World Championships Men’s Team Final Live Blog

So if last night is any indication, it’s time to get ready for our world bronze medalist South Korean team.

Today, we have Japan entering as the major favorite after their unique non-disaster of a qualification performance that outpaced everyone else by 8 points. The big mystery is China. China had a deeply terrible qualification performance to place 4th, and while we would typically expect that to be reversed in the team final for a gold/silver-level performance, Sun Wei is a major question mark after his qualification injury. He’s slated for four events today, including floor and vault, but if he is not able to hit, there’s no way China can make up 10 points on their qualification performance the way one might otherwise think they could.

As for Great Britain and the US, neither had a strong performance in qualification, with GB ending up a half point ahead of the US, so it’s really going to come down to who flops fewer times today.

Intros starting now. Pretty sure “Stephen Ned-erotic” was just introduced. Brazil is going for a HOODIES milieu for their intro. A TRY.

On to the warmups for the first rotation.

Rotation 1

Tanigawa K – FX – front front pike 1/2 out, bounce back – front 2/1 to layout, stuck – double  double tuck, stuck – 2.5 to front full, side pass, hit – double arabian 1/2 out, stuck landing. Amazing start for Japan.

Asher Hong through a hit pommel horse, and Nory hits a clean Kas 1.5, small hop.

14.566 for Nory. 13.566 for Hong.

Sun Wei is off on pommel horse. The first break of the day belongs to China. Again.

Still waiting on Tanigawa’s score. Just give him a 50. Alright 14.400

Abbadini SR – 13.033

Hall – FX – GBR – double double tuck, bounce back – double arabian 1/2 out, bounce back – front 2/1 to front full, small hop – 1.5 to layout, hop – randi, chest forward, little hop – 3/1, step.

Sun Wei 13.633

Brody Malone technically dismounted but mostly just heaved himself sideways off the horse, so he’ll need to get up and do it again.

14.500 for Caio Souza’s Dragulescu with two steps.

14.200 for Hall on FX.

Hashimoto – FX – Japan – triple double is quite short, bound forward – double double, also a little short with a hop – front full to randi, good, small hop – 2/1, stuck – 2.5 to layout, super clean, little shuffle back – 3/1, bounce back. Fine, not his strongest.

Guimaraes hits a doubel front on vault, though it was very deep, bounces up quickly.

Malone just 11.733 on horse. SO there’s that.

Zhang Boheng puts up a hit for China on horse. 13.966

Near fall for Kin Hansol on vault, very deep

Regini Moran – FX -OOB step on triple double – double double, small step forward – 2.5 to front lay to 1.5, small hop – 2/1, bounce back – doubel front pike 1/2 out, stuck, well done – randi, short landing, lunge – 3/1, little hop forward.

Ned-Erotic had a large leg break on a Russian so not as strong as qualification, but a good hit overall.

Malone D score inquiry is rejected.

Regini Moran 14.166.

Doi – FX – double double tucked, bounce back – back 1.5 to front 2/1, hop forward – back 2.5 to front 1.5, somewaht low, good control – 3.5, small hop – 3/1 bounce back. Good. 

WOAH Nedoroscik got 12.966. So I must have missed something. Also just a 5.1 D score.

13.433 for Yang Jiaxing to finish horse for China.

Doi 14.366 on floor.

Jarman – FX – triple double layout, hit, hop forward – triple double tucked, bounce – back 2.5 to front 1/2 to 1/2, stuck, some piking – 3/1 side pass, hop – front full to randi, bounce back – 3.5 dismount, hop. Hit, lots of hops.

They have submitted an inquiry for Nedoroscik’s horse D score of 5.1.

So that does it for the first rotation. The big loser there was the US with a Nedoroscik score in the 12s to drop them nearly 4 points from their qualification total on horse. Pretty much everyone else will be OK with their prospects after the first event.

Rotation 2

James Hall is off PH on a Tong Fei to make the US feel better.

Zou’s v sit on rings gets a big roar – double double tuck dismount, near stuck, small step.

Levantesi hits a double  front on vault with a step

12.200 on horse for Hall.

14.866 on rings for Zou. As China’s leadoff.

Hashimoto definitely through a hit on horse this time – Malone is taking some time to secure handstands on rings before his dismount, small step.

Casali vaults a Kas 2/1 with leg form, step to the side, for Italy.

14.433 for Hashimoto, 13.766 for Malone.

Zapata crashes a double front on vault, does not attempt the posted Dragulescu. Jarman stays on horse for 12.566.

You Hao has a large lunge back on his rings dismount.

Doi is off horse for Japan. It looked like he whacked his leg on the horse at the very beginning and then fell not that far into his routine.

Bartolini large bound forward on Kas 1.5

Caio Souza with a lovely front straddle on PBars – tippelt, good height and handstand – double front 1/2, small hop.

Asher Hong bounce back on rings dismount.

13.033 for Doi.

14.033 for Hong on rings.

Joe Fraser just had the most ridiculous horse routine, with a couple early form breaks and then a full Nedoroscik-at-trials where it was miraculous that he stayed on – but then he came off shortly after – and then another large break when he resumed. Oh dear.

Joe Fraser goes full Tang Xijing with a 10.466.

Tanigawa K just stepped down from one pommel. Falls later in his routine. And then sort of flopped apart on his dismount after that.

Whittenburg sticks double double layout on rings.

Well Japan and GB just joined the US in the YUCK YUCK POMMELS club, definitely starting to open the door for someone to have a Canada moment.

Rotation 3

Malone – VT – Kas 1.5 – a little short, hop back. 14.400

Nory – HB – tak 1/2 – layout tkatchev to tkatchev to piked tkatchev, clean – quast – falls on layout jaeger 1/2

Yang – VT – China – hits a Kas 2/1, chest down, and then a somewhat large bounce back

Casali hits PBs for Italy – doubel front 1/2 out, hop forward

12.866 for Nory. Yang goes 14.533.

Walker – VT – USA – handspring randi – large stumble, multiple lunges back and off the mat. 13.900

Wataru started Japan on rings with 13.900.

James Hall with a couple small steps on rings dismount.

Souza – HB – Brazil – tak 1/2,to kolman, good – Cassina, some legs, caught – lauyout tkatchev – tak 1/1, normal late – to yamawaki to gienger, hit – DLO 2/1, lunge back. 13.9

Zhang Boheng hits a very good Kas 2/1 today. 14.966. Wow.

Hong – VT – USA – he landed his Ri Se Gwang, probably the best one we’ve seen him do here – large lunge back and out of the area

Ryu – HB – KOR – yamawaki, some pike -stalder rybalko very late – double double layout, hop forward

Sun Wei does land his Kas 2/1 today, large lunge to the side and off the mat for him as well. 13.833

Fraser step back on double double tuck on rings. 14.033

Clean DLO 1/1 dismount from Soares on HB with a step back.

Levantesi – PB – peach, diam,  – tippelt, solid – bhavsar, smooth swing – siam to stutz – tuck 1/2 to arm – doubel pike, chest down, hop forward.

Lee JH – HB – KOR – tak 1/2, good position, Kolman, was very close, does a fully frog-legged giant out of it – catches cassina – DLO 2/1, step back.

Plata – PB – Spain – peach 1/2 with some walking – diam – front toss – healy down, clean – tippelt, clena – stuatz, a little short of vertical – doubel front 1/2 out, nicely stuck. 14.266

Tulloch’s rings will finish the rotation – DLO 1/1 dismount, some piking, step back.

Rotation 4

Regini Moran – VT – Kas 2/1 to start their rotation, very good, medium step back. 14.600

Mir – HB – tkatchev to puiked tkatchev, good – quast – 1.5 – tak 1/2, solid – stalder – DLO 2/1, stumble back, probably 3 steps. So good until the dismount.

Doi – VT – Japan – gorgeous yurchenko 2.5, stuck landing. 14.700

You does have a larger hop forward on his doubel front 1/2 out dismount, but will be a huge improvement on his 12 from qualification as Japan has to start being nervous now.

Jarman – VT – Falls on his Kas 2.5 attempt, large lunge forward and off the mat and all kinds of hands down. 13.733

Important 14.366 from Guimaraes on floor for Brazil.

14.666 for You gains almost 2 points on qualification by himself.

Hong – PB – good bhavsar – tippelt, solid height – makuts, hit – finishes with a very deep double front 1/2, but lands it with hop forward.

Wataru vault – excellent handspring double front pike, hop forward. 14.766

Abad with a couple steps back on his HB dismount.

14.533 for Hong. Good number.

Souza – FX – Brazil – front full to double front, small slide back – open back tcuk 1.5, step forward, lovely in the air – front 2/1 to front tuck full, short, larger slide back – back 2.5 to front lay, hop – 3/1, small bounce back

Tulooch – VT – hits his Dragulescu, crossover step backward –

Zhang had a large hesitation on one rail on Pbars but pulled it back – doubel front 1/2 out, large lunge forward.

You’s score changed to 14.866.

Tulloch 14.500 on vault.

Hashimoto with a very rough Kas 2/1 on vault, short landing, lunge forward, another step off the mat.

Malone – PB – hits mount – clean makuts – balked his diam but did it the second time – good stutz and front straddle – tippelt, smoothly done – healy, small hand movement – doubel front, hop forward

Hashimoto just 13.866 on vault. JAPAN.

Nory – FX – doubel front pike, good, small shuffle – front 2/1 to front tuck to prone – whip 2.5, hop forward – back 1.5 to front full – doubel arabian, small shuffle forward.

13.966 for Malone. 

Zou’s PBars double front 1/2 out is what dreams are made of. Can the Chinese men’s team go to the Chinese women’s team and do a clinic on turning it around from qualification?

Macchini with a very nice hit for Italy on high bar, which keeps hitting routines in its quest to be a Canada but also still has to do horse.

15.766 for Zou. LOLOLOLOL.

Walker – PB – front toss – makuts, hit – peach – long swing diam – bhavsar, solid height – tippelt, good height – healy – stutz, double front, small hop forward. Some formies but a good one.

So China is way out in front now, Brazil hanging onto 2nd but still with horse to do, Japan moves back up to 3rd, and USA is in 4th. Italy in 5th.

Rotation 5

Abbadini – FX – back 2.5 to clean front lay, – double arabian, good stick – 2/1, stuck – front full, stuck –

Whiitenburg – HB – tak 1/1, pretty solid finish position – tak 1/2, quite late – quast – layout tkatchev – tstalder rybalko bault late – yamawaki, hit – stalder – double double layout, tries to hold the stick with a couple swims, hop forward

Diogo Soares is off horse in the leadoff spot. 11.900

13.733 for Abbadini. 13.133 for Whittenburg.

Sun – HB – hits his Kolman – Cassina, also caught – layout tkatchev to tkatchev, clean – DLO 2/1, stuck landing. Excellent. 14.666

Hit PBars from Wataru leading off for Japan. 14.933

Walker – HB – crazy Tak 1/2, has to stop against the bar – tak 1/2 repeated – kolman, caught – kovacs caught, big elbow bend on swing out of it – layout tkatchev – tkatchev – yamawaki – DLO 1/1, hop forward.

Everyone trying to lose bronze.

Bitencourt has a couple huge form breaks and nearly survives them but comes off in the end.

Hall 14.033 on PBars.

Colt Walker 11.700 is terror for the US.

Zhang – HB – tak 1/1, hit – tak 1/2, very nice finishing posiution – layout tkatchev – Cassina, super clean – Kolman, good – DLO 2/1, small hop. Good one.

14.766 for Kamoto on Pbars, which is not quite what they would have hoped for from him. Zhang goes 14.433 on high bar.

Malone – HB – Cassina is good – molman, hit – layout tkatchev to tkatchev to piked tkatchev, strong – tak 1/1, very late – DLO 2/1, small shuffle – hit routine.

Bitencourt went 10.600 on horse.

Regini Moran 14.233 to Malone 14.366.

Yang – HB – does a full one arm catch on Cassina but stays on the high bar – layout tkatchev is hit – tkatchev – DLO 2/1, stuck landing.

Kakeru looks like he clipped the rail on his PBars dismount, lands it to his feet but with a couple stumbles.

And Souza is off horse to complete the triple fall for Brazil.

14.300 for Kakeru on PBars.

Fraser on Pbars to anchor, sticks his dismount to keep GB in this as well going to the final rotation.

Fraser went 15.000 on Pbars to put GB back in the race for bronze. It looks like China, then Japan, and then a race between Italy, GB, and the US for bronze. “Italy” he began to whisper over and over again.

Rotation 6

Sun – FX – double double, stuck – front 2/1 to front lay, a little slidely – 2/1, holds stick with a lean – 2.5 to front full, small hop – 3/1, step back. So I guess he was mostly OK today?

Hall – HB – Cassina, hit with some form – Kolman, solid – tkatchev – tak 1/1, great finish position – tak 1/2 – DLO 2/1, small step back.

13.866 for Sun. front full to double front pike, hop forward OOB – DLO 1/1, deeper landing, hop forward – front tuck full to double front, small hop – back 2.5 to sloaty front lay, stuck with some knee form – 3/1, forward, hop.

13.700 for James Hall.

Doi – HB – hits Cassina – stalder rybalko, late – tak 1/1 – tak 1/2 OK – Kolman, solid – DLO 2/1, holds stick with a lea to the side.

13.300 for Macchini on horse. IT BEGINSSSSS.

13.933 for Hong.

Yang JX with a solid hit on floor for China to continue their quest toward gold.

13.533 for Diallo on horse.

Fraser – HB – tak 1/2, solid – kolman, hit – Cassina is strong – layoutk tkatchev – tak 1/1, very late – lunge forward on dismount. Hit.

Bartolini stays on horse as well.

Malone – FX – front full to double front pike, small slide back – 2.5 to front….tuck, botches his punch with a very deep landing if not a fall – double double, short landing, lunge forward – front 2/1 to front lay, hopo – 2/1, stuck – 3/1, small hop.

Just 12.766 for Bartolini, which will not help compared to GB’s score on HB so far. Fraser gets a 14.000

Kamoto – Hb – lay tkatchev, hit – Cassina, hit – Kolman, also solid – tkatchev – inbar – stalder – DLO 2/1, step back.

Nooooooo Abbadini’s hand slips off on his pommel horse dismount and he clatters front first to the ground.

So basically GB has the bronze is their hands now if Jarman stars on HB in any kind of manner.

Jarman – HB – tak 1/2, late – layout tkatchev – tkatchev, hit – tak – front stalder – stalder – DLO 1/1, hop forward.

Whittenburg – hits double front, hgop – DLO 2/1, chest forward, hop – front full to double front pike and sits it down – 2.5 to front lay, whips it over but stuck – double double tuck, small hop – souble arabian 1/2 out, hop forward.

Jarman’s 13.100 will clinch the bronze for GB.

Hashimoto – HB – will need a 7 to get into silver – falls on his Liukin and he’s down – but he’s back up and rechalking – Cassina is hit – Kolman, good – layout tkatchev – tak 1/1, very late – stalder – DLO 2/1 stuck landing.

China’s massive improvement
Japan’s implosion for silver
GB’s least-bad-of-the-rest for bronze

With Whittenburg’s 13.466, the US will finish behind Italy, who will take 4th.

World Championships Women’s Team Final Live Blog

Finals start tonight in Liverpool as we save the best for…first I guess….with the women’s team final.

The US women qualified in first position by 2.668 ahead of Great Britain and have taken a slight risk by putting Leanne Wong in the bars lineup despite not using her on bars in qualification. The Brazilians qualified in 3rd while counting a beam fall from Saraiva, while the Italians and Chinese qualified in 4th and 6th while counting beam falls from almost everyone. So the medal race is afoot.

If everyone does what they did in qualifications, the US would be in first and GB would be in second throughout the competition, so keep an eye on whether either of them drop from those positions at any point because that will mean that they aren’t maintaining the margin from qualification.

