Gymnastics News #23: Defying Gravity

[millyskate]

I like the men's team competition for the excitement as there are so many more competitive teams; they're often cliffhangers. I'm not so fussed about the individual events.

 

[Coco]

Shilese landed her double front on the very edge of the extra mat.

So I think it was a footing issue as opposed to a mental break.

For her it must have felt like she wasn't landing on an even surface.

 

[alexikeguchi]

Though I love Konnor's gymnastics too, I am sorry Shilese had that mishap on her bars dismount and didn't become US champion. But she has made such amazing strides over the past year. I went to the US Championships in Fort Worth last year, and she made a huge impression on me with her incredibly elegant carriage. However, she had multiple falls and I think finished around the middle of the standings. She has come such a long way, and I am sure she is a lock for the worlds team. Even with the fall, she tied for first on bars, and she beat the defending Olympic champion for the floor title. I am so glad that international fans will finally have a chance to see her beautiful gymnastics. I am also hoping she decides to compete her 2/1.5 on floor, because it was a very cool skill and I think would be named after her.

 

[skatfan]

still

Ciena Apilio

The women don‘t even have nearly the artistry they used to. For men, nonexistent. But I do appreciate the difficulty.

I am hopeful the new rules will result in better programs from the US women. They can take several deductions if certain artistic elements are not there. Other countries were doing way more in this area, but the US women had little reason to improve until now since they had the tech advantage.

 

[danafan]

Blakely, Carey, Jones and Zeiss are on the nominative roster for the Paris world challenge cup. I don't know if they are there are placeholders if they are actually going. The US rarely sends women to these apparatus competitions (only when it was part of the Olympic qualification with Carey).

 

[ilovesalchows]

So there are no individual qualifiers at all at this next Olympics?

 

[skatfan]

So there are no individual qualifiers at all at this next Olympics?

Yes there but only for countries not sending teams as I understand it. Teams on the womens side are going up from four to five members.

The point of the individual apparatus entries was to help the minor countries qualify additional athletes. It didn’t work that way so it’s gone.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Yes there but only for countries not sending teams as I understand it. Teams on the womens side are going up from four to five members.

The point of the individual apparatus entries was to help the minor countries qualify additional athletes. It didn’t work that way so it’s gone.

Right, it’s essentially going back to the way it was in 2016. If a country qualifies a team, they send a 5 athlete team. If a country does not qualify a team, they can qualify individual athletes.

 

[Rob]

Yes there but only for countries not sending teams as I understand it. Teams on the womens side are going up from four to five members.

The point of the individual apparatus entries was to help the minor countries qualify additional athletes. It didn’t work that way so it’s gone.

Yes it was a bust on the Women’s side. USA, Russia, China got the additional AA spots; US, China, Italy, and Japan got the individual event spots. Counting the Continental championships was a better idea - African nations got 2 spots and since US, China were maxed out Asia and Americas spots went to other nations. Of course, COVID cut the qualifying short. Mens has always had more diversity of specialists/medalists.

 

[danafan]

IG shared a video of Mariana Constantin's compulsory bar routine from 1976 Olympics. I had never seen any other version of this routine than Nadia's first perfect 10. This routine was very good, almost identical quality wise to Nadia's routine TBH. I would love to see other gymnasts doing this routine to compare.

International Gymnast Magazine on Instagram: "Compulsory of the Day: 1976 Maria Constantin (ROM) UB 9.85 11th AA at the 1976 Olympics! @frgimnastica"

International Gymnast Magazine shared a post on Instagram: "Compulsory of the Day: 1976 Maria Constantin (ROM) UB 9.85 11th AA at the 1976 Olympics! @frgimnastica". Follow their account to see 9556 posts.

www.instagram.com

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Challenge Cup in Paris seems to have been interesting! The US Women sent Chiles on Vault, Bars, and Floor, Carey on Vault and Beam and Jones on Bars, Beam, and Floor. The US Men sent Malone and Whittenburg to both do all events. The women made finals in all of their events, despite falls in qualifying on bars. Jade won vault and took silver on beam (very interesting). Jones won Bars and took silver on floor, Chiles won floor and took silver on vault. Malone made high bar (gold) and parallel bars (silver), Whittenburg made Parallel bars (bronze) and still rings (bronze).

Marine Boyer won Beam, Jennifer Gadirova picked up a bronze in floor, Ellie Black in Beam, Rebecca Andrade took silver in bars, Coline Devillard took bronze in vault.

