Elena is the 1980 Olympic Champion. Coached Kristina Vaculik to the 2012 Olympics. And judged Floor in Rio.
And she was recently elected to FIG WTC.
related – Amanda Turner – Padurariu, Canada Dominate Olympic Hopes Cup
Category: judging
Nadia and Bart on PERFECT 10 routines
Beam skills upgraded in the 2020 Code
A few examples:
• 3 flying flairs upgraded from a C to a D.
• Split leap fwd (leg separation 180°), upgraded from an A to a B.
• Split jump (leg separation 180°) from cross position, upgraded from an A to a B.
• Straddle pike jump (both legs above horizontal), or side split jump from cross position, upgraded from an A to a B.
• Walkover bwd, with support of one arm, upgraded from an A to a B.
• Free (aerial) cartwheel into salto bwd tucked, upgraded from a D to an E.
related – Beam Skills Which Got Downgraded And Which Are No Longer In 2017-2020 CoP
NBC scoring colour code
NBC anchor Tim Daggett in London:
“We have our own little scoring reference,” Daggett explained several times throughout the Olympic competition, “1.2 deductions or less, [the score is] green; it’s a go score. It’s great. Then there’s cautionary… And then there’s red, and that is obviously bad.”
Elizabeth Stranahan – Pushing perfection: Exploring activity systems through elite gymnastics scoring (PDF)
In that thesis Stranahan weighs the pros and cons of NBC trying to simplify the new (2006) Olympic Gymnastics scoring.
Personally, I like it.
When I next saw Tim I made a point of telling him that the colour code truly does help the general public. The very worst thing about the Code change was losing the marketing value of “Nadia’s perfect 10.0.
bringing judges into your Gym
F-elements on Bars
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qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics
Lauren Hopkins posted the best summary I’ve read.
… 48 women will qualify on teams, at least 34 women and as many as 46 women will qualify as individual all-arounders, and at least 4 women and as many as 16 women will qualify as event specialists. …
ASSuming the new FIG Executive and Technical Committees don’t tinker with the qualification system, a real possibility.
Despite the complexity, I much prefer this to what we had for Rio.
F-elements on Floor
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3D video to determine difficulty scores
The most exciting story out of the 2016 FIG Congress was Fujitsu’s video analysis software that can (finally) determine what skills were performed by a gymnast.
… the FIG Executive Committee is very interested by this idea that would allow the reduction of the number of judges needed for competition. …
Click PLAY or watch the presentation at FIG Congress on YouTube. Gymnastics starts around the 10min mark.
The faster this technology can be introduced, the better.
Grandi departs the FIG
… Bruno Grandi will step down as President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) this week at the age of 82 and shift the burden onto the shoulders of either the European Union of Gymnastics President Georges Guelzec or the secretary general of the Japanese Gymnastics Association, Morinari Watanabe, who both seek election at the 81st FIG Congress in Tokyo from October 18. …
… when asked what aspects of his 20 years as FIG President had given him most cause for satisfaction, Grandi responded with the big picture.
“Globally I can note a very positive evolution because the number of member countries has increased from around 90 to 144 in 20 years,” he said. …
“The medals were shared between 16 nations in Rio,” he said. …
“A British gymnast was crowned for the first time Olympic champion, even twice on the same day. And who could have imagined that a Dutch gymnast would be the queen on the balance beam? We can see a very positive evolution in the number of countries represented on the podium. …
Inside the Games – Grandi, departing grandee of world gymnastics, offers his final judgements
Most interesting to me of Grandi’s comments:
“The evaluation system is the biggest challenge in a sport like ours,” he said. “Last year in Tokyo, we have seen the results of studies regarding a 3D replay system able to automatically deliver difficulty scores. These researches are led by the Fujitsu Company and the FIG Executive Committee is very interested by this idea that would allow us to reduce the number of judges needed for competition. …
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