Women's Gymnastics 2012: Highlighting USA's Most Impressive Performers

The U.S. women's gymnastics team was utterly dominant in the team final.

Whenever one gymnast came up, she knocked a home run. (I know, wrong sport.)

When you look through all of the routines, it was hard to find a place where the U.S. didn't perform above expectations.

The uneven bars, which are known as the weakest event for the U.S., is something where the team performed above expectations.

The vault was simply amazing.

The floor exercise...WOW!

The balance beam...did they really do that?

Here's a look at each U.S. gymnast and how well they performed in the team final.

McKayla Maroney

Sure, the other four gymnasts did more than one event in the team final, but what a way to start the final with McKayla Maroney's vault.

It was near perfect. In fact, the NBC announcers were pretty surprised she didn't get a perfect score—she got a 16.233 instead.

Maroney showed why she is the best vaulter in the world and is the odds-on favorite to win gold in the individual vault.

Her score, a 16.233, set the tone for the U.S., which was a tone they carried throughout the final.

Gabrielle Douglas

Gabrielle Douglas was the only one of the five gymnasts to compete in all four events.

In those events, she performed extremely well and got a 15.966 on vault (second best), 15.066 on floor (third), 15.233 on beam (fourth) and 15.200 on bars (sixth).

She showed her consistency throughout, and I have to think that she is the favorite to win the individual all-around.

Yet, she could have been even better.

A small hop on the vault brought her below a 16.000, and if she can hold her hand stands just a tad longer on the uneven bars, she's going to run away with the all-around.

Jordyn Wieber

If you wanted to see how Jordyn Wieber would respond after the disappointment of not making the individual all-around final, then you saw a lot.

Wieber didn't fold but rose to the occasion and put up some top notch scores.

She scored a 15.933 on vault (third best), 15.000 on floor (fourth) and 14.666 on bars (11th).

It was a nice way to see her come back from Sunday, and it gives her some drive for the floor exercise final.

I feel that she'll medal in that event by getting an individual medal she covets, but it still won't take the sting away from not making the all-around.

Aly Raisman

Aly Raisman looks primed for the individual all-around final.

She only competed in two events in the team final, but performed impressively well.

Raisman scored a 15.300 on floor (first overall) and 14.933 on beam (seventh).

Although I would've liked to see her compete on at least one more apparatus, I'm still satisfied with the overall performance.

I'm curious to see how she's going to perform in the all-around.

She qualified second, but can she carry that over into the final and medal?

Kyla Ross

Kyla Ross made the U.S. team for her consistency.

In the team final, she showed that consistency and scored 15.133 on beam (fifth overall) and a 14.933 on uneven bars (eighth).

Her beam routine was just as good as Douglas' and helped propel the U.S. towards gold.

Unfortunately for Ross, she won't be in an individual final, so she now turns to cheering on her other teammates during the event finals.