Brazil and Italy are in the rotations that end on floor and vault, which gives an advantage to Brazil, so Brazil wouldn’t mind trailing Italy by a little at the halfway point, while Italy will want a major advantage after two events. As for China, we’ll know after the first rotation whether they are in this thing or not based on how much they are able to improve on that 39.199 beam score from qualification. A 40 on beam would keep China afloat from the start, and a 42 (which is totally doable but would be big), would put them squarely in the medal and more zone.

What I’m sitting with here is that there’s not a team in the medal hunt here that doesn’t seem……kind of beam meltdowny. So that’s going to determine a lot.

We’re still in the extended crowd sing-a-long portion of the meet in case you were wondering. You know, gymnastics.

Flavia confirmed as doing only bars today. ALAS. That really hurts Brazil’s medal chances. They’re losing multiple points having to use Pedro instead.

There’s sure a lot of crowd-amping happening for the meet already being three minutes late.

They have lights projecting the name of each event onto the apparatus, and the one on bars says “Horizontal Bar.” No, sorry, you’ve misunderstood.

Intros happening now. They have an opportunity to do team dances and Japan has already won. I’m sorry, go home all other teams.

Ellie Black already successfully walked off the intro stage the wrong direction because hero.

Intros done, no one lived up to Japan, and we’re ready for the touch warmup.

Rotation 1

Boyer with sold control on her double tuck first pass – split leap full, clean – double pike, bounce back –

Sakaguchi – BB – Japan – switch to split to straddle, secure – side aerial to loso, arm wave check – switch ring, holds it, slight check – aerial, large break, may have touched the beam, but kept it on

Chiles – VT – very strong DTY, good direction, little hop

Oliveira – UB – maloney to pak to toe on to van leeuwen, hit – blind to front giant full, a litlte late into piked jaeger, clean – double front 1/2 out is good, little hop

14.400 first score. Solid, but a little lower than in qualification.

Kinsella – VT – good DTY, larger bounce back, and a bit more leg form in the block than Chiles. 14.133

Villa – UB – Italy – tkatchev to pak to maloney, good – bhardwaj, clean – van leeuwen – front fgiant full – scoots back center – FTDT, stuck. AMAZING.14.166

Tang – BB – China – loso mount is very good – ro layout 2 feet, right on – switch to split ring jump, pause before bhs – and now it’s a fall. Oh it was going so perfectly to start with. And now a second fall on her aerial, well fall onto the beam as she grabs it and pushes herself back up – double pike, short, hands down. Oh China.

Jones – VT – lands a bit short on her DTY today, not her strongest, lunge forward – just 13.933

Saraiva – UB – toe full to piked tkatchev to pak, straddle but hit – toe on to maloney to geinger, solid – short cast hs on high – double front dismount, little ginger hop to the side. good hit but it looked ouchie on the landing. 13.666

DJDS – FX – FTDT, nice, small slide back – front loso to double tuck, small slide back – double pike, another solidly controlled pass, small hop back

Jes Gadirova – VT – good distance and chest up on DTY, though another large lunge back. 14.200

Maggio – UB – falls on her opening Ray, the same thing she did in the touch warmup. Second fall on a connected Tkatchev – she does hit her double Arabian dismount.

Brazil’s like – WE’RE BACK TO LIFE.

Carey – VT – solid normal Cheng for her, good control on the landing, minor hop to the side. 14.800

Tang’s score finally comes is as 10.700. Gut punch to me.

Yamada – BB – wolf double, solid – swtich, pretty – bhs loso, arm wave check – deep front tuck but holds it onto the beam – aerial, fine – wolf to sissone

Achampong – VT – good height on her DTY, slight off direction, bounce back, some leg crossing.

Black – FX – double pike with a lunge back OOB – front 2/1 to front tuck, little hop – split leap full, some back leg – switch full, short of split – lands shy on her 2.5 with a couple steps back.

11.700 for Maggio on bars.

Andrade – UB – maloney to stalder full to piked tkatchev to pak to van leeuwen, wonderful – piked jaeger, good – toe full to FTDT, two small steps back. Good one.

The US went 43.133 on vault, which is .133 lower than qualification, mostly due to Jones’ short landing.

14.366 for Achampong. 42.699 for GB on vault.

Ou – BB – fhs to front tuck, secure – switch to switch 1/2, small pause before korbut, just a tad off line but fine – qa couple checks but staying on – 2.5 dismount goes somewhat awry, a lunge and then another step off the mat. Apparently she also had some issue with her sitting on the beam mount.

14.633 for Andrade –

Alice D’Amato – UB – maloney to tkatchev, hit – piked ricna to pak to van leeuwen and she falls as well

Friess sits her opening pass on floor.

Brazil 41.499 is a big improvement over qualification, which they needed going to beam.

Ou almost dying 8 times and going over 14.2 is my thing.

Miyata – BB – check on switch mount – secure layout 2 feet – switch to sissone, hit, a little short – aerial to split jump to bhs, smooth – side aerial, check – side somi, large lean forward at the hips, stays on – double pike, very short, large stumble forward

D’Amato 13.500 with the fall on bars.

Italy is down over 3 points on their qualification score on bars.

Miyata 13.233

Luo – BB – lovely front walkover mount – ro layout 2 feet and falls, though she might be able to save it after grabbing the beam – switch, check before split ring to a lovely bhs combo – switch ring, perfect, but pause before split to bhs – aerial to stag ring to korbut, good – full turn, check – wolf jump to sissone – looks like they took out that Yurchenko loop – doubel tuck, very deep but landed.

Canada 39.133 on floor.

The US, GB, and Brazil the winners of the first rotation. Also the top 3 in the standings. Brazil the only team that improved on its Q score on its first event.

Rotation 2

We’re still waiting on Luo’s score. 12.400. So yes China is in last after one rotation. And it was beam. So that happened.

Villa – BB – loso mount. check – ro tuck full, SHE HIT IT – wolf triple is nice – switch to split, check – double turn, smooth – side aerial, good – 2/1, bounce back. A hit!

“Everyone is a disaster but me” – Giorgia Villa

Jes Gadirova – pause is first cast – piked jaeger, a bit close – tkatchev 1/2 to a wildly tucked yezhova, she’s still on? – maooney to pak is hit – van leeuwen, sall leg break – gaint full – FTDT, holds the stick.

Soares has fallen on her loso series.

Sakaguchi – FX – FTDT, solid, step abck – popa – 3/1, lovely, step back – switch ring, some back leg position – back 1.5 to front lay, little hop – 2.5, stuck landing. excellent.

JAPAN.

Black – VT – handspring front layout full – good control on landing, small hop, knees and some pike

Chiles – UB – toe full to piked tkatchev to pak, clean – maliney to gienger, just a bit of elbows – solid cast hs – piked jaeger – casts – bail + toe shoot – FTDT, small hop. Solid hit. 14.100

DJDS – VT – deep alanding on DTY, lunge forward

Maggio – BB – hits switch mount – bhs loso loso, solid – switch ring, hit – side aeiral, arm wave – aerial, hit – side somi and falls – oh Martina –

Kinsella – UB – toe 1/2 to piked jaeger, solid, a little low – stalder tkatchev piked to pak – maloney to gienger, some leg separation – toe full to double arabian, lunge forward. Nice. 14.100

Devillard’s rudi is a struggle, large lunge to the side and off the mats. She had crashed it in the final warmup.

Andrade – BB – switch mount, good – switch to switch 1/2 to split jump, comfortable – bhs loso, leg up check – another check on aerial – switch ring, maybe a bit low of position – side aerial and falls – double pike dismount, solid landing.

Brazil’s like – NEVER MIND NO THANKS

Wong – UB – stalder 1/2 to jaeger, good – toe full to bhardwaj, hit, a litle flopping – maloney to pak, solid – van leeuwen, catches – DLO deeeeep landing, lunge forward. The dismount will take away some serious tenths but nice on the bar.

Esposito – BB – bhs mount to bhs loso, hit – aerial to check – split jump to sissone, some foot position –

Fenton – UB – toe tkatchev piked 1/2 to yezhova, a bit crooked but hit – maloney to pak is clean – van leeuwen, solid – clear hip – giant full – FTDT, chest down, hop forward, fine.

Esposito is now officially the second Italian to hit a routine today, after Villa. 13.133

Jones – UB – stalder full to stalder shap to tkatchev, clean – toe full to stalder tkatchev piked to pak, small leg brek – van leeuwen, hit – toe 1/2 – doubel front, a little deep, step back, good hit. Just 14.333 though.

Meanwhile Pedro finishes beam with a solid double tuck, hop back. But it’s an 11.966.

Zhang finishes her floor with a deep double pike, hop forward. Long wait for her score.

12.866 for her.

Miyata – FX – DLO 1/1, hit, chest forward with a hop, some knees in the air – whip whip 3/1 is solid, small slide back, leg crossing – wolf double is around – back 1.5 to front full, secure landing, knees again – split leap full – double pike, solid.

Actually a big rotation for Italy in having just the one fall (LOL) and getting somewhat back on track. With everyone having such a disaster, their margin compared to qualification on bars and beam suddenly isn’t that bad. But Italy’s lead over Brazil is currently small, which benefits Brazil going to these last two events.Or would theoretically with Flavia. Now…who can say.

Rotation 3

Carey – BB – forward roll mount – full turn – bhs los loso, check  – side aerial, arm wave – straddle, pause – aerial, hit  swithc to switch 1/2 – switch side, little lean – split jump 1/2 from side, short of split – bhs bhs double pike, chest down, step back. 12.800

Soares stumble back on doubel arabian but keeps it to her feet – FTDT, a little short, hop – solid double pike landing – double pike, small slide. 12.833

Sakaguchi – VT – really good control on her DTY landing, just some leg crossing and not the most distance.

Maggio – FX – pulls around her wolf triple – DLO, small bounce, good – front loso to double pike, bounce – switch ring 1/2 – FTDT, chest just a bit forward – double tuck, small bounce. She’s back?

Achampong – BB – aerial to split to straddle is hit, some feet form – bhs loso loso, hit with small arm wave – side aerial, solid – y spin is hit – ring jump secure – bhs bsh 2.5, hop forward. Good start.

Miyata goes 14.400 for her DTY. Japan continues to stay in the hunt. Zhang hits her Tsuk 2/1, some legs, hop forward.

heduit is through bars with a hit.

Achampong goes 13.700 on beam which is quite something. Maggio 13.966

Adrade – FX – front full to FTDT, excellent – DLO 1/1, secure aldningswitch leap full, nice – double y a little short – DLO bounce back – doubel pike, bounce back

Chiles – BB – bhs bhs loso is clean – aerial to straddle to bhs, good – side somi with a lean – switdch to sissone , solid – side aerial, hit – switch side, tight but under control – double pike, bounce back. That was the one.

Just the full for Ou Yushan. Step forward.

Black – UB – maloney to hindorff, good – Black to yezhova, cleanly done – van leeuwen, solid – giant full – toe tuck 1/2, nearly stuck, little shuffle. Nice.

Chiles goes 13.333. Andrade goes 14.066.

Fenton – BB – loso mount, good – double turn, held well – side aerial to bhs, smooth – aerial, some knee into split jump, some back foot – y spin – wolf triple, just does pull it around – switch to split is hit – doubel tuck, pulls for dear life and hits it, hop forward.

D’Amato – FX – whip to 3/1, bounce back – doubel pike, deep, but bounce – doesn’t get her doubel wolf all the way around –

I didn’t see it but I heard it, an error for Melanie on bars. 13.066

13.333 for Fenton matches Chiles there.

Blakely – BB – shoulder roll mount – wolf triple, strong – back tuck full and falls – fhs front tuck, step forward – swtich to switch 1/2, a little tight but fine – aerial to split jump to wolf jump – side aerial, step back – double tuck, good stick (with a stagger).

Pedro finishes floor with a deep double pike and a lunge forward.

Turner 13.333 on bars to keep Canada in a good place with beam to come.

13.266 for Blakely, which is not what they wanted but the US buffer can afford.

Kinsella – BB – swithc mount, leg up check – aerial, small pause before good split jump – side aerial to loso to…back tuck off the beam – must have been off line from the start – wolf double, hit – switch to switch 1/2, no trouble – double pike, super deep, lunge back.

Pedro 12.466 on floor.

Esposito does a wonderful wolf roll on the third turn on her attempted wolf triple – 2.5 hop forward – split leap full, attempted 1.5 but not there – illusion – split leap to switch full – back 1.5 to front full, large bounce forward right into the corner, don’t think she went OOB – double tuck, well short, hands down. Drat it all.

This has been…not a great final and Japan is the only team I care about, please and thank you. Although Japan is going to bars now, which can be an adventure. But the lead is enough that Japan can legitimately do this. They’re currently in 3rd and going to give up a lottttt to Brazil and Italy on vault, but Brazil and Italy are so far back.

Rotation 4

Jen Gadirova – FX – DLO, high, bounce back – FTDT, bounce back, nice – switch ring – split full, good – switch 1/1 has some body position – front loso to double tuck, chest a bit down, hop forward. Good one.

Maggio step back on Y1.5. 13.866

Pedro shuffle back on Yfull, a couple steps. 

Wei – UB – inbar full to inbar shap to pak, clean – van leeuwen, good leg position =- inbar 1/2 – pirouettes to piked jaeger – DLO 1/1, step forward. Good.

D’Amato hits her DTY with a step.

13.433 for Gadirova

Jones – FX – wolf 2.25 about – double double tuck, small hop – split leap full, nice – DLO, solid control, small shuffle – front tuck through to double tuck, shuffle back – l hop full – Good routine.

Oliveira hits a Yfull with some pike and direction –

14.733 for Wei

Yamada – UB – maloeny to gienger, solid – blind to piked jaeger – pak, clean – van leeuwen – stalder to toe full, some back arch – FTDT, stuck. Nice.

Esposito 13.466 on vault for a Yfull. The lack of DTYs here for Italy and Brazil is really hurting them. Well, that and the crap-ton of falls.

Andrade does the most magnificent Cheng and goodbye.

13.733 for Jones on floor.

13.666 for Yamada. One down!

Kinsella – FX – very nice 3/1 in combination – 2.5 to front pike, hop forward – wolf double is not quite around – split leap full – switch full, pulls it around – doubel pike, bounce back –

15.166 for Andrade.

Sydney Turner hits beam. It was Carolann Heduit who fell earlier for France.

Luo Rui went 14.400 on bars.

With vault scores in, Brazil ended up 2 tenths ahead of Italy.

Wataneda – UB – stalder to stalder shap to pak – maloney to bail, some hip angle to toe shoot, hit – toe full – jaeger, just a bit close, hine – toe 1/2, short – DLO, step forward.

13.133 for Kinsella

Carey – FX – double double layout, small bounce – DLO 1/1, also well controlled – switch full – rfront through to double tuck, step back – FTDT, chest down, step back. Hit. 

Watanabe’s hit goes 12.766, which means they just need another stay-on in the final routine.

Tang – UB – maloney to pak, nice – van leeuwen, hit – bling to healy to ling to piked jaeger right on top of the bar, like she sat fully on the bar with her whole legs on the bar. Summarizes China’s performance.

Black – BB – switch to switch 1/2 to korbut, secure, short on switch 1/2 – double tuck to full turn, check – split to wolf is hit – front tuck, hop forward – bhs 2 foot layout, secure – side somi, holds with arm wave – 2.5 bounce forward. Good. What a meet for Canada. Amazing.

14.100 for Carey.

Jes Gadirova – FX – double double tuck, slide back – DLO, small hop – switch 1/2, good height, some feet – popa – front full to double tuck, stuck landing. Great.

12.833 for Tang to finish China’s day.

Fukasawa – UB – this is the one – tkatchev tkatchev pike, close but keeps going – pak, tucks it some but still keeps going – maloney to bhardwaj is nice – short cast hs – van leeuwen – short hs – stalder 1/2, GOES OVER THE WRONG WAY – stalder 1/2, another early to piked jaeger, close, can’t catch and NOW SHE HOPS OFF.

13.833 for BLACK! IT’S CANADA TIME!

