Gymnastics News No.12 Part Deux!

[b-man]

re: #50

john orozco fought back to a respectable finish in the all around. NBC refused to show his rising up to #8 overall because it would have interfered with leyva fluff (or whatever their motivation...).

Since I watch mosly NBC, I didn't know Orozco finished 8th, thanks for the update. Certainly some redemption for John.

[Loves_Shizuka]

I enjoy this

I'll have one please!

[skfan]

I enjoy this

I'll have one please!

you only saw that now?

heard in hearsay on mn's tumbler (i couldn't find in any referring article)--feng ze (sp) who won p-bars said he spent 20 minutes working on his hair that morning, because he knew he would be up against marcel in PB final

if this can be confirmed, then it's not just you (and me) who spend a lot of time thinking about marcel and philipp's hair

[Loves_Shizuka]

^I can picture it now. Feng doing Marcel's hair who's busy doing Philipp's hair who's got his hands full doing Feng's hair.

[skfan]

^ feng looks even younger than marcel. now i see cindy, jan and marcia brady.

*ahem*
*clears throat, makes serious face*

b-man,
i'm glad my blathering about john orozco actually informed someone for once.

btw, i was re-watching the men all-around on NBCSN today (thanks to a tip from a helpful FSU-er), because i was hoping for more of john's return-to-respectable-rankings performances, since NBCSN claims to show twice the sports in the same period of time. but nope--it was the same ol' coverage. even the leyva fluff was the same-- in fact, the fluff seemed even longer.

[Theatregirl1122]

Sorry for taking so long to get to this. My life went a little crazy last week! Here are the results of the Olympic prediction contest!

Congratulations to our gold medalists, chipso1 and Cloudy_Gumdrops! Since this is Gymnastics, I have decided to break the tie in the most arbitrary manner possible. Yes, I have decided to drop each person's lowest score and recalculate! And so the winner is Cloudy_Gumdrops! Okay, just kidding. There may be no ties in Gymnastics but there are ties in prediction contests! GOLD FOR EVERYONE! Well... the two of you.

And congrats to our bronze medalist minuet! And, if you get depressed with your bronze medal, you should remember, those of us who FINISHED FOURTH would kill for that bronze medal. Really. We we would. I'm just saying.

1. (243) chipso1
1. (243) Cloudy_Gumdrops
3. (218) minuet
4. (212) Theatregirl1122
5. (209) Loves_Shizuka
6. (203) ilovepaydays
7. (197) mylittlepony
8. (196) ChelleC
9. (114) Choupette
10. (112) GarrAarghHrumph
10. (112) sayana_mnk
12. (110) mkats
13. (109) Matryeshka
14. (107) Poggi
15. (103) Eotys
16. (30) DimaToe
17. (28) jobelle
18. (19) viennese


Now for the individual event results, for the men's event, Cloudy_Gumdrops and Chipso1 are hogging the top results but the bronze medalist is MEEEEE! Finally! I feel like Aly Raisman on the balance beam.
133 points
1. Cloudy_Gumdrops

122 points
2. chipso1

116 points
3. Theatregirl1122

114 points
4. Choupette

113 points
5. Loves_Shizuka

112 points
6. GarrAarghHrumph
6. minuet
6. sayana_mnk

110 points
9. mylittlepony

109 points
10. Matryeshka

107 points
11. Poggi

104 points
12. ilovepaydays

98 points
13. ChelleC

28 points
14. jobelle

19 points
15. viennese

0 points
16. DimaToe
16. Eotys
16. hihihi
16. mkats

For the women, chipso1 and Cloudy_Gumdrops are basically the Chinese men in 2008. They take gold and silver again! But mkats tied for the silver!

121 points
1. chipso1

110 points
2. Cloudy_Gumdrops
2. mkats

106 points
4. minuet

103 points
5. Eotys

99 points
6. ilovepaydays

98 points
7. ChelleC

96 points
8. Loves_Shizuka
8. Theatregirl1122

87 points
10. mylittlepony

30 points
11. DimaToe

0 points
12. Choupette
12. GarrAarghHrumph
12. hihihi
12. jobelle
12. Matryeshka
12. Poggi
12. sayana_mnk
12. viennese

[mkats]

Woohoo! Thanks for all your work!

[Cloudy_Gumdrops]

I finally win a prediction contest! And it's gymnastics.

Skating is just more unpredictable I guess. Esp. junior ladies.

[LuckyCharm]

The Ultimate Aliya Mustafina Tribute
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-u...tafina-tribute
Even those who aren't particularly fans will likely be amused by this.

Also, the same guy's take on the Gabby Douglas hair controversy:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-g...sy-in-pictures

[HeatherC]

FYI: Gabby Douglas is on The Tonight Show coming up soon and every member of the Fierce Five will be on The Today Show tomorrow morning and Letterman tomorrow night.

Gabby is so darn cute. I love her shoes! She did a really nice job on The Tonight Show. I'm amazed at her poise!

[chipso1]

Yay! Thanks TG, and congrats to my tie-mate, Cloudy Gumdrops!

[gingercrush]

Hmm if you want to catch up or rewatch Olympic coverage heaps of events appear to be on the olympics official youtube channel. Gymnastics has Shannon Miller commentary.

http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic - Not sure how much is staying around but it is pretty good.

[ChelleC]

http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic - Not sure how much is staying around but it is pretty good.

Appears this is not available in the US.

[pollyanna]

Appears this is not available in the US.

You can download Expat Shield (free) to view these videos, but you have to be careful - during the download, my computer got loaded with OpenCandy adware and my homepage was changed without my approval. The software also slowed down my computer. The software uninstalled easily, but I had to remove the adware with Microsoft Security Essentials.

[AJ Skatefan]

You can also use Firefox with the Stealthy add on. I tried it yesterday and it worked.

[Lanna]

I lost track, why didn't CHN have a guy in the AA? Did they not bring any all-arounders?

[danafan]

I lost track, why didn't CHN have a guy in the AA? Did they not bring any all-arounders?

Only one of them competed all six events and he didn't qualify. Actually they even passed him as a reserve - Guo Weiyang was first reserve for the AA final, but third reserve Jimmy Verbaeys from Belgium ended up competing.

http://www.fig-docs.com/microsites/l...ag_aa_list.pdf

http://www.fig-docs.com/microsites/l...fin_mag_aa.pdf

I don't know which qualifier withdrew, but I read that first reserve Stepan Gorbachev had already gone home before the AA final.

ETA it was Romanian Flavius Koczi who withdrew, allegedly to focus on apparatus finals, not that it helped....

[Buzz]

Interview with Russian women's team right after TF.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okc5o...e_gdata_player

[ChelleC]

You can download Expat Shield (free) to view these videos, but you have to be careful - during the download, my computer got loaded with OpenCandy adware and my homepage was changed without my approval. The software also slowed down my computer. The software uninstalled easily, but I had to remove the adware with Microsoft Security Essentials.

Interesting, I didn't have any problems when I downloaded expat shield.

[Karpenko]

Here's the US women's team on David Letterman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiQ9n7GBs0M

Made me and They are all great.