First, my semi-yearly complaint that event finals should be performed in qualification order from 8-to-1, rather than by random draw. Rewarding performance in qualification should be a thing, and it makes the final more interesting to follow.
Anyway, in unrelated news, we’re beginning with our top two qualifiers on vault in the first and second positions.
We had the junior event finals earlier (and I was not waking up for that), with the medals going as follows:
VAULT – 1) As D’Amato (ITA), 2) Villa (ITA), 3) Morgan (GBR)
BARS – 1) Klimenko (RUS), 2) Komnova (RUS), 3) Heduit (FRA)
BEAM – 1) Villa (ITA), 2) Morgan (GBR), 3) Iorio (ITA)
FLOOR – 1) Stanciulescu (ROU), 2) Villa (ITA), 3) Morgan (GBR)
Villa and Morgan both with three event medals.
Vaulties introduction now. Interested to see whether we get a spurred on Russia or a hangover Russia today.
VAULT
Devai – VT 1 – goes for the Cheng again and lands it – camera angle terrible – legs are fairly crazy, with a distinct pike and a step out of the area – the form is not great but the difficulty will more than make up for it. 14.633.
Devai – VT 2 – DTY – better than the Cheng in landing more upright, still some crazy legs throughout – off line and lands out of the area. 14.066. Average 14.349
Devillard – VT 1 – Rudi – pretty solid, similar to the TF – a bit of leg separation and crossing, pretty normal chest position, medium pace back – 14.766.
Devillard – VT 2 – oooohhh, she went for the DTY (she had to go for it to try to catch Devai) but nowhere close, and hands down. Interesting that they had posted the full, but she elected to go for the double. 13.100. 13.933 average.
Volleman – VT 1 – DTY – not as strong as normal – comes in short with a lurch forward – knees, showing a somewhat piked shape as well. 13.933
Volleman – VT 2 – Lopez/Podkopayeva, we’ll see what gets credit – very good landing – completely controlled and nearly stuck – I would credit piked rather than layout. 13.666. 13.799 average.
Belak – VT 1 – attempts her handspring layout full, falls – comes in way way short – that’s typically reserved as her “I’m really going for it in this event final” vault, which she had to do here. 13.066.
Belak – VT 2 – Y 1.5, pretty good with a step forward and off to the side – best body form of any of the vaults we’ve seen so far. 14.000. Average 13.533. E score for Belak on second vault was 9.000, highest so far but only barely, not different enough from the other vaults.
Akhaimova – VT 1 – Rudi – lands it again – chest too far down, below horizontal, but controls the landing with just a little bounce toward the center – leg form. 14.366.
Akhaimova – VT 2 – Tsuk full, solid but simpler – not bad in the legs, except on the block, which was Nabz-y – smallish bounce back on landing. 13.766. Average 14.066.
Golgota – VT 1 – DTY – solid one, good power and direction, lost her legs at the end – small hop back – 14.500.
Golgota – VT 2 – Tsuk full – similar and efficient – good direction, some legs toward the end, pretty little hop back – will also get hit for minor piked shape in the air. 13.833. Average 14.166.
Devai looks like she’s having panic attacks with every score.
Voss – VT 1 – DTY – excellent amplitude, medium hop back – only little breaks in form, staggers toward the end, hopefully she gets rewarded. 14.433.
Voss – VT 2 – Lopez/Podkopayeva attempt – probably giving away too much pike there as well, but good – step back – 13.733. Average 14.083.
Basically loving this “Boglarka waiting to see if she wins gold” cam.
Melnikova – VT 1 – solid DTY, small hop back – the usual bit of leg crossing maintained throughout the vault – 14.566.
Melnikova – VT 2 – Lopez – maybe a little too sloppy but she should still medal with that – some legginess, shows enough of the layout shape at the beginning – steps out of the area – 13.900. Average 14.233.
Devai wins gold and is having a panic attack and being strangled by her coach at the same time (FUN). She didn’t have the execution, but no one could match her on difficulty.
GOLD: Devai, SILVER: Melnikova, BRONZE: Golgota
BARS
Bossu – inbar full to stalder – pulls it back with an arch – stalder Shap 1/2 – inbar – inbar 1/2 to piked jaeger to pak – form, toe Shap 1/2 – double front, holds the stick.
Not bad from Bossu, but she had an arch on an early Stalder that she had to save. Piked jaeger was pretty but struggled on the swing into the Pak, which got fairly whippy with a leg break.
