➙ Your annual reminder NOT to read too much into MAG podium training. The guys who mess up in practice often nail that same routine in the qualification round when it counts.
This is the most important Worlds of the quadrennial. What 12 teams will qualify for Paris?
There are perhaps 18 teams with a legitimate chance to make the Olympics. Recall it was Taiwan that qualified for Tokyo last quad. Taiwan didn’t even make Worlds this time around.
In Men’s Gymnastics anything can happen. Pommels. H Bar. Anything.
The facility looks good. Lighting seems consistent throughout.
Inside Gymnastics posted some of the major storylines:
2021 World Champion Zhang Boheng is not here, winning Asian Games last week instead. Defending World and Olympic champ is the clear favourite: Hashimoto Daiki.
China and Japan should certainly be the top 2 teams. I’m liking the (young) USA for the Bronze though GBR has Max Whitlock back on the team.
Of course Russia is still banned. Nikita Nagornyy added to the Canadian Government’s sanctions list this week.
Max Whitlock had every reason to retire with 6 Olympic medals — yet felt driven to return to training. His Pommels is more difficult than ever before. Max did hit the set with form breaks in podium.
Jake Jarman only 😀 showed triple twisting DOUBLE layout on Floor in podium training. I suspect he’ll try the Jarman if he makes the apparatus final.
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