Digital portrait of Nastia Liukin during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games
name: label: depicted
content: Liukin, Nastia
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Digital portrait of Nastia Liukin wearing the pink leotard she wore when she won the gold medal during the All-Around competition in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The portrait is mounted on press board and has Nastia Liukin in the center on a purple and black background.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 2008 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad were held in Beijing, China with 204 countries, 6,305 men and 4,637 women athletes participating. The swimming competition included 65 World and Olympic records being set which most attribute to the use of the Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit developed in part my NASA. Michael Phelps won eight gold medals at these games, the most of any athlete in a single Olympic Games and broke many records. The LZR Racer was subsequently banned from competition as they gave the competitor a technical edge that was deemed unfair by FINA, the International Federation used by the International Olympic Committee for overseeing international water sport competitions. BMX racing was added to the cycling events and American Nastia Liukin won gold in the all-around gymnastic competition. Two disabled athletes competed in the Olympics instead of the Paralympics because neither used a prosthesis to give them an advantage in competition. The United States won the medal count with 112 but China won the gold medal count with 12 more than the Americans.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Gymnastics
label: level of sport
content: Olympics
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: web subject
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0198.02
label: accession number
content: 2009.0198
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0198.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting, summer olympics
label: Object Name
content: painting
label: Object Name
content: painting, summer olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pressboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 12 in; 60.96 cm x 30.48 cm