Jordyn Wieber’s Olympic experience included the joy of winning team gold with the U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics squad and handling the adversity of not making the individual all-around final.
It also included a suspected stress fracture.
The 17-year-old defending world all-around champion from DeWitt, who competed on floor exercise this afternoon in her lone individual event final, was scheduled to be placed in a walking boot soon after the competition, said her father, David.
Wieber finished seventh in the floor exercise final today, receiving a score of 14.500 for her routine set to Ruslana’s “Wild Dances." Alexandra Raisman of the United States won the gold medal.
John Geddert, the U.S. head coach and Jordyn’s personal coach, told reporters last week that his gymnast had been nursing an injury. He speculated at the time that it could be a stress fracture. Jordyn has been dealing with a painful heel condition all season.
“Her shin has not healed,” David Wieber said before the event final. “She said she’s been in a lot of pain when she practices, but she said (she's) not when she’s competing.”
Raisman, the U.S. captain, won the title on floor exercise today about an hour after getting a bronze on balance beam. It’s the first Olympic gold on floor exercise for a U.S. woman.
Catalina Ponor of Romania won the silver, and Aliya Mustafina of Russia got the bronze.
In other event finals on the concluding day of gymnastics, U.S. gymnast Aly Raisman won the bronze medal on balance beam when she came out on top on a tiebreaker after the USA challenged the original score that had her fourth, behind Catalina Ponor of Romania.
Linlin Deng and Lu Sui, both from China, captured gold and silver on the apparatus.
Epke Zonderland of the Netherlands took the gold medal on men’s high bar. Fabian Hambuchen of Germany won silver, and Kai Zou of China won bronze.
On parallel bars, Zhe Feng of China won the gold medal, ahead of Germany’s Marcel Nguyen (silver) and Hamilton Sabot of France (bronze).
