The Olympic Champion from Beijing has arrived. As if on cue, as she stepped into the arena this morning, the organizing committee played the American National Anthem. A rehearsal. 🙂
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MyKayla Skinner – Cheng
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Another potential Worlds Silver medal. McKayla’s Cheng has never looked better.
In high speed from a much better angle, we couldn’t see any under twist on the half. Nor any unequal weight on the hands.
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Her DTY was very clean too. (VIDEO)
Update: A coach showed me another angle in slow motion. Her hand touches, fairly square, but she does not put much weight the hand before pulling into the twist.
Steingruber‘s DTY was a mess in podium. Thi Ha Thanh Phan should be in the Vault final. Roxana Popa did not show an Amanar. Ellie Black could Final, but her Rudi wasn’t great today.
Dipa from India would have scored zero on her Handspring Double Front today. I don’t think Fadwa did one in podium training.
There are plenty more vaulters coming up tomorrow, of course. Hong Un-jong goes first thing in the morning. She will most likely end up on the Vault podium.
UPDATE from day 2 podium: Hong Un-jong PRK landed 3/6 Amanar attempts. Very clean in the air.
She only had time for 1 warm-up of her second vault. Fall.
USA, RUS, CAN + podium photos
Kyla Ross hip injury
Christopher Korotky interviewing Kyla:
“I’m kind of held together by tape right now,” Ross joked after podium training.
“The last few days at the ranch (the U.S. National Team Training Center), I think I kind of overstretched it doing a few leaps. …”
Inside Gymnastics – ROSS READY, DESPITE SETBACK
Kyla Ross is a soldier. Marta, and everyone else watching, believe she’ll be doing the AA come prelims.
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Ekaterina Kramarenko – Bars
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I expect to see 2 Chinese and 2 Russian gymnasts in the Bars Final.
Japanese Men’s Floor
A few snippets from podium training.
Team Japan will win Floor as a team … while competing only one double somersault. (Uchimura is competing double double.)
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I expect FIG MTC to change the Code next cycle. This is overuse of one kind of skill taken to the extreme.
It’s not good for the knees, either.
Simone Biles – Amanar
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Gold medals Vault, FX and Team are near guaranteed. All-around too, actually.
Watch it in SLOW MOTION.
MyKayla Skinner – Floor
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Possible silver medal at Worlds 2014. But she has some built in deductions.
Kyla Ross – Beam
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She got back up and stuck the next double tuck.
Russia – podium photos
Nadia Boyce is here from Australia, reporting for Couch Gymnast. She’s posted some wonderful photos of Russia at podium training. The most wonderful, as you might expect, are of Nabieva. 🙂
Russia – 1st Photo Gallery from Worlds
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