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Here’s the man with a high enough difficulty score 7.1 to (almost) challenge the World Champion Kenzo in the Final.

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Click PLAY or watch Kenzo 7.4 on YouTube.

FIG videos like these should play anywhere in the World outside China. The USAG videos play only if you have an American IP address.

What’s a bad draw at #FIGWorlds2014ART?

1st/12 Worlds subdivisions – Beam.

Yep. That was Canada.

Then the beautiful Aleeza Wu was injured on double pike dismount. Kelly Manjak told us that Aleeza hyperextended her knee. She had a minor hyperextension last week. 😦

The rest of the team had to step up. And did.

Despite losing Aleeza, they rank 3rd so far and will easily qualify as one of the top 24 teams to Worlds 2015.

1 Russia 228.135
2 Belgium 214.469
3 Canada 214.102
4 Egypt 184.928

Hong Un-jong submitted it to FIG as a NEW skill. As she did last year.

But we’ve not seen her warm it up (so far) in Nanning.

Click PLAY or watch her Amanar on YouTube.

via GymFever2012

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Floor Results (PDF)
Ablyazin; Shirai; Hypolito; Kato; Zapata; Kosmidis; Kim Hansol; Dalton; Reserves: Deng Shudi; Purvis; Cheng Ran

Pommel Results (PDF)
Berki; Naddour; Bertoncelj; Ude; Tommasone; Seligman; Likhovitskiy; Keatings; Reserves: Merdinyan; Belyavskiy; Whitlock

Rings Results (PDF)
Liu Yang; Ablyazin; Petrounias; Zanetti; Tulloch; Ait Said; You Hao; Ignatiev; Reserves: Radivilov; Colak; Whittenburg

Vault Results (PDF)
Yang Hak Seon; Ablyazin; Ri Se Gwang; Radivilov; Shirai; Dalton; Shek Wei Hung; Sasaki; Res: Thomas; Kim Hansol; Hypolito

P Bar Results (PDF)
Leyva; Verniaiev; Tanaka; Deng Shudi; Kato; Cheng; Whittenburg; Kuksenkov; Reserves: Augis; Hambüchen; Bucher

H Bar Results (PDF)
Zonderland; Uchimura; Zhang Chenglong; Kuksenkov; Moznik; Wilson; Belyavskiy; Calvo. Reserves: Thomas; Verniaiev; Schroe

via @theallaround:

Only three gymnasts miss event finals due to country limits: Uchimura (FX), You (PB); and Zhang (PB)

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Qualified to the All-around Final:

Uchimura; Belyavskiy; Deng; Whittenburg; Cheng Ran; Tanaka;
Verniaiev; Kuksenkov; Purvis; Wilson; Likhovitskiy; Hambüchen,
Mikulak; Sasaki; Pakhnyuk; Hegi; Toba; Tommasone;
Shatilov; Mariano; Calvo; Bataga; Lee; Edalli

Still the man to beat …

Missing AA finals due to maximum 2/nation rule:

Kato (7th); Nonomura (11th); Lin (12th); Whitlock (14th); Keatings (19th); Ignatyev (26th)

link updated – full results (PDF)

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Men’s Team Finalists Worlds 2014
1-CHN 2-JPN 3-USA 4-GBR 5-RUS 6-GER 7-BRA 8-SUI

Switzerland looked great.

Men’s Teams invited Worlds 2015
(top 8) + UKR, KOR, FRA, ROU, ITA, CAN, BLR, ESP, COL, NED, BEL, HUN, PUR, GRE, MEX, TPE

Turkey was 25th. Just missing. 😦

via @officialFIG

Here’s your prelims leader, so far. Crazy difficulty without having to chuck double somersaults.

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Danell was deserving World Champ in 2011.

There are two new guys at Worlds that everyone is talking about. The first is Donnell WHITTENBURG USA, just turned age-20, sitting 4th in prelims AA with 89.631. Donnell has got crazy potential.

The other is 18yr-old Nile Wilson GBR, a beautiful gymnast, fantastic for his age. Nile scored 88.323 and knocked teammate Max Whitlock out of the AA Final.

Nile will qualify to the H Bar Final.

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World Championships is not only Simone Biles and Kohei Uchimra.

This very cool edit gives a glimpse of what it’s really like at #FIGWorlds2014ART. 🙂

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I’ve spoken to a number of athletes at their first Worlds. This is an unforgettable life experience for them. 🙂

Thank-you China.

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It’s been a great MAG Worlds. Much stronger than in 2013.

But the Horizontal Bar final is weak.

Uchimura sits in 2nd spot so far with only 15.200 (6.900 + 8.300)

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Judging is tougher than in 2013. But many of the top guys did not hit perfectly.

Fabian yet to compete.