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Network name | Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) |
Country | Iran |
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Available | Nationwide |
Owner | Iranian government |
Slogan | "A news agency for all Iranian" |
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Launch date | 13 November 1934(PARS newspaper) |
Past names | Pars news agency (1934-1981) |
Website | www.irna.ir }} |
The Islamic Republic News Agency (), or IRNA, is the official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is government-funded and controlled under the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The agency also publishes the newspaper Iran. , the Managing Director of IRNA is Ali Akbar Javanfekr. IRNA has 60 offices in Iran and 30 more in various countries around the world.
In 1954, following a coup the reforms of the White Revolution helped to modernize the Pars Agency, leading to expanded news coverage, improved professional services and a better-educated staff. It went on air with radio broadcasts of international news translated into Persian, which it offered to local subscribers. Under the new regime, it operated under the supervision of various state offices and ministries such as the Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Post, Telegraph and Telephones, Office of the Prime Minister and the Labor Ministry until 1947. In 1957, the General Department of Tablighat fell under the supervision of the Publications Department of Tehran Radio as an independent department. In 1963 the activities of Pars Agency were brought under the newly created Information Ministry. Its name was changed to `Pars News Agency, or PANA, and it began operating around the clock. In July 1975 the Iranian legislature passed a bill establishing the Ministry of Information and Tourism and changing the status of Pars News Agency to a joint public stock with capital assets of about 300 million rials. It then became an affiliate of the new ministry. Its Articles of Association in 23 paragraphs and notes were adopted by the then National Consultative Assembly of Iran.
After the Iranian Revolution in February 1979, the Revolutionary Council (Shawra-ye-Enqelab), in June 1979, renamed the Ministry of Information and Tourism to the National Guidance Ministry (or Ministry of National Guidance). This was followed in December, 1981 by a bill passed by the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) changing the name of the country's official news agency from Pars News Agency to Islamic Republic News Agency.
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Name | Nastia Liukin |
Fullname | Anastasia Valeryevna Liukin |
Nickname | Nastia, Nast |
Country | |
Birth date | October 30, 1989 |
Birth place | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Hometown | Parker, Texas, United States |
Height | |
Weight | 99 lb (45 kg) |
Discipline | WAG |
Level | Senior International Elite |
Natlteam | 8 (2002–2009) |
Gym | World Olympic Gymnastics Academy |
Headcoach | Valeri Liukin |
Assistcoach | Natalya Marakova |
Formercoach | Anna LiukinJoe Drake |
Choreographer | Natalya Marakova |
Music | "Variations on Dark Eyes (Occhi Chornye)" {Edit}by Lara St. John |
Website | http://www.nastialiukin.com/ |
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Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Lyukina (; born October 30, 1989) is a Russian-American artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic individual all-around Champion, the 2005 and 2007 World Champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World Champion on the uneven bars. With nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller and Alicia Sacramone as the American gymnasts having won the most World Championship medals. Liukin has also tied Miller's record as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non-boycotted Olympic Games.
The daughter of two former Soviet champion gymnasts, Olympic gold medalist Valeri Liukin – the first man to do a triple backflip – and World Champion rhythmic gymnast Anna Kotchneva, Nastia Liukin was born in Moscow and moved to the United States as a young child. She began gymnastics after spending time in the gym while her parents coached. Liukin is coached by her father at the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy, her family's gymnastics club in Plano, Texas.
Liukin became a member of the U.S. junior national team when she was 12 years old and won the National all-around title at the age of 13. She was the all-around silver medalist at the 2003 Pan American Games. Since 2005, Liukin has been a key member of the U.S. senior team. She is a four-time all-around U.S. National Champion, winning twice as a junior and twice as a senior. She has been the U.S. senior National Champion on the uneven bars since 2005. Liukin has represented the United States at three World Championships, the 2003 and 2007 Pan American Games, and the 2006 and 2008 Pacific Rim Championships.
Liukin is fluent in English and Russian. She graduated from Spring Creek Academy, located in Plano, Texas, in the spring of 2007. She had enrolled as a freshman international business major at Southern Methodist University in January 2008, but took a leave from classes to concentrate on preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games. She returned to campus in Spring 2009, but her travel schedule and professional commitments caused her to withdraw before the end of the semester. Nastia's signature color is pink, hence her pink leotard worn during the 2008 Beijing Olympics All-Around competition.
Liukin currently updates a blog on her official website and regularly posts on Twitter as @NastiaLiukin. She has a line of GK Gymnastics Leotards and grips and a line of pink gymnastics equipment from AAI.
