She wasn't able to fight with her toes against the momentum pulling her off the beam the way she did in the all-around final:

Then she lost her concentration, and her foot slipped off on this leap.

It's okay though. Douglas still has the one gold medal, the individual all-around, that everyone wants most. And she finished well this event well.

Still, it was a low-scoring 13.633, leaving Russia's Viktoria Komova's a clear path to a gold medal after missing it in team, the all-around, and uneven bars finals. But when it came time, Komova gave up.

She fell on her dismount, too. Komova refused to look up from her manicure when her score came up. It was lower than Douglas's, a 13.166.

Aly Raisman did not give up. That's even though she was off a little bit on some of her connections. To get the bonus points, you have to show continuous movement between the tricks.

Her next one was a little better:

The one after that was perfectly connected:

The judges lowered Raisman's difficulty score by not crediting her connections, giving her a 14.946. Bela Karolyi screamed from the stands at Raisman's coach, Mihai Brestyan, to appeal. Brestyan had never filed an inquiry before, and he didn't quite know what to do. But once the paperwork was in (and presumably some cash) he won. Raisman got one of her connections back -- the middle one, I think -- increasing her difficulty score and tying her with Romania's Catalina Ponor with a 15.066. (A Romanian newspaper upset at the decision noted with a faint of betrayal that Brestyan is Romanian.) Since ties are broken based on the execution score, Raisman got the bronze.

Floor

Going into the floor finals, it was a second chance for Raisman to get a gold and Jordyn Wieber's only chance — and a long shot at that — to get an individual medal. Wieber's tumbling, though still high in the air, wasn't quite as good as it was the night of team finals.

She went out of bounds on another tumbling pass, and got a 14.5.

The bronze gave Raisman confidence. In all-around finals, she took out the last flip in her first tumbling pass to play it safe. It's hard to control rebounding out of something like a high Arabian double front -- a half twist then two front flips in the air -- because the timing has to be perfect. If you have too much energy, you fly out of bounds, if you don't have enough, you land on your butt. Raisman was perfect:

Just the last part:

And her dance, which has always been her weakness, looked good too:

Her score was a 15.6, way higher than anyone else had scored on floor in the Olympics.

Romania's Catalina Ponor, who won gold on floor at the 2004 Olympics, performed a great routine.

But she couldn't catch Raisman. See how Ponor sort of pauses after her full-twisting double back flip before her next back flip? Raisman rebounds, while Ponor jumps: