In the media section at the World Championships, the 2 hardest working people so far as I’m concerned are Anne Phillips of Gymnastike and Blythe Lawrence of Gymnastics Examiner.
Read Blythe’s summary of the competition so far:
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: one of the things I’ve learned this week is how a team does in podium training is not necessarily indicative of how it will perform in the competition. …
… The question of the women’s competition now is how much of a gap is there between the top three from China, the top three from Russia, and the top three from the U.S. on each event? The answer: Not much. …
Nice surprises: China’s consistency, Australia and Russia’s women’s teams (Russia given the reports that came out of podium training), Great Britain’s men and women, Vanessa Ferrari, He Kexin on floor, Jade Barbosa, Yana Demyanchuk (hit routines on both bars and beam for Ukraine, made event finals on beam), Ariella Kaeslin on vault (DTY!), Aliya Mustafina on vault, Ali Al Asi on events other than rings, Kohei Uchimura, the Dutch women’s determined performance, Ashleigh Brennan on beam (extraordinary), Imogen Cairns on floor (hit the hell out of the set), Philipp Boy in the all-around (second place in qualifying
Gymnastics Examiner – Rotterdam reflections: Men’s and women’s team/individual qualifications
I’m super excited for the Team Finals over the next 2 days. What gymnasts can HIT under the pressure of 3-up, 3-count. There could easily be big changes in the ranking from prelims.
Gymnastike specializes in video interviews. But does much, much more.
If you speak German, the excellent GymMEDIA site is doing something similar. Click through to see their interviews auf Deutsch. GymMEDIA reports that Germany was quite happy with a 5th place finish.
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