Gymnastics: US Women Win Gold in Team Final

The US women’s gymnastics team had a performance that no other country could match in the team finals on Tuesday.

The US scored five points higher than the Russians who received the silver medal.

The Russians made big mistakes on the floor that were costly, but even with the loss of points, they were miles behind the Americans.

The Americans once again came out strong on vault.

The US performed some of their best gymnastics. They scored higher than they did in the qualification round by 1.733.

The only apparatus the Americans faltered on in qualifications was the floor. There was no mistakes on floor this time. Gabrielle Douglas, Jordyn Wieber and Alexandra Raisman performed perfectly on floor.

The Great Britain team had a bad start to the final on beam.

Jennifer Pinches had a horrible fall on beam that probably cost them a medal.

Hannah Whelan also stepped back on her dismount, other than that she performed a good routine on beam.

Pinches performed amazing on floor after her disappointing beam routine and continued to do so for the rest of the competition.

GB climbed back from a disappointing start to finish sixth.

Elizabeth Tweddle was definitely apart of that comeback, with her amazing uneven bars routine, once again.

GB will still have a chance to medal in the uneven bars final, where Tweddle will compete for gold, and in the all-around final with Whelan and Rebecca Tunney.

The Americans have chances for more medals in the all-around and all  the apparatuses’s finals.

The Chinese finished fourth after winning the gold four years ago in Beijing.

Watch the Team Final on bbc.co.uk while you still can.

FINAL RESULTS:

Rank	Team	Score	+
1	United States	183.596	-
Team Totals by Apparatus Score 48.132 44.799 45.299 45.366 Rank 1 3 1 1 Gabrielle Douglas Score 15.966 15.200 15.233 15.066 Rank 2 6 4 3 Mc Kayla Maroney Score 16.233 - - - Rank 1 - - - Alexandra Raisman Score - - 14.933 15.300 Rank - - 7 1 Kyla Ross Score - 14.933 15.133 - Rank - 8 5 - Jordyn Wieber Score 15.933 14.666 - 15.000 Rank 3 11 - 4
2	Russia	178.530	+
3	Romania	176.414	+
4	China	174.430	+
5	Canada	170.804	+
6	Great Britain	170.495	-
Team Totals by Apparatus Score 43.965 44.599 39.199 42.732 Rank 6 4 8 4 Imogen Cairns Score 14.266 - 13.500 - Rank 22 - =18 - Jennifer Pinches Score 14.833 - 11.833 14.366 Rank 14 - 24 10 Rebecca Tunney Score 14.866 14.766 - - Rank =12 9 - - Elizabeth Tweddle Score - 15.833 - 14.166 Rank - 1 - 15 Hannah Whelan Score - 14.000 13.866 14.200 Rank - 19 15 14
7	Italy	167.930	+
8	Japan	166.646	+

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