Category: Gymnastics

WORLDS results – day 1

Top 8 qualify to the team final.

12 teams — USA, RUS, CHN — plus the next 9 qualify to Tokyo.

1. China – 169.161
2. France – 166.713
3. Canada – 162.922
4. Germany – 161.897
5. Belgium – 161.238
6. Australia – 157.945
7. Ukraine – 156.961
8. South Korea – 156.662

cheering China

1. Mélanie De Jesus Dos Santos FRA 56.782
2. Liu Tingting CHN 55.865
3. Li Shijia CHN 55.732
4. Nina Derwael BEL 55.441
5. Ellie Black CAN 55.199
6. Elisabeth Seitz GER 54.999
7. Sarah Voss GER 54.132
8. Aline Friess FRA 53.999

Melanie

YEO Seojeong – Qualifications Vault

Though she warmed-up the Handspring front 2/1 twist in podium, Yeo didn’t need it to qualify through to the Vault final.

She was playing safe, trying to help the team score.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Jorge Vega Lopez – Podium vault

I am always impressed with Jorge’s attention to detail. And landings. He could make the final.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Jorge won Guatemala’s first ever gold medal in gymnastics at the Pan American Games in Toronto 2015.

He’s a celebrity back home.

Cintia – Gold Medal toe point

Click PLAY or watch her Podium Floor on YouTube. Actually, all the Spanish routines were great.

Zou Jingyuan – BEST routine in history

Shut-up and watch this Podium routine over-and-over again.

What’s your execution deduction?

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Oksana’s Rudi

Best for 17 years or more?

Sadly she put a hand down on vault 2 and is unlikely to qualify for the apparatus final.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

the Petz on Bars

Very cool. And well done.

Great routine, too. But Emelie did have a fall.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1180084703803654144

Gymnastics and negative social media

some FANS are FANatics.

Fans experience euphoria during moments when play is going well for their team, and stress when play is going against their team. This tension between the two emotions generates an unusual sense of pleasure or heightened sensations. …

The more fans a sport has, the greater the number of haters, people who mostly participate in negative ways.

The sport of Figure Skating, I believe, has more haters than Gymnastics. Hiking far fewer. 

We have a lot of young athletes, so it’s even more important to protect. 

Best strategy is to BLOCK trolls when you first encounter them. Don’t engage — that’s what they want. Live in a social media bubble of people you like and respect. Ask your athletes to do the same.

When I think of FANatics I recall the 1996 film where Robert De Niro (the fan) is obsessed with baseball player Wesley Snipes.

Fandom to the extreme.

Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.

Yamilet attempts Handspring double front

Unfortunately she suffer an injury on her second vault and — ultimately — did not complete the AA competition.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.