Category: judging

Men’s AA Final results

1. Uchimura JPN 92.365
2. Vernyayev UKR 92.266
3. Whitlock GBR 90.641
full results

It was a thriller. Men’s Gymnastics is almost always more exciting than WAG.

The big battle was Kohei vs Oleg. Both hit 6/6 very well. It could have gone either way.

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Many are debating the 6th apparatus – Horizontal Bar.

I thought the judges got it right.

FIG rules are stupid on that apparatus. Uchimura has a huge routine with difficult overbar releases performed with amplitude and excellent leg form. His angles on regrasps are much better than most. Daniel points out that he caught with bent elbows. A fair point.

But in reality Max and Oleg’s routines are Mickey Mouse in comparison. If the three were training together in the Gym all would agree that Kohei is far, far better on pipe. FIG MTC truly has to fix the rules on that apparatus. The cheap difficulty skills must be devalued.

But I would like to go back and watch all three on all 6 apparatus. Seems to me Max was evaluated most generously of the three. His E-score on Rings?

Please leave a comment if you disagree.

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

Click PLAY or watch our defending Olympic Champ on YouTube.

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 …

Europe Online

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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.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

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.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

That’s one of 11 possible new elements that have been submitted to FIG.

via Gymternet Clan

terrible injury to Samir Aït-Saïd

I don’t want to watch the video. 😦

Samir

USA Today

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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