There is an all-around champion... and there's my definition of an all around champion.
First of All let me say this:
NASTIA LIUKIN IS NOT AN ALL-AROUND GYMNAST
and before all you "i would bomb a city if nastia said to" people start threatening me let me say this:
Nastia is an amazing gymnast. She is a goddess of beam and the queen of bars since 2005. [i'm pretty sure she's the queen] but, the fact that she can up her a score to a 7.7 on bars [the highest scoring event and highest A score event for almost all gymnasts] and supply only sustainable scores on vault and floor means two things:
1) holy freakin crap i can't believe your attempting a 7.7 start value [is that legal in texas?]
2) you're not an all-around gymnast.
if you don't get what i'm saying then let me put it in plan terms
Beam: Check
Bars: Double Check
Vault: ugh fine
Floor: sustainable because of dance
just because she can score insanely high on two events and get moderatley low scores on the other two to even it out DOESN'T MAKE YOU AN ALL AROUND GYMNAST
Exhibit B:
Shawn Johnson <--- the real deal
seriously. The Hardest Vault in the World
The Hardest Beam Dismount in the World
The Hardest Bar Dismount in the World
The Hardest Tumbling Pass in the World
Um... i'm sorry but if that doesn't scream "good at all-around" to you i don't know what does
and i'm not neccesarily saying she should win. I'm just saying if she loses, i hope its to an
ALL-AROUND GYMNAST
i'm out- peace