So how did Russia win? … It seemed impossible watching the meet that Russia could give up 2 pts in falls to the States. And still win.
Answer = FLOOR. … With the fall and tumbling connection miss of Mattie Larson, team USA gave up 2.333 on Floor.
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Brigid posted this photo of Mustafina.
Do not think for a minute you will take my gold!!!
Bross is a tough competitor. But Mustafina is even tougher. … What kind of an all-around final are we going to see!
… I’m still not convinced that the USA lost. There are far too many phone calls from Nellie Kim to apparatus Head Judges for my liking. Is she intervening in evaluation?
I don’t like it. Slow motion review can reveal anything you want it to reveal.
I’ll await some video analysis before I concede that Russia did win the World Championships 2010.
… On the other hand, I don’t see how they can lose Worlds in 2011. Russia has far more talent than any other team today.
End of rotation #1 the top 4 teams all HIT. China looked quite good on Vault. (We cannot compare the team scores as the Vault number is so much higher than any other apparatus.)
… the bad news. Two of the Aussie girls fell on Beam. Laurne Mitchell … sob.
rotation 2 – two of the Chinese make mistakes on Bar warm-up, including He Kexin. They won’t miss in the meet.
Gak. Jiang misses Pak in the competition. China drops to 3rd, at this point. They can’t afford to count a fall.
Double Gak. Gymnast #2 for China, Huang, falls on kip after Pak. I can’t believe this. (Long conference with Nellie Kim and judges reviewing the video. )
As Romania hit bars, they just might move into the top 3. The Romanian Beam is so solid. Confident.
He Kexin HIT and STICK. … I held my breath during the Pak.
USA on Beam. Raisman solid. Aggressive. But nearly fell. Strong Patterson dismount.
Dementeyva FALLS on Yurchenko. Yikes.
Alicia hits front pike on Beam mount. Fantastic. Redemption. … But later nearly falls on front pike. Whew.
Killer Bar routine from Mustafina. STICK. Second highest score after He Kexin. … Unfortunately it’s OVER for
Double Yikes. The ticking time bomb, Nabieva, fell twice on Bars. … Can Russia afford to keep her on the A team? … I swear Rodionenko and Alexandrov are getting greyer by the day.
Awesome. Mattie Larson HITS double layout after falling on it in warm-up. … Blast. Then missed the punch out of the backward layout 2 ½ … AND fell on double pike dismount. Disaster.
All of the top 3 teams have had falls now. Russia 3. China 2. USA 1. … If I haven’t lost count. … Those who HATE the sudden victory format are going to go on a rampage.
I still love it.
Raisman has so much POWER tumbling. It’s scary. HITS. … I don’t see how the USA can lose this thing now.
… I’ll QUIT this terribly erratic LIVE blogging and just watch the Finals …
I saw Team Romania shopping in the mall yesterday. And was struck at how happy they were, as a group.
Brigid has seen much more of them than I:
… The Romanians were clap happy tonight! They have been wonderfully cheery in training all around, and I see nothing but jokes and warmth between the coaches and the girls.
Sandra was in top clown form. She mucked up a pass, landing awkwardly and decided to flop sideways onto the ground in this sort of melodramatic swoon and lie there, playing dead for a minute. Everyone cracked up. Ceresela was in stitches and even Octavian and Lili were laughing. …
Cirque is the world’s biggest employer of acrobats. They are here at the World Championships. (A pairs balancing act will be performing at the closing ceremonies.)
As an occasional consultant to casting, Cirque was kind enough to invite me along last night to see TOTEM, a new show, currently playing in Amsterdam. (Review coming soon.)
If you are in Rotterdam and want to chat about future opportunities for your athletes, message either of the casting scouts here in town.
For more general information click through the Cirque link atop any page of Gymnastics Coaching. (Atop any gymnastics page on the internet, for that matter.)
This company hires dozens of new performers every month.
… Perhaps the Women’s NCAA should adopt a 3-up, 3-count Team Finals format. Eight teams would reach the final. There would be a far greater chance of upsets.
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
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.
Danell Leyva made Finals.
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 interviewsauf Deutsch. GymMEDIA reports that Germany was quite happy with a 5th place finish.