Fukasawa tries to finish and can’t get over on another handstands, this poor fawn. They were so close.

Gadirova gets 14.266.

Melanie with two large breaks on beam. And now hands down on dismount –

Chiles – FX – 1.5 through to FTDT, bounce back – DLO 1/1, lovely, small slide back – wolf double almost wolfkinos it – L hop full to split leap full, solid – switch side 1/2 – front loso to double tuck, bounce back OOB.

That will seal the gold for the US, the silver for Great Britain, and the bronze for CANADAAAAAAA.

We’re just waiting on the scores from the final routines now.

9.400 for Fukasawa. The sadness.

14.000 for Chiles.

Ellie Black is having her Arthur Nory at the Olympics moment.

What a delightful splatfest.

 

 

 

World Championships Men’s Qualification Live Blog

Today, it’s the men’s turn. My position is right next to high bar and PBars, so I’ll have the best view of those and the worst and least helpful view of pommel horse of rings. Oh…that’s too bad…look how that worked out.

We start with subdivision 1 and the US men’s group, along with Switzerland and Canada and Austria.

Danusia and The Guy just described the crowd as “quality over quantity” so that’s where we are with men’s qualification on a Monday morning.

Subdivision 1 – Rotation 1

Andrin Frey starts on high bar for Switzerland and immediately falls on a Kolman.

Colt Walker opens with a hit for the US on rings with a stick on a double double tuck dismount. 13.566

Frey falls for a second time on his dismount. 10.866

Dolci vaults an excellent Kas 1.5 with a stuck landing.

Kratter also misses on high bar for Switzerland in the second spot with a fall on a Kovacs.

Malone adds a second hit for the US on rings, hop back on double double tucked.

Emard with a very high Kas 1.5 on vault, hop back.

So, for Kratter’s routine resumption the live scoreboard by the event said OVER where the timing should be.

13.700 for Malone on rings. Hong follows with a hop back on dismount as well.

Kratter’s score comes up as 12.133 with no issue so maybe just a glitch.

Seifert sits down his triple back HB dismount to deliver Switzerland’s third miss in a row on high bar.

Whittenburg with a smallish hop back on his double double layout rings dismount to round out the rotation for the US.

My wallet hero Alexander Benda finishes floor with a step forward on a 2.5 and is very pleased.

Seifert goes 13.033 on high bar with the fall.

14.333 for Whittenburg.

Serhani delivers Switzerland’s first high bar hit with a small step on DLO 1/1 dismount.

Subdivision 1 – Rotation 2

Malone starts for the US with a solid Kas 1.5, hop to the side.

Walker follows with a hit on his handspring randi, not too large on the hop, chest forward. 14.600

Kaji opens PBars for Canada with a hit, a few short handstand positions, double front 1/2 out with a bounce back and another step.

Hong – VT 1 – well he landed the Ri Se Gwang to his feet, which is an improvement over a lot of training. Chest well down, knee low, lunge forward and to the shit, but hit. 14.433

Hong – VT 2 – the Yonekura is less successful, sits it down

Frey just saves a double front on floor with a lunge back

Whittenburg has an Andrade-2nd-vault moment on his first vault and just slides off the table and doesn’t do anything.

While that was happening, I saw Koudinov hit a Kolman and piked Tkatchev on high bar, but you know…news.

It’s a 0 for Whittenburg.

Zakutney goes 14.400 on PBars for Canada, which is the top score there thus far.

The US is on 85.299 after two events, Canada on 84.965, Switzerland on 77.798, Austria on 75.432.

Subdivision 1 – Rotation 3

Hong starts for the US on Pbars – bhavsar is nice – tippelt, hit – makut – diam, good vertical position – stutz – double front 1/2 out is stuck, good one. 14.600

Clay falls on high bar for Canada after a 12.833 opening hit for Kaji. 10.733

Good stick on double front dismount on Pbars for Malone. Had a hesitation up on his front toss.

Zakutney up 3rd for Canada on high bar yamawaki with some pike – layout tkatchev to tkatchev to piked tkatchev, hit – quast, a ltitle crooked – tak 1/1, not bad on finish position – tak 1/2 – DLO 1/1, little hop. Good. 13.633

Whittenburg a somewhat deep landing on his double front 1/2 dismount, hop forward. He had a hesitation getting up to handstand earlier in the routine with a drop in the elbows. 13.666

Walker finishes for the US on Pbars with the one they wanted, nice long swing diam and great height on tippelt – -holds the stick on double front dismount with a lean.

Subdivision 1 – Rotation 4

Asher Hong is through high bar with a pretty solid hit. It’s the little victories. And he breaks 13 with a 13.200

Kaji short on double double tuck on floor with a pretty large lunge forward to control.

Solid tak 1/1 position for Whittenburg on high bar but then his Liukin attempt goes fully crazy, very close, lots of form, can’t hold onto the bar and hops off –

Emard’s twisting position is yes. Just so pleasant.

Walker – HB – tak 1/1, quite late – tak 1/2 – Kolman, catches – Kovacs is hit – layout tkatchev – tkatchev – yamawaki with some pike – DLO 1/1, verrry deep with a large lunge forward.

Malone HB – Cassina, just a little close – Kolman hit – layout tkatchev to tkatchev to piked tkatchev is nice – tak 1/1 is good today – tak 1/2 , solid – double double layout with hop forward. A little loss of rhythm coming out of the Kovacs elements and the dismount hop, but otherwise hit.

Dolci sits his double front pike on floor.

Malone goes 14.433 on high bar, which leads for now.

Team:
USA – 169.564
Canada – 164.830
Austria – 154.796
Switzerland – 154.430

Subdivision 1 – Rotation 5

Hong – FX – front full to double front pike,s tuck – double double layout, solid, a bit short – front tuckl full to double front, step forward OOB although I didn’t see anyone raise a flag – back 2.5 to front lay, little hop – 3/1, little rebound. 13.866

Walker – FX – front full to double front pike and sits it down – back 2.5 to double front and sits that one down as well – front lay to front full, and it’s a third fall – 2/1, little hop – 3/1, small bounce back.

So this is an oooooooofffffff of a day for the US. Reminiscent of qualification at 2019 worlds but maybe even worse…….

10.433

Malone – FX – front full to double front pike, lunge OOB – 2.5 to double front, sits it down – double double tuck, small hop back – front 2/1 to front layout, hop – 2/1, little hop – 3/1, hop back.

12.766 for Malone.

Whittenburg – FX – so now he has to hit after all that – front 2/1 to doubel front, hit, hop forward – double double layout, a bit short, hop forward – front full to double front pike, saves it with hop back – 2.5 to front lay, stuck – double double tuck, hop back – FTDT, slide back. He came through on floor.

Whittenburg goes 14.133 to lead the floor standings for now.

Team:
USA – 210.329
Canada – 203.363
Switzerland – 196.196
Austria – 192.028

Subdivision 1 – Rotation 6

Asher Hong is through a hit pommel horse routine to start. After that iffy first vault, he has been the star of the US team today. 13.300

Malone follows with a hit of his own. It would be just perfect if the US has this disaster of a day and then hits 4-4 on pommel horse.

Whittenburg also stays on pommel horse, being a pommel horse specialist and all.

And Nedoroscik was like, “FINE I’LL DO IT.” and hit to the best of his abilities.

So I guess the US men went as a pommel horse nation for Halloween.

15.233 for Nedoroscik gives him the expected huge lead on that event. The US is done on 252.295.

Meanwhile on PB, Noe Seifert misses his hand on a bhavsar attempt and falls face first onto the mat.

Team:
USA – 252.295
Canada – 242.962
Switzerland – 236.495
Austria – 230.427

Big deal for the Canadians to be ahead of Switzerland, which does not usually happen.

The US men should be fine for the team final, but boy was that a rough adventure. Chances they manufacture an injury to sub Moldauer in for team final….?

AA
Hong – 83.299
Malone – 82.631
Dolci – 78.330
Seifert – 77.965
Benda – 75.865

And that was just the first subdivision of six. Brace yourselves.

Subdivision 2 – Rotation 1

We’ll see if China and Great Britain can reverse the terror that was the first subdivision.

Yang JX starts for China on high bar with a hit including a solid Cassina and double double layout dismount with a hop.

Azizov has gone 14.300 on horse to move into 2nd place there.

Hall starts PBars for Great Britain with a fall – goes to one rail and then hits his foot on the bar trying to cast back up to handstand and comes off – finishes double front with lunge forward.

Sun Wei finishes high bar with a beautiful stuck double double layout.

12.766 for Hall.

Regini Moran hits pbars, some foot form on his straddle 1 1/4 but overall confident and clean – very nice stutz to one – double front 1/2 out with step.

14.833 for Sun Wei puts him in first on high bar.

Zhang – HB – tak 1/1, a bit late – tak 1/2, clean – layout tkatchev – Cassina, nice swing out of it – Kolman, hit – double double layout, chest forward, hop.

Regini Moran goes 14.966 on PBars to take over the lead there.

Karimi – FX – punch randi, clean, little hop – front full to double front pike, very nice landing – 2.5 to double front, stuck – double double, bounce back – back 1.5 to front 2/1, good control right into the corner, only small movement – holds the stick on 3/1, really well done.

Zhang went 14.733 on high bar to sit in 2nd place there.

Fraser 15.066 on PBars to take the lead there.

Jarman hits a secure PBars so that they’ll be able to drop Hall’s fall.

China goes 43.232 on high bar, which is 2.4 higher than the US on that event.

Great Britain goes 44.198 on PBars, which is .75 higher than the US on that event.

Subdivision 2 – Rotation 2

Regini-Moran goes over the wrong way on a tak 1/1 early and can never really recover, has to hop off the bars a second later. Another go over the wrong way on a tak 1/2 when he resumes.

Just 7.133 with 3 points of neutral deductions, not enough elements I’m assuming.

Hall – HB – hits his Cassina – solid Kolman – tkatchev – and he’s off on a piked tkatchev. And then a second fall on his dismount with knee down, so GB will have to count a two-fall high bar routine.

And now Sun Wei just took a punch randi to his face after a miss from Yang JX for just 13.300.

Men’s gymnastics, you ok honey?

Zhang with a good front full to double front pike on floor – back 2.5 to double fornt, just a little short iwth a hop – punch randi, slide – 2/1, arm wave and small step – front 2/1 to 1/2, stuck – 3/1, shortish, hop forward.

12.200 for Sun Wei, 11.633 for Hall.

Zhang and Fraser save their respective teams from hell. 14.266 for Fraser.

Jarman will finish high bar for great Britain – tak 1/2 is short – layout tkatchev, hit – tkatchev – tak – front stalder – stalder – DLO 1/1, step forward. Put up a “I guess we need this” hit for them.

China only put up 3 on floor, so that means they’re counting Sun Wei’s 12.200.

Jarman through with a low-difficulty but hit 13.100 that is GB’s necessary 2nd-best HB score.

China goes 40.000 on floor, which is 7 tenths lower than the US’s not-awesome floor rotation. GB goes 38.999 on high bar.

After 2:
China 83.232
Great Britain 83.197
Korea 82.732
Kazakhstan 81.664

Subdivision 2 – Rotation 3

Hall – FX – double double tucked, bounce back – FTDT, chest forward, hop – just little slides and steps and hops on every landing, but nothing large – 3/1, nearly stuck.

You started horse with 13.633 for China. Hall hits 14.166 on floor.

Fraser – FX – front lay to double front pike, step forward OOB – double double tuck, hop back – 2.5 to front 1/2 – 2/1, solid – double arabian, bounce forward – FTDT, good stick. GB is back?

Sun Wei is off on horse.

13.900 for Fraser on floor.

Regini Moran opned with a strong triple double, ten double double, hop forward – 2.5 to front lay to front rudi, pretty – 2/1, stuck – double front pike 1/2 out, bounce back – randi, hop forward – 3/1, another small hop.

GB already with a very good floor rotation before Jarman goes.

Yang is off pommel horse, so China will have to count a fall there as well.

14.533 puts GRM in 2nd on floor for now

Jarman – FX – triple double layout, so high – triple double tucked, only small movement – 1.5 to front lay to front 2/1 gets reallly deep, just barely saves it with a couple stumbles back – 3/1 side pass like you have – front full to rudi, short landing, lunge forward – 3.5, step forward. ahhhhh but how much will those landings cost.

Oooof, a 6.7 D but just a 13.900 total for him. Sadness.

Subdivision 2 – Rotation 4

James Hall starts GB on horse with 14.033, and Jarman follows him with a hit.

Live scores have a DID NOT START up for Sun Wei, following 14.666 for Zou. And now Zhang Boheng is going.

And Zhang is way short on his double double tucked rings dismount and has to do a forward roll out of it.

Joe Fraser has to try to squeeeeeze his way through a pommel horse dismount and doesn’t get it, he’s going to resume and try his dismount again, which he gets the second time. This all happened at the same time that Lee Junho was falling on high bar. It’s been a meet.

12.033 for Zhang Boheng will count, so they’ll rely on Zou and You to be amazing and bail them out a little.

12.533 for Fraser on horse, but they do get a stay-on from Regini-Moran.

You Hao 14.633 on rings to go into 2nd place just behind Zou.

Subdivision 2 – Rotation 5

Yang starts for China with a very deep Kas 2/1, low knee, lunge forward. 14.466

Sun – VT – also a Kas 2/1 – another very deep landing, looked like a hand down or hand brush on the mat

Hall got 13.466 on rings to start for GB.

13.400 for Sun.

Zhang – VT – he also falls on his Kas 2/1, another deep landing, hands down.

Fraser goes 13.933 on rings, and now they’ll be relying on Tulloch to put them into…first place at this point.

China will count both falls from Zhang and Sun on vault.

Tulloch goes 14.666 to move into first place on rings. Jarman finishes the rotation with a good stick on his dismount. Who would have thought when GB had a 7.133 and then two halls from James Hall on high bar that this would be the best performance of the day.

So this meet has been hilarious. The US looks like they will flop their way ahead of China, which has been putting up 3 and counting falls all over the place. With GB going to vault, they have a very good opportunity to be in first heading to the Japan subdivision.

Subdivision 2 – Rotation 6

Fraser hits his double front to start on vault, lunge back, some cowboy and foot form. 14.266

Regini Moran VT 1 – very solid Kas 2/1, especially by today’s standard, step back. 14.633.

Regini Moran VT 2 – sits down his double front.

Zou’s PB is a day-saver for China – beautiful front straddle to swing and bhavsar – small hesitation up to handstand on tippelt – healy – doubel front 1/2 out, holds onto stick with a lean.

Jarman VT 1 – Dragulescu is very strong – medium lunge to the side.

Zou with a casual 15.700 on PBars.

Jarman’s second vault is a Kas 2.5 and he sits that one down.

Zhang hit PB but a very deep landing on double front 1/2 out with a bound forward.

Jarman’s first vault puts GB ahead of the US by a smidge with Tulloch still to come.

Karim – HB – Cassina is good – kovacs to kolman, hit – tak 1/2, carch, pulls it around – layout tkatchev – double double layout dismount, some knee form, holds onto the landing with an arm swing.

Tulloch hits his Dragulescu first vault as well,

You is off PB immediately, and this score is going to have to count because Sun scratched.

Tulloch’s Ri Se Gwang second vault is landed in a ball shape of some kind, very deep, looks like some hands and maybe knees touched.

GB will have the team lead after sub 2, USA will be in 2nd, China will be in 3rd.

You’s 12.700 counts.

Team after 2:
Great Britain – 252.793
USA – 252.295
China – 249.929
Korea – 244.093
Canada – 242.962

AA after 2:
Fraser – 83.964
Zhang – 83.766
Hong – 83.299
Malone – 82.631
Jarman – 82.365

Subdivision 3 – Rotation 1

I imagine Japan looked at those first two subdivisions like, “Was that a try?”

