Georgia star gymnast out (Deseret Morning News) Two-time NCAA gymnastics all-around champion Courtney Kupets of Georgia is out for the season after tearing an Achilles tendon in Saturday's 197.90-195.95 win over Arkansas at Georgia's Stegeman Coliseum, which will be the site of the 2008 NCAA Championships April 24-26. Publish Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:30:36 GMT Read more...

Courtney Kupets out for the teason with torn achilles tendon... [quote]Kupets, also the 2007 NCAA vault champion and a member of the 2004 U.S. silver-medal-winning Olympic team, was injured on her first tumbling pass as the second-to-last competitor of Saturday's meet for the Gym Dogs.[/quote]http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,695258018,00.html she made a comeback from torn achilles before in 2003: [quote]Kupets

There are 2 more articles on posted on gymchat on this. It is a big story. Too bad she tore it, it would have been great for her to tryout for the Olympics; her competition videos look really good! She tore her achilles on: "double Arabian on the first pass of her floor routine against Arkansas" Utah gymnastics: Rested Utes ready to return to action against OSU (Deseret Morning News) http://www.gymchat.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?t=27647 And she had "surgery Monday to repair a torn right Achilles tendon" UGA Gymnast has Surgery (13 WMAZ Macon) http://www.gymchat.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?t=27530