scoreboard, fingertips pressed to her lips, teammate Aliya Mustafina rubbing her shoulder. When the final standings flashed ..... down to the two of them after 2010 world champion Aliya Mustafina and American Aly Raisman fell out of the running after
United States Silver: Oksana Chusovitina, Germany Bronze: Giulia Steingruber, Switzerland Uneven bars Gold: Aliya Mustafina , Russia Silver: Viktoria Komova, Russia Bronze: Beth Tweddle, Britain Balance beam Gold: Catalina Ponor, Romania
real weaknesses. She took down then-world champion Aliya Mustafina of Russia in her very first competition as a senior ..... Giulia Steingruber, Switzerland Uneven Bars Gold: Aliya Mustafina , Russia Silver: Viktoria Komova, Russia Bronze
that, too, is the power of the famous, its ability to reshape almost everything, particularly our perceptions – Aliya Mustafina of Russia won the gold with a score of 16.133, He Kexin of China was second with a 15.933 and Great Britain
Catalina Ponor of Romania — the gymnast Raisman beat out for the bronze on beam — took silver with a 15.2. Aliya Mustafina took bronze with a 14.9. Wieber’s 14.5 put her in seventh. This was Raisman’s day, regardless of what
Updated Aug 6, 2012 2:11 PM ET LONDON (AP) Russia's Aliya Mustafina claimed gold in the women's uneven bars Monday, ending American Gabby Douglas ' stranglehold on the top of the podium. AMERICA'S
recovered from a workmanlike set on bars and an uncharacteristic wobble on beam. Raisman ended up tying with Russia's Aliya Mustafina for third, but the steely Russian earned the bronze on a tiebreaker, a wrenching setback for the American captain
never looked back. Russia erased all but four-tenths of the deficit on uneven bars, where Viktoria Komova and Aliya Mustafina defy the laws of gravity, but the team began falling apart on balance beam. Mustafina swayed and wobbled so badly
Liukin-Shawn Johnson show of 2008 couldn't in Beijing, where China captured gold on its home turf. Former world champion Aliya Mustafina and the focused Russians were the only squad to come close to challenging the U.S. team after Sunday's qualifying
the highest all-around score of the day (60.632) to nudge Raisman out of the top spot. Former world champion Aliya Mustafina put up a steady if not spectacular 59.966 to place fifth, but the Russians will be hard-pressed to close the