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...have guidance and common ground so everybody is not coming from different places." The gymnasts invited to the ranch begin to bond as a team and get expert advice from Martha and a handful of specialists. The coaches scrutinize and refine techniques on each of the four apparatuses--balance beam, bars, vault and floor exercise...
...selection camp, Carly Patterson, 16, an experienced competitor, was a clear favorite for her steady work on the beam, despite her third-place finish at the trials. Terin Humphrey, 17, also impressed Martha with her steely consistency. Traditionally, the U.S. has loaded the team with bars-and-beams girls to amass as many points as possible in its two weakest events. But this year the U.S. is exceptionally strong in those events. "So [at the camp], my mind shifted to using two gymnasts who are strong on vault and floor exercises," says Martha. And that led her to Mohini Bhardwaj...
CARLY PATTERSON AGE 16 HOMETOWN Baton Rouge, La. EVENT Gymnastics THE DRAMA The world's No. 2 in the all-around competition, she risks the most difficult dismount from the balance beam of any competitor: a round off back handspring double Arabian. THE COMPETITION It's formidable but not invincible. In the team contest, the U.S. must vault past the solid Romanian and Chinese squads. For the individual all-around title, Patterson faces three-time world champion Svetlana Khorkina of Russia and newcomer Daniela Sofronie of Romania...
...ready for its close-up. Headus 3D scanning equipment, used by the U.S. military to design uniforms and scar masks for burn patients, was trucked from Sydney and installed in a white booth in Menzies' town hall. Persuading 130 people to enter, strip naked and allow a red beam to scan their bodies for 15 sec. was an achievement in itself. "It was like trying to get a mob of sheep through a gate," says Kath Finlayson. "They'd all break and go everywhere." Here the cowboy qualities of Ronald Hogarth were called upon. As Finlayson tells it, "I said...
...LIKE A Clive Cussler novel fell into a transporter beam with a Stephen Ambrose history, and they came out all fused together...