Love me some gymnastics
Stayed up last night to watch the U.S. men’s gymnastics team try to pull off the upset of the Olympics.
I suspect I wasn’t alone.
I know at least a few other folks were awake watching former Oklahoma star Jonathan Horton and the rest of the Americans in Beijing. I spent the evening at a watch party in Norman.
The watchers: the OU gymnastics teams.
I’m sure it was louder at the arena in Beijing, but I’m not sure how it could have been.
The current and former Sooners went nuts every time Horton hit a routine or stuck a landing, and last night, that meant they were going crazy pretty much all the time. The 22-year-old from Houston was on. He stuck landings on big routines four consecutive times, and for a time, the Americans looked like they might just win the silver medal.
No one thought it possible without the Hamm twins.
Horton almost made it so.
I’ll have more about Horton as well as his biggest supporters back in Norman a little later this morning on NewsOK.com. Check back later this morning for an early web exclusive.
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