1.   Blaine Wilson launched into his first vault, tumbled through the air with his body tucked tight, only to backpedal badly through his landing.

2.   It just happened that Strug tore up her left ankle on her first vault.

3.   Khorkina landed flat on her backside on her first vault.

4.   Ms. Strug also fell on her first vault and when she did she heard her left ankle snap.

5.   On his first vault, the pole broke in half.

6.   Shannon Miller went twisting into the air during her first vault Sunday night but found herself too low in the air and too short on her landing.

7.   She had just taken her first vault over the horse and severely sprained her left ankle on the landing.

8.   So Strug hobbles back from her first vault in great pain, unsure of the severity of her injury.

9.   Strug was quoted as screaming to her coach, Bela Karolyi, after the first vault.

10.   On her first vault, her opening event, Chow nailed a Yurchenko double twist.