That’s the way it looks right now … with CHN and RUS yet to compete:
1. JPN 364.191 2. USA 361.583 3. GER 354.132 4. ROU 350.900 5. UKR 350.434 6. FRA 349.818 7. GBR 348.742
The top 8 teams qualify directly to Olympics.
A bad day for one of my favourite gymnasts, Daniel Keatings.
It’s not the end of the world. In fact, it MIGHT be good preparation for the host nation to be competing in the Olympic venue at the “test” event from January 10-18th, 2012.
They should easily place in the top 4 teams of 8 (ranking 9th-16th in Tokyo) — and move on to the Olympics. With 3 strong all-arounders, GBR should be in even stronger contention since team size will be reduced to 5 athletes for that meet.
The GBR girls made it through already, finishing in 8th place.
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