Wowser. This would be 10.0 in NCAA.
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(via FloGymnastics – Top Execution Scores From JR & SR Women At 2017 P&G Championships)
Category: judging
Yurchenko full to judge’s table
OK. This makes me laugh. I love the gymnast’s reaction.
Spencer:
… the true highlight of the meet was this Yurchenko full directly connected to someone’s getting a new iPad.
Oleg on H Bar
I love Oleg. But it’s painful to watch him on his weakest apparatus in an AA final.
This routine is not in the same league as Uchimura and the top H Bar men.
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(via King of Gymnastics)
Athen’s Olympics Men’s competition was a MESS
ILLYRIA BURKLE summarizes:
– In the all around, almost all the top contenders have a major mistake/fall (Paul Hamm, Ioan Silviu Suciu, Hiroyuki Tomita, Yang Wei, Marian Dragulescu, etc.)
– Yang Tae-Young was mistakenly credited with a 9.9 start value instead of a 10 like he was in the qualifying and team competitions, costing him the gold medal in the all around. Oscar Buitrago Reyes of Colombia, Benjamin Bango of Spain, and the head judge George Beckstead of the United States were all suspended for the mistake. …
read more – 2004 MAG
And who was the Men’s Head Judge?
the Rodriguez on Bars
Cintia has been working this new low to high transfer for a long time, but it now looks consistent enough to put into the routine.
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(via BBS)
why so many sideways Beam half twist jumps?
The new fugly.
Balance Beam Situation:
… the split jump 1/2 from side position and straddle jump 1/2 from side position, elements that 9 months ago would have been B skills, are now D skills.
Cathy Rigby – compulsory routines 1972 Olympics
you cannot judge a close family member
At FIG meets.
The EC decided the definition of “Close family relative” which is mentioned in General Judges’ Rules Art. 1 and in the Code of Ethics as follows:
- Judges shall recuse themselves if
– they are or were married to or live in a registered partnership or co-habit with a gymnast
– they are related to a gymnast by birth or marriage in direct or in collateral line, including the following persons: grandparent, parent, uncle, aunt, brother, sister, child, grandchild, nephew and cousin.
The definition shall be applied immediately.
top 5 E-scores on Vault in Rio
Pommels – Keikha 2
Side support with half spindle with both pommels between the hands (flair or circle).
Element value: C
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