UH, OK?!

Olympic gymnastics is awesome... IF. And I say that loosely. For the U.S. men's team - their bronze medal win was awe-some. They were totally underdogs, and winning a medal was simply icing on the cake for them.

But for the women, not so much.

So the women were poised for a gold medal finish in Beijing. And the gold could've easily been theirs. But in the prelims, they were plagued by all sorts of mistakes: Nastia's botched landing on the uneven bars, Chellsie's fall on the same apparatus, and then there were the out-of-bounds steppin' that several of them did on the floor. Whack.

During the team finals, though, it seemed as if they were scott-free. But again, not-so-much. I think the damaging blows came from their team captain: Alicia Sacramone. Her nerves got to her, and she totally fell off the beam (while trying to get on), and then failed a landing during one of her tumbling passes on floor. PLUS, she stepped out of bounds at the end of her floor routine. Nastia and Shawn both stepped out of bounds during their final floor routines, too, leaving the door wide open for China to swoop in and take the gold.

Well, all is well that ends well. I feel like the U.S. women were hell-bent on making sure they got gold. But they were too focused on that, and stopped having fun. You could see it in their faces. The Chinese, on the other hand, went out there and had the time of their lives -- despite the allegations of having way-too-young competitors.

My ultra-mean theory is that China got the gold not only for being awesome, but because their team captain, Cheng Fei (or Fei Cheng, please forgive me), is way too facially unfortunate for her own good. Their win was like 90% hard work, and 10% consolation for her lack of being cute. Sorry. (I said I was mean, didn't I?)

Alicia Sacramone: SO ANNOYING

Cheng Fei: SO NOT CUTE