Author: Rick Mc

This edit reminds me of the Cirque show KÀ. 🙂

We can’t actually do flips and tricks in real life, so we applied a bit of video magic.

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Thanks George.

Coverage of the World Championships with a recap of the men’s and women’s qualifying rounds from Nanning, China.

Jessica, Coach Rick, Lauren Hopkins and Spanny Tampson …

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GymCastic 121 – Qualifications Recap from the 2014 World Championships

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How disappointing.

A fantastic Men’s team final at the World Gymnastics Championships was ruined by the Horizontal Bar judges.

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The battle for team gold came down to the final routine on Horizontal Bar, former World Champion Zhang Chenglong.

He hit. But not perfectly. It was clear that Japan had won the team competition.

Yet (somehow) the H Bar panel came up with an impossible score of 15.966.

15.966 was far too high. The highest score of the competition, so far. Impossibly high.

It will be obvious to anyone when we compare Uchimura’s vs Chenglong’s routines and scores.

ZHANG – 7.500 + 8.466 = 15.966
UCHIMURA – 6.900 + 8.500 = 15.400
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When we compare the E-scores. 😦

Japan was robbed.

I’ll forever regard JPN as the legitimate winners of the World Championships 2014.

Here’s the Judging panel.

HUANG Liping (CHN) – Horizontal Bar Supervisor

E1 TSAI Heng Cheng (TPE)
E2 LESIV Genadi (BLR)
E3 RODRIGUEZ Joseph (PUR)
E4 IANEZ RAMOS Miguel Angel (ESP)
E5 ??

The E panel should be sanctioned for handing out an impossible score.

This is worse than the Uchimura pommel dismount scandal at the 2012 Olympics.

On par with the Dragalescu 2nd Vault scandal at the 2004 Olympics. Four judges were sanctioned that time.

I’m disgusted. 😦

Here’s the man who paid for a good chunk of the US$13 million dollar budget for this competition. The Canadians went shopping at one of his many sporting goods stores today to help pay that back. 🙂

Check the astonishing sports complex hosting World Championships 2014 in southern China.

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I’m still looking for good video of the colourful light show playing over these venues at night.

Congratulations to Lisa who had a great prelims to qualify to the Bar Final and AA Final.

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Who should I vote for?

Only the top 24 all-around gymnasts are eligible, but I don’t mind voting for someone off that list, spoiling my ballot. Elegance is elegance.

Jessica López?

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Cintia Rodríguez?

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Elsa Garcia has won it in the past. But I could vote for her again. 🙂

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Georgia-Rose Brown is even taller, we think, than Kyla Ross (USA) who won last year. Beautiful lines.

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peggy81808 suggests Asuka Teramoto.

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30yr-old Vasiliki Millousi had a great meet, leading her Greek team to 2015 Worlds qualification. A gymnastics super model.

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Who else?

Check the list of Artistic winners since 1999.

Yana Kudryavtseva won it at Rhythmic Worlds last week.

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Top 8 compete in each apparatus Final. Maximum 2 / nation.

VAULT results:
1 BILES Simone USA 15.450
2 HONG Un Jong PRK 15.354
3 SKINNER Mykayla USA 15.349
4 SOSNITSKAYA Alla RUS 15.016
5 MORENO MEDINA Alexa Citlali MEX 14.816
6 PHAN Thi Ha Thanh VIE 14.800
7 FRAGAPANE Claudia GBR 14.716
8 STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI 14.700
Reserves
IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU 14.649
KARMAKAR Dipa IND 14.483
BLACK Elsabeth CAN 14.483

BARS Results:
1 YAO Jinnan CHN 15.666
2 HUANG Huidan CHN 15.333
3 LOCKLEAR Ashton USA 15.233
4 MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 15.166
5 DOWNIE Rebecca GBR 15.166
6 SPIRIDONOVA Daria RUS 15.100
7 HILL Lisa Katharina GER 15.100
8 HARROLD Ruby GBR 14.733
Reserves
MILLER Larrissa AUS 14.666
ROSS Kyla USA 14.650
Lopez VEN 14.433

BEAM results:
1 BILES Simone USA 15.133
2 IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU 15.066
3 YAO Jinnan CHN 14.900
4 BAI Yawen CHN 14.800
5 BLACK Elsabeth CAN 14.466
6 ROSS Kyla USA 14.391
7 MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 14.308
8 TERAMOTO Asuka JPN 14.266
Reserves:
NEDOV Emma AUS 14.266
DOWNIE Rebecca GBR 14.200
MILLOUSI Vasiliki GRE 14.100

FLOOR results:
1 BILES Simone USA 15.366
2 IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU 14.933
3 SKINNER Mykayla USA 14.700
4 FERRARI Vanessa ITA 14.566
5 MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 14.500
6 FRAGAPANE Claudia GBR 14.400
7 FASANA Erika ITA 14.233
8 MILLER Larrissa AUS 14.166
Reserves:
POPA NEDELCU Roxana ESP 14.166
SHANG Chunsong CHN 13.966
Pihan-Kulesza POL 13.900

Simone qualified 1st in 5/6 finals. I’d call that a strong prelim round. 🙂

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Top 24 compete in the AA Final. Maximum 2 / nation.

