Romania, the gold standard of women’s gymnastics as recently as 12 years ago, has failed to qualify into the 12-nation Olympic women’s gymnastics team event.
Romania had earned medals in every Olympic women’s gymnastics team event since 1976. That streak ends this year, with the Olympics still more than four months away.
The Romanian women finished 13th in qualifying at the World Championships in October, where they needed to be top eight in their first qualifying chance.
Then they finished seventh out of eight nations at a last-chance qualifying event at the Rio Olympic venue on Sunday, when they needed to be top four.