Event
Floor exercise
Skill type
Acrobatic
Value
H
Known as
Double layout 1/1
DLO full
Chusovitina
Touzhikova
Named after
Tatiana Touzhikova (SOV) – 1987
Oksana Chusovitina (SOV) – 1991
About
The naming, the naming, won’t somebody please think of the skill naming.
Tatiana Touzhikova is (now) credited with originating the DLO 1/1 when she performed it at the 1987 World Championship in Rotterdam. In the code of points for the 1989-1992 cycle, however, the skill entered the code for the first time yet was not awarded to anyone by name.
This changed after Oksana Chusovitina performed a DLO 1/1 with the twist in the second salto at the 1991 World Championship in Indianapolis. The code of points for the 1993-1996 Olympic cycle then contained two double layouts (doubles layout?) with a full twist, the full-in for Touzhikova (Tougikova) and the full-out for Chusovitina (Tchusovitina).
Things continued in this way (sanely) until the open code of 2006 was published and the distinction of when the twist took place was eliminated. The double layout full-in and double layout full-out became the same skill, which was awarded only to Chusovitina, with Touzhikova’s name expunged.
It was not until 2022 that Touzhikova’s name was restored to the element and it became the Chusovitina/Touzhikova. But if you’re going to go with one, Touzhikova was first.
