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Via email from Leslie King of USAG:

The men’s line-up for the qualification round is:

floor exercise – Wynn, Brooks, Leyva, Horton, Legendre;

pommel horse – Leyva, Brooks, Legendre, Horton and Cameron;

still rings – Leyva, Legendre, Cameron, Horton and Wynn;

vault – Leyva, Brooks, Wynn, Horton and Legendre;

parallel bars – Wynn, Legendre, Horton, Brooks and Leyva;

horizontal bar – Legendre, Wynn, Brooks, Leyva and Horton.

Five men compete on each apparatus, with the top four scores counting. Three men will compete on all six events: Horton, Legendre and Leyva.

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The U.S. men compete at 2 p.m. ET on Oct. 18.

This is what she used in prelims to qualify to the Bars final.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She trained two or three more difficult variations, including double double tucked dismount. It will be interesting to see what she decides on for Finals.

(via Full Twist)

OK, not ALL. But 80sgymfan posted a chart linking many, many WAG videos. Click through to see it.

Keishlieta Gymnastique (Mielieta Gonzalez) is updating a post of the top teams, each featuring a photo of the team leotard.

See the rest of the teams.

THE ALL AROUND:

… There are only 5 E panel judges. The highest and lowest scores are dropped, the remaining three averaged. This results in scores like 13.366 or 14.383.

In addition to the E panel judges there are two E reference judges whose scores are used if the difference between E scores is too big. …

Notes from Rotterdam, Day 2

I talked to one of the reference judges on Bars after day 1. She said they only rarely needed to use the reference scores. Evaluation was pretty consistent, she felt.

… Coaches told me they felt Bars was the most severely judged apparatus, so far.

The Men will also have reference judges. They’ve been added to all FIG disciplines, part of Grandi’s campaign for justice. (A campaign that swung into high gear after MAG judges bungled the 2004 Olympics.)

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If you remix gymnastics video, you might want to grab these while they are up on the official website.

You can listen to and download the official music of the 2010 World Championships.

Michiel Hemmer and Martijne Huisman have composed this music around the theme of these Championships, named ‘Fantastic Gymnastics’.

gymnastics2010.com

The current Women’s Gymnastics Code of points is supposedly making the sport less artistic. And is discouraging originality, virtuosity and risk.

If you want to win, do the safest routine possible with the easiest skills of difficulty possible.

… Somebody forgot to tell the Russians and the Chinese.

The Russians take big risks doing crazy skills and connections.

Click PLAY or watch the all-around leader (so far) on Bars.

That’s the new dismount they submitted on her behalf: 1/1-in, 1/2-out. (Didn’t Amy Chow or somebody compete that before?)

… And the Chinese are showing as much amplitude as ever.

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That video was linked by GymNiceTic who has another post listing some websites linking World’s 2010 videos.

Leave a comment if you’ve found any better source of ALL videos from Worlds.

If you are just getting around to checking up on what’s happening at the Women’s Artistic World Gymnastics Championships, check out this summary of the day 1 action posted by FIG.

A total of 236 gymnasts from 44 different countries are competing in 12 subdivisions, aiming to qualify for the Individual All-around Final (24) and the Apparatus Finals (8 each).

At the same time, the competition determines the 24 best teams to qualify for the 2011 World Championships, the initial stepping stone on the way to the London Olympic Games, as well as the top eight ranked teams to proceed to the Team Finals on Wednesday …

… Midway through the preliminaries, Aliya Mustafina of Russia leads the Individual rankings …

read more – Artistic Worlds kick off with Women’s Qualifications

We’re in the middle of the second day of qualification competition now.

Marcus feels these are way over-scored.

Click PLAY or watch Mustafina on YouTube. (9.1)

Click PLAY or watch Nabieva on YouTube. (8.966)

What do you think?

Leg form is a disaster, but how much can you deduct for that?

What should the execution scores be?

UPDATE:

Spanny Tampson likes to position dolls. Here’s her recreation of Nabieva on this vault.

LIVE updates … VAULT. Every team member did only Yurchenko 1/1 except for Savona 1 ½. … Playing it safe. The main goal is finishing in the top 24 teams to qualify to World’s 2011.

Kristina did not do a second vault, knowing (I assume) that she wouldn’t have much of a chance to get to Vault finals. There have already been many good scores on that apparatus.

hmmm … Not the best BARS warm-up. Aside from Kristina. She’s going to knock em dead in the NCAA. Potential AA Champion, I’d say. … Savona superb dismount. That’s going to be double double layout soon, and the best dismount in the world.

Competition: Dancose-Giambattisto Hit. Clean.

Leblond had a fall. Too bad. … Savona Hit. But only competed double layout, playing it safe?

Oh no. Kristina missed a 1 ½ turn. Fall. The rest was great.

Emma up last. Hit … but fall on double front dismount. Way off. She’s upset about something to do with the Bars.

On to BEAM:

Warm-ups looked rushed.

Leblond good. But fall on layout. … You really need your first competitor to stay on in a Team meet.

Bianca is pretty on Beam. Nice routine. Wobbles. … fall on side somi.

Good job Charlotte. HIT. A few wobbles. Big dismount.

KRISTINA is GREAT. A wobble. Couple of balance checks. Huge dismount.

Emma HITS. Nice routine. … Beam could actually be Canada’s strongest apparatus, if on a good day. (Would have like to see Savona in that line-up. She’s been hitting Beam in training.)

FLOOR Hit. Hit. Hit. (Couple of OBs.)

Savona hits. Lots of energy. Funny bounce out of 1/1-in. The rest of the landings strong.

Kristina is so pretty on Floor. Hit.

CONGRATULATIONS Team Canada. We appreciate all your hard work.

Looks like a 212,477 team score. I’m betting that’s enough to qualify through to World Championships 2011.
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I’ll be abandoning the internet (mostly) next flight to go cheer our Canucks. I talked to some of the girls and coaches yesterday at the end of their final training session. They are ready to go. Minor injuries, like every team, but anxious to enjoy competing at such a prestigous meet.

Qualification competition continues in Subdivision 8, which features two gymnasts from Stanford University competing for different countries.

Canada’s team includes Kristina Vaculik, now a freshman at Stanford, who will compete in the same subdivision as her new teammate Nicole Pechancova (Pechanec) of the Czech Republic.

Canada finished a disappointing 14th in both 2006 and 2007, but will try to get back in the top 12. The team is missing the injured Brittany Rogers, however, but will need to rely on Vaculik. …

Canada starts on vault, where Vaculik is the only gymnast planning to do two vaults. The team effort is anchored by Jessica Savona …

read more – Amanda Turner for IG – Preview: Canada Headlines Subdivision 8

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