Category: Gymnastics

young Romanian gymnasts

From Opening Ceremonies 2017 European Championships.

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The Gym moms all recorded this very well rehearsed display. 🙂

Alex McMurtry wins the Honda

Florida keeps winning this award. 🙂

 

Georgia fires Danna Durante

Georgia gymnastics has won more national titles than any other team in the nation, but it has not won one since 2009, which was Suzanne Yoculan’s last year leading the program.

The week after Georgia returned home from this year’s national championship, three gymnasts — Natalie Vaculik, Caroline Bradford and Jasmine Arnold — were dismissed from the team. That’s just about all we know and probably all we’ll ever know. …

Column: Dismissal of gymnasts not the right solution, handled poorly by Georgia

Her daughter Samantha had planned to join the Gym Dogs next season.

lousy judging at European Championships, Cluj

Execution judging was very poor overall, I thought.

I heard more complaints about WAG Vault than any other apparatus.

The E-panel ends up “boxing” the scores to stay in range. The difference between the best and the worst routines is too close together. As a result the D-score weighs far more heavily than intended.

The range between the 16 vaults in WAG Finals was 8.700 to 9.166. The ladies threw virtually the same E-score for every vault, regardless of quality. Computer software could easily have done a much better job of ranking.

The range in the Men’s final was 7.766 to 9.500.

In general the Men’s judges did a better job than WAG at Europeans 2017. But the E-scores on Men’s Floor, for example, were badly boxed too.

If you want to do some number crunching yourself, download a copy of the finals results.

7th Petrom European WAG MAG Individual Championships 2017 CLUJ NAPOCA – RESULTSBOOK – Media

best Vault at Europeans

Artur Dalaloyan’s stuck triple twisting Yurchenko. The first vault competed in the Final.

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5.6 D + E 9.466 E = 15.066

Dalaloyan is European Champion.

Artur Davtyan’s second vault in the final (VIDEO) got an even higher E score. But the TTY was better.