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"I was disappointed after beam but 1 did well on everything else so going into floor 1 tried to focus on what 1 had done well and not what 1 had done bad," said Woolsey. And her strategy must have worked because she scored a 9.90 on her powerful new floor routine, which included a round off, flip flop, full twist, flip flip, flip flip, triple full twist. Her impressive floor routine moved her into fourth place all-around. Rounding out the fifth through eighth places in the all-around were Lavinia Molosovici with 38.899, Alicia Fernandez from Spain with 38.812, Canada's Leah Homma with 37.762 and Hanako Miura from Japan with 36.636. Another extremely strong competitor for the U.S. was Shannon Miller from Dynamo Gymnastics in Edmond, Okla. Miller, 12, placed sixth allaround after the preliminary
Japan's Mari Kosuge, won the bronze medal in the allaround competition.
round of competition, however, due to a two-gymnastper-country-rule, was unable to ad vance to the finals . Miller has a great deal of difficulty in her routines, especially for being only 12 years old. She does a full-in back-out dismount from the balance beam, as a flyaway off bars and for a tumbling pass on floor. "Shannon had the best meet of her life," said Steve Nunno, Shannon's coach. "I
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was very pleased with her performances, 1 was just disappointed she couldn't make the finals." Another young athlete that is sure to be a strong competitor for the U.S. is Hilary Grivich from Karolyi's Gymnastics in Houston, Texas. Grivich replaced Erica Stokes, also from Karolyi' s Gymnastics, at the last minute when Stokes was injured. Grivich and Miller, both at age 12, were
Sandy Woolsey demonstrated her brand new floor routine.
the youngest competitors in the McDonald's American Cup. Wendy Bruce and Brandy Johnson from Brown's Gymnastics in Altamonte Springs, Fla. also competed for the U.5. 17