#3 Utah upsets #1 Georgia in Gymnastics last night.... by .100! Actually, Georgia should have won the meet, up by .300 going into the last rotation. Then Georgia fell twice on the beam. Now I am not claiming to know all the rules, but 6 members of the team do each event, and the final score is the sum of the 5 best scores (I think). If only one Georgia Gymnast had fallen, they would have kept the lead.
Our tickets turned out to be 1 row in front of the Georgia fan section, however we made nice and talked to them throughout the meet. We (when I say "we" in the context of being social and talking to people, I mean "mostly Holly") ended up talking to the family of the freshmen Georgia gymnast, Cassidy McComb. She was Outstanding! In fact, had her routine on the beam counted, (she did a beam routine, however it was claimed to be an "Exhibition," after the 6 team members had already gone) Georgia would have taken the meet.
This being my second ever Gymnastics meet, I have a lot to learn, but I thought it was great how much the Utah crowd, cheered for the Georgia routines and performances throughout the night. I think it is a courtesy rule to cheer for all contenders... however, it was a competition and that cheering diminished greatly on the last rotation. The cheers were clearly less for each Georgia routine and when the falls came, their were cheers for the possible outcome these falls meant.
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