Anastasia Valerievna Liukin or Nastia Liukin, is the 2008 Beijing Olympics all-around gymnast champion. Born on October 30, 1989 in Moscow, Russia, she's the daughter of Valeri Liukin; a gymnast for the Soviet Union that won gold in 1988 Olympics and her mother Anna Kotchneva Liukin, the 1987 rhythmic gymnastic world champion also from Soviet Union. Some of Nast's favorite tricks in gymnastics includes an Ono-half on uneven bars, double front on floor and front aerial to Arabesque on beam. Nast also appeared on some TV commercials such as the Adidas commercial during the 2004 Olympics and AT&T commercial with Deion Sanders in 2007. She also starred in two more commercials in 2008 for AT&T and Visa and played a cameo role in 2006 gymnastics movie "Stick It"
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