Yang Yilin: Future Olympic All Around Champion: Serious Possibility

First of all prayers for those all Iowans, including Shawn Johnson's and her coach as they deal with this horrific crisis going on It's a horrific thing.

But on a lighter note...

There's a new all around threat... She might not be getting talked about, she might not have the hype. But this girl has the routines, and is posting the numbers which could make her the top Girl in Beijing. And the best thing about her position, is she'll have little to no expectations.

Her Name:

Yang Yilin of China. (Who'd you think I was talking about Jiang Yuyuan!) Of course Jiang has a shot to but not the shot Yang has.

Now last year Yang did the All Around, and she went 4/4 but she didn't medal because she didn't have the difficulty. However, times change and gymnasts can upgrade. And boy has Yang upgraded.

She's now got a 7.7 bar routine, a DTY vault, and much harder floor and beam routines. Now, the thing is though that except for Chinese Nationals (which she didn't win because of a big mistake on bars although she won Prelims) we haven't been able to see Yang do beam or vault. And while she got nice numbers there, it was clear that Chinese Nationals was well inflated.

Well, we can guess no more because Yang has competed at French Nationals today (and was 2 freaking points better than her next competition Jiang Yuyuan)

As for Yang's scores


15.125 Vault
16.650 Bars
15.750 Beam
15.175
62.700

With numbers like these she could win the Olympics. And the scary thing is she has room for improvement. She stepped out of bounds on floor, and she's gotten higher scores on bars internationally..

Nobody will probably be mentioning Yang Yilin's name as an All Around threat. But if she hits like this at the Olympics, she's on the Medal stand.. And it could even possibly be Gold.