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Pink Panther. So retro. I love it.

Here’s one of our Longine’s Elegance candidates. At age-27, Marta‘s savvy enough to dance out of a deep landing at the end of this routine.

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13.900 (Difficulty : 5.800, Execution : 8.100)

The battle China vs Japan was the biggest story in the Men’s Team competition.

1. China 273.369*
2. Japan 273.26*
3. USA 270.369
4. GBR 269.170
5. RUS 266.503
6. BRA 263.562
7. SUI 257.293
8. GER 256.160

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But the fight for Bronze was just as thrilling, perhaps more.

It came down to the final routine, Jake Dalton on Floor. He nailed it.

This edit reminds me of the Cirque show KÀ. 🙂

We can’t actually do flips and tricks in real life, so we applied a bit of video magic.

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Thanks George.

Coverage of the World Championships with a recap of the men’s and women’s qualifying rounds from Nanning, China.

Jessica, Coach Rick, Lauren Hopkins and Spanny Tampson …

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GymCastic 121 – Qualifications Recap from the 2014 World Championships

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How disappointing.

A fantastic Men’s team final at the World Gymnastics Championships was ruined by the Horizontal Bar judges.

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The battle for team gold came down to the final routine on Horizontal Bar, former World Champion Zhang Chenglong.

He hit. But not perfectly. It was clear that Japan had won the team competition.

Yet (somehow) the H Bar panel came up with an impossible score of 15.966.

15.966 was far too high. The highest score of the competition, so far. Impossibly high.

It will be obvious to anyone when we compare Uchimura’s vs Chenglong’s routines and scores.

ZHANG – 7.500 + 8.466 = 15.966
UCHIMURA – 6.900 + 8.500 = 15.400
(full results)

When we compare the E-scores. 😦

Japan was robbed.

I’ll forever regard JPN as the legitimate winners of the World Championships 2014.

Here’s the Judging panel.

HUANG Liping (CHN) – Horizontal Bar Supervisor

E1 TSAI Heng Cheng (TPE)
E2 LESIV Genadi (BLR)
E3 RODRIGUEZ Joseph (PUR)
E4 IANEZ RAMOS Miguel Angel (ESP)
E5 ??

The E panel should be sanctioned for handing out an impossible score.

This is worse than the Uchimura pommel dismount scandal at the 2012 Olympics.

On par with the Dragalescu 2nd Vault scandal at the 2004 Olympics. Four judges were sanctioned that time.

I’m disgusted. 😦

Here’s the man who paid for a good chunk of the US$13 million dollar budget for this competition. The Canadians went shopping at one of his many sporting goods stores today to help pay that back. 🙂

Check the astonishing sports complex hosting World Championships 2014 in southern China.

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I’m still looking for good video of the colourful light show playing over these venues at night.

Congratulations to Lisa who had a great prelims to qualify to the Bar Final and AA Final.

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Who should I vote for?

Only the top 24 all-around gymnasts are eligible, but I don’t mind voting for someone off that list, spoiling my ballot. Elegance is elegance.

Jessica López?

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Cintia Rodríguez?

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Elsa Garcia has won it in the past. But I could vote for her again. 🙂

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Georgia-Rose Brown is even taller, we think, than Kyla Ross (USA) who won last year. Beautiful lines.

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peggy81808 suggests Asuka Teramoto.

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30yr-old Vasiliki Millousi had a great meet, leading her Greek team to 2015 Worlds qualification. A gymnastics super model.

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Who else?

Check the list of Artistic winners since 1999.

Yana Kudryavtseva won it at Rhythmic Worlds last week.

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Top 8 compete in each apparatus Final. Maximum 2 / nation.

VAULT results:
1 BILES Simone USA 15.450
2 HONG Un Jong PRK 15.354
3 SKINNER Mykayla USA 15.349
4 SOSNITSKAYA Alla RUS 15.016
5 MORENO MEDINA Alexa Citlali MEX 14.816
6 PHAN Thi Ha Thanh VIE 14.800
7 FRAGAPANE Claudia GBR 14.716
8 STEINGRUBER Giulia SUI 14.700
Reserves
IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU 14.649
KARMAKAR Dipa IND 14.483
BLACK Elsabeth CAN 14.483

BARS Results:
1 YAO Jinnan CHN 15.666
2 HUANG Huidan CHN 15.333
3 LOCKLEAR Ashton USA 15.233
4 MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 15.166
5 DOWNIE Rebecca GBR 15.166
6 SPIRIDONOVA Daria RUS 15.100
7 HILL Lisa Katharina GER 15.100
8 HARROLD Ruby GBR 14.733
Reserves
MILLER Larrissa AUS 14.666
ROSS Kyla USA 14.650
Lopez VEN 14.433

BEAM results:
1 BILES Simone USA 15.133
2 IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU 15.066
3 YAO Jinnan CHN 14.900
4 BAI Yawen CHN 14.800
5 BLACK Elsabeth CAN 14.466
6 ROSS Kyla USA 14.391
7 MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 14.308
8 TERAMOTO Asuka JPN 14.266
Reserves:
NEDOV Emma AUS 14.266
DOWNIE Rebecca GBR 14.200
MILLOUSI Vasiliki GRE 14.100

FLOOR results:
1 BILES Simone USA 15.366
2 IORDACHE Larisa Andreea ROU 14.933
3 SKINNER Mykayla USA 14.700
4 FERRARI Vanessa ITA 14.566
5 MUSTAFINA Aliya RUS 14.500
6 FRAGAPANE Claudia GBR 14.400
7 FASANA Erika ITA 14.233
8 MILLER Larrissa AUS 14.166
Reserves:
POPA NEDELCU Roxana ESP 14.166
SHANG Chunsong CHN 13.966
Pihan-Kulesza POL 13.900

Simone qualified 1st in 5/6 finals. I’d call that a strong prelim round. 🙂