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Team final result should not define Sacramone

By Alyssa Roenigk
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

BEIJING -- Sometimes it is difficult to find the silver lining in a silver medal. For Alicia Sacramone, Wednesday was that time. "We would have loved to have that gold," Sacramone said to a swarm of U.S. media moments after receiving the silver medal she wore around her neck. "And because of my mistakes, we missed out." In the final two rotations of team finals, Sacramone fell on her mount onto the balance beam and again on a tumbling pass on floor. She is the 2005 world champion on floor b ...

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