Though it didn't look like it, McKayla Maroney said she is impressed with her silver medal.

After her miffed expression on the podium while receiving the prize in the vault competition on Sunday made headlines, the U.S. gymnast's face went viral online as a meme on a popular Tumblr page titled "mckayla is not impressed.” 

An image from the Tumblr blog celebrating McKayla's podium face.

In an interview with Savannah Guthrie on TODAY Thursday, Maroney said her sour look was not a result of coming up short of the gold. 

"It wasn’t the silver that I was disappointed about,'' Maroney said. "I was just disappointed in what happened and how I performed. I really wanted to be able to hit both of my vaults, but I ended up falling on my second one. I was just disappointed in myself, not the silver medal. It’s amazing to even be here and be on this team and compete for USA so that definitely wasn’t something I was disappointed about.”

Maroney appeared on TODAY alongside fellow members of the "Fierce Five," the group of gymnasts including Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, and Kyla Ross, to talk about their first Olympic experience.

Wieber arrived in London as the reigning world champion in the all-around, but did not qualify for the all-around finals. She did not medal in any of the individual events, but was part of the Americans' gold medal-winning performance in the team competition.

It turns out that she was competing all along with an injury: Thursday, she was wearing a walking boot on her right leg. 

"Once I got to London I figured out that I had a stress fracture in my shin, but it wasn’t too much pain,'' Wieber said. "I was able to push through it, and I knew that this was the Olympics. I couldn’t give up so easily, and I really fought through the pain and came together for the team.''

Now that the competition is over, the Fierce Five have taken some time to enjoy themselves. They've hung out in the Olympic Village, and enjoyed hot chocolate and a ride on a red London bus with TODAY correspondent Jenna Bush Hager. They also had a brush with royalty, chatting with Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, who complimented their leotards.

How do the girls know they really made it? A special message from Justin Bieber. The girls are huge fans.

Not only did he tweet them last week, he also delivered them a special message just for their appearance on TODAY Thursday. He began the video with one of his dancers doing backflips. “That is not a gold medal performance,” Bieber said, “but what is is what you guys have been doing over there in London so I wanna say you guys are incredible and keep up the hard work.”

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Contorting in the stands with their daughter's every flip on the uneven bars, the parents of U.S. gymnast Aly Raisman became a viral sensation when NBC cameras caught them urging her to “stick it’’ in her final routine on Sunday.

Rick and Lynn Raisman could only laugh at their own expressive body language as they watched the video during an interview with Natalie Morales on TODAY Tuesday. The Raismans had reason to be excited in their now-famous clip, as Aly stunned the field in the qualifying round on Sunday to advance to the individual all-around finals. In the process, she bumped out teammate (and gold medal favorite) Jordyn Wieber.

Raisman’s performance was a big story on its own, but her mom and dad joined her in the headlines by showing the type of emotion familiar to any parents dealing with the anxiety of watching their child compete. On Monday morning, Aly tweeted, “I love my parents,’’ and attached a clip of the video.

“It was such a relief when she finished the event,’’ Rick told Morales. “There’s just so much pressure and it’s just so magnified. I’m embarrassed watching (the video) now. You don’t even realize it. You’re just so locked in, it’s just unreal.’’

“I knew he was moving,’’ Lynn said of her husband. “I had no idea I was moving that much.’’

Rick stood up and pumped his fist in celebration while Lynn cried tears of joy once they realized their daughter was now one step away from her dream of an individual Olympic medal. They knew Aly had reached the finals before she did.

“She doesn’t always watch her scores,’’ her mother said. “I said, ‘Did you know how close you were going into the last event?' She said, ‘No I didn’t look at the scores.’ Her coach is usually happy at the end, but he was really, really happy, and she said, ‘I had no idea.’’’

Aly’s ecstasy was Wieber’s agony, as the reigning all-around world champion is now out of the running for an individual all-around gold medal. Wieber finished fourth overall in Sunday’s qualifier, but international rules state that only two competitors from the same country can advance. Since Raisman and teammate Gabby Douglas finished ahead of Wieber, she was eliminated from a finals berth.

“(Aly) felt terrible,’’ Lynn Raisman said. “It’s always terrible that there’s a two per-country rule. When you’re from a country like the U.S. where’s there’s five girls who really could do it if they were all given a chance to compete in the all-around, it could be any number of them. It’s really hard.’’

