Olympic Gymnastics Schedule 2012: When and Where to Catch Each Individual Event
With the team finals and individual all-around finals now completed in men's and women's gymnastics, it's now time for the best individuals on each apparatus to take center stage as they go for gold to prove they are the best in the world.
For the men, there will be six individual events where multiple gymnasts will compete for medals, while the women will be competing on four apparatus.
Here's a look at when each apparatus will have its final, and who are the ones competing.
Men's Floor Exercise
1 of 10When: Sunday, 9 a.m. ET
TV Coverage: NBC (tape delay) between 7 p.m. and midnight.
The floor will be one of the more interesting events of the individual event finals as the top eight gymnasts finished within 0.4 points of each other.
Beijing gold medalist Zou Kai of China qualified first and looks to be the favorite again in London.
Also qualifying were Beijing fifth-place finisher Kohei Uchimura, fresh off his individual all-around gold medal, as is Germany's Marcel Nguyen, fresh off his individual all-around silver medal.
Israel's Alexander Shatilov is the only other gymnast who returns to the floor final for this Olympics, looking to do better than his eighth-place showing at the last Olympics.
Also competing will be USA's Jake Dalton, Romania's Flavius Koczi, Chile's Tomas Gonzalez and Russia's Denis Ablyazin.
Men's Pommel Horse
2 of 10When: Sunday, 10:41 a.m. ET
TV Coverage: NBC (tape delay) between 7 p.m. and midnight.
The pommel horse has a wider range between first and eighth places from qualifications.
Leading the charge is Great Britain's Louis Smith, who placed first on the event during qualifications as he scored a 15.800. Smith is also the defending bronze medalist in the event.
Reigning world champion Krisztian Berki of Hungary also qualified for the final, finishing fifth in qualifications.
Also competing are France's Cyril Tommasone, Hungary's Vid Hidvegi, Italiy's Alberto Busnari, Ukraine's Vitali Nakonechnyi, Russia's David Belyavskiy and Britain's Max Whitlock.
Even though he qualified fifth, Berki is still one of the favorites going into the event, although I think Smith is going to do everything to ensure the Brits take home a gymnastics gold.
Men's Rings
3 of 10When: Monday, 9 a.m. ET
TV Coverage: NBC (tape delay) between 8 p.m. and midnight.
In what will be another tightly contested apparatus, the rings have the defending gold medalist in Chen Yibing of China returning. Chen qualified first in the event, and is the favorite heading into the final.
Italy's Matteo Morandi is also returning to the final after finishing fifth four years ago. This time around, he qualified second.
Also qualifying for the final were Russia's Aleksandr Balandin and Denis Ablyazin, Brazil's Arthur Nabarrette-Zanetti, Puerto Rico's Tommy Ramos, Argentina's Federico Molinari and Bulgaria's Iordan Iovtchev.
Men's Vault
4 of 10When: Monday, 10:41 a.m. ET
TV Coverage: NBC (tape delay) between 8 p.m. and midnight.
Russia's Denis Ablyazin is in another event final here, having qualified first with a 16.366.
The only returning finalist from the 2008 Beijing final is Romania's Flavius Koczi, who qualified this time with a 15.949.
Also competing will be South Korea's Yang Hak Seon, Chile's Tomas Gonzalez, USA's Sam Mikulak, Britain's Kristian Thomas, Spain's Isaac Botella-Perez and Ukraine's Igor Radivilov.
Men's Parallel Bars
5 of 10When: Tuesday, 9 a.m. ET
TV Coverage: NBC (tape delay) between 8 p.m. and midnight.
No gymnast from the Beijing parallel bars final is returning, and the field is very wide open.
Japan had the top two qualifiers in Yusuke Tanaka and Kazuhito Tanaka. Kohei Uchimura qualified fifth, but won't compete in the final due to the two-per-country rule.
