LONDON - McKayla Maroney didn't need to look at the scoreboard. The Olympic gold medals they were expected to win were going to someone else. "It happens. It's gymnastics," Maroney said. "You can't be ...

America was cruelly denied the pleasure of watching McKayla Maroney prance across the podium after winning a gold medal on vault Sunday night. All she had to do was land on her feet, but she did not.

It wasn't a hard competition to win for Romania's Sandra Izbasa. Within a 10-minute period of time in the women's vault finals one athlete landed in a face-plant, two more fell on their rears, and one ...

McKayla Maroney wowed gymnastics fans every time she took flight from the vault. But her stellar athletic career was brief. How did she get there, and what did she do when gymnastics were no longer an ...