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1. Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 92.107
2. Calvo, Moreno COL 88.765
3. Orozco, John USA 88.640
4. Wilson, Nile GBR 88.365
5. Toba, Andreas GER 88.098
6. Corral, Daniel MEX 87.441
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related – FIG – Germany, Ukraine, Netherlands and France grab final men’s team berths to Rio Olympic Games
Dutch men qualified a full team to Olympics on Zonderland’s 30th birthday.
UPDATE – T&T says Thema has an ankle injury.
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… Marisa will now compete for Trinidad and Tobago at Test Meet rather than Thema.
Thema is here with coach John Geddert. She looked good in podium training. Perhaps she was injured in the training hall.
The switch was so last minute that Marisa’s coaches could not get a visa in time. Ricardo Lue Shue will coach Marisa in Rio.
Both are great gymnasts. Either could qualify to the Olympics.
Clean, smart Gymnastics.
Oh … and these other guys. 🙂
FIG – MEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS 2016 OLYMPIC QUALIFIERS
Congratulations.
The first alternate competitors are:
1. CORDOBA, Nicolas (ARG)
2. MERCIECA, Michael (AUS)
3. RIVERA, Luis (PUR)
It was an incredible Team competition. Sadly there was no video stream from the Test Meet. Unless you happen to follow Arthur Nory on Periscope.TV 🙂
1. Germany 350.609
2. Ukraine 350.160
3. Netherlands 347.444
4. France 346.583
Romania just missed as Canada did last Olympics. The worst team placement. 😦
So far as I can recall, Romania went 30/30 without a fall. They did the job.
Dutch men and women both qualified. 🙂
1. Germany 350.609
2. France 346.583
3. Romania 344.148
4. Spain 342.725
… so far. Left to compete are Netherlands, Belgium and Ukraine.
The top 4 teams at the end of the day qualify to the Olympics.
During the last Olympic cycle it was Great Britain who missed at Worlds 2011 and were forced to qualify at Test Meet.
This cycle it was Germany.
Fabian Hambüchen is still out with shoulder pain that doesn’t want to go away. Many in Germany were worried the team won’t qualify here.
But Germany had a terrific team competition in the first of 3 flights of men’s preliminaries. Everyone is very confident they will rank one of the top 4 teams. Most likely #1.
The one thing everyone agrees upon. 🙂
I watched 4 training sessions over 13 hours. Four of these 8 will qualify a full team to the Rio Olympics:
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
France
Germany
Romania
South Korea
Switzerland
4for4.info crunched numbers concluding that the teams with the top scoring potential are Brazil, Germany, Romania and France.
After watching training (crunching no numbers) I’d concur that Brazil could score highest. They have Rebeca Andrade back. Home court advantage. And 3-4 DTYs on Vault.
Winning teams most often have a mix of newcomers and experienced veterans. Like Brazil.
Romania MUST qualify a full team. How could you have an Olympics without Romania?
If they hit Bars reasonably well first rotation, first flight of 4, ROM will qualify.
France impressed me. They looked well prepared. As did Germany and Belgium.
Many assume Australia has had too many injuries to get through. Don’t underestimate Aussies. 🙂
Those 4 teams are fighting for two qualifying spots, in my opinion. E score may end up being more important than D score this time. The first rule of Test Meet = Don’t Fall.
There are between 31-33 AA Olympic spots available not counting those who’ve qualified with a team, Continental and Tripartite selections.
Oksana Chusovitina should be given automatic qualification. In her 7th Olympics, Chuso will be one of the bigger news stories in Rio. 🙂
That leaves 30-32 spots for the top AA gymnasts from this Test Event.
Jessica López (Venezuela) looks very likely to qualify to her 3rd Olympics here, for example.
(Gymnasts who earn a spot at the Olympics then must convince their National Olympic Associations to send them. Canada – for example – only very reluctantly sent Kyle Shewfelt to the 2000 Olympics because he wasn’t good enough. He won a Gold medal 4 years later.)
Click PLAY or watch the FIG Olympic selection process on YouTube.
In addition we have many top gymnasts here for the experience: China (Zhang Jin, Gong Kangyi), Great Britain: (Gabby Jupp, Becky Downie), Canada (Isabela Onyshko, Victoria-Kayen Woo), etc. Their teams have already qualified.
Last word. Dipa’s Handspring double front looked quite good in podium training. Not scary. Perhaps the best we’ve seen on to competition mats since Produnova.
related – D-Day for gymnasts at final qualifier for Rio 2016 Olympic Games
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