IF you want to be World Champion in the AA, it’s likely you’ll be in the final competition group finishing on Horizontal Bar.
If you are up against Hashimoto Daiki, you know he’s likely to HIT the best routine of the competition on that apparatus.
Simone, Rebeca, Shilese
- Simone Biles (USA) – 58.399
- Rebeca Andrade (BRA) – 56.766
- Shilese Jones (USA) – 56.332
You predicted the podium?
GENIUS 😀
4 – Qiu – 54.799
5 – D’Amato – 54.265
6 – Thorsdottir – 54.098
7 – Kinsella – 54.032
8 – Nemour – 53.966
Hashimoto wins in 60 seconds
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Men’s AA Final video highlights
The FIG media team is killing it in Antwerp. Here’s yet another super skillful edit giving the feel of that thrilling all-around competition in just a few minutes.
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Fred deserves it
Listen to James Hall — who hit 6 / 6.
You DO deserve it man.
IF you can medal with a fall, you medal. Fred was great yesterday.
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Men’s All Around Final
If you missed the thriller, catch-up with Kensley.
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Kensley is from the USA, totally excited that young Fred Richard is a world AA bronze medalist. Congratulations Fred.
The men’s NCAA program is under threat of dissolving. Eventually. This result and the American men’s team medal will help.
Fujitsu Infinity Awards
Exceptional spirit and technical precision?
The French women and the Swiss men.
Good choices.
Hashimoto, Kovtun, Richard
Fred Richard, not Richards. Get that straight. He’s the 2023 Worlds Bronze medalist.
Fred has many areas where he could improve. Young with tons of potential.
A good AA Final overall. Comparatively few falls.
Many of those falls — however — were from top contenders at the END of the competition. My man Sun Wei had 2 falls on Pommels on the final apparatus, for example.
A crazy finish.
Daiki really is the new Uchimura. So clutch under pressure.
That’s Hashimoto’s 2nd-straight world title.
Kovtun’s silver is Ukraine’s best finish in the men’s AA at worlds (Verniaiev has an Olympic silver), and Richard wins the US’s first AA medal since Horton in 2010. …
Balance Beam Situation LIVE – MEN’S ALL-AROUND FINAL
Everyone is celebrating Illia Kovtun and Ukraine. Everyone aside from the gymnasts in Putin’s Russia. I hope they are STILL not allowed to compete as individuals in FIG competitions 2024. The Russian dictator vows to destroy Ukraine utterly.
Fujitsu Judging Support System
I attended the press conference at Antwerp Worlds.
The Judging Support System (JSS) is available on all 10 apparatuses. Only 7 were ready last year in Liverpool.
They are using 4 cameras on each apparatus. Eight on Floor.
Donatella said it’s only being used in case of appeal. She showed 2 good examples of how it could work:
- Switch Ring on Beam
- Layout on Beam
By clicking icons on the right, a judge can check height, distance, angle, etc.
She explained it’s only being used for D-score credit at this point. Not Execution.
Donatella is looking forward to checking the D-judges after the competition using JSS. Useful for judge training.
Arturs Mickevics, the Men’t Chair, agreed that the technology works and will be useful.
Recall we’d previously seen that it’s super accurate evaluating Rings strength holds and angles.
President Watanabe was the most effusive. He wants judging that is more fair and transparent.
Personally, I was keen to find out how soon coaches can get an app for feedback in training. No timeline on that. In case of injury, we’ll be able to evaluate the athletes — and see when they get back to baseline height, distance, etc.
Fujitsu’s plans to launch something called their Human Motion Analytics platform in April 2024 which might be something that can aid in the TRAINING of gymnasts.
Of course they want graphics to be instantly available for video broadcast, as well. No timeline on that.
Aesthetically, FB CURVES 3D GYM is still far more appealing. It’s an entirely different product, of course. But still far more useful for coaches in 2023.
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The BEST of the JSS video we were shown was close to FB Curves 3D, but more human. Less perfect.
Of course it’s inevitable that all the recorded data will eventually be fed into AI platforms. It will be interesting to see how good the resulting AI VIDEO interpretations will be.
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USA, Brazil, France
The United States won an unprecedented seventh straight team world title in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Wednesday in Antwerp (BEL), overcoming early adversity to extend their decade of dominance in the sport. …
The team gold is Biles’s 20th World title and 26th World medal and gives her a total of 33 World and Olympic medals, more than any other gymnast in history.
“It wasn’t our perfect meet today — we had a teammate go down and we had some mistakes here and there,” said Biles, who praised the team’s “grit and fight.” …
Brazil’s roller coaster competition ended with the first World Championships medal for a team from South America in history. …
Meanwhile, the Paris 2024 Olympic hosts became the first French team to win a World medal since 1950. France’s highlights came on every apparatus: a powerful handspring Rudi vault from Devillard and a stuck double-twisting Yurchenko from de Jesus dos Santos, as well as a confident leadoff Balance Beam performance from Osyssek-Reimer under pressure …
FIG – U.S. women triumph as Brazil and France make history
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