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As we finish the night the Top 8 Teams qualifying to team finals and directly to the Rio Olympic Games are:

1. Japan
2. China
3. GBR
4. Russia
5. USA
6. SUI
7. Brazil
8. KOR

 

The top 8 in the AA are as Follows:

1. Uchimura (JPN)
2. Verniaiev (UKR)
3. Purvis (GBR)
4. Leyva (USA)
5. Deng (CHN)
6. Xiao (CHN)
7. Larduet (CUB)
8. Kaya (JPN)

Hey all! That’s it for tonight! I have to catch a train back home (well temporary home!) Join both Lauren and I tomorrow for Women’s Team Finals!

9:53 pm.Riveros Vogtschmidt (BOL FX) double tuck! Man he is tall, front 1/1 tucked to punch barani, tuck sit to V press to extension, whip to back layout, double full to finish.

9:51 pm. Berbecar (ROU PH) Really nice work. Until he fell….Man eating my words a little tonight. Nice dismount though.

Huang (TPE VT) Tsuk 2/1. Some form issues on the way down.

Moving to the final rotation!

9:36 pm. Bartolini (ITA PB) Pike Tippelt, ½, Tippelt, Healy, Diam (perfect) Peters, Stutz, Peach bascket, back to handstand, nice double pike to finish.

9:32 pm. Meneses Passaro (URU HB)Giant straddle tka (bent arms) ½, 1/1, 1/1, Slings out the double double to his feet and has a huge look of relief on his face.

9:30 pm. Ottavi (ITA PB) straddle to handstand, giant, back toss, fall on Healy, ½, peach basket to cut through to handstand, Diam, Peters, straddle press to handstand, nice double pike to finish.

Moving to the the 5^th Rotation.

9:20 pm. Conradi (NOR SR) invert, maltese, invert, straddle planche, giant handstand, back giant to handstand, Johansson, L sit, big push to handstand, 1.5 double tuck to finish.

9:14 pm. Skjerahaug (NOR SR) back giant to handstand, straddle planche, cool invert to straddle sit, yami to joh, L sit, big push up to handstand, double double to finish. Nice! He looks super pumped about that.

Bartolini (ITA VT) Tsuk 2.5 to his butt. You’ve never seen a look so shocked except for perhaps Maroney in 2012.  13.566

9:10 pm. Soos (SWE FX) double Arabian, front 2/1 to 1/1, double tuck roll out, back 2/1, back 3/2 to barani to Male version of Shushunova, back 5/2 to finish. 13.833

9:04 pm. Longgggg wait for the last performance.

Purevdorj (MGL HB) Yami kch ½, straddle tka (muscle up,) stalder 1 (crazy giant), stalder1/1, endo, tak, giant ½, stalder, full in tuck to finish.

8:57 pm. Berbecar (ROU PB) peach ½, peach, peach to 1 bar, giant, Dimitrenko, Bhavsar, up to handstand, pirouette, Tippelt, Healy, Great double pike to finish! Fantastic routine.

8:52 pm. Ottavi (ITA SR) invert, L cross, maltese, giant to higggghhhhh inverted cross, johansson to maltese to iron, invert, up to planche, giant handstand,back giant handstand, half in half out tuck to finish.

Chumacero Cespedes (BOL VT) Tsuk tucked 1/1. 13.033

8:48 pm. Yu Chao Wei (TPE FX) Punch 52 punch 1/1 to 3/2, punch 2/1, Russians, back 2/1 (stuck). Back 2.5 to finish. Had to put his hand down. 12.4

Meneses Passaro (URU VT) Tsuk double. Landed awkwardly right down the line and had to put hand down. 13.1

VT.2. Handspring Double front. NO BLOCK. It was horrifying to watch. Landed straight on his butt. I actually can feel my spine breaking in two. He got a 13.3 average so apparently the judges saw him hit his feet first.

Romania is in 7^th, Italy in 20^th, and Chinese Taipei is in 24^th.

8:37 pm. Tamiazzo (ITA PH) Really clean some nice spindle work into the Magyar back through the Sivado, has to press a little bit into the dismount but nice work.

8:33 pm. Dragulescu (ROU VT) BEAUTIFUL Dragulescu! No one does it better than the one who invented it! Right down the middle. Huge height. Actually looks like he could add another twist out of it. Had the stick right down the middle then took a step back! 15.4

VT.2  Yurchenko ½ on 5/2 off.  15.416 Average.  Puts him in 3^rd at the moment.

8:28 pm. Bataga (ROU VT) Kas 1.5. Sloppy legs with a step to the side.

Conradi (NOR FX)  back 3/2 to front /2, back 5/2 to frong barani, sits doule Arabian, some nice Russians, straddle press, double tuck roll out, back 2/1, weird take off into back 5/2 and spread legs. It was awkward, but he landed.

Muntean (ROU VT) Stunning Tsuk triple. Legs glued together. 15.3

VT.2 Handspring double front. Form a little sloppier but no problem with direction.

8:26 pm.Berbecar (ROU VT) Tsuk 2/1. Looked like he landed well then took a couple running side steps so not exactly sure what happened.