Also competing in the final will be China's Zhe Feng, Russia's Emin Garibov, Germany's Marcel Nguyen, Greece's Vasileios Tsolakidis, Mexico's Daniel Corral-Barron, France's Hamilton Sabot and China's Chenlong Zhang.
Men's Horizontal Bar
6 of 10When: Monday, 10:37 a.m. ET
TV Coverage: NBC (tape delay) between 8 p.m. and midnight.
The horizontal bar is the only individual event where the U.S. has two competitors.
Competing will be all-around bronze medalist Danell Leyva and defending Olympic silver medalist Jonathan Horton.
Kai Zou, the defending gold medalist also qualified seventh for the finals as did defending bronze medalist Fabian Hambuchen of Germany.
The Netherlands' Epke Zonderland qualified first with a score of of 15.966 and is looking to improve upon his seventh-place finish in Beijing.
Also competing are China's Chenglong Zhang, Russia's Emin Garibov and South Korea's Kim Ji Hoon.
Women's Vault
7 of 10When: Sunday, 9:50 a.m. ET
TV Coverage: NBC (tape delay) between 7 p.m. and midnight.
The women's vault is really for the silver medal.
USA's McKayla Maroney is the best vaulter in the world and nobody will beat her. Take that to the bank.
Maroney has had near perfect vaults every time out and I wouldn't be surprised to see her get that perfect score in the event.
Returning for another Olympics is defending silver medalist Oksana Chusovitina of Germany at the ripe age of 37.
Also competing are Romania's Sandra Izbasa, Russia's Maria Paseka, Domincan Republic's Yamilet Pena-Abreu, Germany's Janine Berger, and Canada's Brittany Rogers and Elsabeth Black.
Women's Uneven Bars
8 of 10When: Monday, 9:50 a.m. ET
TV Coverage: NBC (tape delay) between 8 p.m. and midnight.
Great Britain's Beth Tweddle is the best in the world in the uneven bars and it showed in the qualifications portion. Her score of 16.133 was better than defending gold medalist He Kexin, who won the gold based on a tie-breaker in Beijing.
USA's Gabrielle Douglas is coming in fresh off a gold medal in the individual all-around, having performed an even better routine there than she did in qualifications. So, look for her to compete for a medal as well.
Viktoria Komova qualified third and teammate Aliya Mustafina qualified fifth, fresh off taking silver and bronze in the individual all-around.
Also competing are China's Yao Jinnan, Germany's Elisabeth Seitz and Japan's Koko Tsurumi.
Women's Balance Beam
9 of 10When: Tuesday, 9:47 a.m. ET
TV Coverage: NBC (tape delay) between 8 p.m. and midnight.
Viktoria Komova will get another shot at Gabrielle Douglas in the balance beam final, but both qualified with the same second-place score of 15.266.
Qualifying first was China's Sui Lu with a score of 15.400 as teammate Deng Linlin qualified fourth.
Aly Raisman will attempt to gain redemption from finishing fourth in the individual all-around, as she qualified fifth. Teammate Kyla Ross qualified sixth, but won't participate in the final due to the two-per-country rule.
Ksenia Afanasyeva of Russia, and Romania's Catalinea Ponor and Diana Laura Bulimar round out the top eight in the final.
Women's Floor Exercise
10 of 10When: Tuesday, 11:23 a.m. ET
TV Coverage: NBC (tape delay) between 8 p.m. and midnight.
This looks to be the most interesting of all the women's individual event finals.
The U.S. is led by Aly Raisman, who scored competition-leading 15.325, and Jordyn Wieber, who qualified sixth.
The difference here is that Wieber and Raisman will both be looking for individual medals, and when they're both empty-handed in individual medals, all bets are off.
Don't be surprised to see them take 1-2 in this event.
Romania's Sandra Izbasa, who is the defending gold medalist in the event, qualified second with a score of 15.066.
Also competing will be Italy's Vanessa Ferrari, Russia's Ksenia Afanasyeva and Aliya Mustafina, Australia's Lauren Mitchell and Romania's Catalina Ponor.

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