China Japan and the United States are on the whole glory of gymnastics in Olympic games 2008

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August 9, 2008

China, Japan and the United States are on the whole glory of gymnastics, in JJOO 2008
BEIJING - With a plus that gives act as local, and even Scots for his disappointing performance in Athens, the Chinese gymnastic teams are beginning Saturday a golden opportunity to overcome their rivals as ever, Japan and the United States, which maintains a competition that go beyond the sport.

The hosts aspire to go into all the podiums and thereby ensure a return to the tortilla that could not cuajar in 2004, when it left Greece with just three medals, one gold and two bronzes, none of them in the competition that more valued, the equipment.

Yang Wei, Li Xiaopeng, Chen Yibing, Xiao Qin, Zou Kai Huang Xu and form the men’s team, world champion and favorite more than ever after the casualties of American Paul Hamm, the individual champion in Athens, and his twin brother Morgan, Hishashi Mizutori of Japan, winner of three medals at the last world.

If you have your day, Yang Wei is virtually unbeatable. The German Fabian Hambuechen, revelation of the Games in Athens and has only grow since then, Japanese Hiroyuki Tomita and South Korean Kim maximum Daeeun are candidates to accompany him on the podium.

Among Americans, Jonathan Horton arrives with the best credentials. Morgan Hamm was not at today’s low recover from a left ankle injury, in which it was injected cortisone without asking therapeutic exemption in June, which cost him a reprimand from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

The final devices are more open than ever: aspire to the entire Brazilian Diego Hypolite and Spaniards Gervasio Deferr and Rafael Martinez in soil, five times Olympic rings in Iordan Iovtchev; Romanians Marian Dragulescu and Daniel Popuescu jump in, the Italian Igor Cassina bars, and Slovenian Mitja Petkovsek in parallel. Only in horse arches with the Chinese who do not seem to have them shade.

In women, the Chinese are seeking Olympic gold team who have not won ever. We will have very complicated with the Americans, with the last two world singles champions, Shawn Johnson (2007) and Chellsie Memmel (2005); it has injured his right ankle during training in Beijing.

To add interest to this confrontation, Chow Liang, a member of the Chinese gymnastic team for over a decade, in the eighties, is now the head coach of the U.S. female selection and also the technical particular Shawn Johnson.

The star is the brilliant local Cheng Fei, the only one of his team already was in Athens. There will strive to complete the contest, which leaves for younger, but points directly to gold in diving, bar and floor.

The third team in discord is the Romanian champion in 2004, totally renovated since then and led by Steliana Nistor, world runner, and Sandra Izbasa, European runner.

In the eventing will require further with the Italian Vanessa Ferrari, world champion in 2006 and Europe in 2007, and with the Brazilian Jade Barbosa, third world.

Both males and females is a mystery Russia’s role. This year were respectively champions and runners from Europe, but in the World Cup last year disappointed from start to finish.

They are the first Games under the new scoring code adopted by the International Federation to avoid scandals of the Athens Games. The 10 had gone as high note and now the qualification is obtained from the amount of a note of difficulty-are starting from scratch and added points as the difficulties of each year-and an implementation-start from ten and will subtracting for every mistake.

In recent World all apparatus finals for men and two women won notes with higher than 16 points.

The Olympic competition will be played at the National Stadium Beijing, with capacity for 18,000 spectators.

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