Why was maroney vault not perfect

Many people believe that this vault should have been given a perfect score, which would have been a Heading into the vault finals, it was a no-brainer that Maroney would win the gold medal, and it was a no-brainer that she would do so with a pretty sizable gap over whoever the silver medalist ended up being.

In fact, announcers Al Trautwig and Tim Daggett could not stop talking about just how great Maroney was and how she was basically a lock to win the gold medal in the event.

That is how most of the viewers saw the situation as well. They saw her as being all but guaranteed to win the gold medal. Here were some of the remarks made by Trautwig and Daggett during the broadcast of the vault finals, according to SportsPress. Here is a video of the vault finals.

Maroney performs roughly 19 minutes into the minute video. After her shocking and heartbreaking fall during her second of two vaults, a fall that ended what was her amazing streak of 33 consecutive vaults during which she successfully landed her dismount , here is what Daggett now had to say, according to NBC Sports.

It was at that point when Maroney made what is now her famous "not impressed" face, which became a viral meme almost instantly and is still a fairly popular meme even to this day nearly six years later. Thankfully, Maroney still ended up winning a gold medal in the Olympics, as her team won the gold medal, as referenced above. This was the first gold medal won by a United States Olympic women's gymnastics team since the team won it in Atlanta, Georgia.

But where does her silver medal in the vault rank on the all-time Olympic upsets list? Like Daggett said, there was "no more of a guaranteed gold coming into the Olympic Games in gymnastics than McKayla Maroney on vault. I believe that Daggett is right, and not only about the Olympic Games.

Log in. Gymnastics London Olympics Feature. McKayla Maroney lands her vault attempt in the women's gymnastics team finals during the Summer Olympics in London, England. Modified 01 Aug Feature.

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Login to post your comment. Twisting into the mat like that is risking her ACL. Her second, easier vault was much safer, but scored a lower In the end Paeska averaged What makes McKayla Maroney special is that she is good enough to do her vaults easily and well. She goes higher than male gymnast Kohei Uchimura of Japan.

Her legs are perfectly straight, her toes pointed. But last night, she was slightly off on her Amanar:. She drifted to the side and didn't get quite as much height as usual. Of course, what is mediocre for Maroney — the But NBC's commentators speculated that she was trying to go for a perfect stuck landing on her second vault to make up for the small deductions.

And that's why she fell. Even with the fall, she received a Others suggested she looked nervous, and that one arm looked weaker. Either way, if she'd made it as ugly in the air as her competition -- bent her knees to speed up her rotation -- she might have stood up.

Instead, all Romania's Sandra Izbasa had to do was not fall. Neither were perfect, but they were good enough. Izbasa got at People on Twitter were mad that Maroney did not lose gracefully, but I think that's not fair. She knew she could have won easily, and she was mad at herself.

It's refreshing to see an athlete's personality peek through media-trained inoffensiveness.