Event
Floor exercise
Skill type
Acrobatic
Value
E
Known as
Front 2.5
Randi
Cojocar
“Stroescu”
Named after
Sabina Cojocar (ROU) – 2001
About
Let’s get into it. The front layout 2.5 on floor is perhaps the most notorious of the Code of Points catastrophes (and that’s a really tough category). The skill started to gain favor among several gymnasts in the early 2000s and was to be named for Romania’s Sabina Cojocar after she performed it at the 2001 World Championship in Ghent. At that point, the women’s technical committee looked at Cojocar and said, “Congratulations Silvia Stroescu!”
Silvia Stroescu is an entirely different person who did not perform the front 2.5. Nonetheless, the skill immediately entered the code as the Stroescu. Getting credit for something you never did is called Stroescuing.
Most surprisingly of all, the technical committee actually recognized and rectified this mistake, appropriately naming the skill after Cojocar when issuing the 2013 code. Twelve years to fix a clerical error. That’s normal, right? There’s hope for you yet “Chellsia Memmel” and “Karly Patterson”