Category: bars

Nabieva tantrum

Adorable. ๐Ÿ˜€

Click PLAY or see MORE on YouTube. Nabieva connected to Pak, for example.

Nina & Beth

Many compare 2018 World Champion Nina Derwael with the great Beth Tweddle who won Bars at 2006 and 2010 Worlds.

Both competed the most connected releases of the day. Both were astonishingly consistent.

Beth did many different routines.

Click PLAY or watch her 2012 Olympics set on YouTube. Fantastic. If only she’d stuck the dismount.

Nina is still improving. Having won Worlds I’m guessing she’ll be training upgrades in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics. She’ll certainly be able to qualify in the AA even if Belgium does not get there as a team.

Ana Padurariu’s silver medal

The whole world knows Ana Padurariu now. Like Shallon on Vault, Ana competed without her personal coach at this meet.

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Click PLAY or watch the interview on Twitter. Mind blown.

And click PLAY or watch interview part 2. Ellie really helped the whole team.

Recall Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs was Bronze on Beam at the 2006 Worlds with coach Carol Angela Orchard.

World Champs Liu Tingting & Simone Biles

Beam
1. LIU Tingting CHN 14.533
2. PADURARIU Ana CAN 14.100
3. BILES Simone USA 13.600
results

Disappointing final. Only Tingting and Ana hit close to their best routines.

Floor
1. Biles Simone USA 14.933
2. Hurd Morgan USA 13.933
3. Murakami Mai JPN 13.866
results

The most controversial final. Some felt Angelina Melnikova 13.833 should have been in the medals. Some felt Flavia Saraiva 13.766 should have been top 3.

World Champions Biles & Derwael

Vault
1. Simone Biles (USA) 15.366
2. Shallon Olsen (CAN) 14.516
3. Alexa Moreno (MEX) 14.508

North American #NAFTA podium. The first Worlds Vault medal for Canada. The first Worlds medal ever for Mexico. ๐Ÿ™‚

Click PLAY or watch Simone on Twitter.

Bars
1. Nina Derwael BEL 15.200
2. Simone Biles USA 14.700
3. Elisabeth Seitz GER 14.600

The best line-up of any apparatus this year.

Nina has been unbeatable all season. A deserving World Champion.

Click PLAY or watch Nina on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/pipinoko168/status/1058380922397937664

Nobody in the world โ€”ย aside from Valentina, I’m guessing โ€” questions whether Nina deserves Gold. But judges gave her 8.7 E-score. That’s too high compared with Simone’s 8.5 E-score. Aliya was cleaner than both yet was only awarded 8.633.

Nina’s 15.1 Bars in AA

Nina had a terrific meet to finish a Belgian record 4th AA. That with only a full twisting Yurchenko.

Click PLAY or watch her Bars on Twitter.

Mai Murakami – Bars

The worlds silver medalist AA is legit top 3 contender on 3 apparatus. But she needs to improve Bars before Tokyo. Though HIT … these releases lack amplitude and are all caught a little close.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I joked she should go train with Laurent for a while. ๐Ÿ˜€

Italy at Worlds 2019

Should be one of the favourites.

Click PLAY or watch some training on YouTube.