Amanars – Hong un Jong & Aly

Click PLAY or watch our defending Olympic Champ on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lczi14VyB0

Click PLAY or watch Alyโ€™s (much improved) on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylt10z412AY

Both got 15.766. Clearly the judges over-scored Aly in comparison. ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

related – Hong un Jongโ€™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 …

Europe Online

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Fabian Hambรผchen 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 elementdouble 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.

Dipaโ€™s Handspring double front

It doesnโ€™t look like sheโ€™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 Armeniaโ€™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.

via Gymternet Clan

terrible injury to Samir Aรฏt-Saรฏd

I don’t want to watch the video. ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

Samir

USA Today

It was a compound fracture of his tibia/fibula. He will haveย 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. ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

Fabian Hambรผchenย 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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Simone Biles STUCK Amanar

OK. I can live with a 10.0 E-score on this one. ๐Ÿ™‚

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which nations overscore their gymnasts?

The Gymternet has an interesting guest post trying to estimate which nations inflate FIG scores most.

national-overscoring-regression-model

Austria is the biggest offender.

Surprisingly, Russian scores at home are about right. (That seems impossible to me. They do inflate.)

Click through to read that analysis for yourself – The Truth About Domestic Overscoring

5 new MAG elements submitted

For example, the Nguyen.

If done successfully at any time during the Games, these elements will be officially named for the gymnast who performs them. …

A free hip circle mount from the side of the bars with three quarter turn to handstand position.

Element value: E

The Nguyen use this

Scroll down this page to see the other four.