A highly speculative, grand unifying theory about why Team USA didn’t fall all over the place like their rivals did.
This shouldn’t have been a surprise; the U.S. were heavily favored coming in. But the U.S. couldn’t have been. Listen, we in the gymnastics world are cagey now. And for good reason: Ever since those Olympics, women’s gymnastics has become way more unpredictable.
Granted, some of the reasons this meet was bananas were flukes, most prominently, what would later turn out to be a cursed balance beam. Here’s how it started: With Russiafor the foreseeable future, eight squads qualified for team finals. Barring any major errors by the gold-favored U.S. and silver-favored Britain, the true battle was supposed to be for bronze: between Brazil, Italy, Japan, and China, with France and Canada both, realistically, in the Just Happy to Be Nominated slots.
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