Blythe:
… The Couch Gymnast’s Bea Gheorghisor and I (roomies for this week) sat down together post-senior women’s podium training to put together some superlatives about what we saw.
Biggest surprise of the day — team: Great Britain. Two DTYs, out of the blue!
Biggest surprise of the day — individuals: Ruby Harrold …
Mariya Livchikova … looks better than ever
Biggest surprise of the day — skill: Vanessa Ferrari’s full in tuck to immediate back tuck second pass. Um, wow. Honorable mention: Anne Kuhm’s triple full off beam.
Top three teams and why: Russia, Romania and Britain or Italy. Italy looked stronger on beam, Britain better on vault …
Top three individuals: Anastasia Grishina, Larisa Iordache and Mariya Lichikova. Not necessarily in that order …
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