- US Gymnast Aly Raisman puts the capstone on the US women’s gymnastics team’s phenomenal performance in London. Just after Raisman, and the four other members of the team, won the team gymnastics’ all around event, and teammate Gabby Douglas won the individual all-around gold, Raisman won the Bronze medal in the balance beam and the gold medal in the floor event.
- Raisman’s, the team’s captain, medals gives the US medals in 5 of 6 possible events. Teammmates Douglas, Jordan Weiber also competed in the two events. Both Douglas and Weiber finished 7th out of 8, Douglas in the balance beam competition, and Weiber on the floor. The other medal was a silver by McKayla Maroney on the vault. Maroney should have won Gold, but fell off the vault on her final jump.
- This was an all-around disappointing Olympics for Weiber as she entered as one of the favorites in the world, and she will leave with only one medal, in the all-around. She failed to qualify for the individual all-around, even while finishing the qualifying round fourth, due to the fact that two of her teammates (Douglas and Raisman) finished ahead of her, and there are only two members from each team allowed in the finals.
Overall Olympics Update
- China has built a slight lead in the overall medal count with 73. The United States is close behind with 70. China also has more gold medals, 34-30. Both Great Britain and Russia are tied for third with 48 overall medals.
- There are 31 more Gold medals to be awarded on Wednesday with 34 more on Thursday, heading into the final weekend of the games.
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