 

[ilovesalchows]

I watched the last 2 event finals for the women, and the last three for the men. Jones was just a little wobbly on beam.

My biggest revelation is that a "chute" in French is a deduction. I am wondering what the French is for "ladder" and if it a bonus.

 

[danafan]

McClain out of worlds selection (and presumably worlds itself) from her instagram post (back injury)

Konnor McClain on Instagram: "unfortunately, i will not be participating in this years world selection camp in 2 weeks due to a back injury. although this is very upsetting after such a successful year. i’m ready to come back next year stronger and h

Konnor McClain shared a post on Instagram: "unfortunately, i will not be participating in this years world selection camp in 2 weeks due to a back injury. although this is very upsetting after such a successful year. i’m ready to come back next year stronger and healthier! i want to thank my...

www.instagram.com

 

[ilovesalchows]

The US men's team for worlds is Malone, Whittenburg, Colt Walker, Asher Hong, and Stephen Nedoroscik. Moldauer is the traveling alternate, he performed poorly at camp and says he was ill last week.

 

[ilovepaydays]

So……GymCastic is now reporting this.

if this comeback is true, even if it’s just to perform in some shows. But if it’s to comeback to Nationals……

 

[Hedwig]

So……GymCastic is now reporting this.

if this comeback is true, even if it’s just to perform in some shows. But if it’s to comeback to Nationals……

hmmmm, to be honest, I never really forgave her her reaction to the survivors...

 

[muffinbiscuit]

How will we be able to watch the gymnastics championships

 

[ilovesalchows]

How will we be able to watch the gymnastics championships

Do you mean the team selection camp today? It is on flipnow only. You need to pay. I assume the worlds in two weeks will be on Peacock.

 

[pachelbel]

hmmmm, to be honest, I never really forgave her her reaction to the survivors...

She's since come out as one herself. Probably some internalized issues there.

 

[her grace]

Not to be all Tom Forester-like, but looks like US should take top 5 as team with 6th place all-around as alternate.

 

[Rob]

Not to be all Tom Forester-like, but looks like US should take top 5 as team with 6th place all-around as alternate.

Are there scores from last night? I don’t have flip now but I thought the scoring was live on usagym.

 

[danafan]

Are there scores from last night? I don’t have flip now but I thought the scoring was live on usagym.

It seems the live scoring page is only showing the scores from day two now. Here's a tweet with the scores from day one:

https://twitter.com/USAGym/status/1583843089138954242?s=20&t=ZLnb4mHurZ7gQ2zpbMWq0w

Not to be all Tom Forester-like, but looks like US should take top 5 as team with 6th place all-around as alternate.

Yes that's how the team ended up! It was the best possible team though.

https://twitter.com/USAGym/status/1583982341264850944?s=20&t=ZLnb4mHurZ7gQ2zpbMWq0w

 

[Hedwig]

was is possible to watch this somewhere?

And to watch Worlds online? If you people on FSU find something - please post it here

 

[Theatregirl1122]

I think in this case it’s less taking the top 5 AA as the right choices happened to finish top 5

 

[BaileyCatts]

Anyone know how we can watch Worlds on TV in the US? I see only 1 single 90 minutes broadcast on NBC on 11/5. I can't find anything else!

 

[BaileyCatts]

Never mind. Found it. It's one shot peacock live or nothing but a 90 minute recap. All working times for me again.

 

[Hedwig]

I hope some kind of live feed will pop up

 

[danafan]

FIG will probably stream all finals on their youtube channel, but it may be geoblocked (it hasn't been in Canada despite CBC having rights). In 2019 some qualification rounds were also streamed but I haven't heard anything for this year.

 

[BaileyCatts]

Here is the broadcast schedule for the USA (can people outside the USA even stream Peacock?). So good luck watching since this is all normal daytime working hours for this side of the world. I don’t see any mention of replays.

2022 World Gymnastics Championships TV, live stream schedule

New-look U.S. teams headline the world gymnastics championships, live on Peacock from Nov. 1-6.

olympics.nbcsports.com

November 1 – 2:15p EST – Women’s Team Final – Peacock

November 2 – 1:25p EST – Men’s Team Final – Peacock

November 3 – 2:30p EST – Women’s All-Around – Peacock

November 4 – 1:45p EST – Men’s All-Around – Peacock

November 5 – 9:15a EST – Apparatus Finals – Peacock

November 6 – 8:15a EST – Apparatus Finals – Peacock



November 5 – 12p EST – Highlight show -- NBC

 

[Hedwig]

Nonqualification?

I often like to watch qualifications the most