World Championships Finals – Horizontal Bar
1. Zou CHN,
2. Zonderland NED,
3. Cassina ITA,
4. Leyva USA,
5. Pegan SLO,
6. Uchimura JPN,
7. Tsarevich BLR,
8. Horton USA
full results (PDF)
Give me a break.
You cannot tell me Zou Kai is better on High Bar than Uchimura. Never has an athlete been more over rewarded than Zou Kai on this apparatus. This is embarassing for our sport.
In fact, horizontal bar is the least interesting apparatus right now, men and women.
The judging regulations are to blame. Why doesn’t the FIG devalue Rybalko?
We need to go back to rewarding connected release moves. And taking more deduction for glaring form breaks on Kolman.
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Totally. Agreed. I actually don’t see why Kai is so great on HB and FX. Please someone point this out to me, because I am not impressed.
Also agreed.
I completely agree on this, Kai’s routine has a high difficulty score but it never seems like it is a clean routine, it does not stand out as the best routine. He wins because of the rybalko connections.
Actually I thought the high bar final at worlds was great. 7 out of the 8 finalists did really exciting routines.
The HB final event was insane, they were all good, and I HATE ZOU KAI BOTH ON HB AND FLOOR. He lacks power, style.
I quote that “This is embarassing for our sport”
the real issue (imho) is “E” score…..preliminary results from London:
as I recall, Bruno wanted both an open code and “the perfect 10″. In London, the following data might be illuminating (and troubling in terms of the evaluation of our sport/athletes)
Men’s qualifying:
Event # E score 9s #gymnasts high E score
FX 9 134 9.275
PH 8 132 9.675
R 1 126 9.1 (!!!????)
V 57 120 9.6
PB 9 127 9.2
HB 0 127 -
Women
V 2 47(2 vaults) 9.0
UB 0 112 -
BB 0 118 -
FX 0 113 -
thoughts?
Certainly the women are “boxing” the scores.
The men may be, as well, but not nearly as much.
It takes GUTS to give a high execution score. Even when it’s deserved.
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