This table comes from wikipedia:

Rank	Gymnast	Nation					Total	Qual.
1	Simone Biles	United States	15.800	13.300	15.133	15.366	59.599	Q
2	Aliya Mustafina	Russia	14.900	15.166	14.308	14.500	58.874	Q
3	Larisa Iordache	Romania	15.133	13.233	15.066	14.933	58.365	Q
4	Yao Jinnan	China	14.833	15.666	14.900	12.633	58.032	Q
5	Kyla Ross	United States	15.100	14.650	14.391	13.800	57.941	Q
6	Mykayla Skinner	United States	15.666	13.900	13.533	14.700	57.799	–
7	Vanessa Ferrari	Italy	14.866	13.766	14.033	14.566	57.231	Q
8	Shang Chunsong	China	13.966	14.558	14.633	13.966	57.123	Q
9	Ruby Harrold	Great Britain	14.600	14.733	13.700	13.733	56.766	Q
10	Alla Sosnitskaya	Russia	15.133	14.408	13.666	13.533	56.740	Q
11	Roxana Popa	Spain	14.833	14.033	13.366	14.166	56.398	Q
12	Asuka Teramoto	Japan	14.333	14.266	14.266	13.466	56.331	Q
13	Claudia Fragapane	Great Britain	15.000	13.466	13.133	14.400	55.999	Q
14	Madison Kocian	United States	14.133	14.300	13.900	13.633	55.966	–
15	Ekaterina Kramarenko	Russia	14.466	14.766	13.566	13.066	55.864	–
16	Marta Pihan-Kulesza	Poland	14.066	13.933	13.766	13.900	55.665	Q
17	Elsabeth Black	Canada	14.300	13.766	14.466	13.000	55.532	Q
18	Erika Fasana	Italy	14.833	13.466	12.866	14.233	55.398	Q
19	Lisa Katharina Hill	Germany	14.033	15.100	13.200	12.900	55.233	Q
20	Natsumi Sasada	Japan	14.033	13.966	13.533	13.600	55.132	Q
21	Giulia Steingruber	Switzerland	15.300	13.500	14.033	12.133	54.966	Q
22	Jessica Lopez	Venezuela	14.800	14.433	13.000	12.733	54.966	Q
23	Elsa Garcia	Mexico	14.100	13.600	13.500	13.633	54.833	Q
24	Alina Stanila	Romania	14.866	13.233	13.066	13.600	54.765	Q
25	Georgia Rose Brown	Australia	14.133	13.666	13.333	13.566	54.698	Q
26	Ana Filipa Martins	Portugal	13.900	13.900	13.266	13.466	54.532	Q
27	Laura Waem	Belgium	13.800	13.908	13.433	13.100	54.241	Q
28	Vasiliki Millousi	Greece	13.400	13.233	14.100	13.200	53.933	R
29	Isabela Onyshko	Canada	13.733	13.933	13.133	13.100	53.899	R
30	Lisa Verschueren	Belgium	13.666	13.433	13.466	13.300	53.865	R
31	Kim Bui	Germany	14.133	13.966	13.833	11.833	53.765	R
32	Marine Brevet	France	13.766	12.766	14.000	13.066	53.598	R

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1 USA 235.038
2 CHN 230.753
3 RUS 228.135
4 GBR 224.596
5 ITA 222.459
6 JPN 221.360
7 ROU 219.161
8 AUS 218.034

Top 8 compete in the Team Final. The Aussies are celebrating.

Top 24 move on to World Championships 2015 in Glasgow.

GER, NED, BEL, CAN, FRA, MEX, ESP, BRA, POL, KOR, SUI, HUN, SWE, AUT, PRK, GRE

FIG:

Elegant Vasiliki MILLOUSI (GRE), 30, ranked first in the subdivision’s All-around standings with 53.933 …

Greece also celebrated their 24th-place overall finish, which secured them the last position for the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow.

My friends from Colombia are 25th at this point 😦 , the alternate if any of the top teams are unable to attend.

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