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Update. Alicia actually ranked #2 into the vault final, so far, after Mustafina. Thanks MostepanovaFan.
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It’s day 2 of two, qualification round for the Women’s Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam.

USA is clearly the best vault team in the world. They rank 3rd, so far, for all apparatus, after Russia and China.

Russia 234.521
China 233.778
USA 233.643

Since the Team Final is a completely different format, anything could happen. My best guess is that the rankings will be reversed: USA, CHN, RUS in a 3-up, 3-count format when consistency is rewarded more than quality.

From the Facebook album: 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships by Grace Chiu GraceClick

More important for the top teams is qualifying for AA and individual apparatus Finals.

AA so far –1. Mustafina 2. Bross and 3. Raisman

Top 2 from each nation qualify.

Alicia Sacramone is #1 #2 qualifier on Vault, so far. … But why didn’t any other American do a second vault?

Bross, ranked #1, will qualify to Beam Finals. … And has a chance to make Bars.

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Mattie Larson won’t be in Floor finals. Shame.

Mattie Larson on her floor performance: “I underrotated my double layout…I was a little rushed. I’m not going to lie, I’m a little disappointed…there are realy no excuses….the girls talked to me a lot. They said it’s only prelims, we still have team finals, and hopefully they’ll let me compete floor in team finals.”

Bridget Sloan …: “Team USA should be really proud…everybody wants gold here. It’s a prettiest one, it’s the best one. It’ll all come down to who can hit.”

Martha Karolyi: “I’m really feeling good. There’s a small difference between the teams. And I feel very confident we will be able to fight…I think the vault event was excellent. … vault…I think she is a the best in the world on vault (re: Alicia Sacramone).”

Those come from the Gymnastics Examiner LIVE blog. Gymnastike will be posting video interviews.

Under rotated the triple turn. But that was impressive.

14.833

Just before her Ksenia Afanasyeva was awarded the second highest score of the day, 14.766.

Gymnastics Examiner LIVE blog

LIVE results

SWEET. 15,600. What a FINAL that’s going to be !!

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Nabieva (14,700) and Mustafina (15,300) will most likely make the Bars Final, as well.

Mustafina with the full-in, half-out dismount.

… And tonight was the best Nabieva I’ve seen her do yet.

… Beth will not make the Floor final.

“I thought we did really well,” Mitchell said. She noted that before the meet, a judge asked Peggy Liddick how Liddick thought they would do. “224,” Liddick said. And indeed, Australia came up with a 224. So Liddick was pleased that her gymnasts met expectations, Mitchell said. …

… read the interview on Gymnastics Examiner.

AUS scored 224,786.

Click PLAY or watch the interview on Gymnastike.

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That was one wonderful competition they put together, overall.

Congratulations to Peggy Liddick and everyone in the programme Down Under.

Team Score in qualification round (so far): 1. CHN – 233.778; 2. ROU – 228.495; 3. AUS – 224,786 4. ITA – 219.179; 5. JPN – 218.895; 6. BRA – 217.130; 7. UKR – 213.945

Live scoring

Those numbers don’t make sense, to me. Blythe feels the same way:

… In my opinion, the Aussies performed better than the Romanians. By a lot. Yet China and Romania are still 1-2, and Australia has moved into third …

Gymnastics Examiner LIVE blog

… We’ll have to compare the team difficulty scores.

From the Facebook album: 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships by Grace Chiu GraceClick

My assumption that the girls in green who competed in Delhi would run out of gas, was way wrong.

They look really GOOD.

After 3 rotations I could project them finishing ahead of Romania.

From September: Couch Gymnast – ROTTERDAM WISH LIST #2

The comeback of Lauren Mitchell.

photo from Intenational Gymnast

How’s 14,966 on Beam work for you?

Live results.

… The girls are competing Floor, very well, as I hit PUBLISH.

Likely to Beam Finals:

Deng Linlin 15.100
Huang Qiushuang 14.466

Click PLAY or watch Deng Linlin on YouTube.

She’s defending World Champion on this event. Just try to beat her.

(via Aunt Joyce)

This will make finals.

I had the wrong score. She actually scored 14.333, only 4th of the Chinese. (WOW) … The top 2 will almost certainly make finals: Deng Liinlin 15,100, Huang Qiushuang 14,466

Thanks for catching that, Kaoru-no-kimi.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

YouTube Channel – Ricky504475 (not me)

See Aunt Joyce for

Daria Kondakova won the award at this year’s World Rhythmic Championships.

Who will win the women’s prize at the World Artistic Championships?

Ana Porgras?

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Leave a comment if you have an opinion. (Longines is giving a watch to those who correctly predict who will win the WAG and MAG award in Rotterdam.)

So far my leading contender is Dominiqua Belanyi from Iceland.

She works hard, is positive and optimistic. …

A joy to watch.

Click through to the FIG profile post on her and teammate Thelma Hermannsdottir. It’s wonderful to see smaller nations like Iceland still able to compete at the highest level.

They both did all-around, just finishing their competition. CONGRATS.