Official announcement:
USA Gymnastics has announced the U.S. women’s line-up for the qualification round at the 2011 World Championships at the Tokyo (Japan) Metropolitan Gymnasium. The U.S. women compete at 1:15 p.m. local time on Oct. 8, the second of two women’s qualification days.
The six women on the U.S. Women’s Team are: Gabrielle Douglas of Virginia Beach, Va./Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute; McKayla Maroney of Laguna Niguel, Calif./All Olympia AOGC; Alexandra Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics; … Sabrina Vega of Carmel, N.Y./Dynamic Gymnastics; and Jordyn Wieber of DeWitt, Mich./Gedderts’ Twistars USA.
Anna Li of Aurora, Ill./Legacy Elite Gymnastics LLC, is the alternate. …
Still a “team”. But they can’t afford another injury. It looked scary for a short time when it seemed that Aly was injured, too.
Blythe’s assessment:
… This means the U.S. will compete for World gold with only five gymnasts, while every other team has six. …
Alicia Sacramone withdrawn from Worlds after Achilles injury
Here’s the plan at this point:
Vault – Vega, Douglas, Raisman, Wieber, Maroney;
Bars – Raisman, Maroney, Vega, Wieber, Douglas;
Beam – Maroney, Vega, Raisman, Wieber, Douglas;
FX – Douglas, Vega, Wieber, Maroney, Raisman.
The top 4 scores count for team in prelims. In team finals it’s 3-up, 3-count, equalizing things (somewhat) for team USA.
… Sacramone injured her Achilles tendon earlier today while tumbling …
People who were there are sure it’s Achilles. Injury on take-off.
Too bad. But very common in older power gymnasts.
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