Carly Rae Patterson (born February 4, 1988 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) was an American gymnast (the 2004 Olympic All-Around Champion) and is currently an aspiring professional singer. She currently lives in Allen, Texas Gymnastics has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. ... The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, from August 13 to August 29, 2004. ... Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics was divided into three sub-categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and trampolining. ... February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Red Stick Motto: Authentic Louisiana at every turn Coordinates: Country United States State Louisiana Parish East Baton Rouge Parish Founded 1699 Incorporated 16 January 1817 Government  - Mayor Melvin Kip Holden (D) Area    - City  79. ... Gymnasts are people who participate in the sports of either artistic gymnastics or rhythmic gymnastics. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ...

Pre-Olympic career

Patterson was at a cousin's birthday party at a gymnastics club in 1994 when a coach at the gym saw her and asked her mother if she was taking lessons. When her mother said no the coach was amazed at her natural talent. Carly then began taking lessons. Carly loved her lessons and kept up doing them. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

In 2000, Patterson participated in the Top Gym Tournament in Belgium; she won the silver medal in the all-around and the bronze medal for balance beam, which she has said is her favorite event. 2001 American Team Cup, she first performed her signature beam dismount, an Arabian double front. 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Balance Beam is a artistic gymnastics apparatus. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

At the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, she was ranked second in the all-around before the final rotation. She was suffering from a stomach illness, however, and she missed three landings on the floor exercise and finished seventh overall. Nevertheless, her balance beam routine was particularly spectacular, featuring what would become her signature double arabian dismount (later to be named "the Patterson"). 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Goodwill Games were an international athletics competition, created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympics of the 1980s. ... This article is about the Australian city. ...

Patterson was named the U.S. Junior National All-Around champion in 2002. She had previously received fourth place in 2000 and third place in 2001. By this time, she was largely considered the future of American gymnasts and a viable candidate for the 2004 Olympic All-Around title. From 2002 onward, she would continue to win nearly every All-Around event she entered. She was forced to sit out the 2003 U.S. National Championships because of a broken elbow (a big disappointment for Patterson, as this was to be her first senior nationals). At the 2003 World Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, California, she earned the all-around silver medal —the first time an American woman had won an all-around medal at that competition since 1994. She also helped her team to earn the team gold medal. It appeared Patterson would once again fight it out with Russia's Svetlana Khorkina in Athens. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location of Anaheim within Orange County, California Coordinates: Country United States State California County Orange Mayor Curt Pringle Area    - City 130. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

Patterson won the all around at the prestigious American Cup competition in both 2003 and 2004. (This event helped to launch Nadia Comaneci's career before the Olympics in 1976.^{[citation needed]}) In 2003, Patterson was the youngest competitor, having just turned 15, and it was her first major senior competition. In 2004, she swept the meet, winning all four events and the all around, collecting a total of $14,000 for her wins ($10,000 for the all around, $1,000 per event).

In 2004, she became a co-champion with Courtney Kupets in the all-around event at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships. She also won the floor exercise and placed second on balance beam. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Courtney Anne Kupets (born July 27, 1986 in Bedford, Texas) is an American gymnast. ...

At the 2004 Olympic trials, Patterson had two uncharacteristic falls on balance beam over the course of two days, dropping her to third place. Although she did not earn an automatic Olympic berth at this competition, her successful performances at the training camp following trials were more than enough to place her on the team. Few doubted that she was a huge contender for the Olympic All-Around title.

2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Patterson competed as an all-around athlete and delivered outstanding performances in the preliminary competition, finishing first overall, qualifying for the all-around and balance beam finals. In the team finals, Carly did not perform as well she did in the preliminaries. She later admitted that she was more nervous than she had previously been in the competition. The U.S. team made other mistakes and came away with the silver medal despite the fact that gold was expected of them. The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, from August 13 to August 29, 2004. ... Nickname: Το κλεινόν άστυ Location of the city of Athens (red dot) within the Prefecture of Athens and Periphery of Attica Coordinates: Country Greece Peripheries Attica Prefecture Athens Founded circa 2000 BC Government  - Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis Area [1][2]  - City 38. ...

In the Individual All-Around competition, Carly once again performed like she did in the preliminary competition and the meet proved to be the much-anticipated battle between Carly and legend Svetlana Khorkina. After scoring lower than usual on the vault (9.375), Carly was nearly perfect on her last three events, scoring 9.575 on uneven bars, 9.725 on the balance beam, and 9.712 on the floor exercise. She won the gold medal, an achievement that had only been attained by one other American gymnast, Mary Lou Retton, during the 1984 summer games. Carly became the first American woman to ever win the Olympic All-Around title in a fully attended Olympic Games. Mary Lou Retton (born January 24, 1968 in Fairmont, West Virginia) is an American gymnast. ... Music sample: Olympic Fanfare and Theme ( file info) — composed by John Williams for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Problems listening to the file? See media help. ...

