It was just incredible. At the national championships that year she had something of a mental breakdown on the balance beam, balking at her dismount twice before finally doing it. Nevertheless, she made the world championship team that year on the basis of her bars prowess.
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“We haven’t done (that) since 1989”, Black said Tuesday evening from Glasgow, Scotland, where over the weekend she also helped the women in red and white to a seventh-place finish in the team qualification round at the artistic gymnastics world championships. She is now tied at 10 with Alicia Sacramone – seven of them in gold. Bars was solid too and on vault, she stuck a near flawless double twisting Yurchenko, beating Raisman’s score on the event by two tenths even though Raisman’s vault was worth.
But Douglas, who qualified third for the all-around behind Biles and Switzerland’s Giulia Steingruber, warned that she wants to add the world all-around title to her two world team golds.
“Second (place) isn’t acceptable”.
First up for the team on floor, she stuck every single tumbling pass. Douglas knew that she would need every tenth to pass Raisman.
“Making the (USA) Olympic team is my dream, and hopefully if I can do that, I can plan the rest out”.
At Rio 2016, she could become the first Olympic all-around champion to compete in the following Games since Nadia Comaneci in 1980.
The United States led the way with 181.388 points for the gold medal, while China claimed silver with 176.164 and Great Britain took bronze with 172.380 points, a news release issued Tuesday night indicated.
Uchimura, 26, scored highest in qualifying which finished in the Hydro Arena on Monday night but Ukraine’s Oleg Verniaiev, the reigning European champion, was just 0.433 behind the Japanese star.
“The girls did their jobs. Although I had a small mistake on floor, it wasn’t a problem for me”. “I love to train with her, because she always pushes me to the next level”.
“It’s a massive, massive achievement”.
“This medal has boosted our confidence a million times for next year. Hopefully we can pull off what we did today next year”.
China matched their silver from last year’s world championships in Nanning, coming back from a fall by Wang Yan off the beam.
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Canada placed 15th in qualifying and did not advance to the final. Included in the mix were Olympic champions Nastia Liukin and Mary Lou Retton, who praised both Team United States of America as well as Team Britain’s efforts, and 2005 world all-around gold medalist Chelsie Memmel.
