Olympic Gymnastics Standings 2012: How Team Event Alters All-Around Outlook

A team competition as wild as the one seen on Monday at the 2012 Olympics is going to have some lingering effects that will help shape the individual all-around competition. 

Dissecting how this will shape things is not an exact science, but that is no problem—I am a master of inexact sciences. 

So after a day of massive controversy and failure (I'm looking at you, Team USA) here is what we can expect from the top contenders in the individual competition.

Danell Leyva, USA

Leyva finished qualifying with the highest all-around score. He didn't back that up in the team competition, which was consistent with the performance of the entire team. 

The team that many considered the favorite to win the gold, limped to a fifth place finish. Leyva struggled on the pommel horse and was a little shaky on the parallel bars.  

For Leyva, the results on the pommel are not completely shocking. It is his weakest event. The results on the parallel bars are surprising. This is his strongest event.  

His failures left him in tears, but he will overcome and atone for his performance by being in the mix for the all-around gold. He has proven far too consistent to put together two duds. 

John Orozco, USA

Let's stick with the Americans, and go with another all-around medal hopeful with Orozco. After finishing qualifying with the fourth highest score, Orozco was terrible in the team competition.

His performance on the pommel horse was similar to Leyva's and he landed his vault on his backside. Orozco was also rattled by his failures, and he was near tears, if he wasn't crying.

The outlook for Orozco does not look as good as it does for Leyva. He looked too far off his game to make a medal run in the all around.

Kohei Uchimura, Japan

Reigning world champion Kohei Uchimura was at the center of the big controversy in Monday's team competition. It was his low score on the pommel horse that was revised, which put Japan back into second from fourth place and altered the medal winners as a result. 

This has to be a big load off of his back. He was that close to being the reason his team lost a silver medal. His failure was shocking. We are talking about the only male gymnast to be world champion three times.

With the relief from this burden, I expect a relaxed and aggressive Uchimura to attack his events in the all-around and compete with Leyva for the gold.