Peng was brilliant on bars (Bhardwaj: full-twisting
Pak; Maloney-half) and beam (flairs mount; standing full, barani, stuck double pike), and her engaging floor routine began with a 11⁄2 twist through to
tucked Arabian double front, followed by a double
layout second pass that Manjak said might soon
become a layout full-out. Her only weak event in
Everett was vault, where she threw what appeared
to be a perfect Yurchenko-full that earned only
8.95 in execution.
“It’s a little bit frustrating,” Lee said of her vault
score. “But it’s OK because I’m not focused on the
full and doing it perfectly. I’m focusing on upgrad-
ing it.”
The U.S. won three senior apparatus titles and
all four junior crowns. But had any of its seniors
tried to qualify to the vault final, it probably would
have been a clean sweep.
Wakiko Ryu of Japan won senior vault with a
double-twisting Yurchenko and a roundoff half-on
to tucked barani.
But the most anticipated final was bars, where
