***SPOILER ALERT!*** (Note: The results aren’t revealed until the end of the post, but if you click on the links I can promise you no such courtesy.)

U.S. gymnasts huddle together after their performance during the Artistic Gymnastics women's team final at the 2012 Summer Olympics. | Julie Jacobson

Here are some of the highlights from the London 2012 women’s gymnastics final (with plenty of links so you can keep reading):

  • Strong vaults from Americans Jordyn Wieber (which was better than her qualifier), Gabby Douglas and McKayla Maroney.
  • Great Britain’s Jennifer Pinches falls off the beam. Speculation is always risky, but this definitely damaged their chances at a medal.
  • After the first routines, the scores are U.S. 48.132, China 46.399, Italy 41.899, Great Britain 39.199.
  • Japan’s Yu Minobe falls of the beam. Not a good day for that event, it seems. Soon after, China’s Deng Lin fell off the vault.
  • Too close for comfort? Halfway through, Team USA had 92.931 and Russia had 92.532.
  • Russia’s Anastasia Grishina scored a low 12.466 on her floor routine, which might have been the deciding factor for the gold.
  • Deng gets a 14.9 on her vault after taking an extra step. This wasn’t what China needed to medal.
  • Soon, the chanting began, “U-S-A, U-S-A!

Now: Your last chance to turn back before the results are revealed (if you can’t already deduce them). Keep scrolling at your own risk!

Bronze: Romania, with a score of 176.414

Silver: Russia, with a score of 178.530

(Drumroll, please.)

Gold: Team USA, with a score of 183.596 — Five points more than the nearest competition!

And the crowd goes wild over the first gold for the U.S. in women’s gymnastics since 1996.

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