Casey Sandy
Jackson Paine
Jayd Lukenchuk
Nathan Gafuik
Kevin Lytwyn
Ken Ikeda
Live blog. Top 2 teams in the flight Canada and Great Britain. I’ll watch Canadia.
Floor
Jayd Lukenchuk: Huge stuck Arabian double front pike. 2.5 to front layout half, stuck. Front layout full to tuck front full. Double twisting front. Split. Double full. Double Arabian with a step forward to end. Nice routine from the rookie.
Nathan Gafuik: Arabian double pike OOB. Front double full to front tuck full, stuck. Randi side pass, great, maybe chest just a tad low…Press handstand. Tucked Thomas. 1.5 to Rudi. 2.5 with a hop forward. Very prepared, very well controlled routine for him. Too bad about the OOB on first pass, otherwise it was terrific. 14.1. Three scores above 14 for Canada in rotation one here…
Pommels
Casey Sandy leads off, consistent. HIT.
Jayd fights through. No fall.
Jackson swings great. Blast … tries to muscle dismount, yet falls on it. He considers remounting to finish with credit for dismount. But the score would be higher without doing so.
Mr. Kenji Ikeda. One of the sweetest swings in the competition. “Perfect” routine … but falls just before dismount. Takes 30sec. He does remount, increasing the difficulty of his dismount. (I think.)
Nathan Gafuik HITS.
Rings
Casey HITS. The veteran. He’s a perfect guy to lead off on this team. It’s essential to HIT routine #1 in a team meet. Otherwise the middle of your order can feed pressured to stay on. One reason UCLA won the NCAA Women’s competition last year is that Anna Li, one of their best gymnasts, led off on Beam all year.
(Recall that the Canadian women had falls on Beam and Bars from their leadoff yesterday.)
Jackson is young. But hit a GREAT routine for him. Congrats.
Jayd HITS. Rookie of the Senior team looks just great at his first World Championships. Love his psychology.
Nathan HITS and STICKS near perfectly. Low start value as this is his weakest apparatus.
Kevin is our only “Ring Man”. We miss Grant Golding and Dave Kikuchi, both now retired. HITS. Excellent execution, one slight balance check. Small step on landing.
Great Rings rotation Canada!
Michail Doulkeridis from Greece leaves in a wheelchair. (I’ve lost track of how many stretchers and wheelchair exits we’ve seen already.) He was injured competing Floor.
VAULT
Ken and Sandy both hit DTY. Jayd STICKS his. Kevin rockets a Kaz + 1 ½ twist. Then balks on his second vault, a new double front, I think. … Nathan booms a “Shewfelt” Vault. Nice rotation, guys.
Parallel Bars
Kevin HIT. Jayd HIT … love his swing. Jackson HIT and near STICK. … Keep it rolling, guys.
Ken HIT and STICK. Maybe the best double pike in the world. … 15.20 … 3rd highest score, so far !!
Nathan HIT. … Fantastic rotation. Take to the max on H Bar. That’s Canada’s strongest apparatus, I’d say.
Canadian coaches on the Floor are Liang and Tony.
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Horizontal Bar
Jayd has to fight a bit … but gets through and STICKS double double layout. He’s a great HBar talent.
Ken hits. Two releases. I think he left out something out of Tak 1/2 … almost STICKS dismount.
Jackson HITS. Nice job. Near stick. Smart routine.
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Last man. Certainly a good routine will carry Nathan Gafuik into the AA Final.
HIT. Not his best. But Nate will now fight for a spot in the top 10 in the world. I think he deserves it. This is his 3rd or 4th excellent AA meet in series in 2010.
… Talked to Tony Smith. He’s not happy with the scores. Nor Nathan’s rank in the all-around.
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WAG coach Kelly Manjak and some Swiss guy … Jade Kalinowsky:
Kosmidis Greece – highest score so far on Floor – 15.466.
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