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You might assume team Canada would be heartbroken. So close to team Olympic qualification.
1. USA – 171.629 🥇
2. RUS – 162.863 🥈
3. CHN – 162.396 🥉
4. CAN – 161.644
5. FRA – 161.294
6. JPN – 160.262
7. BRA – 159.830
8. GER – 159.428
Here’s what the team leader had to say.
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
Fact is that any of the 5 teams could have finished ahead of China this day with a perfect meet. I felt Brazil had the best chance.
Dream team USA feat. Simone Biles dominated as expected. Is this their best and most balanced team ever?
After that it was close. All 7 teams might be hand wringing — IF only we had done this or that. But all 7 had at least one fall.
3-up, 3-count is challenging psychologically.
Personal shoutout to Team Canada for their historic 4th place finish.
In reality, it’s a near impossible accomplishment to be ranked one of the top 8 teams in the world. Congratulations to all these amazing athletes, their coaches, their support teams and Federations.
Please celebrate tonight.
The other 9 teams will qualify to the Olympics at 2019 Worlds. That happens in the qualifying competition, not the team final.
Most gymnasts here have explored the world’s largest indoor sports complex. Our venue.
They’ve walked past the impressive Torch Doha hotel over to the air conditioned luxury mall.
But the rest of Aspire Park is huge and beautiful too. An oasis of greenery and water.
I ran the entire thing last night. It took some time.
Families come at night when it’s cooler. Cycling is restricted to one big loop, the rest of the trails dedicated to walking and running.
Why did a small nation build such an amazing sports complex? They bid for the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Olympics. And will keep bidding into the future.
Tom Forster. 🙂
Many felt this was the most exciting team final in years.
I was impressed by how many guys HIT, actually. Just a couple of days ago we were convinced this Pommel Horse was faulty.
It was generally a good competition despite the pressure of 3-up, 3-count.
Click PLAY or get a glimpse on YouTube.
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Russians suffered just one fall during the competition, while the victorious Chinese had three.
You can certainly argue that RUS should have, could have been slightly ahead of CHN. It was that close. But none of the 8 teams had a perfect meet.
Valentina Rodionenko didn’t blame judges for stealing the gold medal as she so often does.
E Judges did — as usual — box the scores. They go low on those with the best execution, high on those with the worst execution. This keeps them in range but tends to give advantage to those with higher difficulty. It’s most obvious on Vault.
Super exciting. The new finals format makes it even more dramatic, but more confusing to follow. Teams alternate competitors.
As so often happens in MAG, it came down to the final competitor on the last apparatus.
Olympic team qualification
1. CHN 256.634
2. RUS 256.585
3. JPN 253.744
4. USA 251.994
5. GBR 248.628
6. SUI 244.294
7. BRA 243.994
8. NED 240.660
Nikita NAGORNYY could have won it with a perfect H Bar routine, but made some small errors. Russia will get them next time.
Considering the pressure of 3-up, 3-count I thought it was a quality competition. Not one team went through without a fall, however.
Unofficial.
Top 24 teams qualify to Worlds 2019.
Top 8 to the 2018 team finals. Top 3 from the team final earn a team spot for the Olympics. It’s 3-up, 3-count so there could be some surprises. Especially on Pommels.
Russia
China
Japan
United States
Great Britain
Brazil
Netherlands
Switzerland
Ukraine
Germany
Spain
France
South Korea
Italy
Turkey
Kazakhstan
Chinese Taipei
Canada
Belgium
Hungary
Romania
Norway
Finland
Belarus
Australia reserve
Bolshy points out that one nation from Austaliasia and one from Africa will be added for global representation. Therefore possibly 26 men’s teams.
This is the first Worlds team final for Netherlands.
There are a lot of Japanese media in Doha.
With the Olympics coming up, Gymnastics is one of their highest profile sports.
Heart this. It’s signage in Japan promoting Worlds.
Olympic.org put together a multi-sport highlights video. It’s not yet on their YouTube channel as I post.
It looks quite the success.
Click on the image to watch it.
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