My weirdest post title? Probably. Can’t wait to live blog me some friendship.
The 30 athletes from Russia, USA, China, and Japan have been split up into two teams. Each athlete can compete all the apparatuses they want, but only the top 3 scores on each apparatus count for the team score that definitely matters.
Team Friendship is Angelina Melnikova, Asuka Teramoto, Hitomi Hatakeda, Yana Vorona, Sophia Butler, Liu Jieyu, Zhou Ruiyu, Artur Dalaloyan, Kazuma Kaya, Yuya Kamoto, Shane Wiskus, Yul Moldauer, Alexey Rostov, Zhang Boheng, and Shi Cong
Team Solidarity is Elena Gerasimova, Aleksandra Shchekoldina, Shilese Jones, eMjae Frazier, Chiaki Hatakeda, Zhang Jin, Akari Matsumura, Lu Yufei, Nikita Nagornyy, Kohei Uchimura, Dmitri Lankin, Wataru Tanigawa, Yin Dehang, Ma Yue, and Paul Juda.
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