14.100.
Derwael – Nabieva, good – Derwael to Yezhova to Stalder Shap to Pak, lovely – Toe Shap 1/2, strong, only small leg break – toe full to FTDT with just a small hop. Much better than her qualification showing.
14.733.
Adlerteg – Piked Hindorff to Pak, good, some legs – Shap to Bhardwaj, just pulls it out – Toe Shap to clear hip 1/2 and works it out somehow – DLO with a hop back. It’s a hit!
Hers was not as strong as her qualification performance. Just pulled around her Bhardwaj to get her hand grasp, and then had a hesitation pause in the middle of her clear hip full, but saved it.
14.533. In behind Derwael, which is appropriate. Still a fab score.
Charpy – Toe full to Stalder Shap 1/2 – a bit of legs – toe 1/2 to piked Jaeger, good – Ricna to Pak, a little close on Ricna – Toe Shap 1/2 very nice – DLO, stuck. Quite good. Recovers from her routine from yesterday. Doesn’t have quite the content, but should do well in execution. Pretty to watch.
14.133 puts her into third right now, just ahead of Bossu.
Perebinosova – Toe tkatchev 1/2 to a crazy Yezhova, just avoids brushing – Shap to full to tkatchev to Pak is better, good control – Shap 1/2 – FTDT with step forward.
The second half was great, the Yezhova got her a little at the beginning as she barely got her second hand and nearly brushed the mat. But also Perebinosova hit three whole bars routines.
14.166 does put her third for the moment. Still a medal open to be won by Bui or Melnikova.
Simm – Toe full to Ray, solid – Ricna to Pak, also nice form – Stalder Shap to Bhardwaj, some legs, got it around – Toe Shap 1/2 – DLO, whippy with a hop back. Good one. She doesn’t quite have the D of the current medalists, though she’s not actually that far back.
14.066. Everyone other than the first two is so bunched together. Shame that she’ll end up 8th because that was quite a good routine.
Bui – piked jaeger to Pak, very clean – Toe Shap to Bahrdwaj, her Bhardwaj is higher and better than the others but ends up catching a little close – Toe Shap 1/2 – full to gienger – FTDT with a small hop to the side. Let’s watch because that should be right there as well
14.200. She moves into third before Melnikova to go. I’m good with that placement.
Melnikova – Inabr full to To Shap to Pak to Shap 1/2, very nice – some handstands – 1/2 turn to piked Jaeger – orrphan 1/2 – toe 1/2 to FTDT. That will be quite close as well. Good routine. Some handstands but probably the best legs-together form and toe point of the final.
14.366. She’s into bronze and knocks out Bui. Shame for Bui, but probably got it right in the end.
GOLD: Derwael, SILVER: Adlerteg, BRONZE: Melnikova
Adlerteg’s second European bars silver. I would say I’d hope this would convince Scrooge McDuck to open the wallet and send actual Swedish teams to competitions, but…
Medal ceremony break before the other two event finals.
BEAM
Boyer – aerial to split to tuck jump 1/2, some hesitation but worked through better than TF – round off layout, check with leg up – switch to switch 1/2, check – still rushing but not ahead of herself like yesterday – check on L turn – side aerial to split leap to side somi, probably broken connection – side jump with arm wave – double pike with bounce back.
A lot of checks in that one, but she stayed on.
13.166.
Brassart – aerial, some knees – split jump, pause – bhs loso, tight but secure – switch – switch 1/2 – she’s breaking all her connections, nerves – full turn – side aerial, solid – switch ring – wolf jump – split leap combination is quite short, looks like an improvised addition to get a dance series that she wasn’t intending – struggles on her low to the beam choreography and nearly falls off – double pike with step
Had to hook a leg to stay on toward the end of that routine during that choreo. Don’t expect a big D because of those broken connections.
Long judging pauses, technical delays.
12.266
MDJDS – I see they’ve dropped the Dos Santos from her identification here, is that a choice or were they just like “NOPE TOO LONG YOUR NAME IS FRED NOW”? – front pike mount, very good – punch front pike, also secure – bhs layout, some legs apart but super solid – switch to split, OK – aerial to split to bhs, her first check – she’ll get knocked for split positions throughout this routine – side jump with a large break, leg way up but saved it – easy double tuck, small step
One large break but better than the other two so far. 13.066. She should have been higher than Boyer. Her E was definitely higher, but not enough.
