FIG – women’s prelims

A succinct summary.

The young Team USA pulled together after their leader and 2010 World Champion on the Vault, Alicia Sacramone, was left off the team with an injured Achilles tendon. Headed by Jordyn Wieber, who qualified second for the Individual All-around Final on Thursday, the team impressed with solid performances on all apparatus and topped the rankings with a total of 234.253 …

The 2010 Youth Olympic Champion and first year senior, Victoria Komova, helped Team Russia to an overall 231.062 that ranked them second. Weakened by the absence of reigning All-around World Champion Aliya Mustafina, who is recovering from a torn ACL, the defending World Champions lost valuable points in the Floor event, when Anna Dementyeva fell and Komova stepped out of bounds. Apart from this mistake, the young Komova demonstrated great consistency, mastering routines of highly difficult with incredible precision. She leads the All-around ranking …

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