EYOF Team Finals

Bea Gheorghisor:

It was an interesting team final at EYOF. With only two scores counting per event (three gymnasts competing) no team had the opportunity to gain a substantial advantage or to capitalize on only one event. …

* the maximum value of an element is E so all elements harder than an E get 0.5 points, same as an E …

Great Britain had a fantastic day with only very few mistakes. This team is all about big skills and power, not that their execution is bad either. But, as I said above, in junior competitions difficulty is not really encouraged; furthermore, the areas where they were lacking today, they got heavily penalized. On floor, for instance, Ellie Downie received only a 12.75 for her very difficult routine which opened with a double layout and continued with a full in on the second pass, both of them very clean and performed with fantastic height. Tyesha Mattis received a score in the high 12s too for a routine which opened with a… double double. …

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