Ellie Downie v Laurie Hernandez

Both scored 15.10 on DTY. You be the judge.

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Kyla Ross 10.0 Bars

All hail. Zamarripa handstands. I could go 10.025 on this routine. 🙂

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perfect 10.0 vaults?

Not all 10s are equal.

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Nicole Artz 10.0 Floor

Perfect?

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(via Double Full Gym Blog)

See the other 10.0 routines from 2016 and so far in 2017.

2020 Code of Points – Bars

Gigi Farid posted her 2nd article of a series on the new Code.

There are far fewer changes to Bars than Beam.

Only 3 skills maximum will be counted from each of free hip swing, sole swing or Stalder.

Shaposh skills to kip will be deducted 0.5.

Jaeger piked inexplicably upgraded from  D to E. We won’t seeing many straddled Jaegers in Elite.

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Understanding The 2017-2020 CoP In A Very Simple And Detailed Way: Uneven Bars

 

spelling of Shaposhnikova

Both Shaposhnikova and Schaposchnikova are still to be found in the FIG WAG Code. Has nobody every edited the names in that document?

I often default to the translation used in Wikipedia where folks argue to some consensus.

Natalia Vitalyevna Shaposhnikova (Russian: Наталья Витальевна Шапошникова), (born June 24, 1961), married name Natalia Sout, was a Soviet gymnast, two-time Olympic Champion, Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. She was born in Rostov on Don, …

On her club website the spelling is Natalia Shaposhnikova, as well. She coaches at Gymnastika in New Jersey.

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Shaposhnikova

related – Elena Shushunova and Elena Schuschunova are both still used in the 2020 Code, as well. 😦

Are there others?

South America adopts FIG Age Group Program

Starting 2017 Confederación Sudamericana de Gimnasia will host international age group competitions using the FIG rules. A Continental Championship for gymnasts below Junior age.

I understand the Central American and Caribbean Games will use FIG Age Group rules in future, as well.