News
World Championships
USA Women's Team - 1st Place
USA Men's Team - 4th Place
Great results for our country!
The link below has complete results.

Results
2007 World Championships
www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/worlds/results.html

Visa Championships
www.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2007/championships/results.html
Johnson named ABC “World News” “Person of the Week”

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 14, 2007—  2007 world all-around champion Shawn Johnson of West
Des Moines, Iowa, has been selected as ABC “World News’” “Person of the Week” for her
accomplishments at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.
Johnson also is the 2007 world floor exercise champion and a member of the U.S. Team that won
the women ' s world team title.  She will be profiled on tonight’s broadcast.

Johnson helped the U.S. women win the team gold medal, which is just the second ever for the
USA and the first team title won at a World Championships held outside of the United States .
Johnson is one of four U.S. women to win the coveted world all-around title, joining Kim Zmeskal
(1991), Shannon Miller (1993-94) and Chellsie Memmel (2005). She also won the world floor
exercise gold medal.

Every Friday, “World News” features a “Person of the Week,” someone who – for better or worse –
has made a difference to the world or the country or a community.  The series was part of the
broadcast from 1986 until 1998 and was reintroduced in 2003.  Viewers can submit their
suggestions for “Person of the Week” via ABCNEWS.com.

Based in Indianapolis , USA Gymnastics, the national governing body for gymnastics in the United
States , encourages participation and the pursuit of excellence in the sport.  For more information,
log on to www.usa-gymnastics.org.
For immediate Implementation – The Men's Junior Olympic Program Committee, at their
September 21, 2007 meeting, voted to adopt a proposal to go to modified FIG open scoring
for the Age Group Competition Program for Levels 8, 9 and 10. This Rules Update #11 is for
the 2007–2008 competitive season and incorporates all of the rule changes made since the
adoption of this proposal. By moving to an FIG Open Scoring program our junior program
was able to greatly reduce the number of exceptions to the FIG rules. For this reason many
of the optional sections contained in the previous update (#10, dated January 30, 2007)
have been eliminated as they are no longer applicable. Please note that there have been no
changes for the compulsory levels 4, 5, 6, and 7 other than to use the FIG tables for
behavioral and apparatus violations. This update, along with the other written materials
noted in this update, constitute all of the rules for the 2007-2008 competitive season.