Update: He Kexin has withdrawn with a forearm strain.
Blythe Lawrence is there LIVE blogging …
Tatiana Nabieva, VT: DTY with a step back. Smart decision not to do the Amanar. Piked Podkopayeva second vault, very nice, small step. A drama free rotation from Nabieva.
Qualifiers: Men’s floor: Gonzalez, Da Silva, Bouhail, Koczi. Still rings: Chen, Yamamuro, Pluzhnikov, Balandin.
Koji Yamamuro, SR: The lone competitor from Japan here gets a nice ovation…strong routine with a stuck full twisting double layout dismount from Japan’s resident strongman. A lot of fight and a lot of pride on his face during that exercise. 15.633 good for second right now.
On high bar, Zonderland and reigning world champion Zhang Chenglong will get to have a rematch. (Oooh…)
The goal of today for all these gymnasts is just to make the top four in order to move on to tomorrow’s final. So it’s not too much of a surprise to see Deng Linlin warming up a bhs, bhs, layout to two feet to Korbut on beam, or to see Yana Demyunchuk doing a roundoff, layout on the same event. It’s a risky strategy to throw everything you’ve got in the qualifying, because if you fall, you’re done.
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