Friday, August 08, 2008 By Christian Ivanov The gymnastics competition opens Saturday with the men's qualification, featuring 12 teams going for the eight invitations to Tuesday's team finals. However, there's not much of a chance anymore that a medal-contending team will get left out of finals. So more exciting to some on Saturday is the individual race, where 96 gymnasts are hoping for a top-eight finish to advance to the event finals. Gymnastics continues to become a specialists' sport, and even more so with the "open-ended" Code of Points. Top specialists who can handle the extreme difficulty are pulling further away from their competitors, which allows those with the tricks a wider range to err and still win. Of course even the biggest names can fall behind and fail to make the final, and there is bound to be an...
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