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1. Lingling Liu CHN 55.485
2. Yana Pavlova RUS 54.160
3. Tatsiana Piatrenia BLR 53.540
LI Dan from China led in the prelims. And I expected her to win the optional Final. But she was all over the tramp on her final set.
Teammate Lingling takes it. China is the team to beat at the Rio Olympics.
Rosie MacLennan was the winner of Test Event 4yrs ago. Went on to win Gold in London.
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Security is good. Hundreds of military in and around the Olympic arena look very capable.
But there are many problems.
… International sports federations expressed concern Tuesday over problems with venues for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, including power failures at the gymnastics arena this week. …
FIG official Ron Froehlich cited power outages, putting at risk athletes’ safety and the scoring system, plus missing equipment at an underfunded temporary training venue. …
Power is still being produced by generators. 😦 Generators fail.
Still, the Artistic competition was a success. We only had one major injury over the 3 days – Achilles rupture tumbling for one of the Austrian gymnasts. 😦 Injury rate is normally higher at these biggest meets.
The purpose of the Test Event is to test all aspects. FIX the problems in time for the Olympics.
The venues should be ready.
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Yet as I walk the Olympic City during break, there are very few workmen to be seen. You’d expect they’d still be working 24/7.
I’m worried.
(via Lauren Hopkins)
Our defending Olympic champion at the Rio Test Meet.
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Bea Gheorghisor compiled first shocked reactions from Adrian Stoica, Octavian Bellu, Mariana Bitang, Daniela Silivas and others.
I’m quoted in a Guardian article by Dvora Meyers – Romania’s Olympic gymnastics failure: where did it all go wrong?
One positive note. It sounds like Catalina Ponor will try to continue through the 2017 European Championships hosted by Romania.
Dipa Karmakar, who became India’s first woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics, will receive the sports ministry’s funding of up to Rs.30 lakh under the Target Olympic Scheme (TOPS), it was announced on Monday. …
The ministry of youth affairs and sports (Department of Sports) has formulated the TOP scheme for identifying and supporting potential medal prospects for the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. …
Besides being the first Indian woman, Dipa will also be an Indian gymnast qualifying for the quadrennial extravaganza after 52 long years.
The last time Indians participated in gymnastics at Olympics was way back in 1964, but during that time there was no qualification system in place. Six men competed at Tokyo 1964 in the artistic individual all-around category.
Till date, 11 Indian men gymnasts have competed in the Olympics –two in 1952, three in 1956 and six in 1964. …
The Federation in India has been a disaster over recent years. Happily the Department of Sports will ensure she has training funds to prepare safely for the Olympics.
I saw 3 Produnovas in Rio, her best during podium training. Here’s the highest quality video I’ve seen of those.
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I’ve always admired the ability of American athletes to rise to peak performance for important events. They are motivated.
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After a disastrous ranking at Worlds 2015 we feared Epke would not get the chance to defend in Rio.
He will. 🙂
Team Netherlands did qualify and will almost certainly include Zonderland in their lineup.
I watched the warm-up. Bart DEURLOO, BRETSCHNEIDER and ZONDERLAND are all capable of linking multiple big releases in a final. Here’s how it turned out.
1 ZONDERLAND Epke NED 7.100 + 8.633 = 15.733
2 BRETSCHNEIDER Andreas GER 7.300 + 8.300 = 15.600
3 OROZCO John USA 6.800 + 8.566 = 15.366
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Ultra clean Nile Wilson fell twice. John Orozco hit superbly with Liukin for the Bronze. (John was 9/9 in Rio.) But as he’s done so many times in the past, Epke hit the routine best when it counted.
Congratulations. Netherlands may be the happiest nation coming to the Olympics at this point.
Defending Olympic Champion v defending World Champion. Who takes the Gold?
I’m glad I wasn’t judging this one.
1 ZANETTI Arthur BRA 6.800 + 9.066 = 15.866
2 PETROUNIAS Eleftherios GRE 6.800 + 9.033 = 15.833
3 AIT SAID Samir FRA 6.700 + 8.800 = 15.500
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The Olympic Rings final should be awesome.
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
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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
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