Friday, November 7, 2014

Who Had the Worst Olympics on Team USA

So, I've only done this with one team, which is Russia. And I loved doing it. That was almost a year ago, and as I do this one, I will write about USA's, who had the worst Olympics.


   Now even though Alexandra Raisman missed out on medaling in the all around, she cannot be nominated for this, because she won two golds, and a bronze, to me, that is a very successful Olympics. And someone else who cannot be nominated is Gabby Douglas, sure she missed out on medaling in bars, and of course she fell in beam finals, but she also has team gold, and ALL AROUND GOLD! So lets just say that Gabby had a very successful Olympics


   I also don't like to consider Kyla Ross for this position because of the fact that she was a first year senior, and the experience was enough, not to mention winning the team gold medal. So now, I believe its down to McKayla Maroney, who fell in the vault finals, McKayla was the number one girl coming into the competition, the favorite, and Jordyn Wieber, who was eliminated from the all around, after teammates Aly Raisman and Gabrielle Douglas, made it in before her, and much like McKayla, she was favored to win, and Jordyn was also in the floor finals, and had the chance to win there, but thanks to a pesky injury, did not. Lets talk about both McKayla Maroney, and Jordyn Wieber's disappointing Olympics, and then lets decide, ok?


   McKayla Maroney...... best vaulter in the world, was expected to win the event finals. I take you to the magical world of 2012 London Vault Finals, where Mac delivered a Yurchenko 2 1/2, that resembled the one that she performed in the Team Finals, just nights before. After an amazing vault, McKayla Maroney walked to the end of the vaulting runway, with a smile, she told herself "You need to stick your next vault", and she went for it. The first vault, that was performed, the Amanar, some around the World said that it should be renamed "The Maroney" because she does it even better than the inventoo of the vault, Simona Amanar. But after falling on her second vault, still scoring a  14.300, with only Izbasa left to go, she waited in eager participation. She watched as Izbasa hit both her vaults. During the medal ceremony, she held the "McKayla Maroney not Impressed" but it is told, 30 minutes later, it hit Maroney like a full-speeding train, that she hadn't won the gold, and tears started streaming down her cheeks.

Ok, lets talk about Jordyn next......... She won gold at the 2011 Tokyo Worlds in the all around, but as she came to London, and performed in the Qualifiers, she had tiny mistakes, like balance checks, out of bounds, and form deductions. This all added up in the end, and thanks to the two per country rule, it knocked her out of the all around, falling behind teammate, Gabby Douglas. This was a devastating blow for Wieber fans everywhere. Thanks to the two per country rule, Jordyn was not able to particiapte in the all around.  And by the time floor finals rolled around, Jordyn had a stress fracture in her leg, and she was not able to perform to the best of her abilities, and placed 7th, devastating.


  Even though Jordyn and McKayla were ecstatic to win the team gold medals, they wanted to prove something individually, which both of them fell short of doing. But I believe, since Jordyn's devastation forced her to quit, and that McKayla's is fueling her to keep going, that Jordyn had the most devastating Olympics out of the USA Team.

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