Category: vault

Amanars – Hong un Jong & Aly

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Click PLAY or watch Aly’s (much improved) on YouTube.

Both got 15.766. Clearly the judges over-scored Aly in comparison. 😦

related – Hong un Jong’s Cheng VIDEO

(via Personal Musings and Jordyn’s Left Eyebrow)

Shallon Olsen – Amanar

Canada’s 1st Amanar. She’s been waiting for years to compete this. Busted it out at the Olympics of all places. 🙂

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related – Kyle Shewfelt – 16-year-old Olsen wows with her vault performance (VIDEO)

 

Olympic Vault finalists

Unofficial. Maximum 2 / nation. (official list)

Biles: 16.050
Hong: 15.683
Steingruber: 15.266
Paseka: 15.049
Chusovitina: 14.999
Olsen: 14.950
Yan: 14.949
Karmakar: 14.850

Dipa’s Handspring double front

It doesn’t look like she’ll qualify to the Vault final.

https://twitter.com/uncletimmensgym/status/762347182632546304

terrible injury to Samir Aït-Saïd

I don’t want to watch the video. 😦

Samir

USA Today

It was a compound fracture of his tibia/fibula. He will have surgery in Rio.

Recall Samir missed the 2012 Olympic Games because of a knee injury on Dragulescu at the European championships in Monptellier.

There’s too much incentive to throw dangerous vaults in both MAG & WAG. I blame FIG rules. 😦

Fabian Hambüchen spoke out to the media on this point after his teammate Toba was injured.

Ri Se Gwang – Dragulescu pike

The favourite for Gold on Vault. His second vault was equally difficult, equally well done.

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