Danell Leyva crawled back from 18th place to win the bronze medal in the men's gymnastics all-around final Wednesday night, but he didn't get near the attention of certain other members of the U.S. Olympic team.
There are four women with a good chance of winning the all-around in gymnastics Thursday night: Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Viktoria Komova, and Aliya Mustafina.
If you watched NBC's prime time coverage of the women's gymnastics team final, you were deceived -- the U.S.'s crushing defeat of Russia was even more brutal than the network's packaged show.
The Japanese men's gymnastics team—and its star, Kohei Uchimura, who dominates the individual competition—didn't win a medal in the team competition Monday. Except, then they did.
Jordyn Wieber was hyped as the all-but-certain gold medalist in the individual all-around gymnastics competition, but on Sunday night, she didn't even make it out of prelims.
Track and field are some of the most exciting events in the Olympic Games, but after the weeks of hype, the events themselves are so short -- less than 10 seconds in the men's 100-meter dash -- that it seems like they're over before a casual fan has time to get a vicarious adrenaline rush.
You've met your American gymnastics heroines, now it's time to understand their mortal enemies. Through GIFs, of course.
Gymnastics is one of those Olympics sports that lots of people watch every four years, meaning whatever happens during the competition is exciting and surprising but also confusing.
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