investigated. we know it was under a car and that's about it. we'll continue to follow this for more information on that. a wild day in london from extreme disappoint to a golden moment for an american teenager, we start though with a 16-year-old chinese swimmer who did one lap faster than ryan lochte. it's raising doping suspicions. atika schubert is live in london. >> reporter: it was an incredible performance, she basically won at the 400 meter individual medley with stunning speed. she was literally for the last 50 meters faster than the u.s. gold winner in the same event, ryan lochte for the mens. as you can imagine, a lot of speculation into possible doping. here's what the international olympic committee had to say about it. >> so the sudden rise in the performance or a surprise win be primarily suspected for being acheat, sport is a danger for sure because it partially ruins the charm of competitive sport if a surprise win is surrounded by suspicions and question marks. >> reporter: now, in fact one of the strongest comments has come from john leonard, the executive director of the world swimming coaches. he has said that hperformance ws incredible but also disturbing and suspicious. there will be a lot of people scrutinizing that in the time to come. >> atika, i assume they will test her. is there a rule that they test sort of sporadically or test any winner or just tests anybody who seems to fall outside the bell curve of what would be a normal improvement in anybody's performance. >> reporter: the answer is all of the above. the athletes continue to get tested, not just in the run up to but afterwards, there was an irish swimmer in the atlanta olympics who again broke all of the records, stunning performance but was tested later and found to have actually violated the doping standards and banned from the sport tore several years. we'll have to wait for the test results. >> rrkable performance, so disappointing if it was because of doping. let's talk about the men's gymnastics team. what a disappoint. what happened? >> reporter: yeah, it really was. they were first in the trial. there were high hopes going in. they were so confident. then basically disappointing appointments. leyva had to restart his routine and that a huge draw back then john orozco landed sitting down rather than sitting up. both of those places the u.s. in fifth place, a big disappoint, china came first and japan won the silver after a recount and britain, the surprise out of all of this won the bronze. the first time for 100 years. >> john orozco known for sticking landings and doing clean landings. let's talk about missy franklin and michael phelps. >> reporter: this is what everybody is looking forward to. he has the opportunity to become the world's greatest o limb pea yan an. >> if he can win a medal at the 200 meter butterfly, he'll be tied for 18 medals, the most any one individual athlete has won. he then has a second chance at the men's 100 meter freestyle. if he wins a medal there, he will have surpassed that goal and officially become the world's greatest olympian. missy franklin, known as the new phelps, she has won a gold and bronze and now we're looking to see whether she can also win a gold in today's 200 meter. high hopes running on her. she hasn't done well in the run-up. >> thanks, atika, jealous of you getting to see all of that in person. in a couple of minutes we'lltic alicia sack ramonny and john roethlisberger. let's get right to zoraida sambolin. >> mitt romney is in warsaw, poland, delivering a speech telling the polish people america can learn a lot from them about turning around the economy. >> when economists speak of poland today, it's to lament chronic problems but describe how this nation empowered the individual and lifted the heavy hand of government and became the fastest growing economy in all of europe. >> and romney is still generating a few of the wrong kind of headlines on his trip. palestinian officials call him quote racist for telling israeli donors their culture is the reason they are more economically successful than the plinz. the white house pounced on that stumble, senior strategist, david axelrod tweeting, is there anything about romney's rolling ruk us that would inspire confidence in his ability to lead u.s. foreign policy. serious fighting in syria overnight. government forces are stepping up the shelling of rebel held locations in damascus and homs with rockets, artillery. but rebels have been able to hold a grip on aleppo as thousands flee. leon pa net at a had strong winds for the regime. >> i'm sure deep down assad knows he's in trouble and it's just a matter of time before he has to go. >> reporter: what would you say to him? >> i would say if you want to be able to protect yourself and your family, you better get the hell out now. >> and panetta meets with egypt's new president today, morsi. michael haly's office says his one year deployment is expected to begin in january. governor haley said it is a honor to watch him serve the country but there is not a military spouse who doesn't worry. right now at penn state, the football team is starting its first season in more than 60 years without coach paterno at the helm. they are holding their first preseason workout and there's a rally at the school to show support for the players who decided to stay in the wake of the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. two prominent members have announced they are leaving, quarterback rob bolden and safety tim buckley because of sanctions. an african-american couple turned away from a mostly white church before their wedding day have inspired unity. we first told you their