United States Olympic Committee week in review

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Gymnastics: (Nov. 8) Women's National Team members Alicia Sacramone (Winchester, Mass.) and Melanie Sinclair (Orlando, Fla.) again proved the depth of the U.S. program by venturing to the first World Cup meet of the season in Ghent, Belgium, and bringing home two silver medals.

Sacramone finished second on vault with a 9.387. She trailed Olympic champion Monica Rosu of Romania, with Olympic bronze medalist Anna Pavlova of Russia taking third. Sinclair distanced herself from the field with a 9.650 on the uneven bars, good enough for the silver medal. She trailed only Chinese Olympian Li Ya (9.713), who placed fifth at the 2004 Olympic Games. (Nov. 9) Carly Patterson (Baton Rouge, La.) was named to Glamour magazine’s 15th Annual Glamour Women of the Year. The Glamour Women of the Year Awards, sponsored by L'Oreal Paris, honor extraordinary and inspirational women from a variety of fields, including entertainment, business, sports, music, science/medicine, education and politics. (Nov. 9) Seven U.S. athletes have qualified to the World Cup Final, slated for Dec. 11-12 in Birmingham, England. Paul Hamm (Waukesha, Wis.) and Morgan Hamm (Waukesha, Wis.) qualified in both the floor exercise and horizontal bar events. Courtney Kupets (Gaithersburg, Md.), Terin Humphrey (Bates City, Mo.) and Chellsie Memmel (West Allis, Wis.) qualified for the uneven bars event, with Carly Patterson qualifying for the balance beam final and Annia Hatch (West Haven, Conn.) qualifying for the vault final. Additionally, the U.S. has petitioned for Alicia Sacramone to qualify for the vault final based on her victory at the Pacific Alliance, which was not credited toward her World Cup qualifying points.