Category: Gymnastics

Ricochets Gymnastics – Domino Challenge

OMG 🙂

Did anyone try to top this complex human Rube Goldberg machine?

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Vanessa Ferrari – Achilles

Vanessa had some kind of Achilles surgery in 2016.

Looks like it snapped completely on her second tumbling pass during the very last routine of the Women’s World Championships 2017.

Lari Iordache also tore her Achilles at this meet.

Fans are wishing both superstars to recover better than new.

Worlds Montreal is OVER

So happy the world could come to Canada. Again.

Congratulations to all the attending coaches and gymnasts. It’s not easy to qualify to Worlds in a sport this challenging.

Looking forward to all those kids inspired by what they saw in Montreal.

bizarre Horizontal Bar final

Srbic is suddenly a national hero. Congratulations.

1. Srbic Tin CRO 14.433 Exe. : 8.033 | Diff. : 6.400
2. Zonderland Epke NED 14.233 Exe. : 7.733 | Diff. : 6.500
3. Deurloo Bart NED 14.200 Exe. : 8.000 | Diff. : 6.200
full results

Congratulations Netherlands.

Coaches often say ANYTHING can happen in finals.

It did.

Epke missed one hand on Kovacs regrasp … and somehow hung on to the one arm Giant.

Hidetaka Miyachi was my most anticipated routine (6.700). He caught the layout Bretschneieder. It will be named for him. Then fell on his second release – Bretschneieder. What a shame. I hope Japan puts him on the World Cup circuit as a specialist. He could be #1 on this apparatus by Tokyo.

It looked like Randy Leru would the one headed back to Cuba with a medal, not Manrique. But Randy fell on dismount. Did the mat move on him?

World Floor Champion Mai Murakami

1. Murakami Mai JPN 14.233 Exe. : 8.333 | Diff. : 5.900
2. Carey Jade USA 14.200 Exe. : 8.500 | Diff. : 5.700
3. Fragapane Claudia GBR 13.933 Exe. : 8.333 | Diff. : 5.600
full results

Mai was disappointed in a 4th place finish in the AA. This will be great motivation in the Tokyo Olympics build-up.

Jade’s tumbling is astounding. Claudia’s routine excellent aside from the landing on her first tumbling pass.

Thais Santos was 4th with an excellent routine. Brooklyn Moors 5th with the second highest E score after Jade.

Legend Vanessa Ferrari was the final competitor. She opened with her usual strong double double. But fell badly on her second pass, shocking for the gymnast who’s been the best “lander” on Floor over the years. That routine was stopped. Let’s hope she’s going to be OK.

When is FIG going to do away with required numbers on leos? So unartistic. #MTL2017GYM

Zou Jingyuan wins P Bars

Greatest routine all time at Worlds?

Oleg got close with a near perfect routine of his own.

1. Zou Jingyuan CHN 15.900 Exe. : 9.100 | Diff. : 6.800
2. Verniaiev Oleg UKR 15.833 Exe. : 9.133 | Diff. : 6.700
3. Belyavskiy David RUS 15.266 Exe. : 8.866 | Diff. : 6.400
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Redemption.

This will easily be the best final at #MTL2017GYM.

Japanese journalist watching Kenzo

Excitement leading up to 2020 Olympics.

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2 medals for Germany on Beam

1 Schaefer Pauline GER 13.533 Exe. : 8.033 | Diff. : 5.500
2 Hurd Morgan USA 13.400 Exe. : 7.800 | Diff. : 5.700 | Pen. : -0.100
3 Alt Tabea GER 13.300 Exe. : 7.600 | Diff. : 5.700
full results

Beam medalists

Mai Murakami 4th. Again. So sad. She had the 3rd highest E-score 7.666.

Very severe judging. Much tougher than any other FIG meet I can recall.

People were shocked at the low scores. FIG needs communicate exactly what’s happening. Or modify deductions so scores fall in line with the other apparatus.

E score on Vault is generous, in comparison.

I felt Tingting’s E score of 7.366 was too low. They may have killed her dismount.

Pauline competed first and still won Gold. I love it when that happens.

Kenzo wins Vault

#MTL2017GYM Vault Final

Sadly the 2012 Olympic Vault champion withdrew from the final. Yang Hak-seon has had a lot of injuries over the years. Dalaloyan was added.

Kenzo near stuck Yurchenko triple twist. Time to spot and untilt before landing. Made it look easy. Opted not to do his 3 1/2 with Hak-seon out..

1. Shirai Kenzo JPN 14.900
2. Radivilov Igor UKR 14.899
3. Kim Hansol KOR 14.766
full results

The highlight vault was Igor’s stuck Dragulescu. Zero landing deduction from this MAG judge. The top two virtually tied. (Igor actually had 14.8995, but the FIG truncates the results.) E-score over D-score this time around.

Kim correctly took the Bronze.

It was close between legend Dragulescu (4th) and my man Jorge Vega Lopez (5th) from Guatemala. Most armchair pundits had Jorge slightly ahead.

There were only 3 super dangerous landings out of 16 total. That’s good for an FIG final these days. It’s Russian Roulette with FIG rules providing too much incentive for risky vaults.