Abad – FX – front full to double front, hop back – front lay to double front pike, hop forward – 3/1, stagger back – front 2/1, crossover step. 13.400

Tanigawa Wataru starts Japan with a hit on pommel horse so they’re already having the best day of any team. 13.733

G Burtanete hits his HB dismount, DLO 1/1 with a hop forward. 

Kolodii with a troublesome PB dismount, doubel pike with multiple lunges forward and off the mat.

Plata – FX – double double layout, bounce back OOB – punch randi, bounce back – double double tuck, holds onto the stick – 2/1, hop back – front 2/1 to front 1/1, step forward – 2.5 to front lay, solid stick – FTDT final pass, step back. Nice one. 13.500

Apparently the part of Hashimoto’s routine I saw hit was after step-down disasters for a 11.666. Neeeeever mind.

Mir – FX – front full to double front pike, step forward OOB – back 1.5 to front 2/1, food stick – double double tuck, bounce back – 3/1, stuck – 1.5 to front layout, a little short, slide back – doubel arabian 1/2 out, puts hands down and he’s taking a while to get back up. Now he’s up in an ouchie landing way.

Suprun falls on his PB dismount for Ukraine, following a 14.966 for Kovtun, which puts him in 4th place.

Zapata – FX – hits first pass, hop forward – 1.5 to front double pike, stuck – double double layout, little hop forward – double arabian 1/2 out, holds onto stuck with lean – punch rudi, solid – 2.5 to front lay to dance-out basically – DLO, short landing, lunge forward. Will still score very well.

Doi goes 14.466 on horse to keep Japan’s score high there.

Japan 42.465 on horse, which is the top score there today.

Subdivision 3 – Rotation 2

R Burtanete has to connect a pass to forward roll on floor to start us out here, which is not ideal.

Kakeru with a large lunge back on his rings dismount. 13.233

Abad 12.766 on horse to start. Mir falls twice so far in the next routine.

Melnykov comes off the high bar (we were wondering if he was having a grip problem but doesn’t seem so) and then falls on dismount.

Wataru sticks double double tuck rings dismount after some handstand muscling right before. 14.000

Kovtun HB – layout tkatchev to tkatchev to piked tkatchev is well done – tak 1/1, just does pull it over the right way – tak 1/2, late – stalder – quast – double double layout hop

Good stick on doubel double rings dismount for Hashimoto.

Diallo through horse successfully for Spain for 13.500.

Marc – FX – Romania – good stick on double fouble – double front, bounce forward – front 2/1 to layout, arched, hop forward – 2/1, step back – 2.5 to front full, nice stick – 3/1, step back. 13.500

Muntean – FX – Romania – double front pike, hop forward – double front, short, sits it down –

Japan goes 42.500 on rings, also the top score of the day there. Almost like a theme.

Subdivision 3 – Rotation 3

Melnykov with hand down on opening double front on floor, and again on his second pas –

Japan opens vault with a good Kas 1.5 from Doi.

Plata sticks double double rings dismount

Tanigawa W VT 1 – handspring double front pike landed in a deep squat but not a fall with a step forward, so it’s basically the best vault we’ve ever seen and will get a 9.8 E score. 14.400 for him.

Tanigawa’s second vault – Kas 2/1, also very deep, maybe avoids a knee down but if so, not by much.

Marc can’t get up to handstand on dismount on PH and hops off.

Kovtun – FX – front full to double front, hop forward – front double pike, step forward OOB – looks like a 3.5 attempt (?), under, foot slips out and falls – 2.5 to front lay, slide back – 3/1 dismount

Hashimoto hit a good handspring 2.5, step – 14.700

Kakeru finishes vault for Japan, pulls out the landing on a kas 1.5, a bit short but still nearly held onto the stick before a bounce back

Kovtun just 12.700 on floor. Zapata goes 13.600 on rings.

Japan’s 43.666 on vault does not lead that event. It is third behind Great Britain and Korea.

Subdivision 3 – Rotation 4

Mir leads off vault with a hit Kas 1.5, crossover step backward. 14.066. Abad with a step anck and OOb on his Kas full. 13.500

Wataru starts PBars for Japan – good bhavsar and tippelt – holds the stick on double front 1/2 out. 14.866 as a starting score.

Plata hits a Dragulescu for Spain – chest forward, hop to the side. 14.600

Hashimoto – PB – healy, clean – peach 1/2 – front straddle 1 1/4 – bhavsar, clean – good tippelt – double front 1/2 out, bounce back.

Zapata sits his double front pike on vault. 13.433

14.733 for Hashimoto.

Kamoto – PB – diam, solid – stutz, some loose back position – peach – front straddle, solid – bhavsar, hit – tippelt, smooth – healy, slight hesitation up to handstand – double pike, stuck. 15.433 is kind of a good score.

Kakeru puts up what I’d say was the cleanest of the bunch in the anchor spot on PBars. Did have a low landing on double front 1/2 out dismount with a slide back. 14.933 is 6th place.

After 4
Japan 173.863
Spain 161.631
Romania 152.728
Ukraine 151.362

Subdivision 3 – Rotation 5

Doi – HB – Japan – Cassina was good but couldn’t get over on his next giant, extra swing – stalder – tak full – some vertical handstand issues in this one – just does catch Kolman – double double layout, chest down landing, hop to the side. 13.800

W Tanigawa – HB – Cassina, hit, some knee form – layout tkatchev to tkatchev, a bit of elbows – DLO 1/1, small amount of piking, hop back. 13.566

Diallo starts PB for Spain with 14.366.

hashimoto – HB – Japan – tak 1/2 to liukin, hit, some piking and form  – Cassina, hit – Kolman, also good – layout tkatchev to tkatchev – tak 1/1, very late – stalder – quast – doubel double layout, hop back. Good.

14.666 on PB for Plata as Spain is putting up some good numbers.

Hashimoto 15.100 to go into first on HB.

Kamoto will finish HB for Japan, tak 1/2 pretty good – layout tkatchev – Cassina, hit – Kolman, hit, good swing out of them – tkatchev – layout double double, a bit short, hop forward. 14.400, nice number.

14.766 for Mir brings Spain to 43.798 on PBars, which is better than both China and the US.

Subdivision 3 – Rotation 6

Kakeru starts floor with 14.300 for Japan.

Wataru next – front 2/1 to layout, some arch, hop forward – double double tucks, chest foward, slide – doubel front pike, very nice stick – 2/1, stuck – 2.5 to front tuck full, short, large slide back – double arabian 1/2 out, stuck

Radivilov VT 1 – strong dragulescu, smaller hop forward

Abad – HB – layout tkatchev and tkatchev are hit – rybalko – DLO 1/1, step back.

Radivilov VT 2 – tsuk double pike is landed, chest forward, fairly large lunge ahead.

Doi sticks his 3/1 final pass on floor.

Plata – HB – zou li min – tak 1/2 to kolman, well done – Cassina, some crazy legs but caught – layout tkatchev – tkatchev – quasdt – tak 1/1, late – DLO 1/1, stuck landing.

Spain will move into 5th, ahead of South Korea.

14.766 for Doi is now in first place.

Hashimoto – FX – triple double tuck, short, lunge – double double tuck, solid – front full to randi, holds onto landing – 2/1, stuck – 2.5 to layout, nearly slips, little slide of the foot – 3/1, bounce back.

14.466 for Hashimoto, so he will not pass Wataru in the AA, which you wouldn’t have called.

Team after 3
Japan – 260.695
Great Britain – 252.793
USA – 252.295
China – 249.929
Spain – 245.594
Korea – 244.093
Canada – 242.962
Kazakhstan – 236.993

AA after 3
Tanigawa W – 84.731
Hashimoto – 84.665
Fraser – 83.964
Zhang – 83.766
Hong – 83.299
Plata – 82.799
Malone – 82.631
Jarman – 82.365

Subdivision 4

In the fourth subdivision, we have Italy and Brazil going, who will be aiming to pass Spain’s 245.594 as the teams jockey for spots in the team final.

Marious Georgiou starts the high bar specialists out successfully, hop forward on dismount.

Vahagn Davtyan went 14.566 on rings, which is 4th behind Tulloch, Zou, and You.

Marious went 14.100 on high bar, which is 7th place.

Ilias Georgiou also with a hit, a little hop forward on his layout double double dismount.

Bartolini falls on pommel horse.

Ilias goes 14.466 to move ahead of Malone and into 4th place.

Srbic – kolman, hit – quast – talder rybalko fairly late and some leg separation – good tak 1/1 – very awkward stalder, like his hand went and he gained a lot of form – tak 1/2 late – tkatchev – layout tkatchev – DLO 1/1, step forward

Bitencourt had barely started Pbars and he’s off, didn’t even see what happened. Hands down on his dismount as well.

Avetisyan 14.466 on rings for 6th place.

Srbic 13.200 on high bar. Alas.

Abbadini goes 13.966 on horse to give Italy 40.365 there. At Euros, Italy went 40.299 on horse when they scores a 247.494 total.

Souza misses a hand on a peach half, keeps it on the bars but a major form break – doubel front to arms – long pause before healy – front straddle to arms – tippelt, hit – doubel front 1/2 out, hop forward.

Brazil went just 39.666 on PBars, which is one of the weakest PBars scores of the day across the teams.

Subdivision 4 – Rotation 2

Artur Davtyan’s Draglescu is pretty much as perfect as it was in podium training, just a little more chest forward this time. But the best vault we’ve seen today, easily. His randi second vault is pretty much as excellent, one small step.

14.900 for both, moves into first place there.

Benovic on floor shows very good control on all his landings, until a step OOB on his final 3/1. 14.266 is 8th place.

Nory – HB – tak 1/2, nice to layout tkatchev to tkjatchev to piked tkatchev – layout jaeger 1/2, very nice – tak 1/1 very crooked and late – stalder – DLO 1/1, a little forward, step. 14.366 and it’s 7th place.

Souza catches very close on his Kolman but does get it.

Medvedev first vault is Tsuk double pike, short with hand down.

Souza’s 14.333 is 8th on high bar.

We’re now moving into the live blog break portion of the meet, which is an official thing that I’ve just decided. I’ll still be here in the arena so may still make comments if there’s something urgent I need to state.

 

World Championships Qualification Live Blog – Day 2

Back at it for day 2—and today’s 8 subdivisions of competition. So basically if I die at any point during the meet today, it will be your fault.

In subdivision 3, we start with South Korea and Ukraine. Shin Solyi is only on bars today, which is a surprise because she finished so well in the AA in 2021 and at Korean competitions this year, so that must be a necessity rather than a strategy decision.

Subdivision 3 – Rotation 1

Koslovska – FX – double pike, a coupel steps back – switch 1/2 – switch to split leap full – front tuck through to layout full – double L turn, may have just pulled that around – double tuck, chest down, controls landing

Eom lands somewhat short on a yfull leading off vault for KOR, hop to the side.

Nice split ring from Hribar on beam –

Santi – UB – giant full to a straddle deltchev, which was nice but she couldn’t get up to handstand after that and stops against the bar.

Lee Ys – VT – pretty Yfull, good amplitude, smaller hop. Nice.

Kasianenko – FX – double Arabian, lunge forward – FTDT, chest down, jarred back on landing – falls out of memmel turn attempt – double pike, pulls it around – switch 1/2 – double tuck, bounce back.

Yeo – VT 1 – by FAR the best rudi I’ve seen her do across training and warmup, chest up fairly well, bounce back. 14.366

Trtnik with 11.700 on beam. Kasianenko 12.333 on floor.

Yeo – VT 2 – great amplitude on DTY, lunge back. She was definitely saving those vaults for when it mattered.

Osipova – FX – bounce back 3/1 – double y not quite all the way around – double tuck, step back

Reece Cobb of NZL just through a good bars set. Really good amplitude on her shoot to high bar and nice line on handstands. 11.833

Yeo’s DTY goes 14.133, so she’s in just behind Carey and Chiles on vault.

Lee Dayeong finishes vault for South Korea. Better amplitude on her yfull than the first couple, though also more form in the air.

Rolston-Larking – UB – hits jaeger, some knees – pak, leg bend – stalder full, just does get it around, may be too late – has to do some correction recasts on low bar – finishes with flyaway dismount.

Furac – BB – aerial, smooth – switch, pause before side aerial, arm wave correction – side somi, large break but saves it with a bend forward at the hips – switch 1/2, attacked it, but another large wobble – wolf jump, little pause before sissone – kickover front is secure – back walkover before running for her punch front full dismount. Way over time. 1:44.

So Kasianenko’s 12.333 will rank as Ukraine’s top floor score.  South Korea’s vault score comes in about 3 tenths behind Belgium’s.

Subdivision 3 – Rotation 2

Seeing Shin Solyi in this bars warmup with a wrapped ankle and walking very gingerly on it.

Kozlovksa – VT – Ukraine – Just a Yurchenko layout, bounce back

Shin – UB – Korea – maloney, good leg position in pak, very clean – van leeuwen, solid – stalder, slight hesitation – jaeger, nice – toe full, just a bit late into double tuck, small hop. Good one. She has SUCH nice legs-together position on her transition elements.

Kasianenko hits a Yfull, chest a bit forward, medium step to the side back toward center

Eom – UB – maloney to pak to stalder to van leeuwen, solid, just a little leg break in pak – stalder 1/2 to piked jaeger, hit – toe full, late to FTDT, chest down, hop forward. But another pretty solid hit.

Good Yfull from Osipova, slide back.

Cobb – BB -NZL – switch mount – bhs loso series, way short and falls

13.066 for Eom on bars, really solid number following Sin’s 12.8. Lower E but much higher D.

Lee YS – UB – Korea – inbar full, late, pulls it around – inbar shap to pak to van leeuwen, is good today – inbar 1/2 to piked jaeger  – 1/2 turn a little late – stalder full to FTDT, deep, larger bounce back. Things to take but again much better than we saw in PT, especially on the shap/pak/vl combination. That was lovely.

Furac with a stumble OOB on floor on her opening double tuck.

Lee Yunseo with a 13.200 on bars to put her 6th. That 7.100 E score is tight for me compared to some of the mid and higher 7s we’ve seen thrown out for leg disasters so far. There were plenty of deductions in Lee’s routine today, but let’s also reward form when we see it.

Lee DY – UB – Maloney to pak, a but close but works out of it – van leeuwen, clean – stalder to stalder 1/2, clips the low bar swinging through to jaeger, toe full to double tuck, deep, bounce back

Hribar – FX – front 2/1, somewhat short, crossover step back – double pike, good height, small bounce – good leap amplitude – split leap full, hop – 2/1, small step – ring positions show good extension.

South Korea goes 39.066 on bars, so they’re about 1.4 behind Belgium’s pace on vault and bars.

Santi of Chile finishes out the rotation. She has two falls early in her beam routine, saves her bhs back pike series with an arm wave – switch side produces the third fall of the routine – side aerial, holds onto it – 2/1 dismount, step forward.

Subdivision 3 – Rotation 3

Lee YS – BB – KOR – hit wolf double – aerial, pause before split to straddle – side somi, holds it – switch to sissone, pretty positions – bhs loso series, no trouble – back 2.5 dismount, lunge forward. Good one overall.

Cobb – FX – NZL – double tuck, stumble back OOB – 2/1, bounce back – switch, split leap full – front layout

Kasianenko with a fall on bars.

12.733 for Lee on beam, which is 5th so far.

11.000 for Kasianenko

Rolston-Larking – FX – NZL – double turn – double pike, bounce back, a couple steps, stays in – front full –

Yeo – BB – really nice front tuck mount – bhs loso series, lean check – pucnh front, small step – wolf double, fine, slightly wobbly – side aerial, another small lean correction – double pike, lunge back but keeps it to her feet. 12.466

Hubareva with a solid 12.766 for Ukraine on bars.

Osipova – UB – can’t get over on her opening toe full attempt and has to hop off the bar

Eom – BB – Korea – bhs mount and falls – fhs front tuck combination, saved with a wobble – aerial, hit –  but does have a second fall when her wolf turn goes to pieces – finishes double pike with an excellent landing of course.

