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London 2012 Summer Olympics also held in 1908 and 1948 by Andrew Thomas

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Danell Leyva is a Cuban-American gymnast. He is the 2011 U.S national all-around Gymnastic gold medalist and the 2011 world champion on the parallel bars. He beat Orozco at trails but both gymnasts are going to London.

Zou Kai, China Men's Gymnastics : One of the few remaining members of the 2008 gymnastics team which took home 11 gold medals. Kai looks to defend his titles in the floor and the horizontal bar competitions for China this summer. (photo: Xinhua)

Teng Haibin: China -All-around gymnast. He is a 2x World Champion as well as an Olympic gold medalist on the pommel horse. He cost his team a medal at the 2004 Olympics with multiple falls on every apparatus (except his specialty pommel horse)..

Chen Yibing: China gymnast and a 4x's world champion on still rings. He was part of the Chinese team that won the gold medal in the team event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in 2006, '07, '10 and '11 and the Asian Games in '06 and '10; since his international debut at in '06, he was almost unbeatable on his specialist event -"still Ring", except to his teammate Yan Mingyong in '09. (photo: Xinhua/Cheng Min)

Feng Zhe: China -All-around gymnast. He is the 2010 World Champion on the Parallel bars.

Zhang Chenglong: China gymnast who stole the gold medal from home crowd favorite Dutchman Epke Zonderland in 2010 Worlds High Bar Final. (photo: (Xinhua/Zeng Yi)

Jonathan Horton: U.S. gymnast and is the 2008 Olympic silver medalist on high bar, 2010 Worlds all-around bronze medalist and a two-time U.S. National All-Around Champion. He is a 17-time medalist at the U.S. National Championships.

Jacob Dalton: U.S. gymnast and part of the U.S.A. team that won the Bronze medal in the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.

Zou Kai: China gymnast who was part of the Chinese team that won the gold medal in the team event at the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and the 2006 Asian Games. Zou won 3 gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and as a result was nominated for the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year in 2009.

2 July 2012, Sam Mikulak -U.S. gymnast: the 19-year-old did only one event in Saturday's final day of qualifying but was chosen along with Jon Horton and Jake Dalton to join automatic qualifiers Danell Leyva and John Orozco in London. (photo: Elizabeth Conley/Detroit News)

Sam Oldham: Great Britain gymnast who is a triple junior European champion and won the men's horizontal bar event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore.

Louis Smith: British All-around Gymnast. His strongest event is the pommel horse, in which he has been a 2-time European Silver medallist and Commonwealth Games Champion.

Daniel Purvis: British champion in Men's Artistic Gymnastics. In Lausanne -2008, he helped the British team win the Gold medal, and individually won the All-Around silver at the Junior European Championships again

Kim Hee-Hoon: South Korea All-around Gymnast.

Max Whitlock: British Gymnast who in 2010 was part of the team which won the silver medal for England in the gymnastics in the men's artistic all-around team event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He also won the silver medal in the men's pommel horse and a bronze medal in the men's horizontal bar at the same games.

Kim Seung-Il: South Korean gymnast who was part of the South Korean team that won the bronze medal in the team event at the 2006 Asian Games. He competed for South Korea at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.

Kim Ji-Hoon: South Korea Gymnast who was part of the South Korean team that won the bronze medal in the team event at the 2006 Asian Games. He also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

David Belyavskiy: Russian gymnast who won the all-around gold title at the 2012 Russian Cup in Penza.

Kim Soo-Myun: South Korean gymnast who was part of the South Korean team that won the bronze medal in the team event at the 2006 Asian Games, 2007 World Championships Team and 2008 Olympic Team. His best event is floor exercise.

Yang Hak-Seon: South Korea gymnast who is the World Champion (vault) 2011 from Tokyo.

Denis Ablyazin: Russia All-around gymnast who won 2 bronze medals on vault and still rings exercises at European Championship on gymnastics, which was finished in Montpellier in France, 2012.

Alexander Balandin: Russian all-around gymnast who won the gold title on still rings in Montpellier, France on May 27, 2012. (photo: Tobias Schwarz)

Emin Garibov: Russian all-around gymnast took the gold on high bar during the European championship in Montpellier, France 2012.

Igor Pakhomenko: Russian all-around gymnast who won the team bronze medal in Montpellier, France on May 27, 2012.

Kōhei Uchimura is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He is a 2-time Olympic silver medalist and a nine-time World medalist. He will be competing in the individual and all-around London Olympic Gymnastic events.

