Category: Olympics

The third episode in the documentary series is LIVE.

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UPDATE – The first 12 are official.

1 YULO Carlos Edriel PHI
2 LARDUET Manrique CUB
3 EDALLI Ludovico ITA
4 KARIMI Milad KAZ
5 FRASCA Loris FRA
6 TVOROGAL Robert LTU
7 SHATILOV Alexander ISR
8 ARICAN Ferhat TUR
9 DAVTYAN Artur ARM
10 HUDDLESTON David BUL
11 DEURLOO Bart NED
12 CORRAL Daniel MEX

Absolutely do not book your flights to Tokyo until FIG names the rest.

But here’s who Lauren Hopkins thinks will eventually be named.

Team Final at Worlds contested between the top 8 teams.

1. Russia
2. China
3. Japan

4. Ukraine
5. GBR
6. Switzerland
7. USA
8. Chinese Taipei TPE Taiwan
9. Korea
10. Brazil
11. Spain
12. Germany

Particular congratulations to TPE and Spain. Few pundits were predicting they’d get through, particularly after Zapata withdrew from the Spanish team.

They replace France and Netherlands who competed in Rio 2016.

Oleg was back to near 100%. Ukraine would not be denied.

It’s great to see Germany get the last spot — in Germany. And they deserved it.

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1. United States
2. China
3. Russia
4. France
5. Canada
6. Netherlands
7. Great Britain
8. Italy
9. Germany
10. Belgium
11. Japan
12. Spain

There were thrills.

And spills.

More MAG day 1 photos.

As always, the Men’s competition was more exciting and unpredictable than WAG.

FIG – Russian men romp to early lead at Stuttgart Worlds

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related – Lauren’s summary on theGymter.net.

The biggest story of World Championships 2019 will be the astonishing performance of Chinese Taipei.

That’s the name recognized by the China (PRC) for events like Olympic Games.

Sadao Hamada:

“I think a 250 [team score] will get us into the Tokyo Olympics,” he said. …

Chinese Taipei last qualified to the Olympic Games in 1964, also held in Tokyo, where they placed 17th. The team has two World medals in history; the silver on Pommel Horse won by Lee Chih-Kai‘s silver medal on Pommel Horse last year in Doha came 25 years after a silver on Vault from Feng Chih Chang.

FIG – ‘Harvest day’: Chinese Taipei turns in Tokyo-worthy performance

Scores should be higher this year as teams peak for Olympic qualification, but I’m penciling in TPE for Olympic team qualification. No number crunching pundits predicted that. They were 17th last year.

Senior coach Sadao Hamada, who coached Stanford for decades, says he only has 15 guys at the National Training Centre, an excellent facility. Therefore they need do everything right to have this kind of success.

250 was their goal.

Netherlands worked together like there was no tomorrow it paid off. Eythora, Sanne, Lieke, Vera, Tischa and Naomi were fighters in the arena and they killed it.