Videos of German Olympic Gymnast Daria Bijak

As we have stated previously on this blog, many NCAA student-athletes are competing both for The United States as well as other countries around the world at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

For college gymnastics fans, there has been much interest in Daria Bijak, a University of Utah standout who is competing for her native Germany.

Initially, three of her routines from the games were posted on Youtube, but they were removed today. Presumably, NBC probably made the request.

But, we have two past floor routines by the gymnast here.

The first is from the 2006 American Cup (preliminaries) and the second is from a 2008 college meet against Arizona State.

I had a chance to talk with Bijak during the autograph session with college gymnasts at the NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga. I made the mistake of asking her is she was from Hungary?! I had apparently gotten her mixed up with a Ute gymnast from past years (oooppppppppssss!). But, Bijak was gracious, at least on the surface!

The University of Utah has one of the best college gymnastics programs in the country. They came in second his year to the host school Georgia. The team also featured past U.S. national member Ashley Postell.

American gymnast Alicia Sacramone, who almost got a bronze medal on the vault in Beijing, is a member of the Brown University gymnastics team.

I am also working on an entry about Bijak's Olympic teammate Oksana Chusovitina (try to spellcheck that!). Amazingly enough, the German gymnast, who is originally from Uzbekistan, is competing internationally at age 33!

Women's gymnastics coverage continues tonight on NBC.

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PS_ I have since been informed that the Hungarian gymnast who competed for Utah was Gabriella Onodi........
Tags: Germany, University of Utah, Olympics, women's gymnastics, Daria Bijak