On August 23, 2004 she competed in the finals for the beam event where she received a score of 9.775 and won the silver medal behind Catalina Ponor of Romania. August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics was divided into three sub-categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and trampolining. ... Cătălina Ponor (born August 20, Romania. ...

Leading up to the 2004 Olympic Games, she was prepared by her two former Soviet coaches: the famous Russian acrobat Evgeny Marchenko, who immigrated to the United States from Latvia after the Collapse of the Soviet Union, and Natalya Boyarskaya. The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, from August 13 to August 29, 2004. ... Soviet redirects here. ... High wire act Acrobatics (from Greek Akros, high and bat, walking) is one of the performing arts, and is also practiced as a sport. ... The rise of Gorbachev Although reform stalled between 1964–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. ...

After Athens

Carly Patterson has done the talk show circuit and has made numerous guest appearances since the Athens Games. Patterson decided in 2006 she would not plan to participate in the 2008 Olympic Games and would retire from Gymnastics. Her coach said in a TV interview^{[citation needed]}, "It's hard to top an All-Around Gold." (Redirected from 2008 Olympic games) The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in Beijing in the Peoples Republic of China from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony to take place at 8 PM on August...

She has stayed occupied with event appearances, gymnastics-related and otherwise. She has also landed a number of high profile corporate sponsorships; she appeared in a Mobile ESPN commercial aired during Super Bowl XL. She also has finished her authorized biography, which was released in April 2006. This is an article on biographies. ...

Promotional Photo for Carly Patterson's appearance on Celebrity Duets.

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Music career

First announced in a March 2005 interview, Patterson has expressed interest in becoming a professional singer. On August 21, 2005, she gave an interview on FOX Sports Net's Sports Sunday in which she gave more details on her future career. She sang a small segment of "Damaged" and said that she went to New York City to record the demo. On December 18, 2005, she announced that she signed a demo contract for four songs with Papa Joe's Records, owned by Joe Simpson, father of Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. She worked with singer and writer Chris Megert. They wrote and produced songs titled "Time to Wake Up" and "Lost in Me". The demo contract with Papa Joe Records has since expired, and the future of her professional singing career is unknown. August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... Joe Truett Simpson (born February 17, 1958, in Bexar County, Texas, United States, to Curtis T. Simpson and Joyce Alice Adams) is the manager of singers Jessica Simpson and Ashlee Simpson (both of whom are his daughters) and Ryan Cabrera. ... Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American pop singer and actress who rose to fame in the late 1990s. ... Ashlee Nicole Simpson (born October 3, 1984) is an American pop rock singer–songwriter and actress, and the younger sister of pop singer Jessica Simpson. ...

"Celebrity Duets" TV Show

On August 29, 2006, she started her appearance on the show Celebrity Duets. The program is a reality show executive produced by Simon Cowell of American Idol fame. Celebrities not known for singing are teamed up with professional singers; one of the eight celebrities are voted off each week. The show airs every Thursday on FOX with a results show each Friday, from September 7, 2006 to October 13, 2006. August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Celebrity Duets is a reality television show, in which eight celebrities, most of whom are not known for their singing, will perform alongside a different recording artist each week, provided they stay in the competition. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ... Simon Philip Cowell (October 7, 1959) is a British artist and repertoire (A&R) executive for Sony BMG in the UK, but is best known as a judge on the television programs Pop Idol, The X Factor and American Idol. ... AMERICAN IDOL HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO DEATH OF SIMON ... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

On September 8, 2006, during the "results" show, she joined Cheech Marin and Lea Thompson in the bottom three. The audience, however, spared Patterson from elimination to continue competing next week on Thursday, September 14. September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Lea Thompson in Back to the Future. ...

On September 15, 2006, during the "results" show, Carly Patterson was eliminated from the competition (singing a duet with Jesse McCartney). Patterson said that she will continue to sing. She also encouraged the audience to continue voting for the remaining celebrities because the cause is charity. September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Jesse A. McCartney (born April 9, 1987) is an American pop singer and Daytime Emmy-nominated actor. ...

Album

In late Spring 2007, Carly Patterson will be self-releasing an album of about 10 songs. Songs include "Lost in Me" and "Time to Wake Up". The album will be available online from her official web site, and the album will also be on iTunes. The songs were produced by Chris Megert, part of Papa Joe/ Geffen Records.

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SHE SHOULD OF STAYED A GYMNAST!!!!!

External Links

• Official Web Site
• Official Fan Site
• CarlyPattersonForums.com (Fan Message Board)
• [1] at IMDb Profile
• [2] at TV.com Profile

See also

• Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics

World champions in artistic gymnastics – women's team competition

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