John Orozco's missteps cost US Gymnastics team, but Bronx teen needs no …

It could not be worse, or so it seemed, until John Orozco answered with a 12.733 despite not falling, a score so low it essentially ended the Americans' hopes for gold after just two of six rotations. When Orozco fell on the vault two rotations later

PHOTO: U.S. gymnast John Orozco crying after he falls during the vault, potentially costing Team USA a medal in the Men's Gymnastics Team Final.

U.S. all-around contender John Orozco had a particularly hard day. His vault and pommel horse scores were each more than a full point lower than they were on qualifying day. Those two points alone are enough to tie the U.S. for silver with Japan. Not

It could not be worse, or so it seemed, until John Orozco answered with a 12.733 despite not falling, a score so low it essentially ended the Americans' hopes for gold after just two of six rotations. When Orozco fell on the vault two rotations later

Before he set out to conquer the world, John Orozco took on a mountain. Last fall, about a month before the 2011 World Gymnastic Championships in Tokyo, one of the top U.S. medal hopes headed to Japan, risked livelihood and limb by barrelling down