Santi with a solid open FTDT on floor, good twisting form on 2.5, connected to front tuck

Osipova 10.600, so Kasianenko’s 11.000 will count. Kozlovska still to come.

Kozlovska – UB – maloney, legs to pak, may have briushed her feet on the mat – van leeuwen, hit with legs – jaeger, good distance from bar but cant cast up out of it, stays on the bar and recasts – giant full – finishes with flyaway.

Lee DY – BB – wolf 1.5ish and tries to pretend that’s what she meant – bhs loso, secure, good position – switch to sissone, some back leg position – aerial, huge bend at the hips all the way over but critically stays on – side aerial, hit – side somi, another huge lean forward, and then a lean back, but once again keeps it on the beam – 2/1, bounce back. Lots to deduct for there, but they desperately needed her to stay on after Eom’s 2-fall routine for 10.500.

Kozlovksa went 10.866 on bars, which will also count.

Subdivision 3 – Rotation 4

Eom – FX – Korea – double tuck, bounce back – 2/1, bounce back, good form – switch ring to split leap full – back 1.5 to front full, some knees, hop forward – tries to pull around wolf double – double pike, larger bounce back.

Kozlovksa off beam on her loso series

Rolston-Larking vaults a Tsuk back pike with a lunge back.

Yeo was short on her DLO landing on floor with a lunge forward but otherwise very secure landings and a strong routine overall.

Osipova off on her mount on beam.

Hribar with a strong 13.033 on bars. Santi had taken a rough fall onto her back on vault in the warmup but hit a DTY for 13.666 in the comp. Second vault is a Tsuk layout 1.5, sits it down.

Osipova went 11.566 on beam.

Kasianenko – BB – Ukraine – front tuck mount pitches her forward to split the beam frontways and hold on for dear life, she ends up having to hop off – keeps her side aerial loso on the beam with a leg up check – sissone to lovely split jump – double tuck dismount, shuffle back. 11.833

Lee YS – FX – good high double tuck, bounce back – 3/1, a little short, step to the side – nice switch ring – switch 1/2 – back 1.5 to front full, little shuffle – wolf 2.25 – double pike, chest down, slide back. 13.100 and 8th on floor.

Savelieva – BB – Ukraine – bhs loso, short landing, great hold to minimize the check – switch, short back leg – side aerial, sevure – aerial, large bend at the hips all the way over, stays on – side somi, hesitation correction – back 1.5 dismounb, lunge forward

Lee DY – FX – somewhat falls out of memmel turn but in a way that makes it almost a 2.5 – 2/1, step back – double pike, very deep – switch ring, split leap full, short of split – back 1.5 to front full and falls – 2/1, a couple steps back. 10.033

So South Korea will not be able to catch Belgium. They were really missing Shin Solyi on most of the events today.

After 3:
United States – 167.263
Belgium – 156.063
South Korea – 153.363
Spain – 149.162
Ukraine – 142.729

Lee Yunseo moves into 7th in the AA with 51.833, Yeo is in 3rd on vault, Lee YS and Eom are 6-7 on bars, Lee YS is 5th on beam and 8th on floor.

Subdivision 4 – Rotation 1

We’re up for the Australia, Hungary, Sweden subdivision. The big development for Australia is the illness withdrawal of Emily Whitehead. We’ll see how that affects a team that looked pretty prepared in PT. But now Georgia-Rose Brown is among the five and doing bars, and she didn’t do a whole lot in training that we saw.

Hungary will indeed not have Kovacs on floor or bars, and is going with just three on floor.

Szilagyi – FX – (so Makovits ended up the alternate rather than Szilagyi) – FTDT, chest forward, secure landing – 2.5 to front full, some leg crossing – switch ring and split ring, low front leg on the switch – front full, sances out of it a bit – double pike, hop to the side – split leap full to finish. Good job. 12.266

R Brown – UB – Australia – toe full, good finish to maloney to pak, clean work – van leeuwen, solid leg position – a bit short on cast – blind to markelov, hit – FTDT, chest forward, step, but a strong start for Australia.

Bacskay – FX – Hungary – good height on double pike, small hop back – 2.5 to front tuck, somewaht short, slide back – switch side to popa is a little short but she’s already doing the NCAA combo – 2/1, hop forward.

Nice high Tkatchev to pak combo for McDonald on bars – van leeuwen, clean – finishes FTDT, small hop forward, Good one.

14.066 for McDonald on bars is huge and puts her 3rd there, ahead of Chiles on E score.

Solid Yfull for Paulsson on vault for Sweden, good layout shape, bounce back

Godwin – UB – weiler, small pause before weiler 1/2 but fine – maloney to pak is clean – short cast hs – van leeuwen, legs together – piked jaeger is good – small hestiation in cast 1/2 – giant full – DLO, holds the stick. Great.

Going to be three big counting scores for Australia on bars already, but they will still have GR Brown go.

13.333 for Godwin brings Australia to 40.932, which will way ahead of Belgium’s bars.

GR Brown – UB – toe full, good form to stalder shapo to pak, loses her legs a little – maloney to geinger hit – toe 1/2 to jaeger, pretty – doubel front, hop forward. I’m impressed. She did like nothing in PT and fell in the warmup here and then pulled out a fairly brilliant bars routine in competition.

13.400 for her will count for the team score and bring it up to 41.032 on bars.

Mayer finishes floor for Hungary with a solid double tuck. Hungary will be counting an 11.533 from Bacskay since they’re putting up only 3 on floor. 12.833 for Mayer.

Subdivision 4 – Rotation 2

R Brown – BB – Australia – wolf double, higher position but hit – bhs loso, secure landing, good height – switch to split jump to bhs, clean – aerial, arm wave correction – side aerial, just some feet, solid – 2/1 dismount, lunge back. Good. 1 down, 2 hits to go.

Looks like Dildora Aripova has scratched.

Emelie Westlund starts Sweden with 13.000 on bars.

Eriksson – UB – Sweden – maloney to pak, some legs – van leeuwen, leg break – jaeger, a little low but hit – giant full – double tuck, step salute.

12.266 for R Brown.

McDonald – BB – Australia – switch mount good – side aerial a pretty large break, bend at the hips, keeps it on – bhs loso and falls – resumes with aerial to straddle jump to korbut, solid combination – wolf double was wobbly from the start and a second fall – finishes 2.5 dismount, deep, lunge forward. They’ll need to drop this because otherwise TF is realistic given that bars performance.

N Westlund – UB – Sweden – maloney to pak, gorgeous – van leeuwen and can’t grab the bar and falls, a shame because she has such high scoring potential here. Resumes and hits her vl – Lovely high jaeger – giant full – DLO, bounce back.

12.466 for Westlund even with the fall. Basically the same E score as Lee YS.

Paulsson – UB – Sweden – toe full – maloney to pak, legs van leeuwen, hit – blind to piked jaeger, great height – double tuck, step forward.

Kovacs vault is just a yfull, so high and easy for her. And it looks like she’ll scratch her second vault.

Finally have a score for McDonald, 10.733

Godwin – BB – aerial to straddle to sissone is strong – side somi, no trouble – bhs loso, small arm wave, some soft knees – switch to side aerial, slight foot movement – pulls around wolf triple, lean forward – double pike dismount, chest down, hop forward. A second hit for AUS.

39.600 for Hungary on vault, which is still solid, just a touch behind South Korea there.

13.000 for Godwin is 4th on beam.

Scott – BB – Australia – switch mount, good – bhs layout 2 feet series is huge but she can’t hold onto it, grabs the beam to try to save it, eventually comes off – side aerial, hit – aerial, good position – wolf single – pretty split and wolf positions – switch to split to bhs, quick combination – front tuck, hit, step forward – double pike, deep but hit, lunge back. Should still improve the team score from McDonald’s 2 fall routine, but Australia has opened the door with a counting beam fall.

11.966 for Scott moves Australia to 37.232 on beam, which is ahead of Belgium’s beam score.

Subdivision 4 – Rotation 3

R Brown – FX – Australia – wolf 2.75ish – double tuck, high bounce back – back 1.5 to layout, larger bounce forward – switch ring to switch 1/2 – double pike, chest forward, a couple steps.

Nice loso series from N Westlund on beam – clean aerial combination – side aerial, arm wave –

Szilagyi starts Hungary on bars with 11.633.

Bacskay hits her kindorff to pak combination on bars, so high on the hindorff. DLO, pikes it a lot but lands it under control.

12.733 for Brown on floor is a good start.

We have a fall for Paulsson on beam.

Godwin – FX – Australia – wolf triple is around – front lay to double front, saves the landing today with a deepish stumble, but better than PT where she was falling – DLO, high, a bit uncontrolled on the bounce back – double Y spin, I’d say that’s around – switch and split full, some back leg form – front full, step – double pike, bounce back. Not her best landings today but a hit.

Mayer – Ub – hungary – nice high Ray but can’t get her pak in combination, her feet hit the floor before her hands hit the bar and she’s off – finishes with a flyaway dismount. Without Kovacs and Makovits, the Hungarian bars lineup is hurting.

Eriksson off beam on her loso series. Second fall on side somi.

12.933 for Godwin, which is actually a pretty good floor score for her event though she can do a lot better. Floor scores high so far at this event.

Scott – FX – Australia – FTDT, good position, step back – front tuck through to double back, bounces OOB with both feet – double pike, deep, bounce back OOB again with one foot.

Szekely delivers a necessary strong routine for Hungary on bars – such high piked jaeger.

Emelie Westlund with another fall for Sweden on beam. Comes back with lovely bhs loso series.

13.766 on bars for Szekely, which is 5th.

Lineup change for Australia as GR Brown will come in on floor instead of McDonald. She’ll try to drop Scott’s 12.066 in the previous position.

Seems like the scoreboard is having trouble with the lineup change, so they’re holding Brown even though Scott’s score is long since in.

GR Brown – FX – Australia – double y attempt into illusion, not all the way doubel y, lovely split full – deep landing on back 2.5, but saves it with a step – double tuck, can’t pull it around and hands down – split ring and switch ring are nice – L turn probably no credit, leg below horizontal – 2/1, small hop –

I think she wouldn’t have imagined she’d be called upon to do a floor routine here, but circumstances dictate.

Australia will give back nearly the entirety of their lead on Belgium in that rotation, but will still have one heading to vault, where Belgium went 40.099.

Subdivision 4 – Rotation 4

McDonald is also not warming up vault, so it seems something must have happened in that beam routine. Because now GRB has to warm up vault. Whitehead and McDonald down is putting huge strain on this team.

The warmup is done and they still don’t have a score for GRB’s floor in the last rotation.

Bacskay – BB – Hungary – hits loso mount – bhs loso series, leg-up check, some knees – switch to straddle jump, short – side somi, holds onto it with an arm wave – side aerial, secure – 2/1 dismount, step to the side.

Wingren – FX – Sweden – double pike, clean, slide back – switch side – 1.5 to front tuck, hit, hop forward – switch side 1/2, pulls around, slight lack of control on landing – double tuck, lunge forward

GR Brown – VT – Australia – clean Yfull, medium hop back, good. 

11.366 for Bacskay.

Kovacs – BB – Hungary – switch mount is good – connects to switch 1/2, low, to korbut – side aerial to bhs, hit – aerial to straddle check – split jump to wolf jump – side somi, solid – switch – double tuck, chest well down but secure landing. One of her best beams of the year.

And 13.533 puts her into 2nd on beam.

Romi brown good distance yfull, bounce back – 

Godwin – VT – Australia – good landing on Tsuk 1.5, hop to the side

Karla Navas peels off the low bar on pak catch.

Australia currently 3 tenths behind Belgium, waiting on Scott’s vault, which will be another Yfull. Good in the air, some pike, bounce back. Can she make up 3 tenths on the other fulls?

Mayer – BB – Hungary – front pike mount, step forward – wolf double, around – bhs lay-pike, secure landing – switch leap, good position – side aerial, solid – switch ring, back leg question – side somi, solid – double tuck dismount, step back. 12.766

N Westlund – FX – Sweden – switch leap full to stag – double pike, bounce back – does have a Bambi fall on a front full in her last pass.

It was enough from Scott! Australia moves ahead of Belgium by exactly .032 and will sit in 2nd place as a team. Could be significant.

Szilagyi – BB- Hungary – split handstand to one arm mount, more hesitant today than in PT but does get there in the end – wolf turn 1.5, big lean, keeps it on – side aerial, small lean – switch to straddle – bhs bhs loso series, solid – aerail to split jump, hit – side somi, arm wave correction – double tuck, bounce back. 12.133

Paulsson finishes this subdivision with a 12.600 on floor.

After 4:
USA – 167.263
Australia – 156.095
Belgium – 156.063
Korea – 153.363
Hungary – 152.296

Godwin moves into 4th in the AA with her 52.866, the best non-US score. Kate McDonald is in 3rd on bars, Szekely is into 5th, Romi Brown is 6th. Kovacs is 2nd on beam, Godwin is 5th, Mayer in 7th. So lots of changes in the top 8 there.

Subdivision 5 – Rotation 1

Zhang – BB – candle, hit – switch ring, check – bhs bhs layout 2 ft, good, step back – aerial, pause before split ring jump, another pause – full turn – switch to sheep, lean at hips – stuck 2/1 dismount. No major errors there but lots of broken connections. 12.833

Spence – UB – toe full to maloney to pak, hit – can leeuwen, solid – blind to jaeger, good – dismounts double tuck, slide back.

Nathan – VT – hits a Yfull, medium lunge back, good direction.

12.800 for Spence on UB.

I know Ellie Black is doing routine visualization right now but it looks like she has fallen asleep in her chair.

Denomee – UB – Canada – front toe 1/2 to maloney – van leeuwen, hit – gienger is nice, she’s going to lose a lot on handstands but a solid routine – giant full – front tuck 1/2 dismount. 12.866

Tang – BB – loso mount is very clean – ro 2 foot layout is right on, pause before split jump – switch to split ring to bhs, broke connection – switch ring – switch 1/2 and falls, alas, looked tentative on that element, didn’t get up to her usual split position – aerial, was lovely and then got hesitant working out of it with a check – double pike, solid

Black – UB – maloney to hindorff, hit – Black to Yezhova very nice – van leeuwen, small leg break – giant full – toe on tuck 1/2. Excellent for her.

Long wait for the scores for both Tang and Black.

13.933 for Black, which is 5th on bars.

Turner – UB – Canada – inbar, good flat position – inbar 1/2 to piked jaeger, clean – toe full, late – pak, pretty – maloney to stalder 1/2, late – DLO, small bounce back.

12.466 for Tang.

Ou – BB – fhs front tuck, large break but stays on, leg up wobble – switch, pause before switch 1/2 into lovely korbut – switch ring, small step – split ring jump to bhs to split jump, hit – aerial to straddle jump, lean before bhs – hits side somi – 2.5 dismount, step. Ou Yushan is the one who hits beam now. Like Zhang, she had a number of small hesitations and broken connections even when she looked on, but a hit.

13.166 for Turner.

Canada 39.965 on bars, which is a little more than a point behind Australia’s bars score.

Still waiting on the score for Ou. Every other event is long done. China is like, “You will have to confer over every single one of our connections.”

13.900 for Ou is the top beam score.

Luo – BB – China – front walkover mount, lovely – ro 2 foot layout and falls – cancel worlds – switch to split ring, pause before bhs – switch ring, little arm wave before bhs – aerial, way short and a second fall – stag ring to korbut is lovely – Yurchenko loop to her belly and basically almost rolls forward to flop on the ground but I think held her feetup – double tuck dismount, super deep, large lunge forward, just did once again avoid a fall. Thanks, I hate it here.

China will be on 39.199, which is still high in the grand scheme but not nearly the beam score they were looking for. And we’re probably looking at only 1 Chinese beamer in the final.

I love that Luo still got 10.766 when basically falling 4 times.

Subdivision 5 – Rotation 2

Tang – FX – China – pulls out 2/1 to punch front, legs in 3/1 – 2.5 to front pike lands completely OOB – quad turn attempt was better today, but I’d say triple credit, but no huge deductions – double pike, chest well down but under control – split leap full and the rebound got fully crazy in the air and she was like, don’t worry about it, this is choreography and not a droopy fall.

