In E-score. 🙂
https://twitter.com/uncletimmensgym/status/763137449790885888
Category: judging
Madison Kocian v Gabby Douglas
Who should have had the higher E-score?
Click PLAY or watch Maddie on YouTube. (9.166)
Click PLAY or watch Gabby on YouTube. (9.266)
Both are great. Gabby has excellent handstands. Madison fewer elbow bends. There’s not much to separate them.
Amanars – Hong un Jong & Aly
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Click PLAY or watch Aly’s (much improved) on YouTube.
Both got 15.766. Clearly the judges over-scored Aly in comparison. 😦
related – Hong un Jong’s Cheng VIDEO
(via Personal Musings and Jordyn’s Left Eyebrow)
Hero De Janeiro – Andreas Toba
Magnetic imaging of his knee showed a tear in his front cruciate ligament as well as meniscus damage in the knee, the German Olympic Sports Federation said.
Toba will have to be operated on and will fly back to Germany once he is no longer in pain, gymnastics team official Sven Karg said.
The gymnast ruptured the cruciate ligament during the floor exercise but astonishingly still competed on the pommel horse afterwards …
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Fabian Hambüchen feels FIG rules are pushing too much difficulty. I agree. Especially on Vault.
Rebeca Andrade – Floor
Brazil is bringing the house down in Rio.
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https://twitter.com/coach_megan_/status/762349534542458880
She submitted a new tumbling element – double back with 1 1/2 twist (G) – but didn’t compete it. Yet.
It’s great to see Rebeca recover from her 2015 ACL injury on Vault to make it to the BIG show.
Update – She competed a terrific Amanar, as well.
Dipa’s Handspring double front
It doesn’t look like she’ll qualify to the Vault final.
https://twitter.com/uncletimmensgym/status/762347182632546304
The Gebeshian – Bars
Element description: A hecht mount with a 360 degree turn with repulsion off the low bar to the high bar.
Element value: D
Note: Gebeshian is Armenia’s first ever female gymnast to compete at an Olympic Games.
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That’s one of 11 possible new elements that have been submitted to FIG.
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terrible injury to Samir Aït-Saïd
I don’t want to watch the video. 😦
It was a compound fracture of his tibia/fibula. He will have surgery in Rio.
Recall Samir missed the 2012 Olympic Games because of a knee injury on Dragulescu at the European championships in Monptellier.
There’s too much incentive to throw dangerous vaults in both MAG & WAG. I blame FIG rules. 😦
Fabian Hambüchen spoke out to the media on this point after his teammate Toba was injured.
Kenzo only 15.333 on Floor
In prelims. That score looks low, especially compared with Hypolito.
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