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Shelley Page Glen McGregor and Gymnastic Classes

Rhythmic gymnastics: RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards Rio Olympics should be postponed or moved due to Zika: professor It the combined artistry and athleticism that drew her in to the sport, according to CBC. Cleo first started taking gymnastic classes when she was three, two years after her parents — Shelley Page and Glen McGregor — first held her in their arms in the Chinese orphanage where she lived for six months of infancy. Rhythmic gymnastics has become the focus of the 17-year-old life, having made the Canadian national team last year, moving from Ottawa to Toronto to train. Adopted from China Two police officers found her in a basket behind a shop in the southeastern city of Zhuzhou, China, when she was three months old, she says. "I don't really know what happened in the first couple months of my life," she says. And she visited the orphanage herself four years ago before it was torn down. "I don't really know the story of my birth parents," she said. "But I'm very grateful that I do have a family now that loves me and I could come all the way across the world and have all these opportunities." Shelley Page and her husband adopted Cleo from a Chinese orphanage when the girl was nine months old. But she heard stories of the "plain little room" she shared with about 30 other babies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.