Dwight Normile presents the case for how David Sender could make the American Olympic Team:
… Sender hurried back for the 2012 Winter Cup to place sixth all-around and regain national-team status. He also placed second on vault and third on rings. And though he didn’t throw the Yurchenko-double pike he unleashed in 2009 (he did a Yurchenko-2.5 twist), he’s training 17.0 and 17.2 vaults.
“I have to be a little more conscious of my age now,” said Sender, 26. “And that vault is a really big vault. And even when it’s done really well, it’s still a tough landing to take.
“I think a 17.00, at least, on vault for me — I don’t know if it would make or break my case, but I think it would help quite a bit,” he says. …
Sender knows the U.S. is still weak on pommel horse and rings, and said he’s been training pommels twice as much as any other event.
“I can cover rings (for the team) just fine — I think everybody knows that,” he said. “So in my head, obviously pommel horse is the ticket. …
Alicia Sacaramone is more of long shot. Andy Thornton compares her situation with Courtney Kupets who came back to qualify for Olympics 2004:
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