Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Chinese Win Gold in Women's Team Gymnastic

Okay, time to give some love to the home country. The Chinese women won the team event in gymnastics in a head to head battle with the United States. It was an even battle through the first 2 rotations. The Chinese women did leave a crack in the door open on the third event, the beam. However, the Americans couldn't capitalize when one of their members, Alicia Sacramone, fell off the balance beam herself. To make matters worse, she fell again on the final floor exercise while her team mates Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson went out of bounds on their tumbling passages. There were too many mistakes and at the end, the Chinese women just needed to complete their routines with no major mistakes but they still executed them perfectly. so the gold goes to the Chinese, their first in the team event for women.

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