Yesterday’s Qualifier, held at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, was the final qualifying event for the 2010 U.S. Championships that will be held August 10-14 in Hartford, CT.
Senior Division
Jesse Silverstein (USDGC) – 88.10 (96)
Alex Buscaglia (Stanford) – 86.30 (82)
Danell Leyva (Universal) – 87.70 (77)
Alexy Bilozertchev (USOTC) – 85.85 (74)
Andrew Elkind (USOTC) – 86.90 (70)
Kyson Bunthuwong (Golden Bear) – 86.30 (68)read more on Stick It Media
Jesse Silverstein
Andy Thorton posted praise for the 19-year-old:
… The most notable point to me is the fact that he scored an impressive 54.7 in execution – an almost unheard of tally these days. That’s an average of just over a 9.1 in execution on all six events…and if you look a little closer, you’ll note that this is exactly why he won, since his total D-score was nearly three points lower than Leyva’s (and Leyva had a lower D-score on both pommel horse and p-bars than he normally does).
In today’s D-score dominated world, it’s really nice to see impeccable execution actually pay off the way the code is designed for it to …
read more – American Gymnast
… absent from the Qualifier but not already eligible for USAs: Injured Olympians Sasha Artemev (back) and Kevin Tan (forearm); former National Team member Sho Nakamori, on the mend from 2009 knee surgery; and two-time World team member Sean Golden, who tore his Achilles just days before last year’s USAs. All could still attempt to advance to USAs via petition. …
read more on Inside Gymnastics
Junior Division
Daniel Potemski (Cypress) – 82.50
Kevin Baker (Queen City) – 80.80 & Wyatt Aycock (Orlando Metro) -80.80
Alex Bubnov (Surgent’s Elite) – 80.80
Joe Peters (Parkettes) – 79.75
Cale Robinson (Premier) – 79.35
Michael Strathern (Bartlett’s) – 79.30
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Sho Nakamori will be able to go to USA’s if healthy, as USAG has accepted his petition to compete.
Kevin Tan is an National Team member, so he is pre qualified.
Wesley Hagaansen was on the start list but did not show, but he is also prequalfied.
Gentle reminder – the scoring at this meet used the USAG “secret sauce” bonus system, so Leyva’s SV for HB was probably more like 7.2 – still pretty high.
Some aspects of the E score were scored more leniently than per FIG rules, and guys could get E score bonus for scores 9.1 or over.
But I believe the order of finish (at least between Silverstein and Leyva) would have been identical in a normally scored meet.
A Us competition with US gymnasts should never be praised. They are biased
you seem to know your stuff. Kudos, yoko. Serious.
Thx TCO.
And using Nmmm’s logic, Kohei Uchimura should not be praised for winning the Japanese Nationals, because he is Japanese and the competition was held in Japan. Ditto the Japan Cup. The Japanese national competitions even use an “internal code of points” which gives bonus for high D scores (no one has ever figured out the details of that).
Everybody is biased. Everybody. The mistakes start when it’s assumed all the bias is on “the other side”.
Silverstein deserves to be praised, as he finished ahead of Danell Leyva (widely considered to part of the core of the U.S. Team, and has been talked up as the next Paul Hamm) in what was Silverstein’s first competition as a Senior.
For the record, I don’t like the use of “bonus”. It’s confusing to the fans and won’t be the scoring system under which the gymnasts will compete outside the U.S.
I’m not sure what the point is.
Videos – including Leyva’s HB
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