This looks like Oleg’s Olympic Pommel final routine. 🙂
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Max Whitlock and Louis Smith
As one who often questioned the GBR strategy bringing a specialist to major meets, you can’t argue with the results. Another brilliant Pommel final for Louis. Congratulations.
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Pommels: Whitlock, Smith, Naddour
1. Whitlock: 15.966
2. Smith: 15.833
3. Naddour: 15.700
Tommasone 15.6
Belyavskiy 15.4
Kuksenkov 15.233
Merdinyan 14.933
Verniaiev 12.4
I feel good for Alex Naddour. And for USA. He was fortunate today, however, to hang on to the Bronze.
The three least stretched circles are on the podium. Seems extension is not the priority of FIG MTC.
The new normal. No Chinese gymnasts in the Pommel final.
Toba’s heroic Olympic performance
On Floor exercise Andreas Toba, the lead off gymnast, injured his knee on his first tumbling pass.
“I knew immediately that something was wrong,” he said. “I cried like a little kid. I had hopes to make the All-around final here, but it was not to be.”
Teammate Marcel Nguyen empathised: “It really broke my heart,” he said. “I know how hard he has been fighting for this competition. He wanted to fulfil his dream here, competing and qualify for the All-around final. And then this happens.”
Andreas Toba was unable to finish his earlier floor routine after badly injuring his knee in qualifications. But not wanting to let down Team Germany, he fought through the pain to compete on pommel horse.
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If he’d not competed Germany would not have qualified to the Team final. Respect.
As it turned out they would have finished top 8 without that routine. But Toba did not know that at the time.
Men’s Olympic Pommel finalists
predicting the Olympic Pommel final
Pommel Flare machine
I’ve used a few of these (home made) devices over the years.
More of a novelty than an actual training device, in my opinion.
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Pommel Horse team work
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Uchimura & Kato in trouble …
For doing Pommel Horse at work. 🙂
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