Pedrick is off beam on her side somi, and she goes 11.700

13.066 for Tang on floor, which they’ll take.

Ou – FX – China – whip whip to 3/1, step to the side – back 2.5 to front tuck, step – double tuck, step back – switch ring and switch 1/2 – falls out of double L turn a little. But she’s the one who showed up the most so far today.

Spence – BB – Canada – candle mount, hit – hits wolf turn – aerial, knee to split jump wolf jump – bhs lay-pike, secure – side somi, hit – switch to switch 1/2 to bhs, pretty quickly connected – 1.5 dismount, step

Bachurina off bars on the low bar on a 1/2 turn that turned into a full turn that turned into a goodbye. And now she seems to have injured her hip area on her dismount.

12.533 for Spence. 13.400 for Ou Yushan.

Zhang – FX – China – falls out of quad turn attemp, not too bad – 2.5 to front pike, lands fully OOB – switch ring to siwtch 1/2, solid – whip to 3/1, bounce back – memmel turn, definite credit – double pike, deep, another lunge back OOB

Turner saves her loso series and her front aerial, large break at the hips – 12.866

Bachurina is being helped off the podium by medical staff.

Black – BB – Canada – switch mount, hit – switch 1/2, short of split, connected to korbut – double turn, hits it with a lean – front tuck, nice – bhs layout 2 feet, secure – side somi, solid – 2.5 dismount, small hop. Good work.

Ooof just 12.366 for Zhang on floor.

Wei hits 3/1 to front tuck – double tuck is shortish with an arm wave and step forward – 2.5, step lunge out – nice switch ring and switch 1/2.

Black went 13.266 on beam, which is now 4th place, ahead of Jones who drops to 5th.

Wei goes 12.733 on floor, which will count for the team score as China scores the same on floor as on beam. So that’s how beam went.

Subdivision 5 – Rotation 3

Pedrick – FX – Canada – popa, good completion – 1.5 through to 3/1, attempt, well short, lunges forward – froqnt tuck through to 2/1, slide back – double pike, step back – 12.900

Tang – VT – China – Yfull, pikes it down to get it, bounce back. 13.000

Ou – VT – China – similar to Tang, some pike in a yfull, but nearly had more control on landing until a kind of large arm wave cropped up on her small step to the side. 13.000 for her as well

Turner – FX – Canada – memmel turn to full turn – 3/1, step back

Zhang – VT – China – Tsuk 2/1 is a lot better than training, chest down and leg crossing but clearly hit and a medium step back. 13.833.

Wei – VT – China – yfull, piking, bounce back, a little more crunched on the table but still got some distance.

Turner 13.300 on floor.

Black – FX – Canada – popa, good – front full to double pike, step back – front 2/1 to front tuck, hop – split leap full, some low back leg – switch full, around – 2.5, some leg crossing, crossover step. Good. 13.266

Denommee – FX – Canada – nice high double tuck, small step right into the corner – split leap full – DLO, good amplitude, shuffle back, looked like she just stayed in – switch to switch 1/2 – wolf turn double – double pike, chest forward, hop. 13.266

Canada on pace to go comfortably ahead of Australia now, actually ahead of China overall now, but China still gets to go to bars.

Bachurina is back out doing beam, which surprises me after how much pain she looked after bars

Nathan – BB – Singapore – punch front moutn, step forward – switch 1/2, shorter, step abck – side aerial to loso series and falls – punch front, short, saves it with a bounce back – wolf to straddle – 2/1, about an 1/8 twist under, hop.

Subdivision 5 – Rotation 4

Yildiz with a very solid bhs bhs loso series on beam – straight jump 1/1 from side – aerial, a bit short but holds it into split jump wolf jump – side aerial, arm wave – check full turn –

Ou – Ub – China – van leeuwen, clean – blind to healy to piked jaeger, just a little close – pak, pretty – toe on to maloney to gienger – short cast hs on high – FTDT, little hop. Amid all the all-over-the-place China has been today, Ou has been the star. 14.166

Spence – VT – Y1.5 – hits it well, knees, medium hop forward. 13.633

Wei – UB – inbar full to komova to pak, clean – van leeuwen, good – inbar 1/2 to healy, a bit crooked but worked through it into piked jaeger – DLO 1/1, solid, some pike, little hop.

Denommee – VT – Canada – also hits a Y1.5, a bit more knees than Spence, larger hop forward

14.600 for Wei puts her behind Derwael, ahead of Jones in 2nd on bars.

Luo – UB – China – healy to ling to layout jaeger, nice – pak, clean – maloney to gienger, strong – healy 1/2 – FTDT, hop to the side. That was the one.

Black – VT – Canada – goes 13.666 for her Tsuk 1.5 with a hop forward – handspring front full 2nd vault is also hit with a crossover step. Nice job.

Luo goes 14.900 on bars to take over the lead there.

Tang – Ub – China – maloney to pak, good – van leeuwen – healy to ling to front giant full to piked jaeger, a bit close – DLO, chest forward, step.

The promise of China’s bars team delivered.

Pedrick with a good DTY, some leg crossing, bounce back. Really nice day for Canada overall.

14.333 for Tang’s bars is slightly ahead of Ou, so that will count. China finishes on 162.064, 5 points behind the US. Canada will be comfortably in 3rd.

Pedrick’s second vault is a ro 1/2 on front tuck with a stumble back.

After 5
USA – 167.263
China – 162.064
Canada – 159.661
Australia – 156.095
Belgium – 156.063

In the AA, Ou Yushan moves into 3rd and Ellie Black is 4th and Tang Xijing is 7th.

Ellie Black is 4th on vault now, Luo and Wei are 1, 3 on bars as the two Chinese representatives for the final. Ou is 1st on beam and Black is 4th. Ou is also 5th on beam with Turner 6th and Black 8th.

Subdivision 6 – Rotation 1

Rooskrantz – FX – split leap full – back 1.5 to front full, stumble slide backward but saved it – double tuck, small bounce – wolf double, not quite around – L hop full, pretty low – switch 1/2 – 12.200

Boyer – UB – maloney to pak, large straddle – van leeuwen, hit, toe – piked jaeger – toe full to double tuck, hop forward. Hit. 12.800

Ruiz – VT 1 – mexico – sits her Y1.5

Newman-Achee saves back tuck mount on beam

Friess – UB – Franc e- maloney, good height – clear hip to pak, large straddle for her as well – toe full, right on top – van leeuwen, tucks it some on catch – blind to jaeger, low but hit – double front, a tad deep, hop to the side. 13.233

Heduit – UB – weiler 1/2, some legs into maloney to ricna, hit – Ray, strong – pak, good flat shape – van leeuwen – some short handstand positions – giant full is a bit late – double front, step back. Nice.

Mordenti – BB – Luxembourg – good switch mount – wolf turn hit – large break on an aerial but keeps it on – switch to split, short split – side aerial, hit – back tuck, step

Rasmussen – FX – front tuck through to 2/1, bounce back – split leap full – switch ring, solid – double back, bounce – 12.600

Sandoval of Mexico hits a Tsuk 2/1, just some direction. 13.633

DJDS – UB – Nabieva to pak – maloney to bhardwaj, super high – van leeuwen, good – inbar, some hesitation into 1/2 turn – a magnificant save on a piurouette where it looked for all the world like she would go over and she didn’t – DLO 1/1, some pike, hop.

14.400 for Melanie on bars puts her in 5th.

Escalera – Mex – vaults a Y1.5 with two steps back and out of the area. 12.966

France goes 49.099 on bars which is 3rd there, just ahead of Australia.

Escalera’s second vault is a solid Tsuk full, chest forward, step.

Subdivision 6 – Rotation 2

heduit – BB – switch mount to switch, good – wolf double, small hesitation at the end – onodi, clean – side aerial to loso, crazy leg in her loso but keeps it on the beam swithc a check – switch ring, front leg dropped early – aerai, pause before split sissone – double pike, hands down – and it was going so well…..

Ruiz – UB – MEX – blind to piked jaeger, solid – short hs – pak, legs tog4ether – shaposh, leg separation to a good bail position – toe full gets a little crazy – toe shoot – DLO 1/1 is nice and high, lunge back

12.033 for Heduit.

Friess – BB – front pike mount is excellent – wolf jump to split jump, short of split – also strong on her 2 foot layout – punch front, large lean forward, couldn’t tell if she touched the beam, Celeste Mordenti was in the way – swithc to switch 1/2, short – split jump – back tuck, hit – double tuck dismount, chest well down, hop forward

Sandoval – UB – Mexico – shaposh to pak, leg form good – maloney to bail to toe shoot – toe full, great position to a high gienger – FTDT, just a little deep, step forward. Really nice job. 13.400

Boyer – BB – France – ro 2 foot layout, small rebound – switch to switch 1/2, rushed, check – aerail, check – breaks connection into split sissone – side aerial, solid – side somi, lean forward but stays on – double pike dismount, bounce back.

13.666

Escalera – UB – Mexico – van leeuwen, some les – blind to piked jaeger, a bit close – tkatchev to pak – maloney to gienger, legs apart on catch – giant full, late into FTDT, shuffle to the side. 12.966

DJDS – BB – France – front pike mount, little hop forward – front pike, a little deeper but also hit – bhs layout 2 feet and falls – switch, pause befroe switch 1/2 – aerial to split to bhs, hit – double pike, secure landing.

Other than Boyer, a rough beam rotation for France. 38.465 is level with Hungary here, behind the US, China, and Canada.

Subdivision 6 – Rotation 3

Boyer – FX – France – front through to fouble tuck, small bounce back – pulls around doubel L turn – split leap full is strong – double pike, chest forward, hop – double y spin, pretty much around – L hop full to switch 1/2 – crazy wolf double attempt that actually did get 2 turns around but was also a windstorm. 13.300

Heduit – FX – France – FTDT, lunge back – double arabian, hit, hop forward – switch ring – split leap full, slide back – wolf double, around – doubel tuck, hop back – switch 1/2 – double pike, another hop, not too large. Good work. 13.166

Looks like Sandoval fell on beam.

Rooskrantz – UB – shaposh to pak, leg break – van leeuwen, anotehr small leg break – good hs on high bar – piked jaeger, nice amplitude – tkatchev – 1/2 turn on high – giant full – FTDT, small hop, much better than training.

Loustalot – BB – Mexico – hits loso mount – bhs loso loso series, nice execution, leg up – switch, good 180, to switch 1/2 – side aerial, a bit low, step back – split jump from side – double pike, two lunges back. 12.533

Friess hit floor for 13.100

DJDS – FX – France – FTDT, bounce back – split jump full – double tuck, bounce back OOB – attempts wolf triple, not quite all the way around 3 – double pike, good, little bounce –

Escalera saves her mount with a big check – good loso series

13.266 for Melanie, so France will be just behind Canada on floor and beam scores but has a major edge because of bars.

Subdivision 6 – Rotation 4

Loustalot hits FTDT first pass, a bit short – front tuck to 2/1, small hop in place – switch to split leap full to popa, nice – doubel tuck, hop to the side – double pike, chest down, step forward. 12.633

Heduit – VT – nice DTY, good direction and height, step to the side

Sandoval on floor for mexico, chest up on FTDT, good.

Newman – Achee – UB – toe full, a bit late – maloney to pak, some foot lexing – van leeuwen, hit – solid cast hs on high – toe 1/2 can’t swing through and has to hop off – she exceeded the fall resume time by a second – tries double tuck dismount, knees down.

13.666 for DJDS on her DTY, whcih will put her behind Black, ahead of Godwin in the AA.

Friess – VT 1 – handspring rudi, does successfully land it today, chest well down and a bounce to the side

Daries off beam on her loso series.

Campos – FX – Mexico – does quite keep the leg up all the way through memmel – double pike, bounce back – 2/1, step back – split leap full, a bit of knee form – switch – switch 1/2, tight – front full, low, hit –

Devillard – VT 1 – huge handspring rudi, one of her best, great amplitude, lunge back. 14.433

Rasmussen – BB – Denmark – pretty front walkover mount – switch to wolf, hit – bhs loso, secure – full turn, check – side somi, secure – straddle jump from side, lean – side aerial, saves it with a pretty big lean to the side – split jump from side – layout full, stuck.

Devillard – VT 2 – also big amplitude on her DTY, leg crossing – step back. Should be two big numbers.  14.166

France comes in at 161.428, which is .6 behind China and puts France in 3rd.

Devillard goes into 3rd on vault, behind Chiles, ahead of Yeo.

After 6:
USA – 167.263
China – 162.064
France – 161.428
Canada – 159.661
Australia – 156.095
Belgium – 156.063
South Korea – 153.363
Hungary – 152.296
Mexico – 150.962
Spain – 149.162
Sweden – 147.529
Ukraine – 142.729

AA:
Jones – 55.766
Carey – 55.132
Ou – 54.466
Black – 54.131
[Chiles – 53.998]
De Jesus Dos Santos – 53.865
Godwin – 52.866
Tang – 52.865
Heduit – 52.698
Vaelen – 52.432
[Friess – 52.265]
Barbosu – 52.233

Subdivision 7 – Rotation 1

We’re back from the break for the Netherlands/Japan/Finland subdivision, where Japan and the Netherlands will be aiming at minimum to beat that Australian 156.095 because that’s starting to look like the absolute score that must be defeated for TF.

Current last-in scores to watch are Black’s 13.933 on bars, Casabuena’s 12.966 on beam, and Melanie’s 13.266 on floor.

Netherlands was like, “Fuck this no-stage thing, we’re still going to choreograph something and Eythora is the star of this class.”

Sakaguchi – FX – Japan – FTDT, chest a little down, step back – popa – 3/1, lovely in the air, good control on landing – switch ring – split leap full, around – back 1.5 to front full, little hop to the side – 2.5, a bit short, step back.

Volleman – UB – Netherlands – shaposh to gienger, solid height – little arch in hs – jaeger, good distance – bail, clear vertical – clear hip to shoot to high – giant full, slightly crooked – FTDT, small hop.

13.066 for Sakaguchi.

I like the part where my browser fronze during Eythora’s perfect bars routine, so it didn’t save the quick hits, but it was glorious. Honestly should get the highest E score on bars of the meet so far.

13.833 for Thorsdottir with 8.333 execution. So not quite the highest but it should have been.

Visser – UB – Netherlands – stalder tkatchev 1/2 to yezhova, one of her better editions – stalder full to stalser shap to pak – van leeuwen, legs together – giant full – FTDT, little hop. Another excellent one.

Miyata – FX – Japan – DLO 1/1, some loose legs throughout but controlled the landing pretty well – whip whip to 2.5, little hop – 1.5 to front full, hop forward – switch – split leap full, short of split – double pike, stuck landing, chest down.

14.400 for Visser puts her in 5th on bars.

Veerman – UB – Nehterlands – jaeger, hit – stalder tkatchev piked to pak to maloney to bhardwaj, hit combo, some leg form in bhardwaj – toe full to van leeuwen, some feet – FTDT, small hop.

That was the best bars rotation NED could have hoped for.

14.533 for Veerman puts her in 5th now on bars. I have some issues with the closeness of her E score to the previous two.

Miyata went 13.600 on floor (!) which puts her 4th.

Watanabe – FX – Japan – double back, bounce – popa – 2.5 to front pike, good amplitude on pike – switch 1/2 – double turn, tried triple but was under – back 1.5 to front full, hit – 2/1, stuck.

Netherlands with a huge 42.766 on bars, ahead of the US there

Peterkova falls on her front walkover mount on beam – resumes with aerial, check – switch to split to straddle, well connected – bhs loso series, 2nd fall – switch ring was hit – punch front full, step forward. 

Japan 39.766 on floor is up toward the top there, 3rd-best floor score. 

