Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Olly Hogben – Sports Commentator

If you watched European Championships online you heard many fun puns from this guy.

He’s doing Asian Games next. But is NOT one of the Gymnastics announcers. He’ll be doing other sports.

(via Papa Liukin)

… those strange deductions on Rings

At European Championships the Rings panel had SmartRings v6 software. It’s developed in Netherlands.

Deductions for strength hold flagged by that software were shown as extra deductions not included in the E-score.

I did see several occasions where the panel double checked the software by watching the video after the routine was finished. Perhaps it’s not foolproof yet.

Nobody I’ve spoken with knows exactly how it works. GBR coach Lee Woolls did post this.

Sr Men’s European apparatus winners

Floor
1. Dominick Cunningham GBR 14.666
2. Artem Dolgopyat ISR 14.466
3. Artur Dalaloyan RUS 14.466

Pommel
1. Rhys McClenaghan IRL 15.300
2. Robert Seligman CRO 14.866
3. Saso Bertoncelj SLO 14.866

You know. The Gymnastics SUPERPOWERS: Ireland, Croatia, Slovenia.

Rings
1. Eleftherios Petrounias GRE 15.466
2. Ibrahim Colak TUR 15.100
3. Courtney Tulloch GBR 15.000

This is the 4th Europeans gold for our Olympic Champ.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1028664690329743360

This is the first medal for a gymnast from Turkey.

After quite a good set on Rings, Goossens went sprawling towards the TV camera. ☹️

Vault
1. Artur Dalaloyan RUS 14.900
2. Igor Radivilov UKR 14.866
3. Dmitri Lankin RUS 14.666

Impressive and NOT scary Vault final. These three will contend for Worlds medals.

Click PLAY or watch Igor on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1028677437180260353

P Bars
1. Artur Dalaloyan RUS 15.433
2. David Belyavskiy RUS 15.166
3. Oliver Hegi SUI 14.633

H Bar
1. Oliver Hegi SUI 14.700
2. Epke Zonderland NED 14.400
3. David Vecsernyes HUN 14.033

Judges were brutally accurate with the E-score this time. #respect

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1028692601862606848

Rhys McClenaghan – Pommels

By the time we got to the Pommel final many (most?) were already calling the kid from Ireland favourite over the Olympic Champion. Max had been having problems. Rhys looking insanely confident.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1028656424665182208

Rhys won Europeans easily. Now the talk is of who could beat him at Worlds. Rhys was 14th last year.

This is the young man forced to leave his club just weeks ago. What kind of marketing would Rathgael Gymnastics Club in Bangor have now if they had supported him and his coach?

Jr Men’s European apparatus winners

Floor
1. LEWIS Jamie GBR 13.833
2. MOZZATO Nicolo ITA 13.666
3. NAIDIN Sergei RUS 13.500

FEDERICI Ares ITA and FREY Andrin SUI also scored 13.500, but lost Bronze in the tie break based on highest execution score.

via UEG

Pommel
1. DE ROSA Edoardo ITA 14.066
2. LEWIS Jamie GBR 13.733
3. KHACHIKYAN Gagik ARM 13.600

Though Jamie has 0.6 higher D score, I agree with the judges this time.

GREAT Pommel final. No falls.

Jamie will soon be contending for spots on senior GBR teams. He’s awesome.

via UEG

Rings
1. KLIMENTEV Grigorii RUS 14.300
2. KALIUZHIN Viktor RUS 13.866
3. LEWIS Jamie GBR 13.700

Frey had to withdraw. No time to bring in the alternate even though it was Mozzato who had just competed Floor.

SmartRings software was used at this meet to evaluate TIME OF HOLD. I’m still trying to figure out exactly how it works.

Vault
1. DRANITSKI Sviataslau BLR 14.333
2. JARMAN Jake GBR 14.300
3. FEDERICI Ares ITA 14.300

P Bars
1. KOVTUN Illia UKR 14.000
2. RIDA Karim GER 13.533
3. TAMSEL Dominic SUI 13.533

H Bar
1. MOZZATO Nicolo ITA 13.633
2. BALAZS Krisztian HUN 13.300
3. WOERZ Daniel GER 13.066

Mozzato says he’ll be competing Senior at Worlds Doha.

David Belyavskiy blames the brand of chalk provided at Europeans for a slippery H Bar. (Many did bring their own chalk.)

He also felt the H Bar was too rigid.

Apparatus finals are often a letdown for me as many times it’s difficult to repeat the performance that got you there. But this one was terrific. Congratulations to all the gymnasts and their coaches for putting on such a great show.

Five nations divide junior European titles

European Men’s TEAM final wrap-up

Going into the last rotation, Russia had a 1-point lead over Great Britain. Unfortunately, the British hopes for gold vanished as both Cunningham and Hall fell. Russia controlled their final routines well, securing the team title with a margin of almost four points. …

The most consistent team today, France cruised to the bronze medal, avoiding major mistakes. …

https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1028311939934572544

Click PLAY or watch a wrap-up on Twitter.

coaches should not smoke in front of kids

I’m embarrassed at the number of coach / addicts at European Gymnastics Championships 2018.

Why is Europe so far behind North America on this serious health issue?

Smoking rates in the United States have dropped by half from 1965 to 2006 falling from 42% to 20.8% of adults, with further significant decline to 18% by 2012.

Australia 14.7% or less.

The nation that smokes least? … Brunei.

Worst nations per capita consumption of tobacco cigarettes:

 Andorra 6398.3
 Luxembourg 6330.9
 Belarus 2911.3
 Macedonia 2784.9
 Albania 2491.6
 Belgium 2440.9
 Czech Republic 2427.9
 Jordan 2306.1
 Russia 2295.0