Hot USA Gymnast Alicia Sacramone

Meet Alicia Sacramone, a World Champion gymnast and U.S. Olympian.Alicia Sacramone was born on December 3rd, 1987. She hails from Boston, Massachusetts. It’s been said that she started in gymnastics after she was doing cartwheels in a local shopping mall in Massachusetts. She qualified as an elite gymnast in 2000. She would place 7th in the All Around at the 2002 US Classic and 14th at the Senior Nationals in 2003.In 2004, she was a member of the team that competed at the Pacific Alliance competition and won the Gold. Unfortunately, Alicia failed to qualify for the Olympics that year, after she had several mishaps at the nationals competition. This didn’t stop Alicia, even after missing the Olympic team, as she trained very hard the summer of 2004 and would go on to the World Cup finals, where she would win the Gold in the Vault Final.

In 2005, she qualified for the finals in Vault and Floor Exercise at the World championships in Melbourne, Australia. She would win the Bronze in the Vault Final, and would win the Gold in the Floor Exercise.In 2006, she competed in the 2006 World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark. Unfortunately, she would be disqualified from the floor final after being deducted .5 for a pause in her leap combination. She did win the silver in the Vault final and helped her team win the silver medal.Alicia is now enrolled at Brown University and is part of the gymnastics team there. She is hoping to be part of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Team.

With the two best gymnasts in the world and the Olympic gold medal within their grasp, the Americans bumbled and fumbled it away Wednesday at the Beijing Games. A fall off the beam here, a splat on floor there and two steps out of bounds was more than enough to cost a team a victory, no matter how many world titles it had.The Americans performed ahead of the Chinese in the final rotation, the floor exercise. After team captain Alicia Sacramone landed her second pass flat on her back, the gold medal was gone. Sacramone knew it, crouching on the steps by the floor, her head buried in her hands, disbelief etched across her face.Hers wasn't the only mistake. Shawn Johnson — the reigning all-around and floor world champion — stepped out of bounds on floor. So did Nastia Liukin.