What to watch for - Day 12.

It’s safe to say I’ll be a little depressed tomorrow because the countdown until gymnastics at the Olympics goes back to four years. However, there are still four events left and the Americans have some great opportunities to earn more medals.

If you don’t typically like men’s gymnastics, I encourage you to watch tonight’s horizontal bar final. You will be entertained, I promise! The guys have absolutely nothing to lose and don’t hold anything back in these routines. The person to actually catch the bars after his skills is typically the one to win. American Jonathan Horton won the silver in Beijing, I still think it should have been gold, and is in the final again in London. The only color medal he doesn’t have is Olympic gold and with this possibly being his last Olympic event he will through everything out there in this routine. Danell Leyva is also in the final and after what he did on the event in the all-around final to win bronze, it’s clear he is definitely capable of a great score. Other contenders include Epke Zonderland of the Netherlands, who does a very difficult three-release series, and defending champion Zou Kai of China.

No one from Team USA is in the parallel bars final, which means the reigning world champion Leyva won’t have a chance to keep his title. This is considered to be a pretty wide open race with a lot of previous top-three finishers, but the top two qualifying scores came from the Japanese brothers Yusuke and Kazuhito Tanaka.

The two per country rule did not just affect Jordyn Weiber in the all-around but also kept Kyla Ross out of the finals for beam. She qualified in sixth, but with Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman qualifying second and fifth, she has been left out. The top qualifier was China’s Sui Lu, while Russia’s Viktoria Komova tied Douglas in the second spot. Keep an eye on Romania’s Catalina Ponor who won the event in 2004. Romania considers this their event and Ponor looked fearless in the team finals on the apparatus.

All eyes will be on Weiber in the floor exercise final but it was Raisman who qualified first with a 15.325. This is Weiber’s chance for an individual gold and her time to shine alone. She qualified sixth but had a step out of bounds that of course kept her out of the all-around and from a higher qualifying score. This final is jam packed with talented gymnasts. Two Olympic champions in Romania’s Ponor and Sandra Izbasa, two floor world champions in Australia’s Lauren Mitchell and Russia’s Ksenia Afanasyeva and three world all-around champions in Italy’s Vanessa Ferrari, Russia’s Aliya Mustafina and Weiber. Can’t wait!

There will be medals awarded in track and field in the men’s high jump, men’s discus, men’s 1500m and women’s 100m hurdles.

In the men’s 1500m, Algeria’s Taoufik Makhloufi had the top time in the semifinals followed by Asbel Kiprop of Kenya and Mekonnen Gebremedhin of Ethiopia. American Leo Manzano posted the fourth-best time in the semifinals and is joined by teammate Andrew Wheating in the final.

There are a lot of stories about redemption every four years and the biggest one of these games comes from Lolo Jones. She was on pace to win the gold in the 100m hurdles in Beijing but tripped on the last hurdle to stumble and miss out on a medal. Jones is just one of those people you want to cheer for and she has a great shot at winning a medal again this time around.

Beach volleyball continues for Misty May-Treanor and Carrie Walsh Jennings. Their match tonight determines whether they play for the gold or bronze. They have still never lost a match and are in good position to win their third straight gold.