Epke wins Horizontal Bar

After a disastrous ranking at Worlds 2015 we feared Epke would not get the chance to defend in Rio.

He will. 🙂

Team Netherlands did qualify and will almost certainly include Zonderland in their lineup.

I watched the warm-up. Bart DEURLOO, BRETSCHNEIDER and ZONDERLAND are all capable of linking multiple big releases in a final. Here’s how it turned out.

1 ZONDERLAND Epke NED 7.100 + 8.633 = 15.733
2 BRETSCHNEIDER Andreas GER 7.300 + 8.300 = 15.600
3 OROZCO John USA 6.800 + 8.566 = 15.366
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Ultra clean Nile Wilson fell twice. John Orozco hit superbly with Liukin for the Bronze. (John was 9/9 in Rio.) But as he’s done so many times in the past, Epke hit the routine best when it counted.

Congratulations. Netherlands may be the happiest nation coming to the Olympics at this point.

Flavia SARAIVA wins Floor

Everyone is crazy for this Brazilian superstar. Wait ’til she competes it at the Olympics.

1 SARAIVA Flavia BRA 5.800 + 8.600 = 14.400
2 MILLER Larrissa AUS 5.800 + 8.200 – 0.3 = 13.700
3 GRIESSER Leah GER 5.400 + 8.166 = 13.566
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Leah Griesser was rewarded for her excellent choreography. Click PLAY or watch her routine from earlier this season on YouTube.

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P Bars: VERNIAIEV, ARICAN, FOKIN

1 VERNIAIEV Oleg UKR 7.100 + 9.033 = 16.133 1
2 ARICAN Ferhat TUR 6.700 + 9.033 = 15.733 3 9
3 FOKIN Anton UZB 6.600 + 9.100 = 15.700 2
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Happy and surprised that Ferhat finished that high. Competition was fierce. The best final tonight by far.

Ferhat ARICAN
Ferhat ARICAN

He qualified to the Olympics in the AA. Congratulations Turkey.

ZANETTI v PETROUNIAS

Defending Olympic Champion v defending World Champion. Who takes the Gold?

I’m glad I wasn’t judging this one.

1 ZANETTI Arthur BRA 6.800 + 9.066 = 15.866
2 PETROUNIAS Eleftherios GRE 6.800 + 9.033 = 15.833
3 AIT SAID Samir FRA 6.700 + 8.800 = 15.500
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The Olympic Rings final should be awesome.

Rio Men’s Vault Final

Only 6 men competed 2 vaults to get into the Final. Dragulescu, for example, did only 1 to save his energy for Team qualification.

1 VERNIAIEV Oleg UKR 15.333
2 DALTON Jacob USA 14.853
3 RADIVILOV Igor UKR 14.649
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Scott Morgan 4th with 14.450.

Beam: Sanne, Flavia, Lieke

My Dutch friends are pretty happy with this Beam podium.

1 WEVERS Sanne NED 6.400 + 8.400 = 14.800
2 SARAIVA Flavia BRA 6.200 + 8.533 = 14.733
3 WEVERS Lieke NED 5.700 + 8.666 = 14.366
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Isabela ONYSHKO was 4th. The wonderful Sofia GOMEZ 5th. An excellent final even without the legend Ponor, who withdrew.

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Sun Wei wins Pommels

Sun Wei has been racking up the travel miles. He’s recently competed American Cup, UCIC and Test Meet despite not being on China’s A-team. Superb routine on horse today.

1 SUN Wei CHN 6.500 + 9.066 = 15.566
2 OROZCO John USA 6.400 + 8.666 = 15.066
3 HIDVEGI Vid HUN 6.200 + 8.500 = 14.700
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Often Pommels is the most competitive final. Not today.

Oleg fell … twice. Filip Ude … fell. 😦

On the bright side, Orozco made himself even more invaluable to the U.S. team scoring 15 on their weak apparatus and hitting 6/6 in the AA. In Rio.

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Germany 1,2 on Bars in Rio

1 SEITZ Elisabeth GER 6.600 + 8.533 = 15.133
2 SCHEDER Sophie GER 6.400 + 8.633 = 15.033
3 ANDRADE Rebeca BRA 6.000 + 8.433 = 14.433
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Gabby JUPP (GBR) could have contended but missed. A very strong final.

Rebeca was awesome. And very relaxed. Coming back from injury, I won’t be surprised if she upgrades before the Games.

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Oleg wins Floor

1 VERNIAIEV Oleg UKR 6.900 + 8.366 = 15.266
2 BEHAN Kieran IRL 6.100 + 8.958 = 15.058
3 ABAD Nestor ESP 6.100 + 8.833 -0.1 = 14.833
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In an era of chucking huge difficulty regardless of the landing, Behan is a throw back to the days of Kyle Shewfelt. Elegance and control.

Kieran Behan’s dream weekend in Rio has been capped off by claiming a silver medal in the floor exercise at the Aquece Rio test event at the HSBC Barra Olympic Arena.

Behan and compatriot Ellis O’Reilly secured qualification for Rio 2016 at the weekend, with O’Reilly becoming the first Irish woman to qualify for the Olympics in the sport. …

RTE

Behan
Behan

Dipa wins Vault

A National hero to 1.3 billion people back home. 🙂

1 KARMAKAR Dipa IND 14.833
2 CHUSOVITINA Oksana UZB 14.716
3 LITTLE Emily AUS 14.383
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Dipa’s Handspring double front was better than in the prelims. Definitely not a zero vault.

Under current FIG rules I’d say the ranking of the top 3 was fair. WTC did not address how to more severely evaluate dangerous deep landings. They should. There is too much incentive to “chuck” the Prudnova.

That said, Dipa is great on this apparatus. Her 2nd Kasamatsu (like Tsuk double twist) was one of the best vaults at Test Meet.

Dipa will inspire many tens of thousands of kids to try the sport.

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related – Indian Express – Dipa Karmakar vaults into history books after qualifying for Olympics