beam NOT the favourite apparatus

The Couch Gymnast hosted a poll: Favorite Apparatus?

Floor was the winner, narrowly over Beam.
(I voted for Bars.)

Ning He – original – ESPN (AP Photo/Keystone/Steffen Schmidt)

… a list of gymnasts I love for their contribution to making beam such an awesome and beautiful event.

Li Shanshan …

Henrietta Onodi …

Ludmilla Ezhova …

The Romanians … standouts like Ponor and Dobre and Comaneci but even as a general rule, you could always count on them to pull of a beam rotation.

Svetlana Khorkina

Yang Bo

Carly Patterson

Elyse Hopfner-Hibb

Lauren Mitchell

Grace Taylor (Georgia)

Iryna Krasnyanskaya

click through for photos and details – The Couch Gymnasts Beam Awards…