So now it's the Fierce Five.

While the 2012 U.S. women's gymnastics team did not name themselves the Fab Five, they still felt the need to change it after people started complaining about that name being taken. First of all, the name is not trademarked and second, these girls weren't even born in 1991. But leave it to Jalen Rose to complain that the media shouldn't be calling the gold-medal winning team that.

The girls, who could just shove their gold medals in Rose and his four teammates' faces, just decided to come up with a new name themselves. Way to take the high ground, ladies. The solution? The Fierce Five.

Ok, so some closing thoughts on the gymnastics event finals.

Give Gabby Douglas a break on the uneven bars. While she had a slip up on the event, she fought hard to keep from falling and still posted a pretty decent score. Those that thought she had a chance at winning this event don't know much about gymnastics. She would have had to put up the routine of her life to even medal. This is the USA's weakest event and that's clear in the fact that the Olympic champion team only qualified one for the event. Uneven bars is my favorite event in gymnastics and I hope that the U.S. starts to improve on it soon.

The balance beam final is typically a survival of the fittest. By this point in the competition, of course someone like Douglas is exhausted and this is an event that she has struggled with in the past. She nailed three beam routines in a row and those were when it really counted. It's hard to put up four perfect beam routines in a meet. Aly Raisman was definitely capable of putting up a better routine but she still competed well enough to medal on the toughest event in the sport. Except she wasn't going to originally because her starting score (based on difficulty) wasn't correct. Cheers to Bela Karolyi for saving the day by convincing Raisman's coach to inquire the score. Once her difficulty score was changed she landed in a tie for third, again. This time the tie break, which I'm still against, went in her favor and she got a well-deserved bronze.

I definitely expected more of Jordyn Weiber on floor. Was it this recently announced stress fracture in her right leg? I don't know. But if she wanted more pity and attention, she certainly could have said something before or during the competition (like when she didn't make the all-around), rather than at the end. You could tell she kind of gave up after that first tumbling pass. You have to stick all the landings, especially with that field, to win and with a step on the first pass it's like she said, "I'm done." But she was gracious in defeat once again and cheered on Raisman and her absolutely outstanding floor routine. Shawn Johnson was bounced off the top of the podium by the last competitor in the floor final four years ago and this time Raisman withstood some pretty great routines to stay at the top. The difference? She performs the hardest routine in the world.

Douglas and Raisman certainly turned out to be the stars of the games when it just as easily could have been Weiber. The question is who will still be around in four years? It's hard to make two Olympics and no one has done it since 2000. Dominque Dawes made an impressive three teams, while Shannon Miller, Kerri Strug and Amy Chow were some of the last to make two.

I enjoyed this piece on the Today Show of the girls going out in London to enjoy the sites. It really shows that these are very young girls who love having fun and just happen to have some extraordinary talent.



I wrote a few days ago how I was disappointed in McKayla Maroney's reaction after she won silver on vault. She came out and said exactly what I figured happened, she was not upset with winning silver but upset with her performance and really didn't mean to be rude to those congratulating her. While she is an international athlete and needs to learn to be more gracious, let's not forget she is 16. However, she clearly wasn't over the whole thing by the time the medal ceremony came around and the look on her face went viral. The McKayla is not impressed tumblr is pretty entertaining.

It's clear though that she has a sense of humor. And I give her a lot of credit for knowing how to make fun of herself at her age. She and Raisman have been tweeting about competing against one another in a swim race (yes, I follow all five of them on Twitter). Yesterday, I guess they attempted to race but came across an obstacle. Maroney tweeted the below photo saying the caption below.

"The pool is closed...#notimpressed."