1.   As a group, the female gymnasts on Sunday night appeared to be the most unsmiling of all the athletes on camera to date.

2.   As the host country, the U.S. may enter four male and four female gymnasts while visiting nations are limited to one male and one female.

3.   Both injuries are extremely frequent among young female gymnasts.

4.   All athletes risk injury, but the danger is particularly great for young female gymnasts whose growing bodies are especially vulnerable.

5.   Female gymnasts are small because it reduces the force needed for flips.

6.   If she wins a medal, Dawes will be the first American female gymnast to do that at three Games.

7.   It cited long-term damage to the female gymnasts, including injuries from overtraining, eating disorders, delayed puberty, osteoporosis and even social isolation.

8.   It was a fallacy, he asserted, that the female gymnasts were small because of training and strict diets.

9.   Kristie Phillips, like Moceanu a Bela Karolyi product, was once the most promising female gymnast in the country.

10.   Most female gymnasts are much younger, and Gahman said they are not injured as frequently as their elders.