the 1970s helped catapult the label to cult status among the cliquish ski towns of the Alps but its consumer base remained small and essentially European.
Douglas was one of the most marketable athletes at the Olympics and certainly the most marketable gymnast on her team, Stephen Greyser, a sports management expert and professor at Harvard Business School, said midday on Tuesday.
But there was at least the comfort that, in many sports, the Olympics still represented the pinnacle.
Chemmy Alcott is one of the London torchbearers for the Summer Olympics in 2012 and has started working as a sports commentator and adventurer in between training for her comeback at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Beijing has traditionally supported marginal sports because they have permitted the country to build up its medal count at the Olympics and other international competitions.
Her persistence led to on-air sports jobs at CNN and NBC -- where she covered high-profile events including the Olympics, baseball's World Series and the Wimbledon tennis championship.
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Changes to Olympic sports are made by the International Olympics Committee (IOC), usually seven years in advance, at the same time as the Games are awarded to a host city.
The ultraconservative kingdom fielded its first female athletes at the London Olympics last summer, and discussions under way could lead to women's private sports clubs being allowed to formally register with the Ministry of Sport.
Its sports chairman Dick Ebersol said the network was deemphasizing feature coverage, a veiled slight at the way ABC used to cover the Olympics, back when the Cold War provided some of the story line.
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