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By Helene Elliott
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PHILADELPHIA -- Among the most enjoyable aspects of the competition is seeing the friends and family who have come to support the gymnasts.

David Durante, from nearby Garwood, N.J., has a huge cheering section about a dozen rows up from the floor. They’re all wearing white T-shirts imprinted with the words ‘Jersey Boys’ on the front and ‘TEAM DURANTE 08’ on the back, and they erupted in applause after his fine high bar routine on Saturday.

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--Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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