In the thrilling second last routine at the World Championships in Rotterdam, Epke Zonderland went all out to win GOLD in his home nation. He added the Gaylord 2, a skill named after 1984 Olympian Mitch Gaylord (VIDEO).
Or did he?
Geoffrey Taucer of the Apex Technical Corner blog points out that the skill must be done with straight legs for the E value.
Epke did it in the tucked position.
Click PLAY or watch the mad Dutchman again. on YouTube.
Leave a comment if you can confirm. And we still need a judges breakdown of the gold medal routine from Zhang Chenglong, the only Chinese highbar routine I’ve liked since Tong Fei.
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UPDATE: Wsvanwijk sends a link to a Code update from FIG (PDF) dated March 2008 referring to the Gaylord 2 in tucked position as being an E, same value as in piked position.
That’s odd. I’ll send off this post to a couple of FIG judges to see if they can confirm.
One FIG judge got back to me. Definitely a D-part, he tells.
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