Wevers – ro bhs mount – L turn 1.5 again – side aerial to bhs, solid – aerial to split to bhs 1/1, also solid, shortish on the split jump – L turn to full turn to double turn to split leap is perfect again, just got off rhythm toward the end and smartly eschewed the straight jump – gainer full is stuck today, still piked but a much better dismount than yesterday. Good one.
#SannesDScoreDiary
13.900. Into first by quite a margin.
Millousi – annnnnnd she fell immedaitely on her loso mount because Millousi – bhs loso solid – split leap – aerial to split ring, some broken connections there – side aerial to split jump to stag ring, nice – she’s lovely to watch, I’m just impressed she actually hit in qualification – switch leap to split ring, struggle shape with a check as well – switch ring – 2/1 small hop.
12.133
Kaeslin – switch – bhs bhs loso with a lean but kept it on – onodi to sheep, nice with a small check – bhs 1/1 – split ring, in stages, with check – Y turn, over turned – aerial to split to wolf – side aerial, very solid – 2/1, step to the side.
Got through with a hit. Some checks, some broken connections.
12.466.
“She’s just out of the medals. She’s used to that.”
Derwael – loso mount – good – bhs loso series, secure – aerial, smooth, pretty – side somi, strong – switch to split leap, well done, good extension in those – wolf triple, very good leg extension maintained – gainer full, just a small hop. VERY nice routine.
So, is Nina also a beamer now?
13.600. Into second, well done. Deservedly the highest E of the competition, but didn’t have the difficulty of Wevers.
Schaefer – switch split mount to split leap to Y spin, may not get the connection but everything was lovely – bhs loso series with a check – switch ring – full turn – attempts the Schaefer but nowhere close and falls – “From the moment she took off it didn’t look quite right” I know, but that’s just how it looks – side somi – side aerial to split jump to double stag, strong – gainer layout, stuck. Would have contended for a medal
12.400.
GOLD: Wevers, SILVER: Derwael, BRONZE: Boyer
Wevers and Derwael, the clear class of the field. I would have had MDJDS in bronze, but it was close and Boyer had the difficulty.
FLOOR
CELINE VAN GERNER HAS CAT MAKEUP ON. SHE GETS IT.
Fenton – 3/1, gets it around with a hop, some crossed legs – 2.5 to front tuck with another correction hop – drops out of Memmel a little too early this time – L hop full – double tuck, step back. Solid showing, will get hit for the landings and won’t get the dance D she wanted.
12.633.
Klinckaert – Oh yeah we forgot about her HP routine in all the CELINE CATS – split leap 1/1 a little short – front 1/1 through to double tuck, a little hop – DLO, a bit short with a step – switch ring, split leap 1.5 – my favorite part is when she gets electrocuted in the middle – pike full in, good – double pike, step.
“I’m not sure about Bellatrix, but there are a few Belgian tricks.” AHHHHH I CANNOT. He had been planning that clearly for DAYS and it was worth it.
13.400. Solid score.
Castles – struggles on her Memmel, won’t get it – double tuck, a little bounce back – 1.5 through to 2.5, good, just some knees – switch ring, lovely back leg extension, good split leap 1/1 – wolf double – front full – solid showing to make the floor final. Big accomplishment.
12.800.
Klinckaert has put in a D score inquiry. Not sure what she might not have received. Inquiry rejected. YOU ARE NOT SANNE.
Celine The Cat – so much cat choreography onto the floor already, just don’t even do any passes, just the cat choreo – double turn, good – split leap 1/1, very high – double tuck, very secure – back 1.5 front full, secure, a little knees – split leap 1/1 – switch 1/2 – great routine.
It’s so OTT and preposterous and fantastic. Go ahead, you beautiful weirdo.
“If you’re wonder whether she’s allowed to wear that makeup, don’t worry, there’s a special CLAWS.”
Stop. You’re killing me.
13.300, into 2nd.
Basile – DLO, very strong, good control – double arabian, step forward, keeps it in – split ring leap is pretty low – 2.5 to front tuck, also just a small step – split leap full, feet – switch 1/2 – double pike, collapses in landing a little with a hop. But good tumbling and landing control overall. Should score well.
