The U.S. Lost Gold Medal to China in Women’s Team Gymnastics

Wednesday night, the U.S. women gymnastic team lost a narrow margin to the Chinese team in team final, because most of the competitive athletes all made mistakes during their performance.

The U.S. team finally lost two points to the champion. Alicia Sacramone, the captain of the U.S. women gymnastic team fell from the beam, and at the last routine, three of them all stepped out of the bounds, including Alicia Sacramone, Nastia Liukin, and Shawn Johnson.

“They are a little bit nervous. Though Chinese team didn’t perform flawlessly, they achieve the team final gold because of less mistakes.” Liang Qiao, the U.S. head coach of women gymnastic team said. He was born in Beijing, China, but immigrated to the U.S. a few years ago and took charge of the U.S. team for 2008 Summer Olympics.

Nastia Liukin hit an incredible uneven bar routine, which got her the highest score of 16.9 in the final. Besides her, the U.S. team all finished their uneven bar routine with perfect performance. After the routine, they caught up the hope for competing with Chinese in the gold metal race.

On the beam routine, even Cheng Fei, China’s captain of women’s gymnastic team final fell down, but she continued her difficult routine perfectly. Other younger and inexperienced team members, including Deng Linlin, Jiang yuyuan, and He Kexin, hit the audience and other competitors with higher difficulties, less mistakes and higher scores, especially on uneven bars. This is the first time of Chinese women’s gymnastic team won the Olympic gold medal on team final.