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  Vitaly Scherbo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vitaly Scherbo (or Shcherbo), born January 13, 1972 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, is a Belarusian (and former Soviet) gymnast and is one of the most successful male gymnasts of all time.
Scherbo was introduced to gymnastics at the age of seven by his mother in an attempt to channel the energy of her highly intelligent but uncontrollable young son.
Scherbo's first international performances were in 1990-1991, when he competed for the USSR team at the World Championship and the World Cup.
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 Vitaly Scherbo, Famous Gymnasts, Vitaly Scherbo, Olympic Gold Medalist
Scherbo represented the former USSR in the World Championships and the World Cup in the 1990-'91 season.
Scherbo was the all-round silver medalist in the 1991 World championships.
Scherbo won the first Olympic title of his career in the team event.
www.mapsofworld.com /olympics/great-olympians/gymnastics/vitaly-scherbo.html   (477 words)

  
 Images - Finding the Pulse of Athletic Human Drama
Scherbo was competing only months after his wife, Irina, nearly died in an auto wreck on her way to the hairdressers.
She had one chance in a hundred to live." The two NBC packages on Scherbo included wrenching scenes of Irina returning to the crash site (a box of Kleenex in hand) to recount her story, and sun-lit shots of the family (they have a young daughter) walking down their safe, suburban street in Pennsylvania.
Vitaly Scherbo and his family in their new Pennsylvania hometown.
www.imagesjournal.com /issue03/features/olympics2.htm   (1006 words)

  
 Chinese Gymnast Outduels Russian
Scherbo, meanwhile, was clawing back from an early hole he had dug for himself.
Scherbo came through in the final rotation with a difficult floor routine and a 9.762 score to secure the bronze.
Scherbo seemed to blame the judging at least in part for his failure to recapture the gold, saying he thought the judges had inflated his main competitors' scores.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/07/25/SP34039.DTL&type=printable   (606 words)

  
 CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1992 Barcelona
Belarussian gymnast Vitaly Scherbo, competing for the Unified Team, stole the show with a brilliant and unexpected campaign that captured six Olympic gold medals, evoking memories of American swimmer Mark Spitz, winner of seven golds in Munich in 1972.
Scherbo was not regarded as an automatic favourite for a major medal haul.
Scherbo finished first in the pommel horse, the rings and the floor.
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 Flying High
Scherbo promptly launched blasts at both Li, whom he dislikes, and the Olympic judges, whom he blamed for the.226 points that separated him from Li.
Scherbo pulled up the rear with a bronze and criticized the scoring.
Nor did he seem especially concerned when Scherbo made the Schwarzenegger-like promise that he'll be a factor on Sunday and Monday in the individual-apparatus finals.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /events/1996/olympics/daily/july25/mgym.html   (550 words)

  
 Gymn Forum: Sport in the USSR - A Winner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It is a joy to watch Vitaly when he does routines on the apparatus.
The next day Vitaly won the gold medals not only and not so much, as it seemed to me, for himself as for the coaches who stayed home in Minsk.
Scherbo arrived at the 1989 national championship as a member of the USSR squad.
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 Lynch strikes silver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Scherbo, the top male gymnastics star in the 1992 Games in Barcelona, looked as if he might get his record-tying seventh gold after his parallel bars routine.
Scherbo congratulated Sharipov, then walked off, clasping his hands behind his head.
Scherbo was off-center as he hit the vault on his second effort, nearly missing it.
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 Scherbo's day is disappointing Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Scherbo's scores bewildered him all afternoon, and he often raised his arms after they were posted, as if to say, "What more can I do?" After the competition, he said he didn't think he deserved the gold medal, but he didn't deserve the scores he got, either.
The panel of judges was the same that put Scherbo second at the European championships in May.
Scherbo also said he thought some of his competitors' scores were inflated.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_19960725/ai_n10268267   (725 words)

