Silver is beautiful Matt Grevers told NBCs Andrea Kremer shortly after finishing second to US teammate Aaron Peirsol in the 100-meter backstroke on Monday night Tuesday morning in Beijing A little more than two hours later at 1240 amET the US mens gymnastics team showed that in some cases bronze might even be better The scrappy Hamm-less squad performed out of their collective heads save for two disastrous pommel horse routines to finish an unexpected third 125 points ahead of Germany China won gold as expected and the Japanese came from behind to take silverHouston native Jonathan Horton led the team performing cleanly on his five apparatuses nailing his landings as if the soles of his feet were dipped in glue NBCs Tim Daggett described Hortons performances as fairytale good and MVP times 10 Huddled with his teammates before the final scores were revealed he told them This is the mo
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