It doesn’t look like she’ll qualify to the Vault final.
https://twitter.com/uncletimmensgym/status/762347182632546304
Category: judging
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.
via Gymternet Clan
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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Simone Biles STUCK Amanar
which nations overscore their gymnasts?
The Gymternet has an interesting guest post trying to estimate which nations inflate FIG scores most.
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
Scroll down this page to see the other four.
Handspring TRIPLE front
We’ve spent two quadrennials in fear of catastrophic injury on WAG Vault – Handspring double front.
This new vault is significantly more dangerous. 😦
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. Igor Radivilov, 2012 Olympic Bronze medalist.
End of the Perfect 10 – a review
by site editor Rick McCharles
This book was written for the general public. They like it.
But as a coach I still enjoyed it. To revisit the history of the Code was a good catch-up in advance of Rio.
Dvora provides balanced perspective on the pros and cons of eliminating the iconic perfect 10. She interviews many of the important players on the world scene including Hardy Fink, the primary architect of the current Code. Hardy’s not happy with how his original proposal was changed over the years. But feels eventually it will work as intended.
New to me was the revelation that Bela Karolyi did not discover Nadia on the playground. Another part of the great Karolyi myth.
By the end of Perfect 10 I redoubled my conviction that giving up the perfect 10 was a HUGE mistake. We’ve never been much good in marketing the sport. A great salesman like Steve Jobs would conclude that the perfect 10 was our greatest and most valuable asset.
The NCAA women’s program got it right. It’s more important to fund gymnasts through University and keep coaches employed than to exactly rank the very best of the best perfectly.
That said, FIG will never go back to the perfect 10.
But I’d love to see them add something like a “Ranking Score” on top of the current system.
Each quadrennial, on each apparatus, a 10 would be set in advance.
For example on WAG Floor it might be 17.0. If Simone scored 16.5 her Ranking Score would be 16.5 / 17.0 = 9.70.
YES it might be possible to exceed the perfect 10 under this scheme. Fans would love to see a 10.100. 🙂
I bought the audio version. The audio book reader – Elise Arsenault – is poor. Not professional enough to check the correct pronunciation of names in a nonfiction work. She calls Marta Karolyi “Martha“, for example. 😦
related reviews:
• Slate – A Perfect 16.223
• Meghan O’Rourke – Why Extreme Gymnastics Will Dominate the Rio Olympics
• FloGymnastics – Q&A with Dvora Meyers
Trinity training the “Phillips”
I mean the Biles.
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Click PLAY or watch London Phillips on YouTube. (2005)
London never competed it at a major FIG Championships so it was not named after her.
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