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Romania finished with a 217.220 and Spain finished with a 210.094.
11:05 am. Zarzu BB- Off on punch front mount. Front aerial. Switch (pause). Bhs, then off on back tuck. Switch side 1/4, side aerial (small wobble), switch ring, split to sissone, full turn but goes too far around, ends with 2.5 twist. 11.7
11:02 am. Chusovitina VT- Butt touched on the Produnova but she scored 14.766 thanks to the 7.0 start value. She receives a 14.6 for the Tsuk 1.5. Avg. 14.683
10:58 am. Iordache BB- bhs tuck full (fall), round-off layout (big wobble), beautiful double spin, switch, switch ½, front layout, split to wolf, side somi (perfect!), beautiful triple! 13.866
10:54 am. Bulimar BB- Straddle mount, bhs layout, pike, front aerial, side somi, cool dance step, switch, switch ½ (not 180), side aerial step back, sissone to leap, big wobble, switch ¼, double pike. Small hop. 13.733
10:50 am. Jurca BB- Press mount. Sissone to full spin, bhs layout (a little piked), switch to switch ½, front aerial, side aerial, switch side ½ to jump series (small wobble), double tuck with a small step. Great routine! 13.833
10:49 am. Romania still in the lead after 3 with a 162.288. Iordache also of Romania is leading the AA with a 41.832.
10:48 am. Romania moves to beam and if there warm-up is any indication they should be just fine.
10:44 am. Romania bars score is only 49.133.
10:40 am. Iridon UB- Toe on full to gienger, stalder full, missed her feet on toe on. Fall on Tkachev. Full-in to finish. 11.9
10:38 am. Iordache UB- Toe on full, jaeger, Church to pak, off on van Leeuwen, toe on full with a big split to full-in. 13.2
10:34 am. Jordyn Wieber’s floor music is echoing through the arena. Long Long wait for bars!
10:30 am. Bulimar UB- Shaposh, misses Hindorff. Gets back on…clear hip half, clear hip full to tkatchev…off again. Bail to handstand and back up. A little short on handstand but stuck the full-in. 11.1
10:26 am. Zarzu UB- Toe on. Up to high bar, giant, ½, giant ½ to gienger, bail to handstand short, giant full with a huge huge break on top of the bar. I don’t know how she didn’t come off. Nice full-in to finish though! 11.066
10:24 am. Jurca UB- Beautiful clear hip full! Really clean and beautiful bars until the dismount where she had a huge split into the full-in and landed with her head at her knees. 12.933
11:18 am. We are headed to the third rotation. Romania is on Bars!
11:15 am. Braaten FX- Interesting opening choreo. Opens with double pike with bent legs. Front handspring front full to stag. A little short on her double L turn. Very interesting and engaging routine! Back 1.5 to finish! 12.033
11:10 am. Savvidou FX- opens with double tuck followed by double L spin to full spin. Stumbles out of front tumbling pass. Short on her leap sequence. Unique wolf turn to floor spin, beautiful set for the double pike!
11:06 am. Roxana Popa is off on bars on her inbar Gienger. 12.766
Iordache leads at the halfway mark with a 28.632.
9:59 am. Chusovitina BB- Front pike on. Front pike big wobble switch to split, bhs back pike (form issues), punch front (step forward), wolf turn, double tuck to finish is almost stuck! 13.466.
Bulimar VT- Clean full 13.958.
9:57 am. Zarzu VT- Really sloppy vault. Almost a tucked/piked double yurchenko. 14.566
10:56 am. Iordache VT- Huge split on the top of the vault and messy in the air but good body position during the landing. 14.866.
10:54 am. Nygaard FX- double tuck, front layout, front full to stag, front 1.5 to finish
Jurca VT- Slightly sloppy DTY. 14.766
10:52 am. Romania moves to vault. Spain is on bars. Mixed groups on beam and floor. Highest score of the first rotation came from Spain.
9:47 am. With two Romanians ahead of her and only a 13.766, Iordache won’t make floor finals.
9:44 am. Iridon FX- Double pike, double full, really beautiful extension on her leaps, 2.5 with a fall to finish. 12.3
9:40 am. Zarzu FX- 1.5 to 2.5 punch front, side aerial, ring, switch ring, double pike, small step back, switch side 1/2. Double tuck to finish! 13.633
9:37 am. Iordache FX- tucked full-in, small hop back, full in pike, landed a little locked legged, looked like a stick but step back, triple spin! Beautiful! Triple full, a little sloppy in the legs but almost stuck, double Memmel turn (maybe foot down too soon), double pike. Beautiful expression. 13.766
9:34 am. Bulimar FX- Beautiful double layout, comes back with full in (small hop), tour jete, double pike, small hop, double tuck, small hop then step back 13.8
9:31 am. Jurca FX- Beautiful routine. 13.8
Article by Kensley Behel
The Gymternet 
Iordache a 13.7 on floor? Just watched the video and can’t believe it. That score is too low
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Took out her double double and missed her Gomez and her memmel.
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I don’t understand it either. What do you think was the reason? Did she miss a requirement or something?
