Valeri Liukin
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"Valeri Viktorovich Liukin" is a retired competitive artistic gymnast who competed for the former Soviet Union. Liukin is the 1988 Summer Olympics/1988 Olympic Champion in the team competition and individually on the horizontal bar and Olympic silver medalist in the all-around and the parallel bars. He is now a coach.

Liukin is the first man to do a triple back flip on floor and both a layout Tkatchev and a Jaeger (uneven bars)/Jaeger with full twist on high bar.

He moved to the United States and became a U.S. citizen in 2000. He is married to Anna Kotchneva and is the father and coach of 2008 Summer Olympics/2008 Olympic champion Nastia Liukin. He is co-owner of the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy with longtime friend Evgeny Marchenko.

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Hey, beam is beam. She hasn't fallen off the beam in a long time. You know she's not a machine. ... We'll move on.

She never watches. We have to call her and tell her it's over.

I'm proud of her as a father and a coach. You can only dream of your baby working hard to get where she wants to be. And as a coach, what can I say? Look at the results.