Fab Five: Team USA Wins Gold In Women’s Team Gymnastics

American gymnast Jordyn Wieber was crushed when she didn’t qualify for the Women’s All-Around competition for the 2012 Summer Olympics, due to the rule allowing only two competitors from each country to move on. Weiber wound up finishing fourth in the individual all-around with a score of 60.032, behind two of her American counterparts.

Wieber missed on one of her goals in the individual all-around, but that disappointment was quickly washed away with the sound of “The Star Spangled Banner” and the feeling of a gold medal being placed around her neck.

Women’s team gymnastics final, one of the marquee events of the entire 2012 Summer Olympics, is set to begin Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. London time, 11:30 a.m. ET. The event will be tape-delayed for NBC’s primetime coverage (8 p.m. ET), but with the help of NBC LIve Extra, you can watch all the vaults and floor routines live using this online stream.

Team USA will be looking to earn their first gold medal in the event since Atlanta 1996, and will likely get the toughest competition from Russia, the 2012 world champions. The United States won silver in Beijing and Athens, and bronze in Sydney. As luck would have it, Russia and the U.S. are paired together for Tuesday’s rotations.

The women’s team gymnastics finals is one of the main events in a jam-packed Tuesday at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

The United States women’s team will hope to fare better than the men’s team did on Monday, when they entered the final round as the favorites and finished all the way down in fifth place, leaving empty-handed and ceding the gold medal to China. The women’s team has the ability to win and will gun for the top spot on the podium Tuesday.