It is rumored that Nastia Liukin is in a relationship with American figure skater Evan Lysacek. People Magazine claimed to confirm their relationship in a February 2010 article, but Lysacek denied the rumors in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, stating that the two are just "very close friends."
Liukin competed in her first National Championships as a junior in 2002, at the age of 12½. In contrast to her WOGA teammates Carly Patterson and Hollie Vise who finished first and second respectively, Liukin suffered a fall on the uneven bars which rendered her unable to finish the routine. She continued through the rest of the competition, and despite the incomplete bars set, finished 15th, which landed her one of the final spots on the U.S. National Team. She was chosen to compete with the U.S. team at the 2002 Junior Pan American Championships, where she contributed to the team gold medal and placed second on the uneven bars, balance beam and all-around.
By 2003, Liukin was one of the strongest junior gymnasts in the United States. She won the junior division of the U.S. National Championships, as well as gold medals on three of the four events: uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise. She repeated these accomplishments in 2004. Liukin was a member of the gold-medal winning U.S. team at the 2003 Pan Am Games; she took second place in the all-around behind fellow American Chellsie Memmel. She also won the all-around in the junior division of the 2004 Pacific Alliance Championships.
Born in 1989, Liukin was ten months too young to compete as a senior in 2004, and thus was not eligible for a place on the U.S. team for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Her scores in the junior division at the 2004 U.S. National Championships were competitive with those being posted by the seniors, and Marta Karolyi, U.S. National Team Coordinator, has said that if Liukin had been eligible, she would have been named to the Olympic team.
In event finals she won the gold on the uneven bars and balance beam, and the silver on the floor exercise.
In March 2006, Liukin placed first in the all-around at the American Cup. At the 2006 Pacific Alliance Championships, Liukin tied with teammate Memmel for first in the all-around, won the uneven bars title and a silver medal on beam, and contributed to the U.S. team's gold medal performance. She competed at the 2006 U.S. Classic as the defending all-around champion, but falls on the uneven bars and floor resulted in a fourth-place finish. However, she scored extremely well on the balance beam, and was the only competitor in the meet, junior or senior, to earn a score over 16.00 on this event.
In late August, at the 2006 U.S. National Championships, Liukin successfully defended her all-around, beam and bars titles, becoming a two-time senior National Champion. She was named to the U.S. team for the 2006 World Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, and was expected by many to be a strong contender for the all-around title. However, due to an ankle injury sustained in training before the competition began, she was only able to compete on one event, the uneven bars. In spite of her injury, in the qualification round, Liukin's bars set earned a 16.2, the highest score of any competitor on any apparatus in the meet. Her bars routine in team finals scored a 15.7 and helped the U.S. team win the silver medal. Liukin also qualified for the event finals on bars, where she took a small step on her dismount and finished with a 16.05, earning a silver medal behind Britain's Beth Tweddle.
Despite limited training time on floor and vault in the summer of 2007, Liukin opted to compete all-around at the 2007 U.S. National Championships. She posted the highest score of the entire meet on bars and the second highest score on beam on the second day of competition, winning the senior bars title for the third year in a row and placing second on beam. However, she also suffered several falls and errors on floor and vault, and finished in third place overall, more than five points behind Shawn Johnson, the all-around gold medalist.
Following Nationals, Liukin was named to the American team for the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, competing all-around in the team qualifying round and in on bars and beam in the finals. Liukin's score for her bars routine in team finals was a 16.375, the highest score of the day and, in the end, the entire World Championships. However, at the end of her beam routine, her foot slipped while she was setting up her dismount, prompting her to change her usual skill, a two and a half twisting salto, to a simple back tuck. While she lost credit for her dismount, she also avoided a deduction for a fall, and earned a 15.175. The team recovered from this and other mistakes to finish first overall with 184.400, nearly a point ahead of the silver medal Chinese.
Liukin's struggles with the balance beam continued in the all-around final, where she fell from the apparatus during her flight series. In spite of a 16.100 on bars, the highest score of the day from any competitor on any event, she finished the competition in fifth place. In the event finals, however, Liukin rallied and regained her World Champion title on the balance beam with a score of 16.025. She also earned a silver on the uneven bars, scoring a 16.300 after taking a step on her dismount.
