2008 Chinese Olympic Gymnastics Team

Gymblog has a great overview (including videos) of the top candidates for the Chinese Women’s Gymnastics Team.

If you’re like me, you have trouble distinguishing one wonderfully precise girl from the next.

China’s legitimate shots to make the women’s Olympic team include:

– Pang Panpan
– Zhang Nan
– Zhou Zhuoru
– Cheng Fei
– Li Ya
– He Ning
– Xiao Tingting
– Xiao Sha
– Yang Yilin
– Li Shanshan
– Jiang Yuyuan

I’m sure there are others I’ve left out.

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Certainly Possibly Vault will be first priority as it is for the USA. Both teams want to improve difficulty from 2007 Worlds. (It’s surprising to me how far behind the Men they lag in difficulty though the horse is only 10cm lower.)

Cheng Fei has the only guaranteed spot at this point, I would think.

Now I read on difficulty plus execution that Cheng Fei will be “captain”. Not nearly a match for Alica Sacramone. That’s 1 point in favour of the USA.