Romania, Russia, GBR

Team rank from prelims.

Examiner:

1. ROM 177.472; 2. RUS 172.562; 3. GBR 169.431; 4. ITA 168.005; 5. FRA 167.122; 6. ESP 163.638; 7. GER 163.022; 8. BEL 161.972.

NED just misses out on team finals, finishes ninth with 160.763, ahead of UKR, 160.396.

full results (PDF)

Larisa Iordache qualifying score of 60.132.

Vasiliki Millousi is an Olympian, meeting the Greek standard for qualifying with this performance.

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She’s the best Greek gymnast : 54.274 (all-around 11th). Vasiliki qualified for the Beam final on Sunday : 14.766 (Difficulty : 6.10, Execution : 8.666). Rank : 7.

Israel will be represented too.

Valeria Maksiuta (ISR) made two finals at Euros, meeting Israeli Olympic Committee requirments for participation at #London2012

via @theallaround

Romania over Russia, so far

Prelims in progress at Europeans.

Andy Thornton predicted this is the way it will finish.

Romanian consistency over Russian brilliance.

Halfway through senior women’s qualifications:

1. ROM 177.472;
2. RUS 172.562;
3. GBR 169.431;
4. ITA 168.005

For both teams Olympics is the main goal. Europeans just a stepping stone.

Click PLAY or watch Komova’s Beam on YouTube.

14.916 (Difficulty : 6.00, Execution : 8.916).

VERY high execution score for that routine, I’d say.

See more videos on the europeangymnastics’s YouTube channel.

(via @GymExaminer)

Heresy on the High Beam

Dvora Meyers:

… I’ve self-published a short book of personal essays called Heresy on the High Beam: Confessions of an Unbalanced Jewess on Amazon for Kindle. (But you don’t have to own a Kindle to read it. I don’t have one yet. Simple download the free Kindle Cloud Reader App).

It’s a classic love story: Girl meets balance beam. Girl trades long skirts for leotards. The rest, as Hillel once wisely said, is commentary.

Unorthodox Gymnastics – Heresy on the High Beam

Get it from Amazon (78 pages) $2.99

It’s not called Jewnastics. Yet.

two unlikely Olympic contenders

If you’d asked me a year ago if Ellie Black and Hugh Smith from Halifax would be “in the mix” for the Canadian Olympic team, I’d have said … no.

Hugh is age-28. Ellie had disappeared. …

They’ll be in Regina at Nationals. Showing international level routines.

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Jr Euros – superlatives

1. Russia
2. Italy
3. Romania
4. Great Britain
5. Germany
6. Netherlands

1. Maria Kharenkova
2. Elisa Meneghini
3. Yevgenia Shelgunova
4. Andreea E. Munteanu
5. Sophie Scheder
6. Enus Mariani

… The Russian women’s team has been undefeated at the Junior European championships since 2000. …

results and commentary on IG

by Tandoori Poulet on Facebook - Andrei Rodioenko celebrates Russia's junior team victory

Blythe:

Biggest surprise of the day — team: Germany

Biggest surprise of the day — individual: Evgenia Shelgunova, RUS.

Standout routines of the day…

Vault: Roxana Popa, ESP. Nailed a terrific DTY after balking her first attempt.

Bars: Sophie Scheder, GER. A woman as tall as Khorkina at 14 or 15, she nevertheless dominated her routine — and the event — in the qualifying round.

Beam: Eythora Thorsdottir, NED. What a wonderful routine for this young lady and her country!

Floor: Enus Mariani, ITA. A wonderful dancer with the capacity to do any style.

Longines Prize for Confidence: Gabrielle Jupp, GBR.

details on Examiner – B & B’s Junior European team finals summary

"team of the future"

More photos by Grace Chiu

Canadian WAG Olympic Team

Grace Chiu:

Someone, who has montaged my photos again, posted their choices for the Canadian WAG team. The GCG logo doesn’t mean this is official in any way. There’s still Regina and Gatineau …

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I’m putting my money on Savona. She’ll end up competing in London.