2007 World Gymnastics Championships, Sept. 1-9, 2007, in Stuttgart, Germany USA Women's Worlds Gymnastics Team, named after the Visa Championships USA Nationals in San Jose, California: Ivana Hong (Blue Springs, Missouri/GAGE) Shawn Johnson (West Des Moines, Iowa/Chow

The women's team is picking the alternate after podium training at Worlds in Stuttgart, Germany.

Well the guys team is almost the same as last year and they got 13th place. Let's see.

2006 Worlds men's team: Alexander Artemev, Guillermo Alvarez, Jonathan Horton, alternate David Sender replaced Justin Spring because of re-aggravated ankle injury, Clay Strother, Kevin Tan, alternate David Durante. So, David Durante and Sean Golden added this year instead of David Sender and Clay Strother. Last year at worlds it was pretty close margins for qualifying (top 10 qualify): 1 CHN - China 59.125 (11) 62.000 (1) 62.925 (2) 64.900 (1) 62.475 (2) 59.025 (8) 370.450 Q 2 JPN - Japan 59.650 (8) 59.275 (4) 62.175 (3) 61.975 (20) 63.050 (1) 61.625 (1) 367.750 Q 3 RUS - Russia 59.525 (10) 58.800 (6) 61.650 (4) 64.000 (4) 61.050 (4) 60.375 (2) 365.400 Q 4 ROM - Romania 61.475 (1) 60.200 (2) 59.800 (6) 64.075 (3) 59.900 (9) 58.875 (9) 364.325 Q 5 CAN - Canada 61.250 (2) 58.775 (7) 58.375 (15) 63.650 (6) 60.825 (6) 59.100 (7) 361.975 Q 6 GER - Germany 58.900 (13) 59.675 (3) 59.175 (12) 63.100 (10) 60.775 (7) 59.450 (5) 361.075 Q 7 SUI - Switzerland 59.675 (7) 57.950 (11) 59.400 (10) 63.675 (5) 59.625 (10) 58.875 (9) 359.200 Q 8 BLR - Belarus 58.625 (15) 57.125 (17) 60.150 (5) 62.800 (13) 60.950 (5) 59.525 (4) 359.175 Q 9 ESP - Spain 61.025 (3) 58.175 (9) 59.475 (8) 63.200 (9) 58.225 (15) 58.425 (12) 358.525 10 FRA - France 60.850 (5) 57.575 (14) 57.925 (17) 64.700 (2) 58.225 (15) 59.200 (6) 358.475 11 KOR - Korea 58.100 (18) 57.775 (12) 59.450 (9) 62.200 (18) 62.275 (3) 58.675 (11) 358.475 12 UKR - Ukraine 60.325 (6) 59.200 (5) 59.275 (11) 62.550 (15) 59.125 (13) 57.800 (14) 358.275 13 USA - United States 61.025 (3) 58.475 (8) 59.050 (14) 63.225 (8) 59.200 (11) 57.125 (20) 358.100 http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2006/worlds/results/15-menteamresults.pdf

Who do you think will be the alternate for the USA women's gymnastics team? If there are no aggravating injuries etc., Nastia, Alicia, Shawn, Shayla, Ivana are in and prob. also Samantha Peszeck, Bridget Sloan for the alternate. The alternate will be picked September 1, after podium training at Worlds - Martha will be looking at their training closely!