It was an up and down day for Team Canada in preliminaries.
Some brilliant and pretty gymnastics — but 3 falls on Beam, 1 fall on Floor. Good Vault, good Bars … with one fall on release.
Canada finishes 5.5 points behind Australia with 215.028 after half the competition has finished. But most of the BIG NAME teams are yet to come. …
1. Romania 227.228
2. Australia 221.846
3. Canada 215.328
4. NED 212.828
Mexico 206.751
Venezuela 202.294
Greece 197.611
It’s still possible for CAN to hang on to 8th, but that would mean disaster for a couple of teams to come. Certainly we are safe for the top 16. Australia has a good shot at top 8, I think.
Competing gymnasts are: Kristina Vaculik of Whitby, Ont., (Gemini Gymnastics), Dominique Pegg of Sarnia, Ont., (Bluewater), Christine (Peng Peng) Lee of Toronto, (Oakville Gymnastics), Coralie Leblond-Chartrand of Montreal (Gymnix), Madeline Gardiner, (Dynamo) and Mikaela Gerber (Oakville Gymnastics), both of Cambridge, Ont. The reserve gymnast is Ottawa-born Talia Chiarelli of Bluewater Gymnastics in Sarnia.
Mikaela Gerber was moved on to the competing team from the alternate spot and proved her worth hitting 3 for 3 strong routines.
Christine Lee scored 54.632, enough to get through to AA Finals, I’m hoping. She’s hugely entertaining for the audience. But fell on Beam: front salto half twist.
For more read Examiner – LIVE blog of that session
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