The World Competes

USA Gymnastics has just reported that Alicia Sacramone is trying to make a comeback into gymnastics at age 22. At age 20, she was one of the older (if not the oldest) competitor on the 2008 Beijing Olympic team.

Sacramone won the silver medal, along with the rest of her team in 2008 (although if He Kexin or any of the Chinese teammates are discovered to be underage, that may be upgraded to a gold in about a decade, like the 2000 team). Many of her teammates, including Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin, are also competing, but they were much younger when they competed in the Olympics.

She is doing the same beam routine that she did at the Olympics, and is now working on her floor exercises.

Her first challenge will be to make nationals. She has to do well at the 2010 Covergirl Classic, which will be held on July 24th. If she does well there, she can compete at the 2010 Visa Championships in August.

Sacramone didn’t do her best performance in Beijing, and it’s good to see her getting back into the game, especially at an older age. I wish her luck.