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As usual, FIG has been doing a terrific job with highlight videos.
Editing is always excellent. Their choice of highlights often surprising. They should have a coach reviewing those picks.
For today’s medal round qualifying the top 3 teams to Tokyo, you need not mess around with a VPN. FIG will be streaming it here.
Montreal was stupid. At the peak meet of the season judges suddenly began applying the code rules on fluidity more rigorously. I felt it was very unfair to the gymnasts.
Breaks in the flow were deducted more:
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Click PLAY or watch examples on YouTube.
Judging geeks should check stats on Score For Score:
Judges have been slightly tougher than at meets earlier in the season, but it’s not been super severe as it was in Montreal.
AND gymnasts have been much more fluid on Beam since Montreal.
If you missed it … or are still sleep deprived, Spencer catches you up on the big stories of yesterday.
I’d say Canada hit best of every team at Worlds to finish an historic 4th in team qualification. Congratulations to the entire national team program.
Coming into Worlds 2018 expectations were modest for team Canada.
Crunching the numbers, Spencer had the Canucks ranked about 8th based on scores this year. Rose and Victoria Woo were injured, for example.
On the other hand, Ellie Black — Worlds silver medalist 2017 — has never looked better. Having all her experience in the line-up makes teammates more confident. Ellie’s improved like Simone. Her so-called bad apparatus is now excellent.
Without Bela Onyshko, Brooklyn Moors is now the second all-arounder. A happy surprise at Worlds last year, she’s now a fan favourite for her artistry.
Ellie and Brooklyn both qualified to the AA final.
Brittany Rogers is maybe, possibly finally retired. So this time it was Shallon Olsen flying in from Alabama to help her team qualify for Worlds 2019. Recall Brittany did the same in the past, flying up from Georgia to compete Elite. We’re so thankful those Universities support their Olympians this way.
An Olympic Vault finalist in Rio, Shallon’s even better now. With a catlike ability to land on her feet, Shallon not only upgraded to Cheng. But also competed it first vault (for team score) rather than doing the safer YDT first. Both Ellie and Shallon qualified to the Vault final.
Many have been waiting for the wonderful Junior Ana Padurariu to finally become a senior. She’s here. See her in the Beam final with Ellie. Ana was injured earlier in the season and is still only competing Bars and Beam. Ana’s coached by 1980 Olympic Champ Elena Davidova.
And we have to give a big shout out to Sophie Marois who was training as the non-competing alternate. Until her club teammate Laurie Denommée had an ankle injury in the days prior to competition. Sophie stepped in and did a fantastic job leading off on Floor and Vault.
It was a lot of fun cheering that performance.
The team competition should be epic. Anything can happen in 3-up, 3-count. 🙂
1. BILES Simone USA 60.965 Q
2. HURD Morgan USA 56.465 Q
3. MURAKAMI Mai JPN 55.632 Q
4. DERWAEL Nina BEL 55.564 Q
5. MELNIKOVA Angelina RUS 55.465 Q
6. BLACK Elsabeth CAN 54.999 Q
7. de JESUS dos SANT. FRA 54.798 Q
8. McCUSKER Riley USA 54.765
9. LUO Huan CHN 54.131 Q
10. SARAIVA Flavia BRA 53.999 Q
11. DOWNIE Elissa GBR 53.532 Q
12. ALEKSEEVA Irina RUS 53.532 Q
13. CHEN Yile CHN 53.499 Q
14. TERAMOTO Asuka JPN 53.466 Q
15. SIMM Kelly GBR 53.099 Q
16. HATAKEDA Hitomi JPN 52.932
17. VISSER Naomi NED 52.832 Q
18. SEITZ Elisabeth GER 52.798 Q
19. GOLGOTA Denisa ROU 52.765 Q
20. BARBOSA Jade BRA 52.733 Q
21. MOORS Brooklyn CAN 52.632 Q
22. ZHANG Jin CHN 52.266
23. MORI Lara ITA 52.199 Q
24. KOVACS Zsofia HUN 52.165 Q
25. CHARPY Lorette FRA 52.165 Q
26. PEREZ Ana ESP 52.132 Q
27. KLINCKAERT Axelle BEL 52.074 Q
28. YEO Seojeong KOR 52.040 R1
29. RICCIARDI Sara ITA 51.999 R2
1. United States 🇺🇸 174.429
2. Russia 🇷🇺 165.497
3. China 🇨🇳 165.196
4. Canada 🇨🇦 163.897
5. Brazil 🇧🇷 162.529
6. Japan 🇯🇵 162.180
7. France 🇫🇷 161.629
8. Germany 🇩🇪 161.071
Canada had a fantastic day.
Brazil looks a podium threat.
“We don’t dream about fifth place.”
– Valeri Liukin
Egypt was the team that just missed qualifying a full team to Worlds 2019. But there’s talk that one team from Africa (Egypt) might be added to ensure there’s at least one from each continent.
Unofficial
Vault
1. Simone Biles USA 15.666
2. Shallon Olsen CAN 14.550
3. Yeo Seo-jeong KOR 14.483
4. Alexa Moreno MEX 14.466
5. Oksana Chusovitina UZB 14.200
6. Pyon Rye Yong PRK 14.133
7. Ellie Black CAN 14.124
8. Liu Jinru CHN 14.116
Reserves: Akhaimova, McCallum, Melnikova
Bars
1. Nina Derwael BEL 15.066
2. Simone Biles USA 14.866
3. Elisabeth Seitz GER 14.566
4. Luo Huan CHN 14.466
5. Morgan Hurd USA 14.466
6. Aliya Mustafina RUS 14.433
7. Jonna Adlerteg SWE 14.433
8. Becky Downie GBR 14.400
Reserves: Liu, Andrade, Melnikova
Beam
1. Simone Biles USA 14.800
2. Kara Eaker USA 14.466
3. Zhang Jin CHN 14.100
4. Sanne Wevers NED 14.033
5. Ana Padurariu CAN 13.966
6. Nina Derwael BEL 13.766
7. Ellie Black CAN 13.733
8. Liu Tingting CHN 13.733
Reserves: Boyer, Ting, Murakami
Floor
1. Simone Biles USA 15.333
2. Mai Murakami JPN 14.100
3. Angelina Melnikova RUS 14.033
4. Morgan Hurd USA 13.933
5. Flavia Saraiva BRA 13.900
6. Melanie DJDS FRA 13.900
7. Lilia Akhaimova RUS 13.600
8. Brooklyn Moors CAN 13.500
Reserves: Volleman, Golgota, Mori
The Federation is very committed to developing WAG in Qatar. It’s difficult due to the culture. Children of expats are far more likely to show up and train hard every day than are the Arab girls.
Happily the Press has been giving plenty of coverage to their lone female competitor Jana El Keky. She’s a fan favourite with the media too.
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. She talks about trying to increase the numbers of girls.
The National Team gym is just outside the Aspire complex. An excellent facility.
And the name Simone Biles is getting famous with the general public.
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(via Will Graves)
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