They're a bit battered, maybe a bit bruised, but Team NT's gymnasts are still fighting on at the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alta.

They have the all-around competition today beginning at 3:30 and three of the team SA国际影视传媒� Jade Ko, Lindsey Woodford and Emma Leathem SA国际影视传媒� will be in action looking to nail down good scores and be in the hunt.

John Tram, the team's coach, said the trio qualified through the team competition this past Sunday.

SA国际影视传媒淭he top three scores from the team made it through,SA国际影视传媒� he said.

Five gymnasts were supposed to compete in the team competition but that was whittled down to four after Nathalie Shafer ended up injuring her leg in the warm-ups, ending her Canada Winter Games experience before it even began.

SA国际影视传媒淪he had a bad landing and she went for an MRI and X-rays to see what damage, if any, had been done,SA国际影视传媒� said Tram.

As of Tuesday morning, Tram said there was still no word on how serious the injury was but other teams had been asking how Shafer was holding up.

But Shafer's injury didn't affect the team at all during the team competition, he added.

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The girls ended up finishing 11 th overall in the team competition.

With the all-around event coming up this afternoon, Tram said the girls are still jittery but it's a good kind of jittery.

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One thing Tram has been proud of was the performance of Leathem, who managed to pull off something that had never been done before by a female gymnast from the NWT.

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This is the first full girls team the territory has ever sent to the Games and it's the first time there's been a NWT gymnast of any kind at the Games since Zack Sullivan of Yellowknife represented the NWT on his own at the 2011 event in Halifax.

Tram was part of the last full male team to attend the Games back in 1999 and he said his experience at the Games has helped him to share what to expect about the experience.

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