Allyson Felix USA Track and Field: is a California native, a two-time Olympian (2004, 2008) and member of the defending gold-medal 4x400-meter women's relay team. She announced she will run the 100 and 200 at the U.S. trials. Along with her relay gold from Beijing, the 26-year-old USC product has won the silver in the 200 in the two previous Games. (photo & text: sportsillustrated)

Bernard Lagat USA Track and Field Trials: he's a two-time Olympic medalist for Kenya in the 1,500 meters, the 37-year-old became a naturalized American citizen in 2004, but fell short of the podium in Beijing for his new country. In 2012, with a new focus on the 5,000 and medals in the event at the most recent world championships, he again has an Olympic long-distance medal in sight. (photo & text sportsillustrated)

Bryan Clay USA Track and Field: The reigning Olympic champion in the decathlon and the silver medalist at Athens in 2004, Clay now has his sights set on London. If he succeeds and again ends with a podium finish, the 32-year-old California resident will become the only decathlete to ever win three Olympic medals. (Text: Kevin Fixler, SI.com Photo: Bill Frakes/SI)

Brittney Reese USA Track and Field: After winning gold in the long jump at the 2011 world championships, Brittney Reese is favored to win the Olympic gold medal this year. (photo: Franck Faugere/DPPI)

Carmelita Jeter USATrack and Field: After failing to qualify for the 2008 Games in Beijing, the 32-year-old Jeter will try to make her first Olympics at this year's trials. With a 100-meter world championship victory over her rivals in May, she has her sights set on gold and the title of the world's fastest women. (Text: Kevin Fixler, SI.com Photo: Bob Martin/SI)

Jeremy Wariner USA Track and Field: After medaling in the 400 meters in consecutive Olympics (he won gold in 2004, silver in 2008), the 28-year-old Texan will try to get back on top in a field of mostly American hopefuls. Beijing Olympics puts Wariner's event dominance into question, but it should make for an intriguing quarter mile in London ..if he makes it. (Text: Kevin Fixler, SI.com/ Photos: Bert Richardson)

Jason Richardson USA Track and Field: The reigning 110-meter hurdle world champion, Richardson, 26, ran for the South Carolina Gamecocks and graduated with a degree in sports management in 2009. Under the guidance of coach John Smith (who also coaches female speedster Carmelita Jeter), Richardson should make his Olympic debut at the 2012 Games in London and be a real threat to take gold. (Text: Kevin Fixler, SI.com/Photo: Bob Martin/SI)

Jesse Williams U.S. Track and Field: Consistently ranked in the world's top 10, the 29-year-old high jumper out of North Carolina will try to propel his 6-foot, 155-pound frame even higher in 2012 after missing the finals in Beijing. Following a gold-medal performance at the 2011 world outdoor championships, he is the first American to accomplish the feat in two decades. Williams appears to be the favorite in the event in 2012. (Photo: Jason Szenes for The New York Times)

1 July 2012: Cullen Jones wins the mens 50m freestyle final in the 2012 U.S. Olympic swimming team trials at the CenturyLink Center.

2 July 2012, Sam Mikulak -U.S. gymnast: the 19-year-old did only one event in Saturday's final day of qualifying but was chosen along with Jon Horton and Jake Dalton to join automatic qualifiers Danell Leyva and John Orozco in London. (photo: Elizabeth Conley/Detroit News)

Kara Patterson USA Track and Field: America's top female javelin throwing hopeful, the 26-year-old Purdue graduate is the U.S. record holder. After qualifying for the Beijing Games in 2008, she placed just 41st, a mark she surely intends to improve upon in 2012.

23 June 2012: Ryan Lochte, left, and Michael Phelps greet each other as Lochte leaves and Michael Phelps arrives at a news conference at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, Saturday in Omaha, Neb. The trials starts on Monday. -Sports! Yahoo

Lolo Jones USA Track and Field: Favored to win the 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Lori "Lolo" Jones heart-breakingly came up short after tripping on the penultimate hurdle and placed seventh. Come trials, the 2005 graduate of LSU via Des Moines, Iowa, will try to qualify for the 2012 Games in London and recapture talk of a podium finish. -(Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times)

LaShawn Merritt USA Track and Field: Relay teammate to chief rival Jeremy Wariner, the soon-to-be 26-year-old Merritt is the defending 400-meter Olympic champion, despite serving a 21-month ban following a positive drug test in 2010. With his suspension completed, Merritt is back on the track and ready to return to Olympic competition. -(Text: Kevin Fixler, SI.com Photo: Bill Frakes/SI)

Queen Underwood U.S., Seattle's light-weight boxer qualified at the London's Olympic Boxing trails, 2012

Claressa Shields: middleweight class joins the U.S. Olympic '12 women boxing debut in London.

Marlen Esparza, flyweight class: is on the USA women's Olympics boxing team 2012.

19-year old Connor Fields is a favorite for the BMX team-U.S. 2012 Olympics. He won the trials which earned him an automatic spot on the team. We can expect big things from this kid! Photo by Jonathan Fennell

Boxer Mary Spencer, Canadian: the three-time world middle-weight boxing champion will be gunning for gold when the women's event makes it's Olympic debut in London. (photo: Chris Young, THE CANADIAN PRESS)