1. JPN 364.191 2. USA 361.583 3. PUR 344.460 4. POR 334.352
I’ve been following and cheering team Puerto Rico. It would be a great testament to the small island if they could have qualified in the top 8 teams to the Olympics.
That won’t happen. Too many errors today, including a fluke “ping” from H Bar.
USA impressed.
Sadly Jon Horton won’t get through to the AA Final. I’m going to miss him there.
Uchimura is first 92.256, Orozco 2nd AA 90.532, Leyva 3rd 89.84
AA STANDINGS
1. Uchimura JPN 92.256
2. Orozco USA 90.532
3. Leyva USA 89.848
4. Yamamuro JPN 89.765
5. Horton USA 89.689
6. Rivera PUR 87.831
7. Legendre USA 86.598
8. Campos POR 85.832
9. Ramos PUR 84.897
10. Vargas PUR 84.897
Jon’s two teammates finished higher. Only 2 / nation move on.
Japan had more problems than team USA and still finished well ahead of the States. Uchimura fell on Vault, yet still scored 92.256. His execution was underscored, as it always is under this current Code.
On Horizontal Bar the E panel gave him 8.83 … Are they insane? … Nope, in 2011 judges “box” the scores awarding no higher than about 9.10 no matter how much better the routine was than, for example, Legendre.
Tragically, Yusuke Tanaka suffered a concussion on Floor on a roll-out skill. I’d like FIG Men’s Technical Committee to answer the Japanese media when they ask why those skills are so valuable in the current men’s rules. … And why FIG bans them for women, yet encourage them for men?
If MTC has even an iota of intelligence, they’ll all be devalued next cycle. MT Chair Stoica is from Romania — Dragalescu’s worst injury ever was on a roll-out skill.
It makes no sense to encourage gymnasts to land close to the head.
The best routines of the 1st session: Uchimura P Bars and H Bar, Leyva P Bars, and — best of the best — Ha Thanh Nguyan from Vietnam – Yurchenko Double Pike STICK on Vault. Amazing.
Ron Bell, from California, was coach on the floor for South Africa.
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