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2008 Olympic bronze medalist
Justin Spring, who proposed to
Tori Tanney during while performing on the 2008 Tour of
Gymnastics Superstars, finally got
hitched on May 29. The ceremony
was held at Allerton Park in
Monticello, Ill., 30 minutes west
of Champaign, and his best men
were high school friend Misha
Moylan and former Illini teammate
Adam Pummer. “We went to
Negril, Jamaica, [for a honey-moon], and it was incredible!”
Spring told IG.
“This is so different from what I’ve originally planned out.”
Sadao Hamada
Working retirement
AFTER 30 years coaching the Stanford men’s team, during which he won NCAA titles in 1992, ’93 and ’95, Sadao Hamada retired in
2003. “I spent the next few years between Japan and
the U.S. to decide where to live permanently,” said
Hamada, a 1969 graduate of Nippon College of
Health and Physical Education in Tokyo.
An offer from the Dutch Gymnastics Federation
complicated matters, however, so Hamada now
spends 147 days a year in the Netherlands, helping
the men’s national team. “I go back and forth
between Japan and the Netherlands,” says Hamada,
who stays in his hometown of Kochi while in Japan.
“When I am home I drink Sake, play golf and remi-
nisce about my life in the U.S.”
Hamada says he will work with the Dutch men’s
team until the 2012, if the team qualifies for the
London Olympics. “This is so different from what I’ve
originally planned out,” Hamada told IG.
The photo here was taken in January at The
Windsor Hotel in Hokkaido, where Hamada is an
adviser for the health and exercise activities for hotel
guests.
Looks like Hamada is keeping busy in his retire-
ment!
