Nastia Liukin On The ‘Wheaties’ Cereal Box

Third American to win gymnastics all-around, third to appear on Wheaties box
Thursday, September 4th, 2008

A couple of weeks ago we got our first look at 14-time Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps on the front of the new Kellogg’s Corn Flakes cereal box and today we get our first look at 5-time Olympic Medalist Nastia Liukin on the front of the famed orange Wheaties box:


Nastia, the third woman to win the Gold Medal in the gymnastics all-around competition, is the latest woman to grace the cover of the Wheaties box (which is known to feature predominantly male athletes of various sports) behind Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson. After the jump, check out a photo of Nastia posing with 2 of her Wheaties boxes and find out what she had to say about appearing on the box of the so-called Breakfast of Champions

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