… We have drills using panel mats as vaulting boards because sometimes our athletes don’t put 100% effort into their punches off the vault board. How do we know if they do or not? One way to find out. We take the vault board away and have them vault without it. It really makes them work.
Then put the board back in and watch them punch off the board to the ceiling. …
… clean, powerful, and technically precise – one of the most effortless appearing Amanars in the world. She scored a huge 9.6 E-score and 16.1 final score …
The biggest surprise of the morning was that these two gymnasts finished GOLD and SILVER on Vault in a competition that has the word “Olympics” on top of the banner.
Vault: 1. Ganbat (MGL) 2. Arican (TUR) 3. Abad (ESP)
… Erdenebold Ganbat took gold in the vault to give Mongolia its most successful result in history. With a handspring double front and a double-twisting Tsukahara, Ganbat edged Turkey’s Ferhat Arican (handspring full to piked front, Tsukahara 2 1/2), 15.650-15.662. Top qualifier Nestor Abad (Spain) won the bronze (15.450). …
Floor: 1. Tan (CHN) 2. Bulimar (ROU) 3. Komova (RUS)
Beam: 1. Tan (CHN) 2. Ferlito (ITA) 3. Donald … Komova 7th (2 falls)
Vault: 1. Ganbat (MGL) 2. Arican (TUR) 3. Abad (ESP)
Parallel Bars: 1. Stepko (UKR) 2. Muntean (ROU) 3. Edalli (ITA)
High Bar: 1. Oldham (GBR) 2. Abad (ESP) 3. Zhu (CHN)
via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook
Congratulations to IOC, FIG and meet organizers. I’m astonished how smoothly the Artistic discipline has gone. In fact, the Games themselves seem to be a big WIN for Olympic sport.
But Marcus in the comments informs that she’s decided not to try for World’s 2010, instead focusing on the NCAA. I see that confirmed on College Gymnastics Board.
I’d have loved to have seen that Cheng vault (VIDEO) on the international stage.
This is the same decision faced by Canada’s Kristina Vaculik. So far Kristina’s on the Canadian list for World’s. I assume that means she won’t be reporting at Stanford until January.
Who else is deferring until January? Or later? … Mattie Larson, …