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Live blog: 2010 European Championships, senior men’s team final
In Juniors, the hosts won Gold and Silver:
1. Sam Oldham 84.575
2. Max Whitlock 84.275
3. Pablo Brägger (SUI) 83.150
Susan Jackson strikes me as a totally focused, aggressive power gymnast. Fearless. She had a fantastic season, finishing first in the all-around at Championships.
Her team, LSU, was plagued with problems this year. Yet for the first 3 rotations in the team qualifier, they were rolling towards making the Super 6 Final, easily, I thought.
Unfortunately Beam was their undoing. That apparatus decided who made the team final.
Click PLAY to see a fascinating interview. Susan’s actually afraid of Vault … yet might compete Yurchenko 2/1 twist in the apparatus final tonight for the first time in her celebrated College career. She doesn’t need it to win as she’s got another “second” vault.
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Sabrina Franceschelli of LSU was mounting Bars at NCAA Championships …
Visibly upset, she jumped off. Could she repeat? …
The judges had her compete at the end of the rotation. She borrowed a grip from a teammate. And HIT the routine. Impressive.
(Don’t College girls have an extra set of grips, broken-in, at competition.)
… The French, fresh from their success at the French International in Paris two weeks ago (five medals for the men), were the top qualifiers to Saturday’s team finals. The French team of Cyril Tomassone, Yann Rayepin, Hamilton Sabot, Yann Cucherat, Samir Ait Said and Gael da Silva scored 263.85 to lead over Germany (263.3). Great Britain (262.025), Spain (260.475) and Romania (257.550) trail behind. …
details on Gymnastics Examiner – French seniors, British juniors dominating men’s competition at European Championships
Romania is without their superstar Dragalescu. I’ve variously heard from different sources that he’s injured, recently remarried, … and waiting on the Romanian government for prize money from World Championships last Fall.
Hambuchen is there, but did not compete Pommels in prelims.
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Senior Anna Li posted this on Twitter.
… About the same time as she had 47 text messages on her phone.
She led her team to victory.
Apparatus Finals tomorrow night.
Elyse sealed the deal with the last routine on Floor.
CONGRATULATIONS.
UCLA 197.725
Oklahoma 197.250
Alabama 197.225
Stanford 197.100
Florida 197.000
Utah 196.225
Carly Janiga should have gotten 10 on Bars. Judges only go 9.95 … That might pull Stanford ahead of Florida for Team. IT DOES … Stanford 197.1 … CONGRATS !! … What an amazing weekend.
Niki Tom (UCLA) poor landing out of double pike. They’ll want to drop that score, 9.725.
Oklahoma finishes 197.25 … Florida finishes 197.00 … I think Alabama (Beam) vs UCLA (Floor) will be fighting it out to be CHAMPS. But Stanford is still close … they need the best Bar routines of their season to challenge.
Wonderful Beam for Oklahoma. Team score 49.20 … but not as high as UCLA, as I recall.
Florida is finished the meet. Final team score … 197.00 … not enough to win, we project.
Great Bars Alabama. Team 49.25.
Best Bar routine of the day … Kayla Hoffman (Alabama). Giver her a 10. … She got 9.925.
Florida goes 49.425 on Floor! … Can UCLA beat that?
Simultaneous brilliant routines from Ashanee 9.95 (Floor) and Vanessa 9.90 (Beam). … UCLA rocked beam. Normally that would win it for them. But OK, Florida and Alabama won’t go away. It’s going to be close. … For that matter, Stanford won’t go away. They had great vault again today.
Brie Olson (Oklahoma) super 1/1 twisting double layout from Bars. … Hollie Vise super clean 9.90. I suspected OK might fall behind the lead on Bars. I’m wrong. Team score 49.35.
Castillo doing floor in lieu of Stageburg for Florida.
4th rotation of six. This may decide it. If UCLA HITS Beam, I think they’ll win. Oklahoma is on Bars. Florida on Floor. Stanford on Vault.
Utah counts a fall on beam. Both Bijak and Deetscreek fell. They will almost certainly finish in 6th as a team now.
Anna Li steps on landing. Only 9.90. … She and Vanessa have the prettiest routines in the meet. UCLA goes 49.35 on their weakest apparatus. Likely beam will decide the team Champion … between Oklahoma and UCLA. … Alabama not looking as good to me as in prelims, but their scores are still good. It helps to have Morgan Dennis killing every routine.
Lovely Vanessa Zamarripa nails Bars. Fantastic. … Only 9.90, judges?
I’d say UCLA and Oklahoma are “winning”, so far. We are 1/3 of the way through the meet.
Florida dodges another bullet. This time on Beam. 49.20 team.
Marissa King (Florida) fell on Bars. And then on Beam. Too bad.
Utah far cleaner on Bars than day 1. Still, they have inferior line, form, difficulty … everything, than the rest of the Super 6. LOVE Daria Bijak’s Bars, though. Talk about dynamic. STUCK double front. Danke! … they finish 49.30. Impressive, since judging on Bars more realistic today than in prelims. Good job, Utah.
Teams are tearing it up in the second rotation. What a GREAT meet!
Stanford’s first gymnast on Beam falls. Alyssa Brown. … But Stanford LOVES Beam. They still post a 49.10 team, not bad at all for that apparatus. Team rank on Beam will correlate closely with overall team rank.
UCLA rocks Vault for 49.475. … I’d say they’re “leading” already. … Or are they? Oklahoma goes 49.425 on Floor? It may take a HIGH number to win this meet.
Oklahoma having fun on Floor. Hollie Vise goes 9.925.
Miranda Smith (Florida) hits her foot on Tkachev … but saves the routine 9.70. Florida dodges a bullet on Bars. 49.125 They won’t have to count a routine with a fall.
Huge vault for McCullough (UCLA) 9.95
Bad. Marissa King (Florida) misses Bars badly. They can make no more mistakes on this apparatus.
Redemption. Ashanee Dickerson nails her Bars for host Florida. Sweet.
Oklahoma fans going nuts Their team starts on Floor.
Like yesterday, Florida starts on Bars. Ashanee Dickerson will NOT miss her release this time. She’s up first.
Click PLAY to find out. Or watch their oddball 2010 intro video on YouTube.
By far the best Bars warm-up of the 6 teams, I thought. And on each apparatus they were “precise”. A lot of attention to detail. More time spent on stuck landings.
… Lets see if that translates to success in the meet. Sometimes it’s a bad omen to “win warm-ups”.
All 6 teams look BETTER to me today than in prelims.
May the best team win.
After Senior qualifications the 8 teams advancing to finals …
1. France 263,850. 2. Germany 263,300. 3. Great Britain 262,025. 4. Spain 260,475. 5. Romania 257,550. 6. Italy 255,150. 7. Switzerland 254,925. 8. Greece 250,825.
via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook
We miss Russia.
This doesn’t look good. Who’s #171 ??
via British Gymnastics Photos – Senior Men’s Qualifications on Facebook
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