592:"It was hard to decide when to retire, but I chose the moment that I wanted . I’ve been trying for 8 years to avoid the idea that I was already too old to practise this sport. At the age of 28, I managed to show the world that I could be on top . If it’s a sport in which judges evaluates also your facial expressions and how you use the apparatus, because people tend to think that rhythmic gymnastics only have to do with flexibility, but the apparatus is also very important. It’s an art and it is something that comes along with maturity . I didn’t really get what it was about, and I therefore wondered: why do rhythmic gymnasts retire so soon? Because it is the society that retires you from it. I fought against all that."
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On 23 August 2008, she put an end to her sporting career. It coincided with the very last day of the
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In 1996, she went to her first
Olympic Games in Atlanta, where she participated for the individual team, along with her colleague Alba Caride. She achieved the fifth position in the preliminary round and the ninth position in the semi-final. Finally, she got the ninth position in the Olympics final,
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After a career lasting 21 years, she retired from rhythmic gymnastics on 23 August 2008. Currently, she is working as a sports commentator for rhythmic gymnastics competitions. Since 2014, she has also been writing
Olympia, a children's collection of stories in which she talks about her sporting
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Spanish Gymnastics Federation decided that Almudena Cid and Jennifer Colino had to compete against each other in order to choose who would represent Spain at the 2004 Athens Olympics. The competition was at a very high level - nearly at Olympic level - causing mental and physical
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Mediterranean Games AlmerĂa 2005 and she has been awarded many other national and international recognitions; among others, the gold medal in the Royal Order of Sports Merit in 2009, which is a Spanish civil Order of Merit intended to recognise yearly
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She started practising rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 7. She first went to
Arabatxo club and then to Beti Aurrera club in Vitoria, in which other important gymnasts such as Tania Lamarca and EstĂbaliz MartĂnez were trained. Her coaches there were Aurora Fernández del Valle and
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Olympic diploma. And she earned a trophy of Rio of Janeiro
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November of the same year, she was asked by
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announced that Almudena's "body-apparatus relationship" with the ball was approved by the Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee. As the code describes the Cid Tostado element:
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