Author: Rick Mc

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

WAG Olympic finalists – Apparatus

Despite having a surprisingly off day in prelims, #Simone still qualified to all 4 apparatus finals. She has 6 medal chances in Tokyo.

Vault

  1. Simone Biles USA 15.183
  2. Jade Carey USA 15.166
  3. Rebeca Andrade BRA 15.100
  4. Yeo Seo-jeong KOR 14.800
  5. Shallon Olsen CAN 14.699
  6. Lilia Akhaimova RUS 14.699
  7. Alexa Moreno MEX 14.633
  8. Angelina Melnikova RUS 14.616

Full results.

Finally. Rebeca Andrade has long been one of the best gymnasts in the world, but had 3 ACL tears, limiting her chances in the past.

She qualified 2nd in the world in the AA and to both Floor and Vault apparatus finals.

Bars

  1. Nina Derwael BEL 15.366
  2. Sunisa Lee USA 15.200
  3. Anastasia Iliankova RUS 14.966
  4. Angelina Melnikova RUS 14.933
  5. Lu Yufei CHN 14.700
    — Elisabeth Seitz GER 14.700
  6. Fan Yilin CHN 14.600
  7. Simone Biles USA 14.566

Full results.

The showdown we wanted. Nina v Suni.

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Beam

  1. Guan Chenchen CHN 14.933
  2. Tang Xijing CHN 14.333
  3. Sunisa Lee USA 14.200
  4. Larisa Iordache ROU 14.133
  5. Ellie Black CAN 14.100
  6. Simone Biles USA 14.066
  7. Vladislava Urazova RUS 14.000
  8. Flavia Saraiva BRA 13.966

Full results.

Beam judges were slow. And also bad. What they are doing now makes Olympic Gymnastics look bad to the general public.

China put on a Beam clinic with 5 of the top 11 scores.

It was wonderful to see Larisa hit. Romanian Beam like past Olympics. Sadly she hurt her ankle on the triple twist dismount.

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Floor

  1. Vanessa Ferrari ITA 14.166
  2. Simone Biles USA 14.133
  3. Jade Carey USA 14.100
  4. Rebeca Andrade BRA 14.066
  5. Jessica Gadirova GBR 14.033
  6. Viktoria Listunova RUS 14.000
  7. Angelina Melnikova RUS 14.000
  8. Murakami Mai JPN 13.933

Full results.

30-year-old Vanessa Ferrari was one of the last qualifiers to Tokyo. And finds herself in the final ahead of unbeatable Simone Biles. Congratulations. Also — vindication for 2010 Worlds where she should have been #1 on Floor, but judges ranked her 6th.

WAG Olympic finalists – AA

  1. Simone Biles USA 57.731
  2. Rebeca Andrade BRA 57.399
  3. Sunisa Lee USA 57.166
  4. Angelina Melnikova RUS 57.132
  5. Vladislava Urazova RUS 57.099
    • Viktoriia Listunova RUS 56.932
  6. Nina Derwael BEL 56.598
  7. Tang Xijing CHN 56.432
    • Jade Carey USA 56.265
  8. Mélanie De Jesus Dos Santos FRA 55.431
    • Mykayla Skinner USA 55.398
  9. Jessica Gadirova GBR 55.199
  10. Lu Yufei CHN 55.066
    • Zhang Jin CHN 54.932
  11. Zsofia Kovacs HUN 54.732
  12. Jennifer Gadirova GBR 54.699
  13. Carolann Heduit FRA 54.299
  14. Elisabeth Seitz GER 54.232
  15. Alice D’Amato ITA 54.199
  16. Roxana Popa ESP 54.099
  17. Brooklyn Moors CAN 53.966
  18. Murakami Mai 53.965
  19. Ellie Black CAN 53.699
    • Aline Friess FRA 53.632
  20. Jutta Verkest BEL 53.632
  21. Martina Maggio ITA 53.566
    • Liliia Akhaimova RUS 53.565
  22. Lee Yun-seo KOR 53.540
  23. Giulia Steingruber SUI 53.533
  24. Kim Bui GER 53.398

Alternates Lieke Wevers (32nd, 53.365), Eythora Thorsdottir (36th, 52.899), Georgia Godwin (37th, 52.865), and Hatakeda Hitomi (39th, 52.732).