At the 2008 U.S. National Championships in Boston, Liukin fell on floor on her double front tuck the first day of competition, but had a strong meet on her other events and placed second in the all-around behind Shawn Johnson. She regained her National Champion title on the beam and defended her national title on the uneven bars for the fourth consecutive year, scoring a 17.050 in preliminaries and a 17.100 in finals, the highest recorded score for any American gymnast at any event since the advent of the new Code of Points. In June, Liukin competed in the U.S. Olympic Trials in Philadelphia, finishing second behind Johnson, and earning a berth on the American team for Beijing.
In the team finals, Liukin performed on three events: beam, bars and floor exercise. Her uneven bars score of 16.900 was the highest mark awarded in the entire Olympic competition. Liukin performed second on balance beam, matching her qualifying score of 15.975. On floor exercise, she stepped out of bounds on her first tumbling pass, incurring a 0.10 point penalty, with a final score of 15.200. The American team earned the silver medal, 2.375 points behind China.
On August 15, Liukin performed clean routines on all four events (sticking her landings on 3 out of 4 events) to win the all-around gold medal with a final score of 63.325. Shawn Johnson took the silver medal with a score of 62.725. The win marked the third time that an American woman had won the Olympic all-around title; Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson were the two previous American gold medalists. It was also the fourth time in the history of the Games that two athletes from the same country have taken first and second place in the women's all-around. The last time this was accomplished was the 2000 Olympics, when Romanian gymnasts won gold and silver; Soviet gymnasts also won gold and silver all-around medals at the 1952 and 1960 Games.
In the event finals, Liukin displayed a beautiful routine to earn a surprising bronze medal on floor exercise with the score of 15.425, behind teammate Shawn Johnson with 15.500, and Romanian Sandra Izbasa with 15.650. On uneven bars, Liukin and China's He Kexin both posted final marks of 16.725, and earned identical A and B-panel scores of 7.70 and 9.025, respectively. However, He Kexin won the gold medal, and Liukin was awarded the silver, after a tie-breaking calculation that took into account individual marks given by judges on the B-panel. In the balance beam final, Liukin scored 16.025 to claim silver behind Shawn Johnson's 16.225. With her fifth Beijing medal, Liukin tied Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Miller for the most gymnastics medals won by an American in a single Olympic Games.
Following her success in Beijing, Liukin was named the USOC Female Athlete of the Month (August) and ultimately USOC Co-Sportswoman of the Year alongside swimmer Natalie Coughlin, the Women's Sports Foundation Individual Sportswoman of the Year, FIG Athlete of the Year and USAG Sportswoman of the Year. In addition she was ranked third in the Associated Press' 2008 Female Athlete of the Year voting.
In March 2009 Liukin was announced as one of 12 semifinalists for the AAU Sullivan Award. The annual award honors the athlete who best represents "the qualities of leadership, character, sportsmanship, and the ideals of amateurism". On April 15, 2009, Liukin's Olympic teammate Shawn Johnson won the AAU Sullivan Award.
{|class="wikitable" |- | Apparatus || Skills || A Score || Top Score in World Championship/World Cup/Olympic Competition |- | Vault || Yurchenko 1½ || 5.5 || 15.100 (Olympic Qualifications) |- | Uneven Bars || Glide kip cast to HS (KCHS), Stalder shoot to HB (Ray); KCHS, Pike stalder 1/2 to eagle grip, Eagle endo, Ono, Healy, Ono 1/2, Gienger; KCHS, Pike stalder, Tkachev; KCHS, Pak salto; KCHS 1/2, Toe shoot to HB; KCHS, Giant 1/2 to eagle, double front 1/2 dismount || 7.7 || 16.9 (Olympics Team Finals) |- | Balance Beam || Press to handstand mount arms by ears; Front aerial walkover, Back flip flop, Layout stepout; Full turn w/ leg at horizontal; Switch leap 1/2; Split jump, sheep jump; Side salto tucked; Onodi, wolf jump 1/1; Salto forward piked, take of from one leg landing on one foot to scale (Liukin); Switch split ring leap; Round-off, 2½ twisting dismount || 6.7 || 16.400 (2008 Pacific Rim Championships) |- | Floor Exercise || Front Handspring (FHS), front layout 1/1, front 2/1; FHS Double front; Switch ring, Split leap full; RO 1½ -1½; Double turn w/ leg at horizontal; Switch leap 1/2; RO 2½ dismount || 6.2 || 15.525 (Olympic AA final) |}
Following the 2008 Olympic Games, Liukin had a skill on beam named after her in the 2005–08 FIG Code of Points. The 'Liukin' was rated as a D and was described as follows: salto forward piked, take off from one leg to one foot landing to scale, hold for two seconds. Changes in the 2009–2012 FIG Code of Points meant that the skill is no longer considered as an appropriate skill.
