Thirteen-year-old American Jordyn Wieber bested her US teammate, 16-year-old Olympian Bridget Sloan for the American Cup title, 60.20-59.60. Wieber got an early edge from her Amanar vault, and in the end it was that vault that made the difference: Sloan and Wieber tied on bars, and were within a tenth of each other on both floor and beam.
In the men’s competition, German Olympian Fabian Hambuechen pulled out the victory over American David Sender on the last event. Hambuechen’s 15.75 on high bar — an event he won at the 2007 Worlds — enabled him to edge Sender 90.65-90.45. Olympian Joey Hagerty placed third with an 89.55. …
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I don’t know why Tim Daggett was comparing her to Shawn… I think he was confused. To me, she reminds me of Carly Patterson. Her facial expressions, plus the way she tumbles. Still don’t particularly like her. Much prefer Bridget over her.
Sad that David lost but I’m excited to see that Dave Durrante is his coach
I know Weiber’s got a pretty smart coach – I just hope he deserves the credit the gymnastics community gives him and he doesn’t overtrain her.
I do think that at 13 she is young enough to still have hope in overcoming her Carly-esque “personality”.
This meet is a total joke, the blatant overscoring is just sad.
I guess the pink leo means gold and the red means silver these days (at least to the judges)…poor Bridget. If I were her, I would’ve said “hell naw Jordyn! I’m wearing the pink leo today.” Lol
Actually itsallaboutme, Sloan’s UB routine was underscored.
He’s overtraining her as we speak. It just hasn’t caught up with her yet.
I think Wieber’s vaults was way too high if Bridget’s only got a 9.35 execution
Wieber had a leg sep on her block as well as bent elbows, and struggled to control the landing whereas Bridget blocked with arms straight, legs together, just a slight knee bent to initiate the twist and a step on the landing
and Bridget was much cleaner than Wieber on UB, even with the handstand problems
handstand problems create huge deductions. A reason why careful scoring of Nastia (along with her multiple deduction monstrosity of a dismount) should be around 8 execution.
At least NBC showed more routines than they usually seem to…sad to see the Romanian girl look so lackluster ..looked like she needed a long nap, some vitamins, and a good meal, for petes sake!
Did anyone notice if Wieber actually completed her Amanar vault? I can’t find a good quality video of it (the Universal Sports site just shows an ad over and over again).
“handstand problems create huge deductions. A reason why careful scoring of Nastia (along with her multiple deduction monstrosity of a dismount) should be around 8 execution.”
I still think it was too low compared to Wieber who lacked extension throughout and also missed a few handstands and piked down her dismount.
I missed the TV. Am reduced to Nastia trolling only…
Ok…I checked it out on youtube. I’m not as good a judge as newnewnewNastiafan101, but I thought both Sloan and Wieber looked ok on bars. If anything liked Wieber better as Sloan does not hit perfect handstands (they may be in 10 degrees though) and as she has gross feet on her hecht. Both girls seemed to have much cleaner giants and dismount than Nastia though. They don’t have that awful froggy legged (open and bent knees) on the downswings.
Here are a bunch of videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mandusky13
USA gymnastics has youtube videos up of McCain interviewing the athletes prior to the comp. I left a comment on one asking about gymnast.com and on another complimenting McCain on his interview style. Both comments were disappeared…:(
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=usagymnasticsorg&view=videos
I was impressed with Bridget Sloan more than Wieber, and I agree with the comparison to Patterson over Shawn Johnson. Also would love to see Bridget Sloan fix those flex footed release moves. Either fix them or work on a different skill because execution like that is going to be noticed, and not rewarded.
How about Bridget Sloan’s full twisting double pike though? I think she has one of the best I’ve ever seen.
For the men, I am a big Haggerty fan. Love his style on floor and high bar.
Steve told me that he was consulting with USAG regarding what direction to go with Gymnast.com
… They were considering what to do with the excellent old content, as well.
my name is kodi i’m trying to become a better coach and part of my plan is traveling and being an apprentice to any coach who is willing to take me on. Ovbiously, i’d prefer that they be a good coach, and i can tell these things because i was a gymnast for 11 years. If your intrested contact me at kodimoneymaker@yahoo.com
thanks
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