Subdivision 7 – Rotation 2

Volleman – BB – bhs mount, keeps it on with a step back and arm wave – illusion turn, hit – fhs, then a kickover front, kind of connected, check – L turn, hit – side somi, secure – double turn, hits it – switch to cat leap – korbut – gainer layout dismount, solid landing.

Tanskanen with a solid hit on bars, ending with a double tuck, step to the side.

Sakaguchi – VT – Japan – very good DTY, small slide back and some chest forward.

12.533 for Volleman.

Thorsdottir – BB – Netherlands – loso mount and falls immediately – aerail is lovely, pause before split, pause before bhs – side aerial to loso, 2nd fall – L turn to switch to y spin to full turn, pretty combination but risking combo credit – illusion, turn to the side correction – 2.5 dismount, lunge forward.

Yamada went 13.233 on vault.

Miyata – VT – Japan – DTY – NAILED her DTY, what an excellent landing, just some leg crossing.

Kuusikko went 12.866 on bars.

Hautala – UB – Finland – toie 1/2 with leg break to jaeger, hit – Hindorff supppper close but worked out of it – bail, small leg break on catch – toe full, crooked late but continues – toe shoot – double pike dismount, two lunges back.

Miyata VT 2 – deep landing on Tsuk1.5, a couple lunges back to save it.

De Ruiter falls on her mount on beam – bhs loso series is hit, just a bit of knees – aerial, check – L turn, large break, lean to the side, bend at the hips – side aerial, secure landing – 1.5 dismount, little movement.

Makela – UB – clear hip to maloney to pak, small leg breaks – misses van leeuwen, can’t catch, well short of the high bar – resumes with a good jaeger – toe 1/2 – giant full, late finish – DLO, hop forward

Eythora went 11.666 on beam, de Ruiter 11.233 despite one fewer fall.

Visser – UB – Netherlands – bhs mount is good – switch, pause before side somi, hit – split jump 1/2 from side is hit – straight jump full from side, also on – side aerial to bhs, lean correction – double turn is lovely – split leap to sissone, pretty – ro bhs 2/1, little hop.

Japan went 41.633 to stay in very good shape.

For as good as Netherlands was on bars…then there was beam. 36.932 there, which ranks 8th so far.

Subdivision 7 – Rotation 3

Volleman – FX – Netherlands – triple turn is around – double tuck to punch front, cowboys the double tuck, but secure – double L turn to illusion, I’m glad she’s not going that held-leg double turn anymore – 2.5, step forward – doubel y spin – switch 1/2 – I’d say she gets credit for that quad turn, connects to double turn. The first real quad turn we’ve seen at the meet. 13.200

Kuusikko hits beam, slide back on 1.5 dismount.

Yamada leads off Japan on bars with 13.666

Watanabe – UB – Japan – stalder to stalder shap to pak, good height – maloney to bail, big arch but brings it back to toe shoot – toe full blind to jaeger, hit – toe 1/2 – DLO, small step into salute step. 12.933

Visser – FX – Netherlands – deep 3/1 to front tuck, though not as deep as training – double L turn t- double turn – double y to illusion probably gets credit for all of that – 2/1, bounce back – switch ring and split leap full – double tuck, landed in a ball but hit and under control. 13.666

Miyara – UB – Japan – jaeger, solid – arch on handstand, brings it back – Church to pak, pak is too close and she has to muscle up to toe on – maloney to gienger, solid – short hs on high – giant full – FTDT, hop to the side. Well iot was an adventure but she stayed on.

Thorsdottir – FX – Netherlands – 3/1 to front tuck is hit – double L a little inder, connected to double turn, double y, illusion – double tuck, step back – switch ring to split leap full, a little tight on the split leap – back 1.5 to front tuck and falls, got nothing into that front tuck. A mournful ending indeed.

Watanabe’s bars score is out first inquiry of the meet.

13.500 for Fukasawa, so Japan goes 40.099 on bars, keeping them ahead of Canada’s team score pace.

Tanskanen – BB – Finland – spins herself right off the beam on a double wolf attempt. When wolf turns attack – resumes with bhs loso loso series, check – hits side somi – aerial, solid – 2/1 dismount, step back.

Eythora 12.466 with a fall.

De Ruiter  – FX NED – split leap full – double pike, looks like she got her feet stuck under her and sat down – front full, step – double tuck, secure landing – switch ring – switch 1/2 –

Watanabe’s inquity was accepted and her routine is up to 13.233, which takes Japan’s bars up to 40.399.

Subdivision 7 – Rotation 4

Sakaguchi – BB – Japan – switch to split to straddle, strong – side aerial to loso, secure, good amplitude – switch ring, not quite there – aerial, just a little short but a secure landing – wolf double comes through, a little slow – side somi, hit – 2.5 dismount, step forward. Very good job.

Visser – Vt – solid layout position in her yfull, bounce.

Big 13.466 for Sakaguchi on beam!

Yamada – BB – Japan – wolf double, clean – switch leap, nice – bhs loso, arm wave – front tuck, deep, but holds it securely – aerial, hit – split ring leap – side aerial, secure – double pike, chest really low but landed

Thorsdottir hits her DTY, a couple steps back. 13.800

Visser goes into 4th in the AA between Ou and Black. De Ruiter also hits her yfull. Critical score to see if Netherlands can pass Canada in the team scores. Otherwise, TF will be tough.

Miyata with a large break on her 2 foot layout on beam but stays on – switch to sissone, hit – aerial to split jump to bhs – double turn, has to turn to the side to keep it together but does – side aerial, secure – side somi, hit – double pike, chest down but good control.

De Ruiter’s score will not improve Netherlands’ total, so they’ll end up about three tenths behind Canda.

The Miyata routine will take Japan above Canada when her score comes up. And it’s a 13.700, which takes them .002 ahead of France as well.

Watanabe – BB – Japan – front pike mount, excellent – 2 foot layout, nailed it – switch to switch 1/2, nice positions – aerial, check, arm wave – full turn, good – side aerial, strong – 2.5 dismount, hop to the side.

Very impressive day for Japan and we’ll wait to see if this score is enough to pass China.

13.600 for Watanabe. Insanely good beam score for Japan overall, and that will put them ahead of China.

After 7
USA – 167.263
Japan – 162.564
China – 162.064
France – 161.428
Canada – 159.661
Netherlands – 159.396
Australia – 156.095
Belgium – 156.063

Miyata moves into 4th in the AA and Visser is 5th. Veerman and Visser in the top 8 on bars for now. Miyata and Watanabe on pace to make the beam final at this point. Miyata may also make the floor final.

Subdivision 8 – Rotation 1

It’s Brazil time. Brazil will view Japan’s 2nd-place score right now as very beatable, so 2nd place should be the goal here.

Danusia just said the words “Rebeca Andrade” and then we heard some sort of banshee shriek of excitement from the right.

Soares – BB – Brazil – eponymous candle 1/2 mount – wolf double, slight hesitation, fine – bhs loso, large break, lean to the side, keeps it on the beam – aerial, pause before split jump, pause before back tuck – swtich, nice – split leap 1/2, secure – wolf jump to sissone – bhs bhs double pike, lunge back. A nervvvvvyyyy routine but she stayed on.

Malewski went 12.666 to start Germany on floor.

Macias – UB – Argentina – toe full to stalder shap to pak, nice combination – can leeuwen – toe 1/2 to jaeger, good height – double tuck, hop forward. Pretty good routine.

12.466 for Soares on beam.

Andrade – BB – Brazil – switch mount, small arm wave – switch to switch 1/2 to split, good work – bhs loso, large leg up wobble, brings it back – aerial to split ring – switch ring, small check – side aerial, nice – wolf jump to sissone, good back leg position – full turn – ro bhs double pike, step back. One larger break but otherwise solid.

Quaas 12.233 FX for Germany.

Schoenmaier on FX starts with a solid FTDT, good control – double tuck, bounce back, good tuck position –

Andrade 13.400 on beam.

Saraiva – BB – bhs mount, good – split jump to korbut, hit – 2 foot layout, secure – full turn – bhs loso loso and falls – FLAVIA – switch ring, secure, bealitful – aerial to split ring jump – side somi, lean forward – split leap to sissone – double pike, step back. FLAVIA.

Koenig – FX – Germany – double tuck, good control – 1.5 to front full low but solid, little hop forward – switch to split leap full – wolf double, rises out of it but around – 2.5, step forward.

Long wait for Flavia’s skill. Donatella probably over to figure out how to get her into the final anyway.

13.000 for Koenig on floor. 38.266 total for Germany.

Flavia’s score in with 12.900 with a fall.

Pedro – BB – Brazil – switch to split 1/2, secure – bhs loso series and falls – resumes with solid aerial to split to bhs – finishes with double tuck, step back.

So we’re looking at Brazil with a 38.766 on beam, which is still 4th on the event. Now they’ll be aiming for a team score that hits 41 on floor to try to make up the 2 point beam gap against Japan.

Subdivision 8 – Rotation 2

Seitz leads off vault for Germany with her Yfull, solid, high, easy for her, bounce back. 13.466

Pedro – FX – Brazil – whip to double arabian, step forward, keeps it in bounds – double tuck, bounce back – split jump full, a low front leg there – switch – swithc leap full – 2/1, legs crossing, bounce back – switch 1/2 – double pike, chest down, minor step back. 12.833

Martinez falls on beam for Argentina.

Koenig – VT – Germany – Tsuk layout full – clean in the air but a large bounce back and another little hop

Soares – FX – Brazil – double arabian, bounce forward OOB – FTDT, stuck landing – double y spin, switch ring to split leap full – wolf triple, gets it around – doubel tuck, little bounce – split jump full – doubel pike, bounce back

13.466 for Soares.

Andrade – FX – Brazil – front full through tFTDT, nice job, cone step back – DLO 1/1, solid layout position, lunge back – swiotch 1/1 is around – falls out of double Y spin with a stumble on one foot – DLO, great today, bounce back – split leap full – double pike, a little out of control on the bounce back but stays in. Much better than podium training.

Andrade goes 14.200 for first place on floor even with falling to Mercury on her Memmel.

Saraiva – FX – Brazil – whip to FTDT, solid landing, step – switch full, excellent – DLO, a little deep, step back stayed in bounds – split leap 1.5, wrenches it around – switch ring 1/2, the only who who is allowed to try it – 1.5 to front full, solid landing – double pike, chest forward but control the landing.

Brazil will definitely easily break that 41 mark on floor.

Flavia also goes 14.200 on floor but is ahead of Andrade on execution. Brazil goes 41.866 on floor to nearly match the US number there.

Subdivision 8 – Rotation 3

Wildi – BB – SUI – hits her front pikel mount with a check – falls on loso series –

Koenig very close catch on a Jaeger on bars

Pedro – VT – Brazil – Yfull – good hit, bounce back with both feet, some leg separation. 12.933

Malewski – UB – piked jaeger, hit – pak to toe on toe toe full, good finish position – hits van leeuwen – doubel front, hop back. A good one. 13.333

Saraiva – VT – Brazil – hits her DTY, just a little jarring with her chest forward on landing but not a ton of movement.

Mesropian – FX – Argentina – double tuck, a bit forward, hop – 2/1, bounce back, some leg crossing – switch to split leap full –

Andrade – VT 1 – Cheng is magnificant, very high, pretty, landed just ever so slightly forward with a hop. A casual 15.066 nonetheless

Andrade – VT 2 – WHHAAAAAAA she botches her DTY attempt and ends up just doing a yurchgenko back tuck. We’re far away from the steps portion of the vault runway but I assume something was wrong with them.

Seitsz – UIb – Germany – stalder shap to ricna – jaeger, good – Church to pak, very clean – van leeuwen, small leg break – toe full, good into FTDT, hop to the side. Good work. Bars final is starting to get tiggghttt.

I’m really hoping Andrade still makes vault final with a 3.00 D score second vault.

Ooooh 14.400 for Seitz is into just 7th on bars. This is such a tough final. That bumps melanie to 8th with the Italians still to go.

11.466 for Andrade’s second vault, which puts her in 11th on vault (10th with 2 per) so she will not make the vault final. GASP.

Oliveira – VT – Brazil – fairly messy Yfull, lots of knees and feet and a bounce back

Brazil will still go 41.832, which gains them tenths on Japan.

Subdivision 8 – Rotation 4

Quaas is off on her bhs loso series for Germany.

Pedro – UB – Brazil – shaposh to pak, some leg break to toe full – maloney to bail to toe shoot, solid – blind to jager, high, foot form – double pike, feet, hop forward. 12.800

Oliveira – UB – Brazil – maloney to pak, pretty – toe on to van leeuwen, clean – front giant full to piked jaeger – doubel front 1/2 out dismount, step to the side. Good. 13.233

Some super secure acro elements from koenig on beam – kickover front a bit more shaky but nice work.

Saraiva – UB – Brazil – toe full good finsih into piked tkatchebv to pak, solid – toe on to maloney to gienger, hit – only dismounts with a flyaway after that vault landing. So that will be something to watch in later phases of the comp.

Schoenmaier with a big wobble on her front tuck mount on beam but keeps it on. Lean correction on loso series.

13.200 for Saraiva.

Andrade – UB – Brazil – maloney to stalder full to piked tkatchev to pak, lovely – van leeuwen, legs right together – blind to piked jaeger, hit – toe full to FTDT, stuck landing. Amazing.

14.666 adn third place.

Malewski – BB – Germany – loso mount, secure – sdie aerial  to loso, leg-up wobble, keeps it on. Switch to switch 1/2 to split, some feet, good combination – aerial, holds it – wolf double and has to grabs the beam and sit down and you didn’t see anything that’s barely a deduction because wolf turn – stuck layout 1/1.

Andrade’s bars takes Brazil into 2nd place, a point ahead of Japan.

Andrade’s score knocks De Jesus Dos Santos out of the bars final. Seitz is now into the 8th position.

So we ended up with a 12.933 for Malewski, which will keep Germany in 10th place as a team.

After 8
USA – 167.263
Brazil – 163.563
Japan – 162.564
China – 162.064
France – 161.428
Canada – 159.661
Netherlands – 159.396
Austrealia – 156.095

AA
Andrade – 57.332
Jones – 55.766
Carey – 55.132
Ou – 54.466
Miyata – 54.166
Visser – 54.165
Saraiva – 54.133
Black – 54.131

Current cutoffs for EF are 13.416 on vault, 14.400 on bars, 13.266 on beam, and 13.300 on floor

Subdivision 9 – Rotation 1

It’s Italy time, their chance to see if they can be more dramatic and chaotic than Brazil. A tough category.

Abdelsalam – FX – Egypt – L turn – doubel tuck, little bounce – double pike, stumble back OOB

Nice dance element positions from Huang on beam for TPE

Villa – UB – Italy – tkatchev to pak to maloney to bhardwaj, lovely – van leeuwen, clean – front giant full – 1/2 turn, scoots back to the middle – FTDT, hop back. Nicely done.

Hilton – VT – Ireland – pretty solid yfull, composed shape, hop to the side.

14.166 for Villa to start for Italy. Big opening score.

Maggio – Ub – Italy – good first hs – Ray to pak, very high – stalder full to maloney to tkatchev, clean – bail, good vertical – toe full, little leg break hesitation, toe shoot to high, slightly short on hs – double Arabian dismount, nearly holds stick, step forward.

Lai Pin Ju a number of steps back on her bhs back tuck series but keeps it on the beam.

Maggio goes 14.200 on bars. I would not have had her ahead of Villa.

D;Amato – Ub – Italy – good first hs – maloney to tkatchev, just a bit close – stalder tkatchev piked to pak to stalder shap 1/2, no trouble today – front giant full across the bars to double front 1/2 out, trouble on the dismount , chest down and a large lunge to the side and off the mat for an additional step.

Mai Liu – BB – TPE – front tuck mount, hit – wolf jump full from side position is nice to see – side aerial to swingdown, a little awkward but hit – side somi, hodls it well – oh and a fun front gainer tuck 1.5 dismount. Can’t recall that.

14.400 for D’Amato. Nothing matters I guess. I actually don’t understand how you get up to 8.1 E score there when 8.566 is the highest for ANYONE.

