5 Kolmans connected

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CAN Nationals results & highlights

Ellie won beam and was 2nd on bars and floor. Ava won bars and was 2nd on beam. Shallon won Vault. Brooklyn Floor.

The Olympic team will be announced June 17th.

Judging was virtual.

Senior

  1. Ellie Black 112.200
  2. Ava Stewart 107.700
  3. Laurie DenommΓ©e 102.950
  4. Emma Spence 102.600
  5. Jessica Dowling 102.400
  6. Victoria Woo 102.150

Junior

  1. AurΓ©lie Tran 103.650
  2. Victoriane Charron 101.350
  3. Amy Jorgensen 100.000
  4. Jenna Lalonde 98.900
  5. Ella Mayerhofer 96.550
  6. Jenna Timmons 98.800

Watch video highlights online FREE. Ana Padurariu is a commentator. Due to ankle injury, she’s getting ready for UCLA next season rather than trial for the Olympics.

Alyssa Baumann is coming back

2022 should be the most exciting NCAA season ever.

We have so many of the top gymnasts returning for a 5th year.

PLUS Elites going to College after the the Tokyo Olympic cycle.

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FIG value of Yurchenko double pike

Exactly nobody ever claimed the Women’s Code was logical.

They can’t even find consistent spellings of named skills.

6.6Β is the provisional value.

Spencer:

… It’s low for me.

I’ve mentally had this at 6.8 since we heard about it, and I still agree with me. But honestly it’s not as low as I thought they were going to go, and not as egregious a case of undervaluing as the beam dismount from 2019.

The problem with Simone’s double double beam dismount in 2019 being given an H value is that it did not adhere to any kind of recognizable precedent or logic established by previous values of other beam dismounts.

On beam, a double tuck dismount is a D.

Adding a full twist to that bumps it up three tenths to a G.

And then adding another full twist bumps it up…1 tenth? To an H?

Any logical progression falls apart pretty quickly, and the FIG’s post hoc explanation of the value as an effort to preserve the safety of gymnasts was fully laughable coming from an organization that, for example, doesn’t allow a touch warmup for event finals …

Balance Beam Situation

Pranati Nayak – Tokyo

The 2019 Asian Gymnastic Championships bronze medallist, Pranati Nayak, is expected to get a continental quota at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Dom Cunningham on missing Olympics

GBR Men had 3 selection events, all behind closed doors. (Same as other Olympic teams.)

Only 4 gymnasts compete Tokyo.

Dom was not picked.

The reserves have not been named, so far as I know.

Of course in most other sports like basketball, team selection is even MORE subjective. I wouldn’t want to be a selector.

It’s important to listen to the process from Dom’s point of view. He’s very passionate.

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Joe Fraser’s Olympic haircut

I like it.