As always, you have to feel badly for those gymnasts who had a fantastic meet but still did not qualify because only 2 / nation go to the final. Jade Carey and Mykayla Skinner are two of those.

WAG Olympic finalists – Team

  1. Russia 171.629
  2. United States 170.562
  3. China 166.863
  4. France 164.561
  5. Belgium 164.195
  6. Great Britain 163.396
  7. Italy 163.330
  8. Japan 162.662

Full results.

Russia had a fantastic meet to finish ahead of Simone Biles’ USA. Congratulations.

The other big, happy surprise is Belgium finishing 5th.

Team final will be 3-up, 3-count. No room for mistakes.

photo @nastyailyankova

Samir Ait Said’s Olympic story

Nancy Armour:

In Rio, Ait Said’s left leg snapped on his vault landing during qualifying, the sharp crack echoing throughout the arena. As he rolled over, clutching his leg just below the knee, his foot and the lower half of his shin dangled in the opposite direction of the rest of his leg.

It was not the first time his Olympic dreams had been disrupted by injury. He missed the London Games after suffering three fractures in his right tibia at the European championships. But this was a particularly gruesome injury, one that has ended the career of other athletes.

Even as he lay in a Brazilian hospital, his leg immobilized, Ait Said vowed that he would return for Tokyo. …

Opinion: French gymnast Samir Ait Said’s resilience a reminder of the power of the Olympics

Angelina – Bars

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Lu Yufei – Bars

Super clean.

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Nikita NAGORNYY – H Bar

For some reason editors of the international Olympic video feed decided to show ZERO routines of the reigning World Champion.

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Flavia 2016 to 2021

A girl became a woman.

Men’s Olympic finalists – Apparatus

Maximum 2 / nation.

Floor

  1. Artem Dolgopyat ISR 15.200
  2. Nikita Nagornyy RUS 15.066
  3. Ryu Sung-hyun KOR 15.066
  4. Rayderley Zapata ESP 15.041
  5. Kim Han-sol KOR 14.900
  6. Yul Moldauer USA 14.866
  7. Xiao Ruoteng CHN 14.866
  8. Milad Karimi KAZ 14.766

Pommels

  1. Lee Chih-Kai TPE 15.266
  2. Rhys McClenaghan IRL 15.266
    — Kameyama Kohei JPN 15.266
  3. Alec Yoder USA 15.200
  4. Max Whitlock GBR 14.900
  5. Sun Wei CHN 14.833
  6. Kaya Kazuma JPN 14.833
  7. David Belyavskiy RUS 14.733

Rings

  1. Eleftherios Petrounias GRE 15.333
  2. Liu Yang CHN 15.300
  3. Samir Aït Saïd FRA 15.066
  4. Ibrahim Colak TUR 14.933
  5. Arthur Zanetti BRA 14.900
  6. Adem Asil TUR 14.800
  7. Denis Ablyazin RUS 14.800
  8. You Hao CHN 14.800

Vault

  1. Shin Jea-hwan KOR 14.866
  2. Artur Davtyan ARM 14.866
  3. Nikita Nagornyy RUS 14.783
  4. Adem Asil TUR 14.766
  5. Denis Ablyazin RUS 14.733
  6. Carlos Yulo PHI 14.712
  7. Caio Souza BRA 14.700
  8. Ahmet Önder TUR 14.466

P Bars

  1. Zou Jingyuan CHN 16.166
  2. Lukas Dauser GER 15.733
  3. You Hao CHN 15.666
  4. Ferhat Arican TUR 15.566
  5. Sam Mikulak USA 15.433
  6. Joe Fraser GBR 15.400
  7. Petro Pakhniuk UKR 15.333
  8. David Belyavskiy RUS 15.325

H Bar

Zou Jingyuan Worlds 2018
  1. Hashimoto Daiki JPN 15.033
  2. Milad Karimi KAZ 14.766
  3. Tin Srbic CRO 14.633
  4. Brody Malone USA 14.533
  5. Nikita Nagornyy RUS 14.466
  6. Kitazono Takeru JPN 14.433
  7. Tyson Bull AUS 14.433
  8. Bart Deurloo NED 14.400

Kohei fell. A tragedy.

We can only hope he decides to compete Horizontal Bar at Worlds 2021 in his home town.

Full results.