Wieber will still compete in Tuesday’s team finals, with the United States being the favorite to win its first gymnastics gold medal as a team since 1996.

“If they just go in and do what they’re capable of doing, no question they’ll do it,’’ Lynn said. “They’re a good group, they’re so close, they’re so focused and so determined that I’m really hopeful.”

“Today is the most important day for the team,’’ Rick said. “That’s what they’re here for first. We just wish them all the best and hopefully they can do their thing.’’

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As Jordyn Wieber aims for Olympic stardom, she has already achieved a huge goal: A spot on a cereal box.

While a potential shot at a gold medal waits in London, gymnastics star Jordyn Wieber has already achieved a special type of Olympic immortality — a spot in the cereal aisle.

The boxes came on Wednesday, prompting the 17-year-old from Michigan to tweet, “Look what was delivered to my house today! Can’t wait for them to be on shelves.’’

“I was so excited,’’ Wieber told TODAY.com. “I never thought I would be on the front of a Kellogg’s Corn Flakes box. It was the most surreal thing. Even just recently, walking through the grocery store and seeing Summer Sanders and Kerri Walsh on there, it’s just so cool to see all those Olympians and know that’s going to be me next.’’

Getting a spot on a box also illustrates the high expectations for Wieber, who is the reigning world all-around champion. Now she just needs to do her best to bring home a gold, which then may lead to another one of her major goals — meeting Justin Bieber. Hanging with the Biebs, of course, is #2. 

“I have to say the gold medal would be probably a lot cooler,’’ she said. “Meeting Justin Bieber would be awesome, too.’’

She is hoping to spread “Wieber Fever’’ from the Midwest all the way to London after years of support from her hometown and fellow students at Dewitt High School in Dewitt, Mich. To keep the "fever" from spreading, her supporters will often wear surgical masks and T-shirts imprinted with the malady. 

Jordyn has caught “Wieber Fever’’ herself — her older brother, Ryan, was a star quarterback at Dewitt who inspired his own following during a state playoff run in the fall. Jordyn was right there with her own costume surgical mask in the stands, cheering him on.

“It’s a lot of fun just knowing that I can share that spotlight with my brother,’’ she said. “We can both have our different sports and it’s exciting to see him do well."

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Jordyn Wieber takes a leap on the balance beam during the women's senior division at the U.S. gymnastics championships on June 10.

The elite gymnast has maintained a sense of normalcy during her ascension to stardom by continuing to attend her local high school.

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“I think just staying in school part-time has helped me a lot. It balances out my lifestyle," she said. "I’m able to go to training and then go to school, which takes my mind off gymnastics. Having a different group of friends outside of gymnastics has also definitely helped me over the years.’’

To fulfill her golden goal in London, Wieber will have to break a jinx that goes back to well before she was born. Since 1972, only one woman has won the all-around title at the World Championships and then followed that with an Olympic all-around title. No American woman has accomplished the feat in the last 40 years, as Shawn Johnson won the world all-around title in 2007 but took second behind teammate Nastia Liukin in the 2008 Olympics.

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“I try not to think about the jinx too much,’’ Wieber said. “I try to focus on my own training, but it definitely makes me want to reach that goal even more and make it to the top of that podium.’’

Wieber has an intense focus she has shown in tight competitions like the recent national championships. With fellow Olympic hopeful Gabby Douglas neck-and-neck with her throughout, Wieber won the all-around title by just 0.2 points over Douglas.

“I think it motivates me a little bit more just knowing the scores are so close, and knowing that I’m going to need to get every tenth out of every routine helps me do better in the competition,’’ Wieber said. “I think a lot of it just comes from my personality, but at the same time I have to practice every day. I do a lot with all the girls in the gym watching me at one time and translate that over to the whole crowd having their eyes on me at one time. I think I train my mind to compete under pressure.’’

Anointed American gymnastics' “it girl,’’ Wieber is ready, post-trials, to take on that pressure in London, which may be her best shot at Olympic accolades. The window of time for gymnastics stardom can often be short. Liukin, only 22, is now fighting just to get a spot on the team at the upcoming trials.

“I think every gymnast is different, and some girls are coming back at an older age, but this is my time right now,’’ she said. “I just try to put everything I have into this year and this summer.’’

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