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Douglas
Wieber
Raisman
Ross
Maroney

1st Replacement athletes — unranked, we think: Price, Li and Finnegan.

No room for Alicia with Maroney as the VAULT Olympic Champion in waiting. I’m going to miss her. 😦

USA Trials Final:

1.Gabrielle Douglas 123.450
2.Jordyn Wieber 123.350
3.Aly Raisman 120.950
4.Elizabeth Price 120.100
5.Kyla Ross 118.500
6.Sarah Finnegan 117.650
7.Mckayla Maroney 117.650
8.Kennedy Baker 114.700

Scores were embarrassingly high. (Who’s supervising these ladies?)

The gymnastics was excellent the final day of Trials. Congratulations to everyone involved in the elite women’s program in the USA. You’ve the #1 nation in the world in my opinion. 🙂

Jordyn and Gabby make a great 1-2 punch.

Which other 4 will be named?

Price? Maroney? Sacramone? Li? Finnegan?

And which will be #5 and official “replacement” gymnast?

… tough call.

I’m still taking Price.

In the end, anyone in the top 8 MIGHT end up competing in London. Marta will be quick to pull anyone who looks inconsistent in training.

MAG: Hambuchen, Boy, Nguyen, Toba and Krimmer. Alt: Taranu

WAG: Seitz, Berger, Chusovitina, Jarosch, Bui. Alt: Hill

related – Couch Gymnast – German Olympic Team Announced

via @theallaround

Last day for wild speculation. She projects Marta and committee will choose:

Team – Wieber, Douglas, Raisman, Maroney and Ross.

Alternates – Sacramone, Finnegan and Price.

read the analysis – Stoi – Last Chance for Best Guesses

… Logan Dooley of Lake Forest, Calif./World Elite Gymnastics, and Dakota Earnest of Plains, Texas/Acrospirits, were named as the men’s and women’s trampoline alternates for the 2012 Olympic Team …

Olympic alternates travel to London and get full kit. Congratulations.

Interesting. 🙂

… Clark’s official title will be associate head coach, and he will serve as recruiting coordinator for the Tigers. …

Clark spent 20 seasons at the University of Georgia where he helped guide the Gym Dogs to seven NCAA National Championships and 12 Southeastern Conference titles. He served as the recruiting coordinator from 1999-2009 before his promotion to head coach at Georgia. …

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Olympic Team

@USAGym:

Here they are! Jonathan Horton, Sam Mikulak and Jake Dalton join Danell Leyva and John Orozco!

Alternates: Brooks, Legendre, and Naddour.

USA Gymnastics announces men’s gymnastics team for 2012 Olympic Games

The members of the Men’s Selection Committee were: Kevin Mazeika, men’s national team coordinator; Mike Burns and Yoichi Tomita, coach representatives; Kevin Tan, athlete representative; Steve Butcher, at-large representative; and Dennis McIntyre, USA Gymnastics men’s program director (non-voting).

The Canadian Olympic rhythmic, women’s artistic, and trampoline gymnasts, coaches, and team officials are presented at the the National Gallery in Ottawa on June 29th. Photo by Stephane Verdier.

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— with Kristina Vaculik, Victoria Moors, Jean-paul Caron, Brittany Rogers, David Kikuchi, Rosannagh MacLennan, Jason Nicholas Burnett, Karen Cockburn, Dominique Pegg, Dave Brubaker, Ellie Black, Elvira Saadi, Katrina Cameron, Rosie Cossar, Svetlana Joukova, Alexandra Landry, Zdravka Tchonkova, Hélen Laliberté, Anjelika Reznik, Anastasiya Muntyanu, Cathy Haines and Kelsey Titmarsh

Congratulations.

The women of Team USA looks very intimidating to the rest of the world.

What’s the response in Russia?

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics:

Media coverage of interviews with Viktoria Komova, Alexei Nemov and Valentina Rodionenko provides a slightly varying account of the Russian team’s medal expectations in London which I will attempt to moderate here. Rodionenko announces clearly that the original training plan written in 2009 targetted two golds, two silver and two bronze medals, focussing mainly on the hopes of the women’s team.

The various individuals considered as medal contenders are :

Viktoria Komova – bars and beam
Aliya Mustafina – bars
Anastasia Grishina – bars
Ksenia Afanasyeva – floor. …

read the details – Russia’s plan – aim for two golds, two silvers, two bronzes

Canada’s a Trampoline Superpower.

Three legitimate medal contenders will compete in London.

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Canada has won 5 Olympic medals since the sport was introduced in 2000. China has won 4. Russia 3.

Good luck in London!