Gymnastics: Gabrielle Douglas Takes the Gold in All-Around

Gabrielle Douglas earned her second gold of the games on Thursday. RuthJudson | photobucket.com

Gabrielle Douglas earned her second gold of the games on Thursday. RuthJudson | photobucket.com

Gabrielle Douglas won the gold in the all-around final with an almost flawless performance on all apparatuses, with a score of 62.232.

Victoria Komova of Russia took home the silver, missing the gold by only 0.259 of a point.

Russian, Aliya Mustafina, won the bronze.

The other American, Alexandra Raisman, just missed the medals, with the same score as Mustafina, 59.566. When a score is the same, whoever’s execution marks are higher, places higher.

Douglas led for the whole entire competition.

Douglas only faltered on vault, with a slight hop and landing to the right of the line, and on beam, with a slight wobble and a hop back on the dismount.

Raisman just missed a medal because of her low score on the uneven bars, 14.333, and numerous wobbles on the balance beam. Raisman had to put her hands on the beam to stay on.

Raisman was second after the first apparatus.

Komova lost the gold medal because of her performance on vault. She landed to the side of the red line and made a huge step to the side.

Rebecca Tunney of Great Britain had a slight wobble on the beam and a step back on the dismount to land her in 22nd after the first apparatus.

Tunney climbed her way back with outstanding performances on all other apparatuses, to finish 13th overall.

Tunney received a score of 15 on the uneven bars and was 6th on that apparatus.

Hannah Whelan of Great Britain was in 16th after the second apparatus, but she did not land her vault and received a zero. She ended up last overall.

Raisman will have a chance to medal in the balance beam final and the floor final. She qualified first for the floor final.

Douglas will have two more chances to medal in the uneven bars final and balance beam final.

Rank Athlete Score +
1 United States of America DOUGLAS Gabrielle 62.232 -
DOUGLAS Gabrielle
Vault Uneven Bars Beam Floor
Score 15.966 15.733 15.500 15.033
Rank 1 3 1 4
2 Russian Federation KOMOVA Victoria 61.973 -
KOMOVA Victoria
Vault Uneven Bars Beam Floor
Score 15.466 15.966 15.441 15.100
Rank 3 2 2 3
3 Russian Federation MUSTAFINA Aliya 59.566 -
MUSTAFINA Aliya
Vault Uneven Bars Beam Floor
Score 15.233 16.100 13.633 14.600
Rank 5 1 18 6
4 United States of America RAISMAN Alexandra 59.566 -
RAISMAN Alexandra
Vault Uneven Bars Beam Floor
Score 15.900 14.333 14.200 15.133
Rank 2 =9 10 2
5 Romania IZBASA Sandra Raluca 58.833 +
6 People's Republic of China DENG Linlin 58.399 +
7 People's Republic of China HUANG Qiushuang 58.115 +
8 Italy FERRARI Vanessa 57.999 +
9 Romania IORDACHE Larisa Andreea 57.965 +
10 Germany SEITZ Elisabeth 57.365 +
11 Japan TERAMOTO Asuka 57.332 +
12 Netherlands van GERNER Celine 57.232 +
13 Great Britain TUNNEY Rebecca 56.932 -
TUNNEY Rebecca
Vault Uneven Bars Beam Floor
Score 14.866 15.000 13.133 13.933
Rank =10 6 =20 =13
14 Switzerland STEINGRUBER Giulia 56.148 +
15 Australia LITTLE Emily 55.765 +
16 Japan TANAKA Rie 55.632 +
17 Canada PEGG Dominique 55.565 +
18 Venezuela LOPEZ Jessica 55.500 +
19 Poland PIHAN-KULESZA Marta 55.465 +
20 Australia BRENNAN Ashleigh 55.332 +
21 Italy FERLITO Carlotta 55.098 +
22 Guatemala GOMEZ PORRAS Ana Sofia 54.899 +
23 France MALAUSSENA Aurelie 50.166 +
24 Great Britain WHELAN Hannah 41.999 -
WHELAN Hannah
Vault Uneven Bars Beam Floor
Score 0.000 14.166 13.700 14.133
Rank 24 14 =15 9

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I have a Bachelor of Arts in Communication with a minor in Writing from The University of Tampa. I am the former Arts and Entertainment Editor of The Minaret (The University of Tampa's student run newspaper). I created a newsletter for the College of Arts and Letters of The University of Tampa. I spent a summer writing for an online magazine, 83 Degrees, as the Job News Editor.

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