The historic team final at the 2003 Worlds where the United States won a gold medal for the first time, despite losing three of their original team members to illness and injury.
Although RG was a huge success in Athens and the stadium was sold out every session, NBC chose only to devote 30 minutes to the individual sport and focus only on the top three gymnasts. *Sigh* Here is the coverage, however. I suggest you also check out the RAISport coverage I'll be uploading.
Although RG was a huge success in Athens and the stadium was sold out every session, NBC chose only to devote 30 minutes to the individual sport and focus only on the top three gymnasts. *Sigh* Here is the coverage, however. I suggest you also check out the RAISport coverage I'll be uploading.
It is interesting to me that Daggett makes the comment he does about Kang Xin and her typical Chinese lack of power, although in her FX she performs a double layout, a full-in, and two whips into a double pike.
If you see footage of Kim Zmeskal at the Olympic trials (or perhaps it's nationals...) you'll see her perform a whip through to a double layout. This is the tumbling Elfi is referring to (and also a full-in double pike dismount) when she mentions Kim's having watered down the night before.
Eremia's Bars:
Giant full to L grip - C
L grip giant full - D - 0.1
Piked Jaeger - D - 0.1
CDD - 0.2 CV
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Bail 1/2 to handstand - D - 0.1
Toe shoot to high bar - C
DC - 0.1 CV
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Giant full - C
Giant 1.5 - D - 0.1
Double front - D - 0.1
CDD - 0.2 CV
9.8 SV
Poor Lyssenko...she was sort of the Lobaznyuk of this AA competition. I don't think any 10.00's were given out at these Olympics on vault? Even a perfect Yurchenko full would score around a 9.95 Maybe the judges were rebelling against the code and leaving room for 10.00+ vaults like Lyssenko's Yurchenko double twist.
Unfortunately, this video begins abruptly during Eleni Andriola's hoop routine. She has one of the coolest starting sequences of any of the hoop routines, so I suggest you search for her on YouTube and watch it if you haven't.
Poor Boginskaya...not that I think she deserved to win...but I still don't see why she was given a 9.887 or whatever. Her routines were not as difficult as others, but she performed them cleanly and did what the code asked of her. I wanted to see her win bronze.
Gutsu said in an interview once that she first did the split-legged double layout on accident, but that her coach said it looked interesting and so she kept it.
