Many will want to reorder the top three. They were very close:
1 BOUHAIL Thomas FRA 16.449
2 GOLOTSUTSKOV A. RUS 16.366
3 KASPIAROVICH D. BLR 16.316
4 YANG Hak Seon KOR 16.266
5 KOCZI Flavius ROU 16.208
6 ISAYEV Andriy UKR 16.049
7 RIVERA Luis PUR 15.945
8 WAMMES Jeffrey NED 15.750
Everyone knows that to win this apparatus you need to do two 7.0 difficulty vaults (the maximum), both with very good landings.
Second competitor, Olympic Bronze medalist, Golotsutskov did exactly that, nearly sticking both double pike Tsuk and Dragalescu.
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Bouhail (FRA) did the same vaults, almost as well. But the judges score him higher. (… Don’t they have slow motion replay from different angles, like I do?)
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Kaspiarovich (BLR) showed great Dragalescu. Then excellent Tsuk double pike. … I’d rank him second at this point. But the judges have him 3rd.
Oops. Isayev (UKR) planned a Dragulescu, but for some reason only did the handspring double front (Roche). Nice Tsuk double pike for second vault. These vaults are very dangerous, of course.
Yang (KOR) did the big cheat: virtually the same vault twice calling one Handspring 2½ twist, the second a Kazamatsu. The system still allows this. I don’t like it.
Cleanest twisting (Kyle Shewfelt clean) was Rivera. Nice!
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Golotsutskov‘s a tough gym, reminding me of Jason Gatson in some ways. He phoned someone during the final, I assume telling them he expected to win.
Tandoori Chicken didn’t even come close to qualifying for this Final. Ha!
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