Team Jordyn

“The former Soviet Union used to get around this rule by faking an injury to one of the qualified athletes. Back in 1992 — when the top three per country advanced to the all-around final — pre-meet favorite Tatiana Gutsu fell off the beam and failed to make the top three on the powerful Unified Team. So the team simply claimed that Roza Galieva had a knee injury and subbed in Gutsu, who ended up winning the whole competition. It was only a few years later that Galieva herself revealed that she in fact had not been injured.”

— If you were peeved for U.S. Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber not making the cut yesterday, at least blame us for not being Russian enough.