2012 Olympic Gymnastics Team: Biggest Winners and Losers from Day 4 Final

After watching Tuesday's women's gymnastics team final, the only thing I can say about the U.S. performance is total dominance.

Just like the Chinese in the men's final, the U.S. women were totally dominant as they barely made any mistakes, instead watching teams like Russia, China and Romania falter on at least one apparatus.

On July 29, I wrote an article that said after the qualification portion of the competition, I felt the U.S. was still the favorite to win the team gold.

And they didn't let me down as they scored 183.596 points. Russia was second with 178.530 and Romania was third with 176.414. China didn't show up, finishing fourth with 174.430.

Here's a look at the biggest winners and losers from the team final.

Winner: U.S. Women's Team

This is the most logical choice.

The U.S. won its first team gold since the Magnificent Seven in 1996.

The team performed well throughout the competition, ranking first in the vault (48.132), balance beam (45.299) and floor exercise (45.366).

And, if you want to look deeper into the numbers, the U.S. had the three highest individual scores on the vault and three of the four highest scores on the floor.

Now that's dominance.

If you want to say the U.S. struggled in an event, then you could say it was on the uneven bars, but their score of 44.799 still ranked third behind China and Russia.

The U.S. only had three scores under 15.000, with two of them being in the event where the team was the weakest, the uneven bars. I know, big surprise.

Overall, you have to be impressed with the U.S. team's performance.

Loser: China

After winning the team gold in Beijing, the Chinese women faltered and failed to even bring home a medal, which is a huge disappointment for the country.

But outside of the uneven bars, they showed they didn't deserve to bring home a team medal, as they finished fourth on the beam (42.932), fifth on the vault (44.266) and seventh on the floor (40.833).

There was no killer instinct on any of those three events and it was easy to tell watching them.

Coming into the Olympics, we all knew that it was going to be between four teams for three medals, but I don't think anybody envisioned that the fourth-place team would be so far off.

Oh well. Maybe they'll have better luck in 2016.

Winner: Jordyn Wieber

After the utter disappointment of not making the individual all-around final, I wondered (just like many others), how would Jordyn Wieber react in the team competition.

Well, we got our answer on Tuesday.

Wieber scored a 15.933 on vault (third best), 15.000 on floor (fourth) and 14.666 on uneven bars (11th). Not a bad way to get over that disappointment.

In a time when she could've shut down, Wieber showed her maturity and came through for the team.

Even though she won't get her shot at an individual all-around medal, we all know she's still one of the best gymnasts in the world.

Loser: Russian Floor Exercise

The Russians were performing very well throughout the competition.

That is until they hit the floor exercise.

In an uncharacteristic way, the Russians were making mistake after mistake on the floor, garnering scores of 14.800, 14.333 and 12.466. Now, while the first two scores were still in the top 11, they were still uncharacteristic of the Russians.

And, while it really didn't make a difference how they performed, because the U.S. was dominant everywhere, the Russians still showed some flaws.

But, then again, in one moment and with only three scores counting, mistakes are bound to happen.

That's just the nature of the Olympics.

Don't think they'll get any sympathy from anyone, especially Jordyn Wieber.

Winner: Gabrielle Douglas

In my opinion, Douglas' performance on Tuesday makes her the favorite going into the individual all-around.

She scored a 15.966 on vault (second best), 15.066 on floor (third), 15.233 on beam (fourth) and 15.200 on uneven bars (sixth).

Now, if that's not what you're looking for in an all-around gymnast, then I don't think you'll find one in these London Olympics.

Douglas was nearly flawless throughout and we got to see why they call her "The Flying Squirrel."

I'll be interested to watch her in the individual all-around.

Will she bring home a third-straight individual all-around gold for the U.S.?

Only time will tell.

Loser: Romanian Uneven Bars

The Romanians were simply dreadful on the uneven bars, scoring a 41.465 on the apparatus, which was good enough for last place in the event.

In an event that is normally considered one of their stronger ones, Romania just couldn't get it together.

They earned scores of 14.066, 13.766 and 13.633. Now, I'm no rocket scientist, but that's not good.

One has to wonder, if they would've performed just a little bit better on the bars, could they have passed the Russians for the silver medal?

We'll never know.

But, one thing we do know is that outside of Catalina Ponor, the Romanians seem to have a lot of weaknesses.

Or, maybe it was just nerves.

Winner: Viktoria Komova

Viktoria Komova did her job. It's just her teammates didn't really do theirs.

My biggest concern is why you wouldn't put one of the best gymnasts in the world in the floor exercise. She's going to be competing in the all-around, and not letting her participate in the event could damage her psyche a little for the all-around.

Still, I was impressed with Komova's performance in the three events she did participate in.

She scored 15.833 in the vault (fourth best), 15.766 on uneven bars (second) and 15.033 on beam (sixth).

Her routines looked very crisp and she also showed that she is to be considered one of the favorites for the individual all-around title.

Loser: The Fans

As a fan, I felt like I lost out because the gold medal wasn't in doubt going into the last rotation.

I don't blame it on the U.S. because they performed great and that's all you want to see.

But the Russians, Chinese and Romanians all performed below their standard and it stunk to see that as a fan.

It would've been nice to see Aly Raisman have to score more than an 11 on her floor routine for the U.S. to take home gold. There was no excitement there.

Of course, the excitement came when they had officially won the gold, but I would rather see a close competition than a guaranteed gold.

My hat still goes off to the U.S. because they gave fans everything they asked for. Now, if the other teams would've done the same.

Loser: NBC

Can someone tell me again why we didn't get this aired live.

Instead of being able to watch the women's team final, I was forced to watch the U.S. men's volleyball team in pool play.

Now, I'm not saying anything bad about the volleyball team, but I felt that it was more important to show this event live, and not on tape delay.

NBC could've shown it on tape delay as well, for those fans who missed it live, but it takes away from it when you don't show something live.

The network has made a lot of mistakes already and it mainly has to do with coverage.

Plus, I don't think they'll ever live down the promo of Missy Franklin appearing on the Today Show showing a picture of her winning her first individual gold medal only minutes before they actually aired the race.

NBC needs to get it together and show the important events live, and then in tape delay as well.

CBS doesn't air the best games of March Madness on tape delay. They show them all live.

And NBC needs to follow suit.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who's unhappy with their coverage.