There are male gymnasts with extremely good execution on Floor.
For example, this young Ukrainian who we think was given a perfect E-score.
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judging Whittenburg’s Rings
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Denis Ablyazin 7.5 Floor
Dipa wins Vault
A National hero to 1.3 billion people back home. 🙂
1 KARMAKAR Dipa IND 14.833
2 CHUSOVITINA Oksana UZB 14.716
3 LITTLE Emily AUS 14.383
full results
Dipa’s Handspring double front was better than in the prelims. Definitely not a zero vault.
Under current FIG rules I’d say the ranking of the top 3 was fair. WTC did not address how to more severely evaluate dangerous deep landings. They should. There is too much incentive to “chuck” the Prudnova.
That said, Dipa is great on this apparatus. Her 2nd Kasamatsu (like Tsuk double twist) was one of the best vaults at Test Meet.
Dipa will inspire many tens of thousands of kids to try the sport.
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related – Indian Express – Dipa Karmakar vaults into history books after qualifying for Olympics
Dipa Karmakar – Produnova
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Not a zero vault, in my opinion. Judges gave her 8.066 execution score. Final = 15.066.
FIG WTC should be more severe on dangerous landings than that.
An excellent YDT scores about 15.0
Dipa’s podium training double front was better.
NCAA Vault Champions 2016
1. Brandie Jay (Georgia) 9.9500
1. Katie Bailey (Alabama) 9.9500
3. Ashleigh Gnat (LSU) 9.9250
3. Hollie Blanske (Nebraska) 9.9250
Click PLAY or watch Brandie Jay on YouTube. BOOM!
Click PLAY or watch Katie’s Yurchenko half on YouTube. 🙂
Clearly the NCAA must clarify start scores on Yurchenkos with half twist.
Pommels – Max v Louis
Click PLAY or watch Max on YouTube. (7.4 difficulty)
Click PLAY or watch Louis on YouTube. (7.2 difficulty)
Tough call for the judges. In the end it was 16.325 for Max and 16.100 for Louis. Both scores a little too high, in my opinion. Neither hit their best set. But as for ranking, I can’t decide.
Louis later complained about the judging in social media. Then apologized.
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judging Artistry is impossible
That’s my opinion.
Therefore Artistry should not be part of ranking gymnasts in any Code of Points.
Science of Gymnastics Journal 2014:
Due to its nature and relatively poor definitions in the Code of points, judging of artistry may suffer from serious flaws in reliability and validity.
We have used the balance beam artistry evaluation forms given by 5 execution judges at World Championship in Tokyo 2011 to analyze reliability and validity. Data on 194 competitors was gathered.
Deductions were received by a highly variable number of competitors from separate judges in the same components of artistry. The variability of average total artistry deduction was relatively large …
We conclude that neither reliability nor validity of artistry judging was satisfactory in this analysis. …
THE JUDGING OF ARTISTRY COMPONENTS IN FEMALE GYMNASTICS: A CAUSE FOR CONCERN?
We can evaluate Execution and Difficulty in reliable ways. And come up with a score that would be consistent meet to meet, panel to panel.
Artistry could be rewarded by a separate (subjective) panel. Something like the Longines Elegance Award, but with a much better panel of evaluators.
Give this guy an award. 😊
Yusuke Saito – Bretschneider
The first to compete the skill … after Bretschneider.
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Uncle Tim asks if this wild ass routine counts too many Kovacs variations. Yes, I’d say. Two should be maximum. Bretschneider has competed four.
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