13.166. Currently third.
Melnikova – drops toward the very end of double L but may get it, may not – DLO 1/1, very good, switch to switch ring 1/2, apparently this late turn is the new technique they have to do, it doesn’t make the skill less visually offensive – DLO, big, step OOB – wolf turn double – front through to double back with step, good tuck shape – double pike, pretty deep landing with hop to the side but pulled it out.
13.166. OOOOOOH, Into 4th. I thought her difficulty would save her there, despite the deep landing and the OOB.
Golgota – DLO, good, small hop forward – double arabian, lunge – switch side full, I’d say that got around, as did the double L turn – full-in, hop to the side – wolf turn double, maybe just around – switch ring to split leap 1/1 – double tuck, good, chest up, small bounce.
Critically, she’ll get most of her dance credit, and that will help her score very well.
13.600. WOW. Damn. What getting dance element credit will do for you.
MDJDS – DLO 1/1, a bit short with a lunge forward – full in, hop back – switch side 1/2, a little bouncy – wolf turn 2.3 – front lay through to double tuck, a little hop – double pike, hop back – switch ring – split leap 1/1. Nice routine.
13.766. They’re willing to go there with the huge score for Melanie.
Golgota with a big silver, and Klinckaert with bronze.
GOLD: MDJDS (FRA), SILVER: Golgota (ROU), BRONZE: Klinckaert (BEL)
That bumps Celine The Cat into 4th, but clearly her aim was to be remembered, and she’s certainly what we’ll be talking about from this final the most.
Did they break the tie for 3rd on floor?
Yep by e score … 6th and 7th was split too
So happy as a Swedish gym fan. Two in the finals! And a medal!
Devillard calming down Devai is such a cute picture.
I am HERE for Devillard holding Devai’s hand as they wait. Devai looks so nervous.
Why is Devai’s reaction making me emotional? I’m normally a Spencer-dead-inside type person.
It was a little annoying to be honest. Although I was kind of laughing at her panic attacks as each and every score came in. Although Devillard sitting there and holding her hands and supporting her was kind of cute. You get the sense that the girls in this quad, regardless of country, all genuinely care about one another. I remember at worlds AA final last year, the girls in each group were actually interacting with one another and supporting each other instead of ignoring their existence until the competition was over. That’s something that I’ve really liked about this quad so far.
I’m pretty sure Voss was doing a Podkopayeva and not a Lopez, the board where they flash their difficulty was a 4.8
Melnikova changed from completely melted gymnast to something solid
Ok, I love this commentator. Gimme more.
Derwael for Wolf turn prez
Sanne and Nina were so clean and classy. MDJS was robbed despite the wobble. She was so confident in her acros…
SOMEONE EXPLAIN ME THE CHUN-LI HAIR FROM VAN GERNER
Cat ears
I’m guessing Kilnckaert’s electrocution choreo part is her character getting imperio-d?
Oooh, good guess! Or maybe Crucio 🙂
LOVED both Klinckaert and Van Gerner! So awesome to see creativity and unusual choreography coming back into FX, it’s like the ’80s again!
Omg Van Gerner for gold! Best make-up and dance EVER hahaha!!
My jaw dropped honetly waht a final full of cats and plot twistsssss
I’m so happy for Melanie Dos Santos on becoming floor champion. She’s been a favorite of mine for two years, and it is nice to see her get recognized. Although I’m not sure why she scored so much better than Melnikova? I thought that was shocking.
Nearly all D-turns from Melnikova were very troublesome this time, and when they got downgraded to B-turns, both D and E scores implode.
where’s the video for the event finals?
Did Sanne not have a leap series?
There’s no leap series requirement on beam. There IS a dance series requirement of which one must be a jump/leap with 180 split, and Sanne’s double turn to split leap fills that requirement
Sanne won beam and Axelle medalled with her Harry Potter floor routine, I have no complaints about this entire championships
I’m a bit sad for Sarah Voss, she had such clean vaults, and bummed for Kim Bui, too! But overall nice championships, medalists from different countries with different styles of routines, not as many injuries as at worlds (thank god). Can’t wait for Worlds!
Under the elite code, is Van Gerner allowed to have just 2 tumbling passes?
I think the “And none for Lieke Wevers” rule requires at least 3 ACROBATIC ELEMENTS, not 3 passes. Since she’s doing a combination on her second pass, she gets all 3 and fulfills the different direction requirement as well.
also even if it wasn’t a combo pass it’s not against the rules or anything, she just woukd have to count a back handspring as one of her 8 elements for difficulty
https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/ueg/
video link for eurovision for team and EF final. watch them before they are taken down!
