Kensley Behel was at the final Worlds trial.

She sat down with the U.S. Men’s High Performance Director before his first Worlds.

Doha goals are clear:

1. To bring home a medal as a team.

2. To bring home as many individual medals as possible.

3. To go 18 for 18.

When asked about the strengths and weaknesses of the team, “Our obvious weaknesses include start value on parallel bars, and our start value and execution on high bar. When there are gymnasts like Zou Jingyuan who are scoring our start values, we’ve got to step it up.”

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Brett McClure and the Direction of the Men’s Program

Floor
1 Artem Dolgopyat Israel 6.4 8.300 14.700
2 Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine 5.8 8.250 14.050
3 Joel Plata Spain 5.7 8.200 13.900

Pommels
1 Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine 6.5 8.150 14.650
2 Saso Bertoncelj Slovenia 6.1 8.400 14.500
3 Shogo Nonomura Japan 5.7 8.200 13.900

Rings
1 Shogo Nonomura Japan 6.0 8.400 14.400
2 Ali Zahran Egypt 6.2 8.200 14.400
3 Kenta Chiba Japan 5.7 8.450 14.150
4 Yuri van Gelder Netherlands 5.9 8.250 14.150
5 Dang Nam Vietnam 6.0 8.150 14.150

P Bars
1 Petro Pakhniuk Ukraine 6.5 8.450 14.950
2 Kenta Chiba Japan 6.2 8.700 14.900
3 Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine 6.7 8.150 14.850

H Bar
1 Kenta Chiba Japan 5.8 8.350 14.150
2 David Vecsernyes Hungary 5.7 8.400 14.100
3 Marios Georgiou Cyprus 5.8 8.300 14.100

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