Why did USA only have 1 person on vault and one on uneven bars in gymnastics?

Question

on vault we only had Alicia and on bars we only had Nastia. i know you can only have 2 per country...so why didnt we have 1 more on each? i know one of the other girls would have qualified for either event.

Answer 1

Why worry about one only?   If good & sure, one is enough.  

To be in, there are two sides of it.......a) Not qualified b) not interested.

Answer 2

Maybe they didn't qualify?

Answer 3

Only the top 8 scorers in the Preliminaries get to compete in the individual apparatus finals, Shawn was the 2nd American at 11th on Uneven Bars and 16th on Vault.

Answer 4

They may not have made it through to the finals.

2 Americans may have been competing in the event but one may not have attained a high enough score to progress through to the final.

Answer 5

They didn't qualify or score high enough. And for the ones when they do score high enough, they already have 2 gymnasts (Alicia was 4th but 3rd US gymnast for beam)

Answer 6

You have to qualify to be in those events at the end and I am not sure that we had any more uninjured qualifiers.