Year: 2010

Here’s the start list for day 2 of apparatus finals at the World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam.

That’s from Full Twist, doing a superb job of reporting finals.

Don’t believe what you see on this TV commercial.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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Another moving post by Couch Gymnast, this time on the Gold medal Bars win by Beth Tweddle:

… Cairns remarked to the girls, “Imagine of she wins a gold in London 2012.”

Well, she would be so famous that she’d never be able to leave the house again, that’s for sure. …

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… One of the nicest gifts I have had this Worlds is the cheeky pleasure of standing behind Beth Tweddle and Amanda Kirby as they watched the rest of the final unfold. The fun of listening to them chat lies in the way they are just so very mundane and real in these major sporting moments. It was more like listening to an old married couple watch television than watching a World Championship event final.

They have done this before. So many times. …

THE UNEVEN BARS……

Terrific insight. Thanks Brigid.

See a slide show of Brigid’s photos on Gymnastics Examiner.

Which deserves the GOLD medal in the Worlds Final?

They were given the same start value. (scores)

Click PLAY or watch Beth on Bars.

Click PLAY or watch Aliya‘s Bars.

At the time, end on, it looked like Mustafina had better handstands, form and line. But a far worse landing on dismount.

Tough call seeing it from this angle.

OK … I was wrong. Tie goes to the 25yr-old. Congratulations Beth.

Beth warmed up the double double dismount this week. No problem. But I guess the coaches decided she didn’t need it.

Those linked by Full Twist which also has Bross.

Another great edit from the International Gymnastics Federation. It compares the Vault of the 3 all-around medalists. Very cool.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

It includes Nabaeva’s harsh fall on beam. Ouch.

And Rebecca’s fall on beam. Sad.

… “The old people won today,” remarked Dutch journalist Peter van Leeuwen in the media center after the meet. He’s right — of the people who have captured individual event titles thus far, the youngest was bouncy 19-year-old Eleftherios Kosmidis of Greece. Tweddle is 25, Sacramone 22. Krisztian Berki is also 25, as is Chen Yibing….

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That’s from a terrific wrap-up on Gymnastics Examiner – Rotterdam reflections: Seen and heard around the Ahoy Arena after event finals – day 1 of apparatus finals at the World Gymnastics Championships.

For videos, scores and more go to Full Twist – Worlds Today 23/10/10 – Mens & Womens Individual Apparatus – A Quick Round Up

Anne From Gymnastike has a summary, too, with links to finalist interviews.

THE ALL AROUND:

Russian protest

In vault finals, Aliya Mustafina’s second vault RO-1/2 on full-twisting front layout off (6.1 D score) was downgraded to a pike (5.7). Both of Tatiana Nabieva’s vaults were downgraded – the Amanar (6.5) to a a double twisting Yurchenko (5.8) and her second vault in the same way as Mustafina’s. The Russian delegation attempted to protest the D scores for both gymnasts but were denied. „They told us we were four minutes too late,“ head coach Andrey Rodionenko told The All Around.

I still don’t know what the 0.1 penalty was for Mustafina.

Leave a comment if you know.

Someday we’ll have a website where for just a few dollars you can watch LIVE World Gymnastics Championships online. Won’t that be wonderful.

In the meantime, we have Universal Sports Gymnastics.

Here’s my experience today:

I don’t have the right version of Microsoft Silverlight. They don’t like my browser. They hate Apple too, I’m guessing.

In the end, something goes wrong.

The streaming service worked for many today. But when bloggers like Tsuk the Pain and Andrew Thornton can’t watch, that’s bad.

It can be intense coaching at this level. Some handle it better than others.

Berki – GOLD pommels

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Eleftherios Kosmidis – GOLD Floor

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Philipp Boy – GOLD all-around (… Gold medal for coming second after Uchimura)

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Women’s all-around World Championships 2010, Rotterdam.

Aliya Mustafina landed Vault 1st apparatus. Then kept the lead through the rest of the competition.

Click PLAY or watch Aliya on YouTube.

I think she’s only going to get better.

The best write-up by a Dostoyevsky mile on the superb women’s competition yesterday is by a self-described Couch Gymnast:

… Frankly, there was one girl out there who could trust herself, her body and her relationship with the apparatus from the outset. Aside from a few checks on beam, there was nothing in Aliya Mustafina’s face, in her manner, or her relaxed talk to her team mates and coaches, or certainly in her performance that betrayed a moment of doubt in her own ability to win this competition. She had routines that she could do and that she would do without significant error and she knew it from the beginning.

There was faith in preparation, but there was also a quiet self-certainty- a confidence that no other gymnast showed throughout her entire performance. …

ABOUT LAST NIGHT: THE ALL AROUND

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