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Vanessa Ferrari – 56.799
Roxana Popa – 56.565
Maggie Nichols – 56.432
Victoria Moors – 56.232
Asuka Teramoto – 55.731
Yu Minobe – 54.898
Kim Bui – 53.032

Bea Gheorghisor has commentary.

Click PLAY or watch Ferrari’s FX on YouTube. New double layout second pass.

As for the guys …

1. Uchimura
2. Hambuchen
3. Kato

We know that the Chinese women specifically targeted 3 ½ twist for the future.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

related – Gigi Khazback Farid – Shang Chunsong Rumored To Become The First Woman To Compete Quad Twist

Russian Championships Jr AA competition.

A new star for mother Russia.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

14.733 with a fall?

Jr AA

1. Angelina Melnikova 58.3
2. Seda Tutkhalyan
3. Daria Mikhailova

RRG – Melnikova takes Russian Junior Championships

(via GymCastic)

A few more photos.

Marcos Pedro PsiqBoy’s Crew (Son Sonek)

From Catalão, Goias, Brazil.

(via Steve Bonham – Ganba Gymnastics)

I’m astonished that more gymnasts cannot air flare.

This super hero, for example.

I assumed the rumour that Yao Jinnan was changing her name for … LUCK was an April Fools prank.

But it’s true.

Blossom:

… the name Yao Ziyi is on a test period. Yao has yet to change her official documents. Don’t rush to change your tumblr tags yet.

Superstitious Yao and Her Quest for Gold

1. Aliya Mustafina 14.733 / 14.333 / 15.400 / 15.100 // 59.566
2. Alla Sosnitskaya 14.700 / 14.467 / 14.067 / 14.833 // 58.067
3. Anastasia Grishina 13.867 / 13.900 / 14.400 / 14.300 // 56.467

Viktoria Komova VT (FTY) 14.257 / UB 14.9
Tatiana Nabieva UB 13.993
Dariya Spiridonova UB 15.133
Ksenia Afansyeva VT / FX 13.000

Generous scoring and Russian bonus on some of those numbers.

Click PLAY or watch Darya Spiridonova – Bars on YouTube.

Arabian Full Twist links to more videos – Russian Nationals 2014 Senior Results and Video

17 March 2014

Steve Butcher:

The FIG MTC has made the following interpretations, text corrections, and decisions regarding the MAG Code of Points for this cycle at the 2013 World Championships and subsequent MTC meetings. The information below is separated into three distinct sections.

I. NEW ELEMENT NAMES RECOGNIZED

II. RULES INTERPRETATIONS & CODE TEXT CORRECTIONS
(Effective Immediately)

III. NEW RULES
(Effective 20 September 2014)

download the MAG_NL_27_en PDF with video links

Yurchenko with 3/1 is named for both SHIRAI and KIM Hee Hoon.

Backward layout on FX with 4/1 twists was named for both SHIRAI (JPN) and Tuan Dat NGUYEN (VIE).

Click PLAY or watch Tuan Dat NGUYEN’s quad on YouTube.

14.70

Beautiful.

It’s a shame that Facebook videos stream so much more poorly than YouTube.

Post to YouTube. Then put the YouTube link in Facebook.

Men’s Gymnastics Perspective has a superb wrap-up. By far the best post I’ve seen (of many) on the competition.

A few highlights from their detailed report:

The British is a slightly unique format, in that Senior apparatus titles are handed out on the Saturday to the top scorers on each event, but the real final is on the following day, when the top 8 from all age groups fight it out in a traditional apparatus final to become the Masters champion.

After day 1, the Senior apparatus champions were not a great surprise, based on recent form:

Floor: Max Whitlock 15.25
Pommel Horse: Max Whitlock 15.85
Rings: Daniel Purvis 15.0
Vault: Kristian Thomas 14.875
Parallel Bars: Daniel Keatings 15.45
Horizontal Bar: Sam Oldham 14.6

The main talking point of Saturday was the tightly spaced 1-2-3 of Max Whitlock (15.85), Daniel Keatings (15.8) and Louis Smith (15.75) on Pommel Horse. … What a pleasure to have 3 world class pommel horse performers in the GB camp, competing at the top of their game in front of a packed venue!

The Masters format promised to deliver an interesting mix of Junior vs Senior. …

Day 2 – The Masters

Floor
Max Whitlock is a class apart in terms of start value, and only needed a clean performance to finish ahead of the rest of the field. His mix of multi-bonus complex twisting combinations and high value non-acrobatic elements (including his new spindle to air-flair) give him a 6.8 start which is well ahead of his British rivals.

Under-16 Champion Giarnni Regini-Moran was the only junior in this final, but his powerful tumbling was comfortably of senior standard. …

Click PLAY or watch Giarnni’s FX on YouTube.

Pommel Horse
The strength in depth in British Pommel Horse is great to see. In this final, the bottom 5 of Wilson, Wise, Purvis, Watson, Hall all scored in the range 14.666 to 14.266. Many world gymnastics nations (USA, Germany anyone?) would love for their top level Pommels workers to be able to provide those scores! …

… Daniel Keatings hit his “hard” routine (with Busnari) in a final! Daniel’s execution has always been immaculate, and this combined with the 7.2 start value gave him a 16.133 total …

Rings
Ok, we admit it, GB has some way to go to become a nation recognised with any real depth on Rings. …

Vault
This final was one of the less exciting points of the weekend. …

Parallel Bars
Suddenly GB has a group of parallel bar workers capable of threatening for medals on the world stage. After Pommel Horse, this was the most anticipated final of the day …

Horizontal Bar
This is another apparatus where GB is getting stronger with each event. The trio of Kristian Thomas, Sam Oldham and Ashley Watson stood out here. They presented three very different, but equally exciting 6.5 start value routines. …

Ashley Watson was clearly disappointed not to be in the Parallel Bars final, and jumped up on the High Bar with a determined and aggressive demeanor. His routine construction is probably our favourite of these 3 …

Click PLAY or watch Watson’s H Bar on YouTube.

British Championships: First Reactions – Apparatus & Masters Finals

Click through for much, much more.

One final excerpt:

What more to say about Daniel Keatings at this year’s British?

He was simply immaculate all weekend – excluding a fall on High Bar in the All Around – this was a flawless 2 days of competition. Hats off to anyone that can deliver 16+ scores in two finals on the same day! Suddenly we feel extremely positive about Europeans and Commonwealths prospects for Dan. Rio looks a real possibility …