July 31, 2012

Fab Five Vaults, Swings, Leaps and Flips to Gold

Posted by Brenna Malmberg

Team USA celebrates as Aly Raisman finishes her floor routine and completes the team competition. Photo credit: USA Gymnastics

Women's gymnastics wins at the London Olympics after 16 years of golden drought. The "Fab Five" has they have been called took all of their years of dedication and sacrifice and poured it into one competition. They fought through living miles from home, toe injuries and crushed dreams to make the gold medal theirs. They deserve every bit of it. Congrats Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross and Jordyn Wieber!

Wondering how it all panned out?

U.S. scores:

Vault: Wieber-15.933, Douglas-15.933, Maroney-16.233

Uneven Bars: Wieber-14.666, Ross-14.933, Douglas-15.200

Balance Beam: Ross-15.133, Douglas-15.233, Raisman-14.933

Floor Exercise: Douglas-15.066, Wieber-15.066, Raisman-15.300

Final Team Standings:

1. USA: 183.596

2. Russia: 178.530

3. Romania: 176.414

4. China: 174.430

5. Canada: 170.804

6. Great Britain: 170.495

7. Italy: 167.930

8. Japan: 166.646

Luckily, Olympic women's gymnastics continues. Aly and Gabby take their four routines and compete against some other great from Russia for the all-around title, which has gone to an American the last two Olympics. Plus, the event finals welcome McKayla to throw two of her high-flying vaults, along with Gabby on bars and beam, Aly on beam and floor, and Jordyn on floor.

Get ready for more hardware!

Photo credit: USA Gymnastics


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