  
 AEJMC Archives -- October 1997, week 2 (#43)
A favorite NBC character was gymnast Vitaly Scherbo, who was such a good story that NBC did three two-to-four-minute packages on him.
Gymnastics star Vitaly Scherbo, as commentator John Tesh related, "moved his family to America (the suburbs (and soon began living the American dream," but actually represented Belarus in the Olympics.
Like the Scherbo story, the tactic was to find athletes who had overcome incredible personal circumstances (melodramatic obstacles) on their way to the Olympics: a horrible injury that needed months of rehab, a father dying of cancer, an unfair allegation of substance abuse, a sprinter who's also a stockbroker.
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 The agony of deceit: ladies' night at the NBC Olympics - television coverage of the 1996 Olympics Humanist - Find ...
On the television screen, Vitaly Scherbo waits to perform on the rings in the men's individual all-around gymnastics competition.
Vitaly comes back on the screen in what NBC calls "plausibly live" time.
She and Vitaly's three year old daughter are going to be watching from.
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 U.S. looks for Hamm to set gold standard | The San Diego Union-Tribune
On that Wisconsin morning a few years later, however, Vitaly Scherbo struggled just to negotiate the stairs of the Hamm family home.
In an effort to inspire his sons, both budding gymnasts, Sandy Hamm had arranged for Scherbo to spend a night at their Waukesha home when the Ukrainian legend took part in a local gymnastics clinic.
Scherbo invited some of his old Soviet buddies over for shots and lies.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040813/news_1s13hamm.html   (913 words)

  
 AEJMC Archives -- October 1997, week 2 (#43)
Vitaly was presented as a likable hero, "the most decorated athlete in any sport," who, in moving to America and living in the suburbs is just like "us," the white middle class audience targeted by NBC.
In gymnastics, Vitaly Scherbo didn't perform up to expectations, as better conditioned athletes won the first two places.
In a brief post-Olympic interview with Scherbo, who was finally allowed to talk for himself, we were introduced not to a modest hero but to a sore loser who refused to wear his bronze medal as he stormed off the medal stand.
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 Amazon.com: "Vitaly Scherbo": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Wednesday, September 16, 1998 - Olympic champ opens School of Gymnastics - Las Vegas View Neighborhood Newspapers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Olympic gold medalist Vitaly Scherbo, middle, breaks ground for his new School of Gymnastics.
      Scherbo, 26, left his hometown of Minsk, Belarus, and moved to State College, Pa., nearly six years ago with his wife Irina in search of an ideal place to teach gymnastics.
Anxious to open his own club, Scherbo narrowed his choices to Phoenix and Las Vegas because of each city's rapid growth.
www.viewnews.com /1998/VIEW-Sep-16-Wed-1998/SWest/8192454.html   (551 words)

  
 Vitaly Scherbo (Directory/Male Athletes/V/Vitaly Scherbo)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The gymnast Vitaly Scherbo, who won 6 gold medals, became the national sports hero.
VITALY SCHERBO       Vitaly Scherbo, the most decorated gymnast in history, is co-owner and director of operations at the Vitaly Scherbo School of Gymnastics.  At the 1992 Olympics in...
Gymnast Vitaly Scherbo won six gold medals, including a record four in one day.
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 Fired up gymmen get help from old friend
With the support of 10-time Olympic medal winning gymnast Vitaly Scherbo, a fired up and focused Nittany Lion gymnastics team swept Syracuse Saturday night at Rec Hall.
Scherbo looked on as Penn State, led by seniors Joe Roemer, Jean Marc Michel and freshman standout Mike Dutka, dominated Syracuse in front of more than 1,000 boisterous fans.
That's why Scherbo will be advising the team at practices as well.
www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1997/01/01-27-97tdc/01-27-97d03-008.htm   (552 words)

  
 LAS VEGAS RJ:SPORTS: COLUMN: Joe Hawk
      Scherbo, his wife Irina and their 5 1/2-year-old daughter Kristina moved to Las Vegas in April 1997 because of its burgeoning population and, for its size, paucity of gymnastics clubs.
      Irina Scherbo was driving to a hair salon one day when her BMW sedan hit a patch of icy road and slid sideways into a telephone pole.
Working as a resident alien, with eligibility for U.S. citizenship in 2000, Scherbo is committing himself to helping "serious" youngsters achieve their gymnastics potential.
reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/1998/Sep-01-Tue-1998/sports/8134852.html   (708 words)

