What other gymnast would you have liked to have seen on TV that was not shown?

Question

NBC only focused on the American Girls and the Chinese Girls. They showed a Romanian and Russian as well. I know there are other gymnasts of interests that I would have liked to seen.

My picks are Oksana Chusovitina and Anna Pavlova.

Chusovitina is the 33rd year old gymnast with the child that had lukemia. She was at the 1992 olympics!

Answer 1

I would have liked to see more of the bottom qualifiers who were just thrilled to have made it to represent their country and knew they'd never get a medal.  

I think that might give us some much-needed perspective on this whole thing. . . you're supposed to do it for the love of the sport and competition, not to get the gold medal.  It would also probably show how hard the events really are if we saw more mistakes, rather than totally glossing over how hard these people have to work for it to look so easy!

Answer 2

Well, just to defend the coverage a bit, the top qualifiers (2 Americans, Yang Yilin of China, Ksenia Semenova) were in that rotation, along with 2 others, and the broadcast wanted to show the "favorites" to win. I would have liked to see Oksana Chusovitna as well, but she didn't post any remarkable scores so we didn't seem to miss anything spectacular (again, I would have still liked to see her...she's very impressive regardless).