1 PORGRAS Ana ROU 15.366
2 BROSS Rebecca USA 15.233
2 DENG Linlin CHN 15.233
4 MITCHELL Lauren AUS 15.200
5 SACRAMONE A. USA 15.066
6 DEMENTYEVA Anna RUS 13.966
7 MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 13.766
8 DEMYANCHUK Yana UKR 13.733
First competitor, Alicia Sacramone opted to mount with just front tuck instead of infamous pike (fall at Olympics).
SOLID. Beautiful form on double pike dismount. … She’s jubilant. What a triumph of a comeback.
The beautiful Lauren Mitchell goes up second. HIT. Love the layout. Love the careful wolf turn. … Every little girl in Australia must be working that.
Rebecca Bross. What a rock! No problem with Arabian, this time. Switch ring shaky. Small hop on front tuck. GREAT Patterson, small step. Carly must be cheering.
Loving this Beam final. It’s great to see HIT routines in finals.
The American strategy was to go consistent, not having the highest start values as a team at this meet.
Let’s see what happens now that the pressure is on the rest …
Wow. I love Ana Porgras. This routine flows better than any other gymnast in Rotterdam. NICE. … Small errors. … Judges? … She jumps into 1st place. I’m OK with that. It might motivate the Chinese not to be so choppy in future.
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Reigning World Champ Deng (CHN) is next, under pressure from so many hit routines. NICE. Choppy. Small errors. … hmm. Moves to 2nd.
Super gymnast Mustafina. … Wot. Jumps off after Arabian. No medal here. … She really should do Patterson dismount instead of the messy triple twist.
Dementieva is a favourite of everyone here. But after a fall in the Beam final, she’s really not a proven commodity on a team that plans to win the Olympics.
Mitchell had a 0.1 higher start than Bross and Porgras. What routine should have scored higher?
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