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RAISMAN WINS FLOOR! Team USA's Aly Raisman outshined the other performers in the floor exercise final, winning gold with plenty of room to spare, scoring a massive 15.6. Catalina Ponor took home silver (15.2), while Russia's Aliya Mustafina collected yet another medal from these Games, taking bronze (14.9). Raisman was at the top of her game, sticking her opening tumbling run (1 1/2 to double Arabian-punch layout), which she had been struggling with in London. From that point, Raisman only needed to do her usual thing to run away w...
'Flying Dutchman' Prevails! "The Flying Dutchman" lived up to his nickname, as Epke Zonderland dazzled the crowd with a release sequence of Cassina-Kovacs-Kolman to win gold in the Olympic high bar final. With the audience behind him, Zonderland capped his routine with a beautiful stuck double-twisting double layout dismount to score a huge 16.533. The gold is Zonderland's first Olympic medal. Germany's Fabian Hambuchen performed an elegant routine for silver (16.4), one place higher than he finished in Beijing. In his third Olympi...
China 1-2 On Beam! The Chinese women, Deng Linlin and Sui Lu, went 1-2 in the balance beam final, standing out from the pack of otherwise shaky performances in the eight-person final. Deng Linlin cruised through her difficult set, finishing each skill with a flourish. Deng tumbled a gorgeous series of two back handsprings to straight layout, tacking a swingdown onto the end to earn the top spot (15.6). Like her teammate, China's Sui Lu looked comfortable on the beam, counting very few wobbles. Her routine was highlighted by a stuck...
Feng Zhe Wins Gold! China earned another gold medal in the parallel bars final, as Feng Zhe outclassed the field with his 7.0-difficulty routine, showing tight form and sticking his double pike dismount to score 15.966. Winning by a comfortable .166, Feng Zhe left little doubt that he was the superior performer. Germany's Marcel Nguyen won a second silver medal at these Olympics, throwing a rare full-twisting double back dismount to score 15.8. Nguyen has shown incredible consistency in London, finishing second to Kohei Uchimura in...
YANG HAK SEON GOLDEN AGAIN! While several gymnasts stuck superb, difficult vaults to stay competitive, reigning World Champion Yang Hak Seon of South Korea showed the highest levels of difficulty and execution to win gold in a riveting men's vaulting final. As the final vaulter, Yang again showed his signature vault, a handspring triple twist, which carries a massive 7.4 D-score - the highest in the world. Although he took two big steps forward, he made up the difference with his second vault, a near-perfect Kasamatsu double full ...
MUSTAFINA ON TOP! 2012 London Olympics Russia's Aliya Mustafina saved her best for the uneven bars final, sticking her signature dismount to win gold over defending Olympic champion He Kexin and Great Britain's Beth Tweddle. Mustafina's win cemented Russia's first gold medal in gymnastics at these Games. Performing late in the lineup, Mustafina showed great flight on her transition elements, including a daring connection of Pak Salto to Stalder Shaposhnikova with half turn. She left little doubt that she would take over first place...
ZOU KAI DEFENDS TITLE 2008 Olympic Champion Zou Kai of China successfully defended his gold medal on the floor exercise Sunday, hitting a double-twisting double layout mount and showing precise landings out of his tumbling skills to score 15.933. Zou Kai's performance gave him a slight edge over all around gold medalist Kohei Uchimura of Japan (3 1/2 twist to punch front 1/2; stuck triple full - 15.8). Russia's powerful Denis Ablyazin finished third, after a tiebreaker with Uchimura (double-double layout; punch double full to double fron...
GABBY GETS IT DONE!! American Gabby Douglas displayed another energetic and error-free performance in the women's all around to win the gold medal over Russia's Viktoria Komova, who stumbled sideways on vault in the first rotation. 2010 World Champion Aliya Mustafina took bronze, winning a tiebreaker with Aly Raisman. Champion Douglas started on vault, where she fought to keep her landing in line with the table (15.966). That kind of determination would characterize her night and lead her to gold. On bars, Douglas competed h...
UCHIMURA GETS GOLD! It wasn't perfect, but Japan's Kohei Uchimura won his first Olympic all around gold Wednesday, after winning silver in Beijing. The three-time defending World Champion, Uchimura was on his way to another near-perfect all around showing, until putting his hands down after a tumbling line on floor exercise, his last event. Uchimura's lead was sufficient, however, to keep him in gold medal position, over Germany's Marcel Nguyen and USA's Danell Leyva. Leyva, the top qualifier, battled back from a low pommel...
USA WINS GOLD! The U.S. women's gymnastics team left other teams in the dust in the women's team final, winning the gold medal for the first time since 1996. The Americans scored a total of 183.596, overtaking second-place Russia by more than five points. Romania earned bronze and China, the team champion from 2008, was shut out of the medals in fourth. The Americans again made a statement on vault, posting three scores over 15....
