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Top 3 earn automatic team qualification to the Paris Olympics.
🥇 USA 🇺🇸 166.564
🥈 GBR 🇬🇧 163.363
🥉 Canada 🇨🇦 160.563
There are MANY stories to tell.
But for me the biggest surprise was Japan. This team with zero Worlds experience were fantastic. Up until their final routine on Bars.
For Worlds 2023 all eyes will be on Japan. These are going to be some of the top gymnasts in the world very, very soon.
No all-around is calculated during Team.
But here are the top competitors who did do 4 apparatus.
56.698: Rebeca Andrade🇧🇷
55.833: Jordan Chiles🇺🇸
55.166: Ellie Black🇨🇦
53.632: Alice Kinsella🇬🇧
52.432: Martina Maggio🇮🇹
A timely reminder of why gymnasts from Russia and Belarus were banned from the Liverpool Worlds.
Putin is bombing Ukraine’s power grid, causing grief and suffering for civilians.
IOC should announce what date Russia will be banned from the Paris Olympics, unless Putin’s war is ended.
If you find coverage of the Women’s Team Final more positive and less coherent, I’m NOT claiming it’s because of todays excellent free media luncheon with open Bar.
That would be FAKE NEWS. 😀
Yulo photobomb.
One of the funniest guys on the Floor at Worlds.
Recall Dom was a mainstay on the GBR team. Gold medalist on Floor at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow.
If you assumed he retired and went into sport commentary (like me) you were wrong. 😀
He’s competing now for Ireland. And doing the AA at age-27.
Hit 6/6 though had to take out one twist on Vault due to a poor block.
Like most of the athletes, Dom feels the competition format in Liverpool was too rushed. His arm was still cramped from Pommels while he was competing on Rings.
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I spoke with Ollie and Blythe after the disastrous first 2 subdivisions.
We couldn’t recall a more awful, bad, surprising start to a meet for the top teams at Worlds.
Happily, the meet got much, much better in the next 4 subdivisions. In fact, statistically the number of HIT routines might not be that much lower than usual.
How do you sum up 14 hours and hundreds of routines in one minute?
Like this.
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Since the competition was not entirely streamed worldwide, you’ve probably heard it was a splatfest.
Not really. It started that way ➙ USA and China with many weird and surprising problems. Donnell getting a zero on Vault, for example.
But by the end of the meet I’d say it was a terrific competition. A fight for every Finals spot.
READ the FIG summing up – Tanigawa Wataru and Japan lead the way at Liverpool Artistic Gymnastics Worlds
Depth. In fact, for Apparatus, IF we had 16 finalists instead of eight, there’s every chance a medalist would come from someone near the end of the list.
Top qualifiers from Ireland, Philippines and Armenia.
Many teams are very proud of their performance. I’d single out Canada and Hungary, for example.
More gymnasts are slowly learning not to compete difficulty that’s not close to perfect. Rings evaluation was particularly severe in Liverpool. It’s far better to go clean than risk a questionable strength skill. Especially Invert Cross.
Superb execution gymnasts include Yulo and Harald Wybe from Norway. Uchimura good.
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We feared the Aussie superstar might not be able to compete after he suffered a back injury training this apparatus in Podium.
Tyson was 5th in the Tokyo Olympics.
It was a game day medical decision.
AND he qualified to the Final in 8th spot with this brilliant routine. In fact he tied with teammate Mitchell Morgans, but won the tie-break. Mitchell will step in if any of the 8 finalists withdraw.
Reserves – Morgans, Souza, Tvorogal
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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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