🥇 Zhu Xueying CHN 56.635
🥈 Liu Lingling CHN 56.350
🥉 Bryony Page GBR 55.735
Two-time defending Champ Rosie Maclennan finished 4th.
Hardy Fink – Be Gymnast Centered
I highly recommend this presentation.
Gymnastics is under review worldwide. We hear much about the problems.
Hardy Fink offers solutions.
Hardy has attended more World Championships & Olympics than anyone else. He’s the principle author of the FIG Age Group Programmes for all disciplines. And he’s led more FIG coach education courses worldwide than anyone else.
We should listen and learn.
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gymnasts commiserate with Simone
Mental blocks are common in Gymnastics.
Simone’s could not have popped up at a worse time.
The one upside of all this publicity is preventing future injuries.
Every gymnast will remember the time the G.O.A.T. withdrew from the Olympics rather than risk getting lost in the air.
Gaar Adams , for example, trained at the Gym that produced the Hamm brothers:
… I tried to push myself past a “twisties” block at the end of one practice in September 2001.
Lost in the air, I fell on my neck and required spinal surgery, a halo brace and four months in a hospital bed.
A shade away from quadriplegia at the age of 13, my dreams of pursuing collegiate and elite gymnastics were over. …
The twisties: My gymnastics career may not have ended in hospital if I’d had a role model like Simone Biles
I’ve seen over a dozen similar stories recounted over recent days.
Victoria Moors, for example.
If it can happen to Simone, it can happen to anyone.
do you understand Tramp rules?
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Suni’s qualifications Beam
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Suni, Rebeca, Angelina
EVERYONE assumed Simone would again be Olympic Champion.
Instead, we had a thrilling AA Final.
Very competitive.
🥇 Sunisa Lee USA 57.433
🥈 Rebeca Andrade BRA 57.298
🥉 Angelina Melnikova RUS 57.199
Xiao deducted 0.3 for not saluting
On his last apparatus, Xiao failed to salute the judges after his Horizontal Bar dismount, incurring a 0.3 penalty.
The deduction did not change his medal standing.
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Not as bad as Manrique Larduet 2015.
One of the very first things young kids learn about competition is how to “present” and “salute”.
Respect for the judges
Men’s Vault – past Olympic champs
Ellie Black withdraws from AA
Bad news.
Merde.
Olympic Champion Hashimoto Daiki
Age-19. Wants to be the next Kohei Uchimura.
To win gold at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, and then defend his title at the 2024 and 2028 Games. (nikkansports.com, 04 Jan 2020; tokyo-sports.co.jp, 21 Jan 2020)
Japan looks to be the team of the future. Takeru finished 5th, age-18.
🏅Hashimoto Daiki 🇯🇵 Japan
🥈Xiao Ruoteng 🇨🇳 China
🥉Nikita Nagornyy 🇷🇺 Russia
Taiwan’s Tang Chia-Hung surprised. Qualified in 22nd. Finished 7th!
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