[Bobdilan]

USA needed a good bars worker, which is why Kyla Ross was put on the team. I don't disagree with this. I would have however, put Alicia on over McKayla. Yes, McKayla is the world champion on vault but I think Alicia is still quite good - she's had many world championship medals on vault. Combine Alicia's vault, her beam (although she may not have been chosen for beam in the 3-up-3-count), her leadership puts her over the top. I too felt bad for Rebecca Bross...she never did recover from her injury. As far as Nastia is concerned, she waited to long to make her comeback and what we saw was an unfit gymnast (by Olympic level). I feel she kinda of tarnished her record.

I would really like to see Gabby make the all around and medal - even win. She's really come on strong the last 6 months...peeking at the right time. I'm also proud to see that an African-American is a contender for the title. I think she may be able to encourage other young African-American girls, whatever the sport or activity. Elizabeth Price, the other African-American alternate as well. Both gymnastics and skating are time-consuming sports, very expensive and require a lot of sacrifice by young girls/boys....I wonder why we have seen more African-American/Hispanic gymnasts (men/women) but not in skating...