Martha will be wanting to shake off the
team USA curse. For the past 2 olympics team USA have dominated the pre-olympic worlds and fallen short one year later to gain silver in Athens and in Beijing. Well the young and 'inexperienced' american girls have done it again, they were dominant and consistent right from the word go - clocking up magnificent difficulty with business-like consistency.
Russia were still very confident in second, but the young Komova made their one major error falling off beam and looking, dare I say it, rather tired on floor. China held on to bronze narrowly ahead of Romania. I dared to hope for an upset there with China making several errors, but it wasn't to be. Romania will squeak back on to the podium soon, I'm sure.
The GB girls shook off their nerves from qualification and competed with only very minor errors to finish 5th, their highest result ever. Congratulations to the GB girls - What a lift on the way to London :-D
WOMEN'S TEAM FINAL:
1. United States 179.411
2. Russia 175.329
3. China 172.820
4. Romania 172.412
5. Great Britain 169.670
6. Germany 168.479
7. Japan 167.122
8. Australia 166.439
I'll be back with more commentary later. Sadly it's back to the grindstone first.
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