story yesterday. charles and teean dra wilson were married by the church's pastor but in a different location. they held a unity rally last night, some of the members of the church did not want them to mary there, soledad. >> that's a nice ending to the story, makes me feel better about their community, because that was disappointing to talk about yesterday. let's get to more about team usa efforts at the olympic games. the women's gymnastics team will take part in the all around after the mens team collapsed. john roethlisberger is a three time gymnast and alicia sacramone. what happened to the men. they went in with such a sense they were going to take it all and it all fell apart. what do you think went wrong? >> there's really never been this much positivity around a men's u.s. gymnastics team leading into a team finals. you know what happened? the olympics happened and the sport of gymnastics happened. and that's how our sport is. ask alicia, i've been there too. it's so unforgiving. it's like mother nature. it's always in control. at the end of the day, gymnastics no matter how good you are or prepared you are, it can come up and bite you. that's what happened to the men. they had a little mistake on the floor and it shook their confidence a little bit and they went to horse and things fell apart a little bit and that's what makes the olympics so special when you do succeed and makes it heartbreaking when things don't go right. >> the agony of defeat. leyva said this when he was talking about his mess-up. i'm someone who is very visual in his training, i've never been to an olympic games before. now i know what the feeling and air is going to taste like when i'm training. it's going to help me in training in the next four years leading up to rio. what did you think of that explanation of what happened? >> well, you know, that's for him to decide and let us know what he was going through and what his experience was like but the thing about the olympics, you might home get one chance. you have to mentally prepare yourself the best you can when you go on the floor. i know alicia has done the same thing, you put yourself in that situation mentally and once you get out there, you've gt to mentally put yourself back in practice and i'm sure he was prepared for the competition. but it is a weird animal once you get out there. there's olympic rings on the equipment and it's all over the venue and the reality of where you are and what you are doing hits you and sometimes it can be overwhelming. >> did it feel like that for you, alicia, that everything was stamped with olympic rings and you were never allowed to let up thinking this next thing really really matters? what pressure. >> you are not going to forgive you're at the olympic games when you're there. there's the extra media hype and the pressure from wanting to be successful from your parents and friends and everybody. you want to go out and compete and have the best showing poobl to come home with the medal. sometimes your nerves get to you. i didn't have a picture perfect olympic performance and i got so ahead of myself in for getting the olympics is one more competition, it's not anything different from world championships or visa championships. >> for those of us who watch, we would say it's olympics, everything different. how do you think that will effect orozco and leyva. >> you hope they can regroup. the funny thing about life in sport, some of the greatest lessons come at the lowest points. i'm hoping he can realize what happened and don't forget it or pretend it didn't happen. just feel that sour disgusting feeling in your stomach and just take it home with you and put it in a little pocket in your bag. every time you need to refocus, revisit that experience you had and try to get that laser focus he had at the trials. unbelievable at the trials, same with john orozco, you have to have a short memory in sports. it's like being at the masters, you just bogied a hold and you've got to get a birdie and forget what happened. >> alicia, talk about the women as we were talking about the stunner with not having a chance to have jordyn because i thought that was a real shocker. now it's going to be gabby douglas and aly raisman and that two per country rule. how do you think the women will do? >> our womens team is to unbelievably strong. it is sad jordyn won't be competing in the all around but it's great we have a strong enough country that we do have two girls to even qualify. i think they are going to do phenomenal. they both have worked so hard for this. and going as the two per country rule it affected me in beijing, i couldn't compete in beam finals because the top three scores were -- it's hard because you want to compete in the best in the world and sometimes the best don't get to compete. >> we're looking forward to seeing it. i love watching gymnastics, thanks you for -- that's great advice you gave, not just for gymnastics, you've got to move on and keep trying to figure it out. thanks, guys, appreciate it. >> tha you. >> still ahead on "starting point," opening statements today in the drew peterson murder trial, accused of killing his third wife. jurors won't be hearing much about his fourth wife, her body has never been found. our get real, olympic fail, nbc spoils results of the biggest race of the day before it airs on tv. that's head. stay with us. >> the london olympics are finally underway. there is nothing like the thrill of see gs team usa triumph in an internet headline and waiting to see it confirmed on nbc seven hours later. i mean the suspense did the cameras capture what happened? 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