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Dan has detractors. But far fewer than before Worlds 2014. 🙂
His hard routine is the best in the world right now, I’d say. But in both prelims & Team final he had conspicuous form breaks. For the Pommel final he’ll need a set like the one he showed at Commonwealth Games to win.
Pink Panther. So retro. I love it.
Here’s one of our Longine’s Elegance candidates. At age-27, Marta‘s savvy enough to dance out of a deep landing at the end of this routine.
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13.900 (Difficulty : 5.800, Execution : 8.100)
The battle China vs Japan was the biggest story in the Men’s Team competition.
1. China 273.369*
2. Japan 273.26*
3. USA 270.369
4. GBR 269.170
5. RUS 266.503
6. BRA 263.562
7. SUI 257.293
8. GER 256.160
But the fight for Bronze was just as thrilling, perhaps more.
It came down to the final routine, Jake Dalton on Floor. He nailed it.
This edit reminds me of the Cirque show KÀ. 🙂
We can’t actually do flips and tricks in real life, so we applied a bit of video magic.
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Thanks George.
Coverage of the World Championships with a recap of the men’s and women’s qualifying rounds from Nanning, China.
Jessica, Coach Rick, Lauren Hopkins and Spanny Tampson …
GymCastic 121 – Qualifications Recap from the 2014 World Championships
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How disappointing.
A fantastic Men’s team final at the World Gymnastics Championships was ruined by the Horizontal Bar judges.
full results (PDF)
The battle for team gold came down to the final routine on Horizontal Bar, former World Champion Zhang Chenglong.
He hit. But not perfectly. It was clear that Japan had won the team competition.
Yet (somehow) the H Bar panel came up with an impossible score of 15.966.
15.966 was far too high. The highest score of the competition, so far. Impossibly high.
It will be obvious to anyone when we compare Uchimura’s vs Chenglong’s routines and scores.
ZHANG – 7.500 + 8.466 = 15.966
UCHIMURA – 6.900 + 8.500 = 15.400
(full results)
When we compare the E-scores. 😦
Japan was robbed.
I’ll forever regard JPN as the legitimate winners of the World Championships 2014.
Here’s the Judging panel.
HUANG Liping (CHN) – Horizontal Bar Supervisor
E1 TSAI Heng Cheng (TPE)
E2 LESIV Genadi (BLR)
E3 RODRIGUEZ Joseph (PUR)
E4 IANEZ RAMOS Miguel Angel (ESP)
E5 ??
The E panel should be sanctioned for handing out an impossible score.
This is worse than the Uchimura pommel dismount scandal at the 2012 Olympics.
On par with the Dragalescu 2nd Vault scandal at the 2004 Olympics. Four judges were sanctioned that time.
I’m disgusted. 😦
Here’s the man who paid for a good chunk of the US$13 million dollar budget for this competition. The Canadians went shopping at one of his many sporting goods stores today to help pay that back. 🙂
Check the astonishing sports complex hosting World Championships 2014 in southern China.
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I’m still looking for good video of the colourful light show playing over these venues at night.
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Who should I vote for?
Only the top 24 all-around gymnasts are eligible, but I don’t mind voting for someone off that list, spoiling my ballot. Elegance is elegance.
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Elsa Garcia has won it in the past. But I could vote for her again. 🙂
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Georgia-Rose Brown is even taller, we think, than Kyla Ross (USA) who won last year. Beautiful lines.
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peggy81808 suggests Asuka Teramoto.
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30yr-old Vasiliki Millousi had a great meet, leading her Greek team to 2015 Worlds qualification. A gymnastics super model.
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Who else?
Check the list of Artistic winners since 1999.
Yana Kudryavtseva won it at Rhythmic Worlds last week.
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