Year: 2010

NEW from my region. And unique.

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The Alberta Gymnastics Awards dinner is missing a few people at World Championships: GOOD LUCK Nathan Gafuik and Jackson Paine.

Anyone can attend the Spotting Techniques Workshop on Nov 6/10 in Calgary.

Details on all things gymnastics are posted on the Gymnastics Alberta website.

Thanks Miguel.

At World Gymnastics Championships 2010.

… 32 day 1 and 37 day 2.

Afanasyeva had one of them.

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Only 1 “landing w/o feet first on dismount“.

Wow. Nabieva missed Bar finals.

Unofficial:

Results for event finals according to IG

VT EF (scores were already averaged):
1. Aliya Mustafina (Russia) – 15.283
2. Alicia Sacramone (USA) – 15.266
3-4. Jade Barbosa (Brazil) – 14.633
Ekaterina Kurbatova (Russia) – 14.633
5. Ariella Kaeslin (SUI) – 14.603
6. Jo Hyunjoo (KOR) – 14.250
7. Imogen Cairns (GBR) – 14.195
8. Diana Chelaru (Romania) – 14.016
Huang Qiushuang (China) – 14.016 – not qualified because of lower execution

UB EF:
1. He Kexin – 16.066
2. Huang Qiushuang – 15.666
3. Elizabeth Tweddle – 15.600
4. Aliya Mustafina – 15.300
5. Elisabeth Seitz – 14.966
6. Rebecca Bross – 14.933
7. Ana Porgras – 14.733
8. Bridget Sloan – 14.700
Tatiana Nabieva – 14.700 – not qualified because of lower execution

BB EF:
1-2. Ana Porgras – 15.266
Rebecca Bross – 15.266
3. Anna Dementieva – 15.133
4. Deng Linlin – 15.100
5. Lauren Mitchell – 14.966
6. Aliya Mustafina – 14.933
7. Alicia Sacramone – 14.866
8. Yana Demyanchuk – 14.533
9. Elisabetta Preziosa – 14.525 – sorry but I would just like to emphasize that my Preziosa failed to qualify for beam EF by 0.008!!!

FX EF:
1. Aliya Mustafina – 14.833
2-3. Ksenia Afanasyeva – 14.766
Sandra Izbasa – 14.766
4. Sui Lu – 14.633
5-6. Lauren Mitchell – 14.466
Diana Chelaru – 14.466
7. Vanessa Ferrari – 14.458
8. Alexandra Raisman – 14.383

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Here’s Elisabetta Preziosa of Italy, another good candidate for the Longines Award for Elegance and Crowd Appeal.

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Good night.

Hot off the presses

Mustafina RUS
Bross USA
Raisman USA
Jiang CHN
Huang CHN
Porgras ROM
Mitchell AUS
Nabieva RUS
Kaeslin Switzerland
Haidu ROM
Ferrari ITA
Tanaka JPN
Lopez VEN
Whelan GBR
Seitz GER (… Def on Bars)
Van Gerner NED
Bonora AUS
Hypolito BRA
Malaussena FRA
Fernandez BRA
Tsurumi JPN
Pihan-Kulesza POL
Preziosa ITA
Hibbert GBR

Switzerland’s Ariella Kaeslin also made the Vault final.

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Alternates:
Vanwalleghem BEL
Vaculik CAN
Brevet FRA
Goedkoop NED

Rebecca Bross of Plano, Texas/WOGA, and Alexandra Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics, will compete in the all-around finals.

VAULT – Alicia Sacramone of Winchester, Mass./Brestyan’s;

BARS – Bross and Bridget Sloan of Pittsboro, Ind./Sharp’s Gymnastics;

BEAM – Bross and Sacramone;

FLOOR – Raisman

Raisman does not have good form, but she did an amazing job today.

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Russia
China
USA
Romania
GBR
Australia
Italy
Japan … Wow. Amazing considering their terrible prelims.

Netherlands !!
Brazil
France
Ukraine
Canada
Germany
Belgium
Switzerland

Poland
Spain
Greece
Korea
Mexico
Venezuela
Hungary
… Uzbekistan

OFFICIAL

Alternates: Belarus, Slovenia

Eventually they’ll be available on GymnasticsResults.com

Congratulations!

And a special thanks to Kristina Vaculik for supporting her team in the middle of first term at academically demanding Stanford University.

How did that stupid chicken get in the team photo?

Here’s a bad camera angle. You can see why I don’t like 1) straight body cast handstand, and 2) tap over the low bar.

Click PLAY or watch her Bars on YouTube.

Note how many of the Russian cast handstands are straddle-ups. It’s far less deductible.

I actually like Rebecca. She’ll probably win the all-around. And I’ll cheer if she does.

Compare Huang Qiushuang‘s routine on Bars to Beth Tweddle. Beth’s is about 10 times more difficult. Yet they both get a similar start score.

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This is a complete injustice.

Nellie Kim. Please fix your Code of Points on Bars.

Jenn Isbister of Gymn.ca is here, as always. She is disappointed at everything that’s been lost from Women’s Artistic Gymnastics since the golden age, the late 1980s Soviet teams.

But Ana Porgras is old school Romanian Beam royalty. This compares well with the best routines in history.

Click PLAY or watch Anna on YouTube.

Hey, that routine is posted on the official FIG YouTube channel. Cool.

I’ll admit this is the only routine I’ve seen in Rotterdam that flows.

Anna is still my leading candidate to win the Longines Elegance Prize. … Has she won in the past?