Gymnastics: U.S. captures first team gold since 1996

07/31/2012

LONDON – Magnificent Seven… meet the Fab Five. Or maybe the Fierce Five (listen below)?

The U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team won America’s first team gold medal since the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta with a dominating performance on Tuesday night.

The Americans started strongly on the vault and never looked back. In the end, they buried second-place Russia by more than five point. Romania earned the bronze medal.

After their high-flying display, Kyla Ross, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, Jordyn Wieber and Gabby Douglas stopped by our studio to talk with our gymnastics announcers Joe Tolleson and Peter Vidmar.

(Listen to Team USA’s interview from after winning the gold medal)

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(L to R) Westwood One gymnastics announcers Peter Vidmar and Joe Tolleson, Kyla Ross, McKayla Maroney, Westwood One's John Tautges, Aly Raisman, Executive Producer Howard Deneroff, Jordyn Wieber, Gabby Douglas

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