The committee tried to ease the pain by naming Skinner, Smith and Ashton Locklear as 'replacement athletes,' but that still has to sting. Gabby Douglas was seventh and Madison Kocian eighth. Simone Biles (winner gets the lone automatic selection).If the three-person gymnastics selection committee had gone by overall performance, then the 2016 Olympic team would've looked like this: In a true trials like track and field-whose broadcast preceded gymnastics-the top finishers make the team. In fact, San Jose didn't host the Olympic trials it hosted a selection camp. How gymnasts finished in the Olympic trials mattered not one bit when it came to naming the five-member U.S. MyKayla Skinner finished fourth in the competition to choose the five-person Olympic team, but she wound up an alternate. Bridget Sloan had competed as a senior in the pre-Olympic year, but sheВ didnвЂ™t have a major under her belt when she was named a member of the 2008 team. The list includes Kyla Ross of the Olympic champion 2012 team, Courtney McCoolВ in 2004 and Tasha SchwikertВ in 2000. Hernandez is the latest in a list of first-year seniors who will compete in an Olympics as her first major international meet. Hernandez missed six weeks with a knee injury this year, giving her less than a month to prep for nationals. She's got all-around potential, and she's strong on the vault and the floor too.ДЄnd she has grit. Hernandez was last yearвЂ™s world junior champion and didnвЂ™t skip a beat when she moved up, tying veteran Aly Raisman for second at nationals last month. But donвЂ™t think sheвЂ™s not ready for the major leagues. She finished second to Biles at trials and got the highest score of the night on the beam, a 15.7, besting Biles on that apparatus for both nights.ДЄt a freshly minted 16 years old, Hernandez just became age-eligible for senior competition this year. Simone Biles may be the best Olympian the gymnastics outsiders don't know about, but it was Laurie Hernandez who had the San Jose, California, crowd chanting her name when she finished her last routine, the balance beam, on Sunday night. Read on for the ups and downs of the final day of trials.ДЄt 16, Laurie Hernandez is the youngest member of the U.S. squad needs the most help in if it is to pull off the rare feat of successfully defending team gold in Rio.ДЇiguring in to team selection was the Olympic team finals format of three-up, three-count, where teams pick three gymnasts to perform on each event and all three scores count toward the team total. That went to Madison Kocian, who performed the night's best routine on the uneven bars-the event coaches believe the U.S. The only real drama in the team selection, led by the ever-watchful national team coordinator Marta Karolyi, was the battle for the final spot. Olympic Trials in women's gymnastics sure had their share of drama.Д«ut in the end, we had what we expected from the beginning: a dominant five-woman team consisting of surefire pick Simone Biles-the three-time world champion and overwhelming favorite for gold at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro-and 2012 all-around Olympic champion Gabby Douglas.В Aly Raisman returns as theВ second member of the Fierce Five who helped win 2012 team gold in London, and new star Laurie Hernandez is the crowd favorite at 16 years old. Ronald Martinez/Getty ImagesДЇor results that seemed all but preordained, the U.S. Bottom row: Laurie Hernandez, MyKayla Skinner, Simone Biles, Ragan Smith. From left to right: (top row) Ashton Locklear, Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian, Gabby Douglas.

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