Alicia Sacramone

• SAN JOSE – Alicia Sacramone said her goodbye to competitive gymnastics in a tweet: Thanks to ALL of my supporters! You have been truly amazing! I leave this sport with no regrets and a kick ass comeback to my name! After she was left off the U.
(USA Today)
• Alicia Sacramone has been waiting for the 2012 London Olympics a lot longer than most athletes preparing for these Games. She has been on a mission that was supposed to end in triumph for the 24-year-old.
(Bleacherreport.com)
• Alicia Sacramone, captain of the 2008 team, also failed to make the team despite a solid performance at the trials.
(People)
• When Alicia Sacramone tore her right Achilles' tendon before the World Artistic Gymnastic Championships in Tokyo last October, she was worried it might affect her chances of making the U.S. team for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
(Abington Mariner)
• She finished her beam routine, which was probably her last competitive routine of her career.
(People)
• Winchester's Alicia Sacramone didn't make the team, nor did defending Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin. . . . Jonathan Horton is heading back to the Olympics with a bunch of rookies in tow.
(Boston Herald)
• SAN JOSE — These Olympic trials are not the same trials that the swimmers are having in Omaha or the track and field people in Eugene, Ore., where the top two or three get tickets to London next month.
(The Boston Globe)
• There is no more Shawn Johnson, no more Nastia Liukin and no more Alicia Sacramone. This complete and total overhaul leaves the country with five teenagers to rout for against the rest of the world.
(Bleacherreport.com)