Definitely not sure about Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos and her beam score. I know Boyer had the edge in difficulty, but MDJDS looked so sure and confident on her beam set, and her balance checks were ever so slight. Why was her execution so low?
No doubt about Gold and Silver being Wevers and Derwael. Really nice beam work from both.
Gymfan channel on YouTube has a lot of the videos of the event finals, even the juniors. Copy/paste this address to your Internet browser.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4emimMqwwQNlRqeG_wNzMQ
Van Gerner almost broke the difficulty wall with her routine. 8.7 is an unheard of execution score on floor this quad and I think that was actually quite low. The angle wasn’t great so maybe some splits were missed?
The only thing I saw were 0.1 landing adjustments on each tumbling pass, a 0.1 balance check and 0.1 over-rotation on her spin, 0.1 for legs on the 1.5 and maybe 0.3 off for bent legs on the front full.
That’s being exceptionally harsh and that gives her a 9.2 execution score. Where did another 0.5 come from? I’m almost always able to arrive at the judges execution scores (even on beam) but I’m actually at a loss with this one. Sadly, I think the judges felt like the high 8s was as high as they could go though this routine warranted an execution score in the 9s.
The truth is that during an EF, execution score is never pure execution by FIG standard, it is a placement score to also incorporate how well the routine is constructed in terms of skills. Celine is given 8.7 because the judges needed to place her just behind Axelle, who also had fantastic choreography but did a DLO and a full-in. (Celine’s tumbling passes are only DCC). Difficult skills always have more built-in deductions, and judges tend deduct skills like Moors more leniently to encourage gymnasts doing it. In the end gymnastics is a sport, the judges are also thinking about extra questions such as what signals to send to gymnasts and what is gymnasts actually about. I’m not saying I totally agree with it, but these are some valid concerns.
that’s not hoe the code was constructed though and if they want to discourage routine composition like celine’s they should change the rules on D. execution is execution.
if they were forced to be transparent and release the full sheet of deductions taken from routines after the competition i think we would see a lot less of these kind of shenanigans.
VG’s floor was an average level 9 routine. Over scored. Yawn.
But that’s not how the code of points works. She met all four composition requirements and had at least 8 elements. The execution score is, (at least should be), completely separate from the difficulty score. VG’s difficulty was undeniably very low. But low (or high) difficulty shouldn’t influence the execution score in any way.
People get mad at Gina Gogean’s two front flips and a double back routine that won her beam gold at the 1997 World Championships but she worked under the rules of that particular code of points.
absolutely not overscored, and actually underscored a bit. difficulty and execution are separate for a reason. her D was appropriately very small, but if nobody can match her E then she deserves to place well. the sport over-rewards difficulty as is, i hate when people want it to be even more focused on that. celine had a stellar routine and her success with it should encourage other gymnasts to clean up. it’s not like celine winning a medal would make everyone downgrade suddenly.
I absolutely agree with this assessment. When you look at Melnikova’s routine and Van Gerner’s routine, there’s no way they were only 0.834 off each other in execution. Melnikova had multiple errors on each of her passes (several of which should have been 0.3) and additional errors on her spins.
The 8.7 E-score from Van Gerner and the 7.866 E-score from Melnikova show that judges are starting to branch out from the low-to-mid 8 E-scores they’ve been locked in to for years. Melnikova’s E-score might have been 0.1 or 0.2 too low, however, Van Gerner’s E score should have been a 9.2 or 9.3.
I agree with this and it’s not like Van Gerner herself is even planning to stick with her routine at the current difficulty level. She has said that she plans to upgrade but she is still in the process of coming back but doesn’t have all of her skills back so this is what she is capable of for now. She would like to add back vault first and then add in more difficulty on floor. I’m not sure why people want her randomly chucking skills on floor she isn’t capable of.
Just because she dresses up as a cat doesn’t mean the routine is meeting E score for artistic dance elements.
Celine received an E score of 8.5 in the TF when she was NOT wearing her cat outfit. So, she is not rewarded on FX for the theatrics of the costume presentation. The TF score was deservedly lower because she took a big step forward after her second tumbling pass–out of her layout 1.5.
I agree that gymnasts should not be given extra points for their leotards, makeup, hair, etc. However, Celine’s routine was musical, clean, and very, very captivating. It was not only about the outfit.