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Congratulations!

And a special thanks to Kristina Vaculik for supporting her team in the middle of first term at academically demanding Stanford University.

How did that stupid chicken get in the team photo?

Here’s a bad camera angle. You can see why I don’t like 1) straight body cast handstand, and 2) tap over the low bar.

Click PLAY or watch her Bars on YouTube.

Note how many of the Russian cast handstands are straddle-ups. It’s far less deductible.

I actually like Rebecca. She’ll probably win the all-around. And I’ll cheer if she does.

Compare Huang Qiushuang‘s routine on Bars to Beth Tweddle. Beth’s is about 10 times more difficult. Yet they both get a similar start score.

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This is a complete injustice.

Nellie Kim. Please fix your Code of Points on Bars.

Jenn Isbister of Gymn.ca is here, as always. She is disappointed at everything that’s been lost from Women’s Artistic Gymnastics since the golden age, the late 1980s Soviet teams.

But Ana Porgras is old school Romanian Beam royalty. This compares well with the best routines in history.

Click PLAY or watch Anna on YouTube.

Hey, that routine is posted on the official FIG YouTube channel. Cool.

I’ll admit this is the only routine I’ve seen in Rotterdam that flows.

Anna is still my leading candidate to win the Longines Elegance Prize. … Has she won in the past?

I’ll send a link to this pic to Kyle Shewfelt. (He never thinks the girls are fast enough on.)

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Not bad. Korea’s Eum Eunhui:

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Of a number of possible techniques, I like LOW on, HIGH off, the body musculature as “preloaded” as possible.

Oksana, age-35, quoted in today’s Worlds DAILY NEWS:

“I’ll retire after the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. Then I’m as old as Espen Jansen is now.

However I will perform as an all-around gymnast, I think. That would be a good closure.”

Amanda Turner – Preview: Chusovitina Leads Germany in Session 11

In Rotterdam she hit Beam. But did not do two Vaults to try to qualify to Finals on her best apparatus after messing up the first one.

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Espen Jansen is age-41, but has only competed at 9 World Championships. He cannot retire or Oksana will beat him. Norway actually tried to replace him with younger guys this World Championships, but they still couldn’t defeat him in the trials.

So says Pedro Javier Lozada on Facebook based on her excellent competition tonight.

Jessica is 15th AA so far. She’ll qualify for the AA finals.

Brigid says she has one of the best triple twists on Floor out there. And her Team will qualify through to Worlds 2011, too. Gracias.

The STUCK Patterson dismount helped her score.

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Via email from Leslie King of USAG:

The men’s line-up for the qualification round is:

floor exercise – Wynn, Brooks, Leyva, Horton, Legendre;

pommel horse – Leyva, Brooks, Legendre, Horton and Cameron;

still rings – Leyva, Legendre, Cameron, Horton and Wynn;

vault – Leyva, Brooks, Wynn, Horton and Legendre;

parallel bars – Wynn, Legendre, Horton, Brooks and Leyva;

horizontal bar – Legendre, Wynn, Brooks, Leyva and Horton.

Five men compete on each apparatus, with the top four scores counting. Three men will compete on all six events: Horton, Legendre and Leyva.

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The U.S. men compete at 2 p.m. ET on Oct. 18.

This is what she used in prelims to qualify to the Bars final.

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She trained two or three more difficult variations, including double double tucked dismount. It will be interesting to see what she decides on for Finals.

(via Full Twist)