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Oct 2 2014

Team Line Up and Event Qualifier Predictions


With podium training already in the books and a few days left before qualifications, the time to speculate is ripe. After looking at the line up and performances in podium training, here are the likely line ups for Team USA in qualifications and team finals and predictions on event finals qualifiers. There aren’t a lot of surprises here, but one point of speculation is how much the US will use Kyla Ross during team finals.

The US team is likely to be very dominant in the team competition. Ross has the capability to not only contribute on every event in team finals, but also to win a silver medal in the all-around and event medals on beam and floor. In order to give her the best chances of individual success, resting her injury would be wise. However, Marta Karolyi tends to put the focus of the needs of the team first. It will be interesting to see if she decides to rest her or use her on all four events.

What are your thoughts?

Vault

Qualifications

  1. Madison Kocian
  2. Alyssa Baumann
  3. Kyla Ross
  4. MyKayla Skinner
  5. Simone Biles

Team Finals

  1. Alyssa Baumann or Kyla Ross (If they decide to rest Kyla Ross for individual finals
  2. MyKayla Skinner
  3. Simone Biles

Event Finals Qualifiers

Simone Biles

Simone Biles on vault in podium training.

MyKayla Skinner

MyKayla Skinner on vault in podium training.

Bars

Qualifications

  1. MyKayla Skinner
  2. Simone Biles
  3. Kyla Ross
  4. Madison Kocian
  5. Ashton Locklear

Team Finals

  1. Kyla Ross
  2. Madison Kocian
  3. Ashton Locklear

Event Finals

Madison Kocian

Madison Kocian in podium training.

Ashton Locklear

Ashton Locklear in podium training.

Alternatively Kyla Ross will be right on the heels of these two. If either of them falter, she will be right there to jump into event finals.

Kyla Ross in podium training.

Beam

Qualifications

  1. MyKayla Skinner
  2. Madison Kocian
  3. Alyssa Baumann
  4. Simone Biles
  5. Kyla Ross

Team Finals

  1. Alyssa Baumann
  2. Simone Biles
  3. Kyla Ross

Event Finals

Simone Biles

Simone Biles in podium training.

Kyla Ross

Kyla Ross in podium training.

Alternatively, Alyssa Baumann can easily sneak into finals if one of these two falter.

Alyssa Baumann in podium training.

Floor

Qualifications

  1. Madison Kocian
  2. Alyssa Baumann
  3. Kyla Ross
  4. MyKayla Skinner
  5. Simone Biles

Team Finals

  1. Alyssa Baumann or Kyla Ross (If they decide to rest Kyla Ross for individual finals)
  2. MyKayla Skinner
  3. Simone Biles

Event Finals

MyKayla Skinner

MyKayla Skinner in podium training.

Simone Biles

Simone Biles in podium training.

All photos by John Cheng via USA Gymnastics