Gymnastic news #22 - Tokyo or bust

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Erin

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The Olympic qualification considers those who win a medal or finish in the top 3 of the apparatus finals, excluding those that are from a country already qualified as a team.

This means that only 3 countries are in contention: Mexico & Korea in the Vault, but it looks they only need to finish top 5 to get those realocation spots for the Olympics. And in the case of Brazil Saraiva needs the same, to finish inside top 4-5 so she can get that olympic spot and go to Tokyo as the lonely brazilian female gymnast.

Saraiva already qualified for the Olympics based on her AA placement. Same with Alexa Moreno of Mexico. The only gymnast who earned an EF qualification spot for Tokyo is Yeo and she doesn’t need to have a specific placement in the EF because she is already in the top 3 on non-qualified teams. Therefore, the Olympic qualifiers are already decided.

ETA - Brazil is also highly likely to get a second entry from Pan Am Championships so Saraiva may not be the only Brazilian gymnast in Tokyo.
 
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Lee is listed as Q on the FIG results. She had the same final score as Carey but won the tie break (which is the highest E score).
I'm kind of sad about this. Lee is just a beautiful gymnast. I preferred her exercise.

I'm gutted for Kara Eaker. Both Grace and she falling off the beam back to back was a fluke I would not have predicted.
 

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I'm kind of sad about this. Lee is just a beautiful gymnast. I preferred her exercise.

I'm gutted for Kara Eaker. Both Grace and she falling off the beam back to back was a fluke I would not have predicted.

USA with THREE? falls on beam?? I saw Grace, Sunisa falling but did not watch Kara!

Coming team final beam rotation will be under pressure for the americans, though they still are ahead overall of the rest of the teams.
 

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Eaker didn't fall, but she had her D score lowered by 0.4 after an inquiry, so she dropped out of the event finals.

Sorry if my post above wasn't clear above, but Lee won the FX tie break, and Lee is listed as qualified for the floor final, not Carey (though USAG could make a substitution, but I doubt they would do that).
 

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Ok when I did the qualified gymnast in apparatus finals the FIG live website had Jade Carey as the one qualified to the floor final
 

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USA with THREE? falls on beam?? I saw Grace, Sunisa falling but did not watch Kara!

Coming team final beam rotation will be under pressure for the americans, though they still are ahead overall of the rest of the teams.
My bad. I meant Grace and Sunisa. I didn’t mean to scare you. They did fall one after the other. Kara not making BB finals is tragic.
 

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The sessions streamed by FIG are available:

Geoblocked in USA
 

Simone411

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I've been watching Live earlier during the day and also watching the replays using the NBC Sports App. This app can also be found in the Windows Store. Just click on the Windows Store icon down on your taskbar.

To me, it's easier to watch using the app because Live & Upcoming is in one section, and all the replays are in the section called Replays which is listed below Live & Upcoming.
 

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I remember the days were a team couldn’t place first with a fall. Never mind 2 falls. And stuck landings don’t seem to matter that much anymore.

True. I remember that as well, but team USA was so far ahead of everyone else by that point that they only had to average around a 12.00 on the beam to go ahead of China and even with the two falls, they were all ready ahead of that average (and to be fair, only one fall counted since the other two girls stayed on).

So excited that Simone will get her beam dismount and her triple-double on FX named after her! :cheer:
 
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Chinese Taipei seems to have had a great qualifier, they are 5 points ahead of Italy and France. For those peddling conspiracy theory that new qualifiers were against the US. The FIG motivation is clear in how they trying to help individual athletes get more qualifier. After two subdivisions out of 8, Artem Dolgopyat (ISR) leads Floor and Rhys McClenghan (IRE) leads PH, many others may get the individual event specialist spots. Israel may qualify a AA athlete through Shalatov, Vault European medalist Medvedev may need to get the spot through Individual event world cup, which is hard since likes of Ablyazin will try that as well.
 

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I haven’t watched any gymnastics this quad other than the men’s team and all around competitions at last year’s worlds. I decided to watch the women’s qualifications last night and I just don’t enjoy it like I used to. I know everything is much more difficult now but I hate the big hops on vault.... I’ll never forget that beautiful stuck landing on Shannon Miller’s perfect vault in Barcelona, we don’t get moments like that now. I miss the perfection and precision instead of wobbles, balance checks and hops but l do recognize it’s much more difficult now and admire the skill level being shown.

