Category: judging

planned changes to H Bar code

Heron on Floor

Performed at the 2024 FIG Apparatus World Cup in Cairo (EGY) by Hillary Heron (PAN)

Element description: Double salto backward in the tuck position with one and a half twists (540 degrees).

Element value: F (0.6)

Name awarded: The Heron

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Adalsteinsdottir on Bars

Performed at the 2024 European Gymnastics Championships in Rimini (ITA) by Thelma Adalsteinsdottir (ISL)

Element description: Clear hip circle forward (Weiler) into salto forward straddled to hang on high bar (Comaneci salto)

Element value: E (0.5)

Name awarded: The Adalsteinsdottir

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Sayer on Bars

Old timers might call this a Piked Salto Down.

Performed at the 2024 Oceania Gymnastics Championships in Auckland (NZL) by Kate Sayer (AUS)

Element description: Clear pike circle backward on high bar with flight to clear support on low bar.

Element value: C (0.3)

Name awarded: The Sayer

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Qin Xinyi – Double Pike

I trust video AI judging to catch flexed feet on Double Pike much more than human judges.

Norwegian guys try ‘Webslinger’ on Rings

Back in the days of Originality Bonus, Canadian Tony Smith used a 1-legged Deltchev.

He called the hold position the Webslinger. A Spiderman reference.

Tony went on to be Men’s Head Coach at University of Calgary. And the Canadian National Team Head Coach.

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Watanabe – FIG WTC – fix the many mistakes made in Paris

MAG Code 2025-2028

Not 100% confirmed as yet.

But I do think we’ll have 8 elements counting instead of 10.

Coaches will be brainstorming best start scores for their FIG gymnasts.

celebrating Ana, Jordan and Sabrina

Certainly you could argue that any of Jordan Chiles (USA), Ana Barbosu (ROM) and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea (ROM) could have won the Bronze medal on Floor at the Olympics.

It was close.

All excellent routines.

Sadly, judging errors were made by the FIG.

The FIG system for making an appeal is neither clear nor fair in 2024.

It seemed to me that the Court of Arbitration for Sport made a decision too quickly and without doing enough research. That should be reviewed.

In the end, Ana Barbosu is in the record books with the Bronze medal.

The entire “Paris Floor Bronze Debacle” ending an otherwise excellent Olympics on a very sour note. It’s one of the things the general public will remember — along with that Pommel Horse guy.

If the debacle had not happened, we’d be celebrating the return of Romania as Olympic medal contenders. That famous program is finally turned around.

Congratulations.