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Undeniably the World Champion. Sky high, difficult tumbling. Decent leaps. Energetic and interesting choreography.
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Some people like to complain about this routine. But nobody can claim Simone should not have won the title. 🙂
His many fanboys finally got their wish. Oleg is a World Champion.
Difficult. Interesting. HUGE stuck dismount.
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Embarrassingly, organizers played the wrong National Anthem at awards. Oleg’s from Ukraine, not Uzbekistan. More Russian plotting? 🙂
full P Bar Final results
Have you heard about this 11yr-old?
This clip with Laurence Kaiwai went viral.
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Here’s the follow up with Matt Steffanina.
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(via Yahoo News)
The Bruins have launched a crowdsourced fund-raising campaign to raise their training equipment up on to platforms to simulate the podium used at NCAA Championships.
$150,000 in 30 days. That should be no problem with their rich & famous fan base. 🙂
Hopefully injuries will be reduced, as well.
Zonderland had a 7.7 start without needing to do 3 releases in series.
Kohei, the eventual silver medalist, could only smile after watching this.
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Epke’s form continues to improve. 🙂 He should have won.
On the other hand, those guys in the blue jackets supposedly judging the routines awarded the same execution score 8.525 to Kohei as Epke.
That’s wrong. Kohei’s is considerably cleaner.
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Execution judging is terrible in both WAG and MAG in 2014. But the rules and evaluation are worst of all on Horizontal Bar. 😦
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As Grandi said in broken English today, this was a fantastic World Championships, more like the Olympics than a Worlds. The organizing committee should be very proud.
It’s almost certainly the best World Championships ever. A lifetime memory for all the gymnasts, coaches and judges. 🙂
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1. ZONDERLAND Epke 7.700 – 16.225
2. UCHIMURA Kohei 8.525 – 15.725
3. MOZNIK Marijo 6.700 – 15.000
Weakest apparatus final at Worlds.
Especially after former World Champion ZHANG Chenglong ripped a grip mid-routine. He was allowed to get a new grip and continue when ready, a new rule I’m told.
It was his best routine of the 3 competitions up until that point. 😦
All hail Epke.
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A fantastic final. Respect for these ladies. They showed comparatively harder tumbling than the Men.
1. BILES Simone
2. IORDACHE Larisa Andreea
3. MUSTAFINA Aliya
4. SKINNER Mykayla
5. FERRARI Vanessa
6. MILLER Larrissa
7. FASANA Erika
8. FRAGAPANE Claudia
Claudia is my favourite routine of the group. Unfortunately she had a very strange fall on full twisting double layout mount.
Simone and Larisa were clearly Gold and Silver. The Bronze will be much debated.
