Actually it was a combination of the Chinese women’s strong performances and the American women’s mistakes that earned China the women’s team gymnastic Gold Medal and the defending Olympic champion US team the Silver Medal. It started off well enough for the US, with all three gymnasts–Alicia Sacramone, Shawn Johnson, and Bridget Sloan–nailed their vaults. […]
The Americans had been heavily favored to win the Men’s gymnastics team event but with both Paul Hamm and his twin brother, Morgan Hamm, knocked out of the lineup with injuries, many wondered about the fate of Team USA.
In the end, China’s male gymnasts were triumphant, capturing the gold medal. Japan took silver and […]
It wasn’t the start the US women’s gymnastic team would have hoped for. Just minutes before the qualifying competition began, Samatha Peszek injured her ankle, allowing her to compete just on the uneven bars and leaving the US with just four uninjured gymnasts for most of the qualifiying rounds, where teams are allowed to use […]
It used to be easy: 1 was bad; 10 was perfect. However, the old gymnastics scoring system is out and a new, more technical system has replaced it. What does that mean to the average Olympic Gymnastics viewer? Well…a couple of things:
1. The new scoring system, adopted in 2006, uses a combination […]
By Guest Blogger Bo Durkop
In Sunday morning’s events swimming dominated the news. Michael Phelps earned his first Olympic Gold of the 2008 Beijing games, shattering his previous record in the Men’s 400-meter individual medley. With one event down, Phelps still has seven more gold medals to win in order to surpass Mark Spitz record for […]
If you weren’t able to stay up to watch the podium training session for the US women’s gymnastic team last night, don’t worry; neither was I. (I’m saving my sleepless nights for the actual competition.) However, there are a few scenes from the session posted on YouTube, including this one of Shawn Johnson […]
Morgan Hamm pulled withdrew from the US Olympic men’s gymnastic team this morning, stating that he didn’t feel he was fit enough to participate. He’s been struggling with an injured left ankle all through the Olympic practices.
Morgan Hamm’s withdrawal comes ten days after his brother Paul Hamm withdrew from the same team.
Hamm will […]
I still cringe when I watch this clip, but there’s no denying that 18-year-old Kerri Strug had heart. She clinched the Team Gold Medal for the US Women’s gymnastic team in Atlanta in 1996, performing her last vault with an injured ankle. Take a look:
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If you just can’t wait to watch the US gymnastic teams in action…and you have trouble sleeping, this is for you. The US men’s gymnastic team will be practicing at midnight today (EDT) and the women’s team will practice at 130am on Thursday (also EDT), their only time to practice at the Olympic venue before […]
USA women’s gymnast, Chellsie Memmel suffered an injury to her right ankle at practice on Saturday, just eight days before the women’s Olympic gymnastic competition begins in Beijing on August 10. The extend of her injury was not disclosed. She was at practice on the uneven bars today, but was sporting an air cast through […]
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