2006–2008: "Variations on Dark Eyes (Occhi Chornye)" {Edit} by Lara St. John
She also appeared in the second season of Make It or Break It.
Liukin was on The Tour of Gymnastics Superstars, which was broadcast nationwide on MyNetworkTV. Tapings of the second show of the tour were included in Frosted Pink with a Twist, which was a television special about women's cancers. The TV special aired on ABC on October 12, 2008, and featured singers Jesse McCartney, Kenny Loggins, Cyndi Lauper and Carole King.
Liukin is set to guest-star on the CW's Hellcats.
Liukin's corporate sponsors include Visa, AT&T;, GK Elite Sportswear and Longines. She appeared in an Adidas commercial with Nadia Comăneci which ran during the 2004 Olympics and a 2008 commercial for Visa Inc. She signed an endorsement deal on March 15, 2010 and appears in commercials for Subway After the Beijing Olympics, she was signed to be one of two American Olympians featured on Wheaties cereal boxes.
Liukin has expressed interest in the fashion world; she has served as a Longines Sports Ambassador of Elegance since 2006 and, along with her teammates Shawn Johnson and Alicia Sacramone, was one of the first female athletes ever to be signed as CoverGirl spokesmodels. She also collaborated with Vanilla Star Jeans to create a junior girls' clothing line and has modeled for Max Azria. In June 2010, she launched a line of girls' wear called Supergirl by Nastia for department store chain JC Penney.
In October 2008, Liukin partnered with World Vision to help her home state of Texas to recover from Hurricane Ike.
align=center | Year | Event | AA | Team | ! style="width:30px;" | ! style="width:30px;" | ! style="width:30px;" | ! style="width:30px;" |
rowspan="2" | 2002 | U.S. National Championships (junior) | 15| | |5||||5 | ||||
align=left | Junior Pan American Championships | style="background:silver;"2nd|| | 1st | | style="background:silver;"|2nd|| | 2nd | |||
rowspan="2" | 2003 | align=leftU.S. National Championships (junior)|| | 1st | style="background: gold"|1st|| | 1st | 1st | ||
align=left | Pan American Games | style="background:silver;"2nd|| | 1st | |style="background: gold"|1st|| | 3rd | 3rd | ||
rowspan="2" | 2004 | align=leftU.S. National Championships (junior)|| | 1st | style="background: gold"|1st|| | 1st | 1st | ||
align=left | Pacific Alliance Championships (junior) | style="background: gold"1st|| | 1st | |style="background: gold"|1st|| | 1st | 1st | ||
rowspan="3" | 2005 | align=leftU.S. National Championships|| | 1st | 4 | 1st | 1st | 2nd | |
align=left | World Championships | style="background:silver;"2nd|| | style="background: gold"|1st|| | 1st | 2nd | |||
align=left | American Cup | | | style="background: gold"|1st|| | 6 | ||||
rowspan="4" | 2006 | align=leftU.S. National Championships|| | 1st | style="background: gold"|1st|| | 1st | 7 | ||
align=left | World Championships | | | 2nd | style="background:silver;"|2nd|| | ||||
align=left | Pacific Alliance Championships | style="background: gold"1st|| | 1st | | style="background:silver;"|2nd|| | 1st | |||
align=left | American Cup | style="background: gold"1st|| | ||||||
rowspan="3" | 2007 | align=leftU.S. National Championships|| | 3rd | style="background:silver;"|2nd|| | 1st | 12 | ||
align=left | World Championships | 5|| | 1st | |style="background: gold"|1st|| | 2nd | |||
align=left | Pan American Games | | | 1st | | style="background:silver;"|2nd|| | 2nd | |||
rowspan="5" | 2008 | align=leftU.S. National Championships|| | 2nd | style="background: gold"|1st|| | 1st | 8 | ||
align=left | Pacific Rim Championships | style="background: gold"1st|| | 1st | |style="background: gold"|1st|| | 2nd | 4 | ||
align=left | American Cup | style="background: gold"1st|| | ||||||
align=left | U.S. Olympic Trials | style="background:silver;"2nd||||5|| | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | |||
align=left | Olympic Games | style="background: gold"1st|| | 2nd | | style="background:silver;"|2nd|| | 2nd | 3rd | ||
rowspan="2" | 2009 | align=leftU.S. CoverGirl Classic|| | 2nd | |||||
align=left | U.S. National Championships | | | |4|| |
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