At this point I prefer watching MAG to WAG and I never would have guessed that lol. I’m sure I’ll continue to watch worlds/olympics but it’s hard to get invested like I used to!
 
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I haven’t watched any gymnastics this quad other than the men’s team and all around competitions at last year’s worlds. I decided to watch the women’s qualifications last night and I just don’t enjoy it like I used to. I know everything is much more difficult now but I hate the big hops on vault.... I’ll never forget that beautiful stuck landing on Shannon Miller’s perfect vault in Barcelona, we don’t get moments like that now. I miss the perfection and precision instead of wobbles, balance checks and hops but l do recognize it’s much more difficult now and admire the skill level being shown.

At this point I prefer watching MAG to WAG and I never would have guessed that lol. I’m sure I’ll continue to watch worlds/olympics but it’s hard to get invested like I used to!
Men's event is also a three-way race between China, Russia and Japan, at least last year was. Even all-round is a very close battle. All events are quite exciting to watch, I guess WAG will change the code for the next quad, hopefully, they will find a balance between everything.
 

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I remember the days were a team couldn’t place first with a fall. Never mind 2 falls. And stuck landings don’t seem to matter that much anymore.

No, they don't. I think one of the most memorable moments for me was at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta when Kerri Strug had the guts to do that second vault even though she had hurt her ankle after the landing in her first vault. Thanks to her, they won the Team event. She was one brave young lady.

Kerri Strug Inspiration From Atlanta Olympics 1996
 

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No, they don't. I think one of the most memorable moments for me was at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta when Kerri Strug had the guts to do that second vault even though she had hurt her ankle after the landing in her first vault. Thanks to her, they won the Team event. She was one brave young lady.

Kerri Strug Inspiration From Atlanta Olympics 1996
That’s a tiny bit of an urban legend because mathematically, they could have counted her first vault (with a fall) and still won, but obviously they did not know that at the time as the competition was still going on. It’s one of those, technically no, realistically/emotionally, yes. #gymnerd

I think the new qualification rules were put in largely with the men in mind, as they have much more diversity in their finals representation and definitely needed more ways to allow them to qualify.
 
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Russia had a phenomenal qualification section and score 259.9 points, this is even higher the qualification score last year. Russia will still suffer thanks to going so early in the competition, all the other favourites, China, Japan, USA and GBR are going tomorrow. Even though team as whole will be okay thanks to an amazing all-round team performance (only one mistake from David Belyavski on PB), the event qualification may suffer since scores tends to be even looser on the 2nd day. At least the olympics qualifiers in one day.

Also, Chinese Taipei score would have put them in 5th, ahead of GBR and just below USA in the last year's qualification. TPE was not in the top 10 last year.
 

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Was Marta against wearing blue or something? Seems like the USA girls have worn more blue in the last 3 years then they did in the entirety of the Marta years. These light blue leos are very pretty.

Off the top of my head, they wore blue for the TF in 2001 WC and blue in qualifying in London 2012.
 

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So did Chusovitina qualify for the Tokyo Olympics?

Also, is it true that the inquiry results effectively caused Team Eaker to knocker out of the beam final?
 
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Yes and yes...Chuso qualified with two spots to spare (well technically 3 since Japan's host spot is going to go back into the AA pool next year now that Japan has qualified a full team); and the world breathes a collective sigh of relief!

And Eaker would have qualified into the final in 4th place with her original score, and was knocked out after the inquiry gave her a downgrade. SUCKS. I guess better here than at Tokyo, but poor girl; that has to sting very hard.
 

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And Eaker would have qualified into the final in 4th place with her original score, and was knocked out after the inquiry gave her a downgrade. SUCKS. I guess better here than at Tokyo, but poor girl; that has to sting very hard.

I think this is bad, like when Nagasu got the reputation for underrotations.
 

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Japan has finished qualifying, finishing behind Russia by 1.9 points. The USA finished their qualifying, currently in 3rd spot, barely ahead of Chinese Taipei. The USA is more than 9.5 points behind Russia. Sam Mikulak is 14th place in AA (13rd after 2 per country). Sam is likely to make HB finals.
 
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China scrapes ahead of Japan to finish in the 2nd spot. They also have two all-rounders in the top 5. They are likely to have more qualifiers for event finals as well.
 
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