Wieber walked out of the arena and past reporters

But the moment was bittersweet. Raisman and Wieber are not only roommates in the athletes' village, but also best friends.

"It's really hard; I don't even know what to say to her because it's something that you dream of your whole life, so I feel bad," Raisman said. "I know how much she wanted it."

After her fate was sealed, Wieber walked out of the arena and past reporters, wiping away tears. In a statement provided by Olympic organizers, Wieber called her day "a bit of a disappointment" and said, "It is what it is."

Her personal coach, John Geddert, said in a statement, "She has trained her entire life for this day, and to have it turn out anything less than she deserves is going to be devastating." 

Pak won the championship

Pak won the championship, but Chuasiriporn captured the imagination of golf fans.

"I just remember the week after the Open, we were rooming together to play the Curtis Cup and there was all of this mail for Jenny shoved under our hotel room door," said Beth Bauer Grace, a former L.P.G.A. Tour player who was a Duke teammate of Chuasiriporn's. "Jenny never changed after that Open, but things in her life certainly did."

Chuasiriporn struggled at that Curtis Cup, and the attention followed her everywhere she went. It followed her to North Carolina when she returned to the Duke campus that fall. When she began to struggle on the golf course, the news media was there to document the errant shots.