Tuesday, July 31, 2012

McKayla Maroney

  • Long Beach native, competing despite fractured toe, will be key in team final.
  • (Los Angeles Daily News)
  • LONDON (AP) -- McKayla Maroneys busted big toe wont keep her from vaulting for the U.S. in Sundays Olympic team qualification.
  • (CNN Sports Illustrated)
  • They should have just handed the Americans the women's gymnastics team the gold medal after McKayla Maroney nailed her vault during the first rotation of the team finals on Tuesday. Maroney's vault gave Team USA a 1.
  • (Bleacherreport.com)
  • Long Beach's McKayla Maroney fractured her face a week before the Olympic Trials and broke her toe the week before the Olympics. But now, she and the American women are gold medalists, after a dominant effort in the team final.
  • (Gazette Newspapers)
  • McKayla Maroney will not have the chance to spotlight her full skill set at the London Games, but she is still more than just a one-trick pony. An injured big toe will prevent the 16-year-old from taking on a heavy workload in the Olympic Games.
  • (Bleacherreport.com)
  • LONDON – United States gymnastic star McKayla Maroney is icing her right foot after participating in light conditioning work on Monday. McKayla Maroney is the favorite to win the womens vault competition in London.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • LONDON -- When American vault star McKayla Maroney, the hands-down favorite to win the Olympic title on vault at the Olympic Games, didnt practice for the second day in a row, tongues started wagging.
  • (Examiner)
  • A broken toe will not keep McKayla Maroney from performing the enormous Amanar vault which won her the vaulting world championship in 2011. She will compete on vault during Sundays preliminaries. Jordyn Wieber, the U.S.
  • (Quad-Cities Times)
  • Todays Londons Calling edition of The Sporting Muse: When you have a prep playground as vast as Long Beach, its pretty hard for a notable young athlete to slip under the sporting radar.
  • (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
  • U.S. gymnast McKayla Maroney took the floor on Tuesday to tackle the event that can make or break Team USA in just a fraction of a second. Its the vault.
  • (NPR News)

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