A montage showing some named skills from the Code of Points that were actually performed by other people earlier. Generally this happens when people never get to go to a world championships but occasionally the FIG like to remind us how dumb they can be and just name the skill after the wrong Romanian. Smooth.
I understand Nastia is coming costumed as a GYMNAST. 🙂
… The Progressive Skating & Gymnastics Spectacular, coming to … Moline, Ill., on October 29, is part of the Pandora NBC Skating Series and will feature Olympic, world and national medalists in figure skating and gymnastics, including Olympic hopefuls for the London 2012 Summer Games.
Leading the cast of world-class gymnasts is 2008 Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin, returning for her fifth appearance in the show. …
Four guys “hit” well enough to be considered for medals. If you asked a group of 8yr-old gymnasts which was the “best” routine, all would agree it was Kohei Uchimura. Even if they had no idea who he was.
BIG tricks. Great swing. Stuck dismount.
What kind of a judging system would give the gold to the guy with poor toe point, average swing technique, poor “positions” and much less impressive difficulty (aside from the Jaeger 1/1) … ?
Zhang swings great. I’m happy to award him the Silver.
It’s a toss up for me for the Bronze.
When oh when will FIG “fix” the rules on Horizontal Bar?
Here (again) are those responsible for awarding Uchimura 9.033 execution and Zou Kai 8.741:
HUANG Liping (CHN) – Horizontal Bar Supervisor
Execution Judges:
DOBROVOLSKYI Edvard (UKR)
POP Augustin (ROU)
KELEMEN Zoltan (HUN)
MITEV Dimitar (BUL)
ROCHA Joao (POR)
FIG was very careful not to release the detailed execution scores for each judge, knowing some would be lynched. If you’ve somehow got your hands on all execution scores for routines at Worlds, contact me. I’ll give them to WikiLeaks.
Mixed Martial Arts, or M.M.A., is a full contact combat sport that was once banned in much of the United States. Today, it’s one of the fastest growing sports among men… and now women. But why would any woman climb into a cage for all-out combat for what amounts to almost nothing? …
“Fighter Girls” is one of four riveting stories airing on CNN Presents hosted by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien and Dr. Sanjay Gupta this Sunday, October 23 at 8:00 pm ET, re-airing at 11:00 pm ET and 2:00 am ET.
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