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Look who I just ran into… He Kexin 🙂 Flashback to #Beijing2008 pic.twitter.com/MtFU1HjdaM
— Nastia Liukin (@NastiaLiukin) October 4, 2014
Nastia and He Kexin
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MAG – China over Japan in prelims
Switzerland impresses. Looks like they will go to the Team final.
after 7/10 Worlds subdivisions:
1. China 362.698
2. Japan 361.609
3. Great Britain 357.193
4. Brazil 348.100
5. Switzerland 345.993 !!
6. Ukraine 345.540
7. Korea 343.594
8. France 343.385
9. Canada 340.568
Between CHN and JPN, whomever I think will win, doesn’t. I’d best stop making MAG predictions. 🙂
As a team, China was 1st on R,V.PB,HB. 5th on PH. 2nd on FX.
Japan won FX. Was 2nd on the rest. 3rd on H Bar.
“China at home for Glory”
GBR at Worlds
I love this team.
after 5/10 Worlds subdivisions
CHN, GBR, BRA, UKR, KOR, CAN
GBR looked great. Team strategy seems to be slightly lower D scores, higher E scores. Nice to watch.
A highlight was the the 88.323 put up by 18yr-old Nile Wilson who looks a future AA podium threat.
Post by Sports2Visuals.
Courtney Tulloch was added to help on their weakest apparatus, Rings, and will likely qualify to the Final.
Post by Sports2Visuals.
Dan Keatings and Max Whitlock are, perhaps, the strongest Pommel routines here at Worlds. But both made some errors in prelims. Neither will qualify to the Final. 😦
Watch the GBR Pommel rotation. (VIDEO)
In a bigger shocker, Max Whitlock did not qualify to the AA Final. Both Nile and Daniel Purvis 88.706 finished ahead.
GBR could replace Nile with Max. I would. But that’s not likely. The days of that happening are long gone, me thinks.
Post by Sports2Visuals.
Here’s the BG write-up – Superb start for the British men’s team
Brenna at Oklahoma
Liu Yang – Rings
If China beats Japan in prelims and/or Team final, it will be due to Rings. This guy could win it all.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
15.933 (D 6.900 + E 9.033).
chasing Kohei – DENG Shudi
Here’s China’s best AA. 90.630 in prelims hitting 6/6.
Click PLAY or watch his Floor on YouTube.
15.466 (D 6.700 + E 8.766).
after 4/10 Worlds subdivisions
1. CHN 2. BRA 3.UKR 4. KOR 5.CAN 6.BLR
Canada was generally pleased with their competition. They hit and stuck a lot of routines today.
Scott Morgan traveling next to Germany to compete for Hambüchen’s Bundesliga team
consistent USA
#FIGWorlds2014ART
Beam Dreams has nice profile on the USA women:
In 2011, the U.S. women’s program began a new era of dominance in consistency. Podium training, qualifications, team finals, all-around finals, and event finals look pretty much the same. Hit routine after hit routine. Compete, hit, repeat. Of course, there have been a few exceptions, but for the most part, gone are the nail-biting days of wondering if a gymnast is going to fall. Because, they just don’t. …
Count the female / male coaching ratio. 🙂
Post by USA Gymnastics.
Worlds Bus Rides
About the only big complaint about #FIGWorlds2014ART you hear in Nanning is the long, long bus ride need to get … anywhere.
The new sports complex was built out in the middle of nowhere.
