Updates on Sang Lan as always. This young Chinese gymnasts had surely receive a lot of attention since the accident. Somehow, it just occured to me that it's a sad way to receive attention. (I don't mean any disrespect, but the way the sport of gymnastics works had struck me deep in the past few days of the Goodwill Games.) For new articles on Sang Lan click here.
Rotation 1 (Top 12 Teams Advance) - July 25, 1998 1 RUS Svetlana Khorkina - Uneven Bars Aleksei Nemov - Floor Exercise 9.850 9.625 19.475 2 RUS Yevgeniya Kuznetsova - Uneven Bars Nikolai Krykov - Pommel Horse 9.700 9.575 19.275 3 UKR Olga Teslenko - Uneven Bars Roman Zozulya - Rings 9.650 9.600 19.250 4 MIX Zeena McLaughlin - Uneven Bars Eric Lopez Rios - Pommel Horse 9.575 9.650 19.225 5 RUS Anna Kovalyova - Floor Exercise Aleksei Bondarenko - Rings 9.625 9.575 19.200 6 CHN Fei Meng - Uneven Bars Yufu Lu - Parallel Bars 9.625 9.525 19.150 6 MIX Maria Olaru - Uneven Bars Dimosthenis Tambakos - Rings 9.550 9.600 19.150 8 USA Jeanette Anatolin - Uneven Bars Jay Thornton - Floor Exercise 9.550 9.575 19.125 9 USA Dominique Dawes - Uneven Bars Chainey Umphrey - Rings 9.700 9.300 19.000 10 CHN Jie Ling - Uneven Bars Xu Huang - Rings 9.300 9.550 18.850 11 HUN Adrienn Varga - Uneven Bars Szilvester Csollany - Rings 9.025 9.775 18.800 12 BLR Alena Polozkova - Beam Aleksandr Shostak - Rings 9.625 9.000 18.625 13 ROM Corina Ungureanu - Uneven Bars Vasile Cioana - Parallel Bars 9.550 8.925 18.475 14 USA Jamie Dantscher - Uneven Bars David Kruse - Pommel Horse 8.900 9.250 18.150 Rotation 2 (Top 8 Teams Advance) - July 25, 1998 1 UKR Olga Teslenko - Beam Roman Zozulya - Pommel Horse 9.725 9.675 38.650 2 RUS Svetlana Khorkina - Beam Aleksei Nemov - Pommel Horse 9.375 9.725 38.575 3 CHN Fei Meng - Beam Yufu Lu - High Bar 9.700 9.650 38.500 4 MIX Zeena McLaughlin - Beam Eric Lopez Rios - Rings 9.400 9.700 38.325 5 CHN Jie Ling - Beam Xu Huang - Parallel Bars 9.750 9.650 38.250 6 RUS Anna Kovalyova - Beam Aleksei Bondarenko - Parallel Bars 9.275 9.675 38.150 7 RUS Yevgeniya Kuznetsova - Beam Nikolai Krykov - High Bar 9.600 8.800 37.675 8 BLR Alena Polozkova - Floor Exercise Aleksandr Shostak - Pommel Horse 9.475 9.325 37.425 9 USA Dominique Dawes - Beam Chainey Umphrey - Parallel Bars 9.075 9.275 37.350 10 MIX Maria Olaru - Floor Exercise Dimosthenis Tambakos - Pommel Horse 9.500 8.650 37.300 11 USA Jeanette Anatolin - Beam Jay Thornton - High Bar 8.850 9.150 37.125 12 HUN Adrienn Varga - Beam Szilvester Csollany - Pommel Horse 8.325 9.025 36