Esposito – UB – Italy – Church to pak, very good – maloney to bhardwa, clean – van leeuwen – some short cast handstands – double front, deep landing, bounce forward.

13.966 for Esposito will be the drop score as Italy goes 42.766, second on bars to China.

No one from Italy knocks Seitz out of the final qualifying position on bars.

Ting – BB – TPE – switch to switch 1/2, solid sequence – aerial to bhs split jump, lovely – switch to split ring jump to korbut, smooth combination – side somi, very secure – punch front layout full, little shuffle forward. AMAZING.

13.000 for Ting, which is a great score, but I wanted final and I think it merited that.

Subdivision 9 – Rotation 2

Annnnd Villa is off on her back tuck full series – wolf triple is lovely – switch to split to wolf, smalll pause before wolf, good elements – double turn, works it out well – side aerial, strong – 2/1 dismount, large bounce back

Hilton – Ub – Ireland – jaeger, clean – short cast hs – pak, leg separation – maloney, just foes catch it into clear hip but she’s just struggling to keep going at this point with an improvised clear hip and some form on a clear hip full.

12.300 for Villa.

Maggio – BB – italy – switch mount, good – switch to sissone, pretty – bhs loso lsoo, solid, protects against a check with a quick arm wave – full turn – siwthc ring, large break, bend at the hips wobble – side aerial, another check – aerial, another leg-up check, she seems a little rattled now – side somi, arm wave to keep it on the beam – double pike, step back. She stayed on but gave away a bunch of wobbles in the 2nd half there.

12,900 for Maggio

D’Amato – BB – Italy – front tuck mount and immediately falls – ITALYYYY – punch front is solid – bhs loso series, good – switch to sissone, pretty – switch ring, comfortable – aerial, lean to the side – wolf turn double is hit – 2.5 dismount, bound forward.

Nancy Taman hits her DTY on vault for Egypt

Taman does ro 1/2 on front tuck 2nd vault.

Ting – FX – TPE – switch ring 1/2, hit – dfouble tuck, step back, chest down.

12.133 for D’Amato’s beam.

Esposito – BB – Italy – and she also immediately falls on her bhs mount – I REPEAT, ITALY – now just some Urazova bhs series work – aerial, arm wave – sissone – wolf double is hit – switch to split jump 1/2, short of split there – side aerial, check – doubel pike dismount, bounce back.

So no Italians in the bars final or the beam final.

So that’s going to be Italy on 37.333 for beam, which is 3.400 lower than Japan’s beam-leading score.

10.800 for Esposito.

Subdivision 9 – Rotation 3

OMG we still don’t have Ting’s FX score from the last rotation so they are holding Italy on floor.

Ibrahim Sharaf – UB – Egypt – clear hip 1/2 to jaeger, hit, a bit close – bail, some legs, collapses in elbows – clear hip, pulls it through to handstand – shoot to high – giant full – DLO, shuffle back, a couple steps.

Someone find Ting’s floor score and give it to the judges! It’s lost!

Kelly – BB – Barbados – split jump to wolf jump – aerial, nice – split jump 1/2 from side, secure – side aerial, good height but a large break, huge bend forward and a leg up – bhs loso series, hit – switch, pause befroe korbut, really nice switch position – wolf double, around – 2.5, step forward.

They found Ting’s floor score! It’s 12.266.

Maggio – FX – Italy – finally getting to start, most of the other events are almost done – wolf triple, around – DLO, very good landing – front loso to double pike, bounce back OOB with both feet – split ring leap switch ring 1/2, not bad, but bouncy – FTDT, a bit deep, bounce back – nice switch ring – doubel tuck, small slide back –

13.500 for Maggio with the 0.3 OOB

D’Amato – FX – Italy – memmel turn is very nice – whip whip to 3/1, nice, little slide back – double pike, chest somewhat down, bounce back – wolf double, around – split leap full – front 2/1, solid, hop forward – ends with switch ring.

Hilton with a nice loso mount on beam – side aerial to loso series is aslo hit – switch to split to straddle, good rhythm – switch 1/2, short of split but hit – wolf triple, smoothly done – 2/1 dismount, bounce back – really nice!

13.600 for Alice D’Amato, so Italy should at least have some floor event finalists.

Mandriota – FX – Italy – wolf double is a little under 2 full turns – whip to 3/1, some leg form, bounce back – back 1.5 to front full, hop forward – switch ring – switch 1/2 – double y spin to double turn – double pike, stuck landing –

All other events are done now. 12.933 for Mandriota. 

Esposito – FX – Italy – wolf triple, very good – 2.5 to front lay, just a little short, hop forward – split leap 1.5 attempt, not around – doubleishy spin to illusion is lovely – switch full, nicely done – back 1.5 to front full, step – doubel tuck, stuck landing, chest down. Well done.

13.466 for Esposito. Drat, I was hoping for a floor final for her. So close.

40.566 for italy’s floor, which is an important recovery rotation.

Subdivision 9 – Rotation 4

Italy needs to vault a 41.900 to move ahead of Japan for 3rd place.

Maggio opens with a stuck Y1.5, just like at nationals. Some knee form, otherwise not much to take, an excellent vault. 14.200

Ibrahim Sharaf holds onto a side aerial loso series on beam with a check.

D’Amato – VT – Italy – chest down landing on her DTY with a hop forward, some leg crossing. Still goes 14.233

Mandriota – VT – Italy – secure landing on her Y1.5, brings the heels together – more form than from Maggio.

Abdelsalam falls on loso series on beam

Slevin – FX – Ireland – wolf 2.75 – double tuck, big stumble back OOB and sits it down

Esposito finishes Italy’s day with a high Y 1.5, hop back

Mandriota’s 1.5 was enough to get Italy to 42.133 on vault, so they will pass Japan and sit in 3rd in the team standings.

Aboelhasan – BB  – Egypt – hits her switch mount – switch 1/2, step, arm wave – aerial, really long but low and falls – bhs loso, check – side somi, lean forward at the hips to hold onto it – largeish break on back extension roll – layout full dismount with hop.

Hilton – FX – Ireland – wolf triple, around – front lay to front 2/1 attempt, foot slips out, hand down – ro double tuck, chest down, step forward – split leap full, under – switch 1/2 to pike jump full, somewaht out of control – 2.5, crossover step.

Ting – UB – TPE – maloney, legs apart to gienger, catches – blind to jaeger, hit – bail, legs apart, connected to toe shoot – giant full – flyaway dismount

Katsali – FX – Greece – double pike, sits it down

Mai Liu – Ub – TPE – clear hip to giant full to gienger, good height, leg separation – jager, nice – bail, elbows, leg separation – 2/1 twist dismount, bounce back.

After 9
USA – 167.263
Brazil – 163.563
Italy – 162.798
Japan – 162.564
China – 162.064
France – 161.428
Canada – 159.661
Netherlands – 159.396

AA
Andrade – 57.332
Jones – 55.766
Carey – 55.132
Maggio – 54.800
Ou – 54.466
D’Amato – 54.366
Miyata – 54.166
Visser – 54.165
Saraiva – 54.133
Black – 54.131
DJDS – 53.865
Godwin – 52.866
Tang – 52.865
Heduit – 52.698
Yamada – 52.465
Vaelen – 52.432
Volleman – 52.333
Barbosu – 52.233
Casabuena – 52.032
Lee YS – 51.833
R Brown – 51.731
Kuusikko – 51.231
Brassart – 50.699
Schoenmaier – 50.633

Vault
Carey 14.483
Chiles – 14.316
Devillard – 14.299
Yeo – 14.249
Black – 13.749
Miyata – 13.666
Vaelen – 13.499
Raz – 13.416

Bars
Luo – 14.900
Derwael – 14.700
Andrade – 14.666
Wei – 14.600
Jones – 14.566
Veerman – 14.533
Visser – 14.400
Seitz – 14.400

Beam
Ou – 13.900
Blakely – 13.733
Miyata – 13.700
Boyer – 13.666
Watanabe – 13.600
Kovacs – 13.533
Andrade – 13.400
Black – 13.266

Floor
Saraiva – 14.200
Andrade – 14.200
Chiles – 14.100
Carey – 14.066
Visser – 13.666
D’Amato – 13.600
Miyata – 13.600
Maggio – 13.500

One subdivision left to disrupt.

Subdivision 10 – Rotation 1

Austria does have a pose introduction for us in their attempt to be the new Netherlands.

Jennifer Gadirova is only on floor for GB, where Fenton will not go.

Gehani – FX – REALLY nice quad turn – FTDT, small steps to the side – 2.5 to front tuck, way OOB and sits it down – and now she’s down on the floor being seen to by medical staff. Yikes. 

Charlize Moerz with a ridic save on her side somi which she landed with her butt basically touching the beam.

Jes Gadirova – UB – piked jaeger, really close catch, continues – tkatchev 1/2 to yezhova is hit – maloney to pak, legs – van leeuwen – short cast hs – giant full – FTDT, hop forward.

Medics still seeing to Gehani.

11.533 for Moerz.

13.166 for Gadirova.

Kinsella – UB – good first hs – toe 1/2 to piked jaeger – Piked Ricna to pak, clean – maloney to gienger, some leg separation – teo full to doubel arabian, holds the stick. Good one.

Gehani is now being taken off the floor on a stretcher.

Kinsella gets a huge number, 14.166

Achampong – UB – inbar to inbar 1/2 to jaeger, a bit close on catch but fine – stalder tkatcchev piked and hits the low bar with her foot trying to connect to pak and comes off the bars – toe full – stalder shap 1/2 – FTDT, chest down, little hop

Big save from Mader on beam on her side aerial. Finishes with a stuck gainer pike.

Fenton – UB – toe on tkatchev piked 1/2 to yezhova, good, to maloney to pak – van leeuwen, solid legs together – clear hip to giant full – to FTDT, chest forward, little hop. Nice one.

14.133 for Fenton on bars, behind Kinsella.

GB goes 41.465 on bars, a very solid number.

Subdivision 10 – Rotation 2

Fenton – BB – GB – loso mount, step back – double turn, lovely – side aerial to bhs, clean – aerial, a bit of knee, to split jump, back foot, check – y spin, check – wolf turn triple, hit – switch to split, good extension – dobule tuck dismount, sits it down. IT WAS GOING SO WELLLLLL.

12.100 for Fenton

Kinsella – BB – GB – switch mount, check – aerial, small pause befroe split jump, hit – side aerial to loso loso is right on, well done – wolf double, solid – switch to switch 1/2, a bit short of split – double pike dismount, step back. A hit.

Toessebro – UB – blind to jaeger, hit with some foot form – bail, solid enough vertical – shoot to high – giant full – flyaway dismount

13.066 for Kinsella will not pass Ellie Black for the beam final.

Jes Gadirova – BB – candle mount, hit – switch to switch 1/2, short of position, to korbut – wolf double, just does squeak it around – aerial, some knee bend – split to straddle, leg-up wobble – bhs loso, secure – side aerial, solid – double pike, chest forward, step.

12.933 for her.

Achampong – BB – front walkover mount, good – aerail to split to straddle, lovely elements – bhs loso loso, well done, very secure – side aerial, leg swing up – switch ring with some foot flexing – y spin – split ring jump, small check – bhs bsh 2.5 dismount, large lunge forward off the mat and then another step. Almost another dismount fall apart. 12.966.

38.965 for GB on beam, which is 4th place on beam.

Subdivision 10 – Rotation 3

Jen Gadirova – FX – DLO, pretty solid, slide back, high – split jump full, definitely around – FTDT, chest down but secure – switch ring to split leap full, good – switch 1/1 has to wrench it around but does – front tuck through to double tuck – hop

Tronrud grabs the beam on her illusion turn.

13.600 for Gadirova is into the floor final for now if she stays 2 per country, knocking out Maggio.

Achampong – FX – whip whip to 3/1, bounce back – split jump full, around, some back leg – front 2/1, secure landing – switch ring, good – split leap full, smooth landing – double tuck, chest down, bounce back – swtich 1/2 – 2.5, larger bound forward. 13.333

Kinsella – FX – back 1.5 throiugh to 3/1, bounce back and OOB – 2.5 to front full, doesn’t get much on the front full, lands short and sits it down – double pike, bounce back –

12.300.

Jes Gadirova – FX – Silivas was realtively silivasy today and not so laid out at the beginning, but a large bounce back OOB – DLO 1/1 is strong – switch ring  – split leap 1.5 – switch 1/1, both around – front full throigh to double tuck, good stuck landing.

Still goes 14.100 with an 8.300. So both Gadirovas into floor finals, knocking out Miyata and Maggio. Alice D’Amato is the only Italian event finalist as the last qualifier on floor.

Subdivision 10 – Rotation 4

Mader – UB – Austria – toe full, hit – maloney to bail, lovely vertical – toe on to toe shoot – clind to jaeger, high – toe 1/2 – doubel tuck, step forward. 12.333

Fenton – VT – very nice Y1.5, small hop back, pretty good leg position. 13.900

Kinsella – VT – DTY – a well controlled landing, small bounce back – some leg crossing. 14.266

Jes Gadirova – VT 1 – DTY – huge amplitude – so much that it was a little bit of trouble to control the bounce back, but should score well

Kickinger – clear hip to maloney to pak, hit – van leeuwen – arched hs on high bar – jaeger, some feet – ggiant full – toe tuck 1/2 dismount, shuffle back, good. 14.400

She goes into 5th AA with 54.599 to make the top rotation group.

Jes Gadirova – VT 2 – Lopez – hit vault, chest forward, with a hop to the side. That will knock Raz out of the vault final.

We’re still waiting on the very first floor score of this rotation, so we’ve got a while to go there.

That’s enough to put GB over Brazil and into second place.

Achampong – VT – very high DTY, good direction, hop back, chest slightly down

14.466 for her. GB is done on 164.595, more than a point ahead of Brazil, who gets bumped down to 3rd.

Achampong comes in just .200 behind Kinsella to miss the AA final.

We’ve still got a couple floor routines to go, but…….our qualifiers:

TEAM
USA – 167.263
Great Britain – 164.595
Brazil – 163.563
Italy – 162.798
Japan – 162.564
China – 162.064
France – 161.428
Canada – 159.661

AA
Andrade – 57.332
Jones – 55.766
Carey – 55.132
Maggio – 54.800
Jessica Gadirova – 54.599
Ou – 54.466
D’Amato – 54.366
Miyata – 54.166
Visser – 54.165
Saraiva – 54.133
Black – 54.131
DJDS – 53.865
Kinsella – 53.798
Godwin – 52.866
Tang – 52.865
Heduit – 52.698
Yamada – 52.465
Vaelen – 52.432
Volleman – 52.333
Barbosu – 52.233
Casabuena – 52.032
Lee YS – 51.833
R Brown – 51.731
Kuusikko – 51.231

Vault
Carey 14.483
Chiles – 14.316
Devillard – 14.299
Yeo – 14.249
Jes Gadirova – 14.200
Black – 13.749
Miyata – 13.666
Vaelen – 13.499

Bars
Luo – 14.900
Derwael – 14.700
Andrade – 14.666
Wei – 14.600
Jones – 14.566
Veerman – 14.533
Visser – 14.400
Seitz – 14.400

Beam
Ou – 13.900
Blakely – 13.733
Miyata – 13.700
Boyer – 13.666
Watanabe – 13.600
Kovacs – 13.533
Andrade – 13.400
Black – 13.266

Floor
Saraiva – 14.200
Andrade – 14.200
Jes Gadirova – 14.100
Chiles – 14.100
Carey – 14.066
Visser – 13.666
Jen Gadirova – 13.600
D’Amato – 13.600

Tronrud is our final floor worker – double tuck, shuffle back – switch to split leap full, short of split and slightly awakward on landing – double y – front tuck through to back layout 1/1, good control – doubel L turn to full turn, looked just around on the double L turn – double pike, very deep landing, pulls it out – kind of crazy switch 1/2.

And it’s over!

 

 

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