Alicia Sacramone, one of Team USA's gymnasts, is from Winchester, MA and attends Brown University. She helped the team win Silver in the Women's Team Competition and qualified for the individual Vault competition in a few days (she also qualified for Individual Beam but was the 3rd best from the US and you can only send 2 to the Individuals per apparatus).

She's also pretty attractive as 20-year-old college coeds go.

Team Silver

USA Gymnastics Team wanted Gold and it was within their reach. They did not accomplish gold but they were amazing nonetheless. Hats off to Alicia, the team leader, and all the young athletes whose clutch performances placed in the top two teams in the world.

Alicia is being hard on herself. She's taking blame for the loss of the Team Gold. Instead, they took Team Silver ultimately yielding to the Chinese Team.

Understandably, Alicia is disappointed because she knows her own performance was not her best and that as a result, she failed to lead by example. Furthermore, the flaws in her performance occurred on the world's biggest stage, the Olympics That cannot be easy to confront and process.

Alicia does not credit herself with an essential and amazingly difficult vault that kept her team in the running or the value of her leadership to team members but her teammates do, they said so in an on camera interview after the competition.

Last winter, Alicia was a guest at a youth gymnastics competition that her home gym sponsors at Couzens Gymnasium at Tufts University in Medford MA. At the award ceremonies, Alicia signed autographs for all the young girls in the competition. Alicia also had a special award for a first year gymnast in her first-ever gymnastics meet, a third grader from Darien CT, who scored a higher all-around score than any other girl in her level. The girl's mother told me her daughter didn't take the sweatshirt off for four months.

BEIJING (AP) - They call gymnastics a team sport, but everyone knows better than that.

They say nobody loses a gold medal all by themselves, but Alicia Sacramone wasn't buying it.

"No one else made mistakes," Sacramone said Wednesday, trying to blink back the tears but knowing there would be more to come after her sad Olympic moment in the women's team final.

"So it's kind of my fault."

She fell off the beam before her routine had really even started.

She fell on her backside in the middle of her floor exercise.

She sat on the stairs, her head buried in her hands, trying to be tough, to live up to the den-mother persona she has earned as the captain of the American team.

She and her teammates walked away with a silver medal - not the goal for a team with the world's two best gymnasts, Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin, and all that gold-medal potential.

"I think everybody knows you always have good days and bad days," Sacramone said after America's loss to China. "I just wish today was a good day." MORE

I'm sorry, but in the US, we can only have one Olympics star at a time. These other people will have to wait four more years and hope for the best.

(At least, that's what the media seems to think. "Michael Phelps wins relay!" Um, aren't there four people on that team?)

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