2010 Team Finals Qualifiers:
1 China 362.482
2 Japan 361.40
3 United States 357.092
4 Great Britain 357.033
5 Germany 355.383
6 Russia 355.076
7 Korea 352.042 8 France 350.284
2011 World Championships Team Qualifiers (including the above teams):
Romania, Italy, Spain, Puerto Rico, Ukraine, Canada, Switzerland, Belarus, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Uzbekistan, Portugal
All Around Finals:
UCHIMURA Kohei JPN, 92.231
BOY Philipp GER, 90.156
LU Bo CHN 89.639
HORTON Jonathan USA 89.598
PURVIS Daniel GBR 89.498
YOO Won Chul KOR 89.423
KOCZI Flavius ROU 89.398
KHOROKHORDIN Sergey RUS 89.241
TENG Haibin CHN 89.181
HUNTER Samuel GBR 89.090
KUKSENKOV Mykola UKR
LEYVA Danell USA
UEMATSU Koji JPN
RIVERA Luis PUR
DEVYATOVSKIY Maxim RUS
SPIRIDONOV Evgenij GER
TOMMASONE Cyril FRA
SHATILOV Alexander ISR
GONZALEZ SEPULVEDA CHI
MUNOZ Sergio ESP
VARGAS VELAZQUEZ L. PUR
SAVITSKI Dzmitry BLR
FOKIN Anton UZB
KIM Soo Myun KOR
Reserves:
VALEIEV Ildar KAZ
GIRALDO LOPEZ J. COL
JEFFERIS Joshua AUS
GAFUIK Nathan CAN
Floor Exercise Final:
1 KOSMIDIS Eleftherios GRE 15.466
2 SHATILOV Alexander ISR 15.308
3 PURVIS Daniel GBR 15.266
4 LEGENDRE Steven USA 15.233
5 PENEV Eddie BUL 15.066
6 KOCZI Flavius ROU 15.000
7 BOUHAIL Thomas FRA 14.966
8 UCHIMURA Kohei JPN 14.966
Reserves
R1 GONZALEZ SEPULVEDA E. CHI 14.933
R2 BOTELLA PEREZ Isaac ESP 14.866
R3 PICHLER Thomas AUS 14.825
Pommel Horse Final:
1 BERKI Krisztian HUN 15.900
2 SELLATHURAI Prashanth AUS 15.566
3 TOMMASONE Cyril FRA 15.500
4 UDE Filip CRO 15.500
5 TRUYENS Donna Donny BEL 15.416
6 BERTONCELJ Saso SLO 15.400
7 MERDINYAN Harutyum ARM 15.333
8 SMITH Louis GBR 15.300
Reserves
R1 SELIGMAN Robert CRO 15.200
R2 NAKASHIMA Tatsuki JPN 15.166
R3 BUSNARI Alberto ITA 15.166
Still Rings Final:
1 CHEN Yibing CHN 15.966
2 YAN Mingyong CHN 15.700
3 YAMAMURO Koji JPN 15.633
4 MORANDI Matteo ITA 15.500
5 YOO Won Chul KOR 15.466
6 CHEN Chih Yu TPE 15.466
7 KOBAYASHI Kenya JPN 15.433
8 SAN MIGUEL Ivan ESP 15.400
Reserves
R1 WYNN Brandon USA 15.400
R2 ANGIOLETTI Matteo ITA 15.366
R3 TARANU Thomas GER 15.266
Vault Finals
1 GOLOTSUTSKOV Anton RUS 16.475
2 KASPIAROVICH Dzmitry BLR 16.433
3 BOUHAIL Thomas FRA 16.366
4 YANG Hak Seon KOR 16.266
5 KOCZI Flavius ROU 16.266
6 ISAYEV Andriy UKR 16.233
7 WAMMES Jeffrey NED 16.216
8 RIVERA Luis PUR 16.133
Reserves
R1 YAMAMURO Koji JPN 16.116
R2 YAKUBOVS’KYI Oleksandr UKR 16.083
R3 TUUHA Tomi FIN 16.016
Parallel Bars Finals:
1 FENG Zhe CHN 15.866
2 TENG Haibin CHN 15.633
3 HAMBUECHEN Fabian GER 15.433
4 UEMATSU Koji JPN 15.400
5 KIERZKOWSKI Adam POL 15.366
6 UCHIMURA Kohei JPN 15.366
7 PIASECKY Samuel SVK 15.366
8 VALEIEV Ildar KAZ 15.366
Reserves
R1 ZONDERLAND Epke NED 15.333
R2 BOY Philipp GER 15.258
R3 CAPELLI Claudio SUI 15.241
High Bar Final:
1 ZHANG Chenglong CHN 15.766
2 UEMATSU Koji JPN 15.733
3 HAMBUECHEN Fabian GER 15.700
4 LEYVA Danell USA 15.633
5 BOY Philipp GER 15.566
6 BROOKS Christopher USA 15.500
7 ZONDERLAND Epke NED 15.325
8 FENG Zhe CHN 15.266
Reserves
R1 MOZNIK Marijo CRO 15.233
R2 WAMMES Jeffrey NED 15.166
R3 KIM Jihoon KOR 15.166
Updated on October 19, 2010, 6:37pm
This summary via the wonderful Gymnastike. Official results available via the Start Lists and Results link on the competition home page. That’s in detailed PDF format.
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