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UCLA facility upgrade
The Bruins have launched a crowdsourced fund-raising campaign to raise their training equipment up on to platforms to simulate the podium used at NCAA Championships.
$150,000 in 30 days. That should be no problem with their rich & famous fan base. 🙂
Hopefully injuries will be reduced, as well.
Epke Epke Epke
Zonderland had a 7.7 start without needing to do 3 releases in series.
Kohei, the eventual silver medalist, could only smile after watching this.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Epke’s form continues to improve. 🙂 He should have won.
On the other hand, those guys in the blue jackets supposedly judging the routines awarded the same execution score 8.525 to Kohei as Epke.
That’s wrong. Kohei’s is considerably cleaner.
Click PLAY or watch Kohei’s routine on YouTube.
Execution judging is terrible in both WAG and MAG in 2014. But the rules and evaluation are worst of all on Horizontal Bar. 😦
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World Championships are over
As Grandi said in broken English today, this was a fantastic World Championships, more like the Olympics than a Worlds. The organizing committee should be very proud.
It’s almost certainly the best World Championships ever. A lifetime memory for all the gymnasts, coaches and judges. 🙂
Worlds Men’s H Bar Final
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1. ZONDERLAND Epke 7.700 – 16.225
2. UCHIMURA Kohei 8.525 – 15.725
3. MOZNIK Marijo 6.700 – 15.000
Weakest apparatus final at Worlds.
Especially after former World Champion ZHANG Chenglong ripped a grip mid-routine. He was allowed to get a new grip and continue when ready, a new rule I’m told.
It was his best routine of the 3 competitions up until that point. 😦
All hail Epke.
Worlds Women’s Floor Final
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A fantastic final. Respect for these ladies. They showed comparatively harder tumbling than the Men.
1. BILES Simone
2. IORDACHE Larisa Andreea
3. MUSTAFINA Aliya
4. SKINNER Mykayla
5. FERRARI Vanessa
6. MILLER Larrissa
7. FASANA Erika
8. FRAGAPANE Claudia
Claudia is my favourite routine of the group. Unfortunately she had a very strange fall on full twisting double layout mount.
Simone and Larisa were clearly Gold and Silver. The Bronze will be much debated.
Worlds Men’s P Bars Final
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1. Verniaiev (UKR) 16.125
2. Leyva (USA) 15.933
3. Kato (JPN) 15.666
Great podium. Three super impressive routines in a super competitive final.
🙂
Worlds Women’s Beam Final
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1. BILES Simone USA 15.100
2. BAI Yawen 15.033 CHN (from Nanning)
3. MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS14.166 (-0.5 EGR)
4. TERAMOTO Asuka JPN 14.100
The audience was shocked that Teramoto with a hit routine scores lower than Mustafina missing an Element Group Requirement – Acro series.
I booed. The score may be correct, but it seems wrong. Like winning with a fall.
Worlds Men’s Vault Final
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GOLD: Ri (PRK) 15.416
SILVER: Radivilov (UKR) 15.333
BRONZE: Dalton (USA) 15.199
The survivors of a supremely tough Final.
Ri was actually super happy, though he could only hop/limp off the podium. This guy is legitimately injured. And has had bad ankles for most of his career.
That’s 2 Gold medals on Vault for North Korea.
I’m happy to see Jake Dalton with the Bronze. He’s one of the cleanest gymnasts here and is not enough rewarded for his superb form and line. Especially after the FX Final.
SHEK Wai Hung, who won the event at Asian Games, finished 6th.
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