@IntlGymnast:
… suffered a torn meniscus and will need surgery, coach Valentina Rodionenko says
Let’s hope there’s no ligament damage.
Many are blaming Aliya’s loose form and ‘bad technique‘ for the injury.
I don’t buy that, in this case.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The vault is not all that poorly executed.
Instead, blame the Code that values the extra half twist at so much higher a start value than double twist. And the Execution judges who differentiate only 0.2 – 0.3 between a good Amanar, and a poor one.
Because this injury happened to the World’s best, FIG (Nellie Kim and Bruno Grandi) will have to answer to the general public why the new code (2006) results in such serious accidents.
In reality, her injury is very similar to what happened to Kyle Shewfelt in 2003, old Code, on the same Vault. It’s easy to do if you are still twisting while landing with that kind of impact force.
(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)
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