Everybody loves Oleg. But he was over-scored on this set in prelims.
6.9 difficulty – 15.766
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Oleg has the second highest score (so far) going into the Final. Leyva is the favourite, I’d say,
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USA #1 on Pommels
History was made today. 🙂
Team USA finished first as a team on what’s traditionally been their weakest apparatus.
CHN, JPN, ITA photos
1980 Olympic all-around champion Elena Davidova is one of the Vault judges. She coached Kristina Vaculik to Olympics 2012.
Ariana Berlin – the movie
Ariana Berlin’s comeback story was made for Hollywood: Nearly-fatal car accident ends a young girl’s Olympic gymnastics aspirations. Girl turns to dance but does not give up her other dream of competing for the UCLA Gymnastics team. Girl gets an opportunity to make the team at UCLA and ends up becoming an All-American.
… art is now imitating life, as Berlin’s story is being turned into a movie called Full Out.
Learn more about Berlin’s story in the third installment of UCLA’s “I Am” series: “I Am … Full Out: The Ariana Berlin Movie”.
Ariana Berlin with Ana Golja, the actress who will play Ariana.
Watch a promo video on UCLA Bruins.
Nastia and He Kexin
🙂
MAG – China over Japan in prelims
Switzerland impresses. Looks like they will go to the Team final.
after 7/10 Worlds subdivisions:
1. China 362.698
2. Japan 361.609
3. Great Britain 357.193
4. Brazil 348.100
5. Switzerland 345.993 !!
6. Ukraine 345.540
7. Korea 343.594
8. France 343.385
9. Canada 340.568
Between CHN and JPN, whomever I think will win, doesn’t. I’d best stop making MAG predictions. 🙂
As a team, China was 1st on R,V.PB,HB. 5th on PH. 2nd on FX.
Japan won FX. Was 2nd on the rest. 3rd on H Bar.
“China at home for Glory”
GBR at Worlds
I love this team.
after 5/10 Worlds subdivisions
CHN, GBR, BRA, UKR, KOR, CAN
GBR looked great. Team strategy seems to be slightly lower D scores, higher E scores. Nice to watch.
A highlight was the the 88.323 put up by 18yr-old Nile Wilson who looks a future AA podium threat.
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Courtney Tulloch was added to help on their weakest apparatus, Rings, and will likely qualify to the Final.
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Dan Keatings and Max Whitlock are, perhaps, the strongest Pommel routines here at Worlds. But both made some errors in prelims. Neither will qualify to the Final. 😦
Watch the GBR Pommel rotation. (VIDEO)
In a bigger shocker, Max Whitlock did not qualify to the AA Final. Both Nile and Daniel Purvis 88.706 finished ahead.
GBR could replace Nile with Max. I would. But that’s not likely. The days of that happening are long gone, me thinks.
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Here’s the BG write-up – Superb start for the British men’s team
Brenna at Oklahoma
Liu Yang – Rings
If China beats Japan in prelims and/or Team final, it will be due to Rings. This guy could win it all.
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15.933 (D 6.900 + E 9.033).
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