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The 2016 Mikhail Voronin Cup concluded with Russia’s oldest active gymnast winning the senior all-around with a score of 56.767 …
She also had a pretty successful outing in the event finals, winning beam gold and floor bronze …
Our Russian Season – 2016 Voronin Cup Report
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Serious Russian overscoring at 14.967 (old Code).
related – Lauren Hopkins – Voronin: The Last Meet of the Year
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Chellsie Memmel, Molly Shawen, Dr. Alison Arnold, and Kristen Maloney have joined Precision as clinicians.
Nicole Langevin:
“Chellsie will be coming in as a judge for our newest service, My Gym Judge. She just finished a very successful series, “Judges’ Corner,” on FloGymnastics, so we are excited for her to have the opportunity to continue to reach more athletes, coaches, and parents.
If interested in hiring, contact via PRECISION CHOREO & CLINICS.
An interesting experiment is planned for European Championships 2017 in Romania.
For the first time we will use the Smart Rings technology in senior competition, after successful tests at the last 2 European Championships.
Another big change will be introduced in the judging. In order to improve the accuracy of the final execution (E) score we will include the scores of the reference judges. So instead of counting the middle score of 5 scores, we will count the middle 3 scores of 7 scores. In addition a judge will be replaced when his/her own country competes on his / her apparatus. This is of course to remove the potential for bias and conflict of interest. To do this, an additional judge will be added, judge E6, whose score will replace the judge of the competing country. …
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Dwight Normile:
The December 2016 issue of International Gymnast features an interview with Morinari Watanabe, who will succeed FIG President Bruno Grandi on Jan. 1, 2017. …
On how to improve the popularity of gymnastics…
To those who are not familiar with gymnastics, it is hard to understand what is excellent in gymnastics or why those scores are given. In such circumstances, the number of fans will not increase. I will transform a gymnastics competition into one that is easy to understand and exciting for everybody. …
Sooner or later Baseball will use #RobotUmps rather than human beings when deciding whether a pitch was a strike.
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A machine called Hawk-Eye decides whether Tennis serves are in or out.
Trampoline uses both technology and human judges to decide score. I’m looking forward to Artistic Gymnastics doing the same.
No triple salto vaults (forward or backward) will be permitted for value in the 2017-2020 Code
of Points.
Good decision. Especially in comparison with WTC – still encouraging badly performed and dangerous double salto vaults for women.
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