Gymnasts are tough, that is all there is to it! Chellsie Memmel has fought for so many years - coming back from injury, overcoming obstacles, and hanging on to the Elite gymnastics dream for so many years. She looked AMAZING at the US Olympic Trials in June and made the Olympic Team, but shortly after arriving in Beijing, she injured her ankle in training.

Due to the injury she only competed on bars in the Team Preliminaries and Team Finals - as a bar landing is fairly tolerable (especially when you are taped up tight and flying high on adrenaline) yet tumbling would be impossible.

It was revealed today tht the ankle injury was much worse than initially reported - it is broken.

So sad for Chellsie - it would have been great to see her compete in all four events.