Serrano's international career spanned eight years and competed in two Olympic cycles.

They collected a string of medals throughout the 2005-2008 Olympic cycle.

He has not ruled out another Olympic cycle.

Unable to complete the Olympic cycle, he decided to close his amateur career and enter the professional ranks.

New stars seem to come from nowhere each Olympic cycle.

The calculations are done after the tournaments stated above in a group of two Olympic cycles (8 years).

I asked their coach, Sarah Moon, if her team could be expected to find the cash to carry on for another Olympic cycle.

"The timing is so right, the middle of the Olympic cycle," Karolyi said.

This year is the first year in the Olympic cycle, so we're taking it slow, because next year will be a busy one.

Since 1949 it was revised every four years, the period, which corresponded to the Olympic cycle, to reflect new standards for the physical training.