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5.9 D score and her chest was at or below her waist on three of her tumbling passes with steps too.
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Will FIG realise what they have done to WAG now that formerly great Romania & competitive Spain are reduced to this level.?
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The FIG are not the one to blame here. Romania currently has very little depth in both their senior and junior teams (I mean, the alternate for this team is Munteanu, who hasn’t even been training consistently) , the new seniors don’t manage to step up to the level that’s required to be contending for medals, Belu and Bitang come and go whenever it suits them and unlike teams like France and the Netherlands, they don’t manage to compensate their lack of difficulty with originality elsewhere. They deserved the harsh scores they received today, even the ones on floor. Hopefully this is a wake up call for them to step up their game. They can’t rely on their good reputation alone, not when other teams are taking advantage of their shortcomings.
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I see your point, but we are talking about some specific performances like Iordache’s floor routine. That floor routine does nothing to do with the team’s depth.
Her floor exercise was not perfect, obviously. But do you really believe she deserved a 13.7ish? Really? I compare her performance with Glasgow’s from last year and I don’t see that much difference, in fact I think it was a little bit better. And her performance in Glasgow last year was around 14.6 if I recall correctly.
Yes, a wake up call. But I strongly believe IOrdache’s score on floor was dramatically underscored
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@Santiago_ Ioardache was highly deducted for her landings and missing 2of her pirouetting moves. Furthermore, she highly downgraded her tumbling passes from last year’s 14.6 fx routine. I was surprised she didn’t throw her Silivas, since it was pretty ok in the warm up. I, too, am disappointed she won’t be in EF.
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@ Santiago. The original comment I replied to seemed to talk more about Romania’s gymnastics in general. But yes, I do think she deserved the score she got. It was definitely harsh, harsher than judges typically are on the Romanian team, but like I said, a good reputation should not be depended on too much. The highest scores on FX for the day were 8.6 and 8.5 by Sae Miyazaki and Ksenia Afanasyeva. Other good routines by Amy Tinkler, Ellie Black, Asuka Teramoto scored around 8.2-8.4 and in my opinion, Iordache was significantly inferior to those performances. Unfinished and uncontrolled turns and leaps, leg separations, uncontrolled landings all add up. Also, even though quick choreography is her signature style, I think this year it’s hasty to the point where it almost becomes unpolished. Don’t get me wrong, I’m devastated for those girls, but it cannot be denied that they have been given the benefit of the doubt for a long time now.
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is there any livestream for quali? (europé)
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I`m in shock right now. Romania had a disastrous meet. Even Iordache, who´s usually a rock and who came back so strong after the injury with two falls… hope she gets it together for all-around finals…
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I really don’t understand Romania’s floor scores… I mean no one did their best, certainly, but it seems like they were really lowballed. I won’t pretend like I know enough about scoring but… Man. It seems so harsh and as longtime fan it just doesn’t make sense to me. I think the team seeing that they weren’t able to get one 14 was really negatively impacted for the rest of the meet (despite all of the injuries that negatively impacted them, I mean).
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Ugh…Romania and Larisa are breaking my heart! No team final, beam or floor final most likely for Larisa. She really had the goods to medal on both if she hit. 😫
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holy crap, look at the scores. That is some touch scoring right there. Was it really as bad as it looks (judging from the score) or did the judge have a rough day?
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It was really bad.
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Romania was scored very toughly on FX, but not unfairly. Look closely at Larisa’s routine, uncontrolled steps on landing, chest down, leg separations in the air, unfinished pirouettes etc. Sure, they may seem like minor, nitpicky reasons to receive such an E-mark, but all these small, sloppy errors do add up to become a major deduction in the final E-score. If this kind of scoring is applied consistently throughout qualifications, I don’t see the issue.
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I’m in favor of the tight calls on execution if, and only if, they are applied consistently. If the judges score like this consistently, this might discourage gymnasts from sloppy attempts at difficult skills (Skinner comes to mind…).
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Exactly, and even in less extreme examples than Skinner. Especially on floor, where the possibility of boosting the D-score with turns and jumps have lead to many gymnasts stumbling all over the place attempting to get quad turns and double Y turns around.
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But she was not penalised , in fact rewarded highly..
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They managed to do worst than last year somehow. This team total would have put them out of the top 8 last year… Romania to the test event?
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Not only is it looking like Romania isn’t going to qualify to the team finals, but also to no individual event finals either. And if Iordache performs in AA like she did today then no medal there. Despite their obvious issues and decline in quality over the last few years this is still mind boggling. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but the last time Romania finished with zero medals at a full Worlds was 1981, after lots of retirements and some defections, and even then the team came in fourth.
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I don’t think anyone medalled in 2011 either.
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You’re right, although they did get close, with a fourth place team finish, and a 6th place finish in the AA. Plus two beam finalists and one FX. This year is a whole new level of implosion. Makes me sad.
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Why did Iordache take out her double double? Has she been sick or injured?
Really sad she (likely) won’t make beam finals. I was hoping she’d earn a well deserved gold there.
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