Olympic Champions in Women's Artistic Gymnastics
Sydney 2000
All-around
Andreea Raducan (Romania)
Vault: 9.706
Bars: 9.575
Beam: 9.787
Floor: 9.825
Total: 38.893
Andreea was stripped of her gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance. IIRC, she had a cold and the Romanian doctor gave her some cold pills... The official gold medalist is Simona Amanar. To most gymnastics fans however, Andreea is the true champion.
By the way, this WAG AA competition was without any doubt the most controversial ever: after 2 rotations, it was found out that the vault was set too low - many gymnasts missed their vaults. (Svetlana Khorkina, the favourite fell too) In my opinion, the competition should have been restarted.
25 дек 2008