  
 IG Online Interview
The road to the 1996 Olympic Games had begun; with two years to go, Ivankov was leading the pack of medal contenders at the halfway point to the competition.
Anyway, Belarus had a good team with a lot of good guys like Vitaly Scherbo and Andrei Kan. So we still fought to make the team; it was still at a high level.
Vitaly Rudnitsky, Andrei Kan, Vitaly Scherbo, Alexander Belanovsky, and Alexander Shostak, who is my best friend.
www.intlgymnast.com /interview/ivankov_ivan.html   (3779 words)

  
 Miller leads U.S. medal haul
It wasn't so easy for another star, as Vitaly Scherbo failed to repeat his magical performance of 1992.
Scherbo looked as if he might finally have his gold after a spectacular parallel bars routine.
Scherbo had one last chance in the final event, the parallel bars, but he finished in a three-way to for bronze with Fan Bin of China and Nemov.
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 Wednesday, March 15, 2000 - Scherbo gymnasts crush competition - Las Vegas View Neighborhood Newspapers
      Vitaly Scherbo won six gold medals in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona to become the most decorated male gymnast in Olympic history.
      All four girls from Scherbo's school did nail their routines, however, to capture the crown of the national amateur meet -- in the compulsory level six -- over 12 other teams.
      John Lay, Amanda's father, is very impressed with the Vitaly Scherbo School of Gymnastics.
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 Gymnastics Predictions/Men   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Chabaev, the younger talent, has been more consistent than the great Scherbo of late.
Hatakeda's tumbling passes are the most athletic, but Scherbo's are still the most polished and best to watch.
Long a stronghold of the Asian countries, the continent may even sweep if Scherbo falters.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/sports/oly/spc/3/gym/mgympred.0-0.html   (101 words)

  
 Scherbo Misses Record With Bronzes
ATLANTA -- Vitaly Scherbo has two new gymnastics medals -- neither of them the color he wanted.
Scherbo won bronze medals Monday night in the men's vault and parallel bars, failing anew in his quest for a record seventh gold medal.
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 Gymn Forum: Vitaly Scherbo Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Vitaly was born on January 13, 1972, in Minsk.
Scherbo won 6 individual gold medals at the 1992 Olympic Games -- a record.
He owns and runs the Vitaly Scherbo School of Gymnastics.
www.gymn-forum.com /bios/men/scherbo.html   (327 words)

  
 Scherbo Vitaly - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Scherbo Vitaly - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Korotych, Vitaly Alekseyevich (quotations): Politicians: Gorbachev is a president without…
Help with Spanish, French, German, and Italian homework.
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 Vitaly Scherbo School of Gymnastics - Las Vegas, NV 89108 - Reviews: Gymnastics, Dance Instruction
Vitaly Scherbo School of Gymnastics - Las Vegas, NV 89108 - Reviews: Gymnastics, Dance Instruction
If you want your child to learn the correct way to do these dangerous feats; this is the only place to go.
The staff is all hand picked by Vitaly; and who doesn't want to learn from the greatest gymnast ever?
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 www.exconnect.com Web Directory Sports > Gymnastics > Artistic > Gymnasts > Scherbo, Vitaly
Second Thoughts Sports Illustrated interview with the 6 time Olympic medalist.
Scherbo, Vitaly Learn about gold medal gymnast Vitaly Scherbo.
Vitaly Scherbo School Of Gymnastics Information on the school opening in 2001.
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 Belarusian Sports
At the Barcelona Olympics (1992) the National team of Belarus won 17 gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze medals.
The traditions of brilliant performances were laid by Mikhail Krivonosov, the first Belarusian won a silver Olympic medal in Melbourne (1952) in hammer throwing, and by women-gymnasts Larisa Petrik, Olga Korbut, Tamara Lazakovich, Nelli Kim.
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