No argument here. 
Vanessa Zamarripa of UCLA scores a perfect 10 on the vault, the 7th of her career.
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Just got home from the UCLA/Stanford dual meet. Everything Vanessa Zamarippa does – vault,tumbling,beam dismount – is 3 to 4 feet higher than every other gymnast. And we are talking about 2 teams filled with world class gymnasts. How does she do it?!
No such joy in Utah. Junior Corrie Lothrop tore her Achilles and will be out for the remainder of the season.
It’s too late to red-shirt, but next season Corrie should be good to go. This is her second Achilles tear. So both will have been repaired by this time 2014.
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Aaargh, not another FTY!! The NCAA needs to introduce a deduction for doing this vault.
Lands with chest down, looks like some shoulder angle upon contacting the table….
And here I was just thinking of how nice, biomechanicaly safe landing position that was…
Yep.
If FIG wants fewer injuries, they must study the most successful “landers”. (Uchimura, Scherbo, Shewfelt, etc.)
That would be the required technique for no deduction.
“Chest low” as a deduction is sheer stupidity.
Zamarripa is overscored. UCLA is overscored as a team. Read any article on AJ where it says Miss Val is friends with one of the judges she has judging the meet.
No wonder this sport gets picked on so much
UCLA is no more over-scored than the SEC, so far as I can see.
that is not chest low (read the regs, it is not).
Also she actually stuck. not one of those archy jump after a split second thingies. (those are not sticks)
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