Category: judging

Congratulations Elena Davydova

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

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.

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Komova, split leap on beam

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.”

NBC scoring key

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.

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. …

Clearing Up the 2020 Confusion

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.

Tokyo 2020

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. …

Exclusive: Departing FIG President Grandi hails 3D judging technology as “great chance” for his sport

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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.