Olympic Gymnastics 2012 Results: U.S. Team Won't Medal After Dismal Performance

Another year at the Olympics, another disappointment for the United States' men's gymnastics team. 

While the team was clearly an underdog coming into the all-around qualification, it put to rest any of those concerns as Danell Leyva, John Orozco and company flew out to a first-place finish on Day 1 in London.

Day 3, however, hasn't been quite as kind (via Fox Sports' Bill Reiter):

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Orozco just fell on the vault. Absolute panic-driven choke job by the men. The men will not medal. Huge letdown.

— Bill Reiter (@foxsportsreiter) July 30, 2012"

The Americans finished fifth out of eight teams in the finals. China took home gold and Japan took silver after Kohei Uchimura, arguably the best gymnast of his generation, messed up his dismount from the pommel horse, but appealed and saw his score go from 13.466 to 14.166 (via BBC's Ollie Wiliams):

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JAPAN HAVE BEEN AWARDED SILVER AFTER APPEAL. Great Britain awarded bronze. Wow. There's your downer.

— Ollie Williams (@BBCSport_Ollie) July 30, 2012"

Although Great Britain won its first men's gymnastics team medal since 1912, the home crowd was not too happy about Japan making the leap to silver (via gymnastike):

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That was the loudest "booo" I have ever heard from a crowd, and for good reason. British men down to bronze

— gymnastike (@gymnastike) July 30, 2012"

But back to the Americans' disappointment.

Orozco, who scored a 15.800 on the vault during qualifying, received a 14.600 for his poor effort on Monday. He also put up a 12.733 on the pommel horse, 14.958 on the rings and 15.133 on the parallel bars, all of which were worse than his qualifying scores.

It wasn't just Orozco who suffered a meltdown either.

Danell Leyva, who came in first in the individual all-around during qualifying, posted 13.400 on the pommel horse after tallying an extremely impressive 14.866 on Day 1.

When your best two competitors put together an average performance at best, it is hard to come out on top at a team event, and that became painfully clear to the USA on Monday. 

Overall, the United States finished third on the floor, seventh on the pommel horse, fourth on the rings, sixth on the vault, third on the parallel bars and third on the horizontal bar.

Not only is this forgettable day made painfully worse by the fact the Americans got everyone's hopes up on Day 1, but it also means the drought continues.

The United States hasn't taken home gold in the men's all-around competition since 1984, when Bart Conner, Scott Johnson and company became the stars of Los Angeles.

The Hamm brothers helped America to a silver in 2004, but after the 2012 squad's major choke on Monday, the quest for gold will extend to over 30 years, as they now have to wait until Rio for another shot at team gold.

Leyva and Orozco, fortunately enough, will get a sooner shot at redemption. The No. 1 and No. 4 qualifiers, respectively, take to the gym on Wednesday for a chance at individual gold.

However, if the team competition is any indication, don't get your hopes up.

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