8:25 pm Ursache (ROU VT) Handspring 1.5 (14.3

On to Rotation 2! Big thing to watch is Dragulescu on Vault

8:17 pm. Hsu Ping Chien (TPE PB) Kip to L sit, press to handstand, giant, Tippelt, peach, back toss, Healy, Stutz, Double Pike to finish with a step back. A little shy on the handstands but a nice routine.

8:14 pm. Principi (ITA FX) front 3/2, fhs front 2/1 to punch barani, 1 ¾ Thomas, RO 2/1, Russians to split, wide arm press held still, back 5/2 to front 1/1 (small step – maybe out of bounds.) Finishes with a triple twist.14.3

8:11 pm. Purevdor (MGL VT) Tsuk 1.5. Very bent legs. Good landing but off to the side a bit.

8:09 pm. Dragulescu (Romania SR) Kip to planche, invert, kip to L sit, push to handstand, back giant to handstand (cant hold and repeats, straddle planche, handstand (can’t hold),  repeats handstand. Well I don’t think he’s a rings guy. BUT we should see some Vault magic next from him. 13.8

Here we go! Last subdivision. This is the 4^th straight day of 12 hours of Live coverage! We (Lauren and I,) hope that you enjoyed it!

Italy starts on the floor, Romania on the Rings with the incredible Dragulescu, and Chinese Taipei will be on the P Bars.

Between MAG and WAG, 4 Reigning Olympic Champions failed to qualified to this years finals.

Aly Raisman on Floor, Krisztian Berki on Pommel Horse, Arthur Zanetti on Rings, and Epke Zonderland on High Bar. Perhaps the saddest of these is Berki. Because Hungary didn’t qualify a team to the Test Event, his Olympic Dream is now over.

With the U.S. qualifying in 5^th and only 3 teams left, TEAM USA has officially qualified a team to the RIO Olympic Games

6:51 pm. Zonderland (NED HB)  endo 1/1, giant ½, cassina to kovas (bent arms,) doesn’t connect the kolman because of arms,  kolman, stalder rybalko ,tak 1/1, tak ½, stalder, quast (almost misses his hands) Double Double to finish but tucks HEAVILY to land. 14.3

Naddour (USA PH) Scissor to handstand scissor to handstand, Really nice swing. Spindle ,  Magyar,sivado and goes clean into the dismount.  Should be a good score.  15.266- Currently in 5^th.

6:49 Whittenburg (USA PH) scissor to handstand, scissor to handstand, Curious as to why he is in the 2^nd to last position in the rotation? Most of his rotation was super pike but he had stayed on. Then he had to push. I mean push OMG into the Dismount. I don’t think it was a D dismount.

6:45 pm. Kornev (KAZ VT) Tsuk double. I honesely don’t know how he stood that up. Well I do he had to tuck it in and twisted into the landing. Scary stuff but he is just fine. Maybe Mihai conditions him too.

Leyva (USA PH) scissor to handstand, scissor to handstand, Russian on single pommel, circles all the way down the horse, Magyar Sivado, Struggles on triple Russians, had to press into the handstand. Well he stayed on but shouldn’t get a huge score.

6:42 pm. Brooks (USA PH) scissors, Very measured throughout. UGHHHHHH he was doing SO.WELL. And a big fall off. Makes the dismount.

6:40 pm. Ruggeri ( USA PH) Flip flop scissors, Some nice circles….untillll he sat on the horse. Triple Russian dismount. He looks mad. Some highlights and lowlights here during qualifications.

Pizarro Silva (PER VT) Tsuk 1/1

6:31 pm. Whittenburg (USA FX) back  1.5 to double front double double lay, front lay to front double pike, wide arm press (strong,) back 5/2 to frong 1/1 (FALL L((((). Piked araian ½ out to finish. Shame. 13.9

6:26 pm. Leyva (USA FX) double double lay that he uses his toes to fight to not go out of bounds,  1/1 tuck to front 2/1  (out) double arabian (small hop) V hold to press, 1 ¾ tucked Thomas, whip into back 5/2 into barani, double double to finish! 14.366

6:26 pm. Leyva (USA FX) double double lay that he uses his toes to fight to not go out of bounds,  1/1 tuck to front 2/1  (out) double arabian (small hop) V hold to press, 1 ¾ tucked Thomas, whip into back 3/2 into barani, double double to finish!

6:24 pm. Ruggeri (USA FX) STUCK Tamayo, Piked double arabain. He means business! 1 ¾ Thomas, Wide arm press – came down and had to press back up, back 5/2 to front 1/1 stuck,… ends with a full-in. Let me tell you he was on fire after high bar. 14.866

Also side note. If ever I wanted a cheerleader, I think I would choose Chris Brooks. You can hear him through the whole arena. He is here for the Team.

6:20 pm. Brooks (USA FX) fhs front double pike, maltese like press, back 5/2 to kicked out barani, Russians, wide arm press, 1 ¾ roll out, back 3/2 to front 1/1, fhs front 2/1. 14.366

6:18 pm. Naddour (USA FX) Front 5/2, fhs front 2/1 to 3/2, back 3/2 to front tuck 1/1, Russians into some really sloppy flairs, wide arm press, 1 ¾ tucked Thomas, Full-in to finish and you can here Yin literally screaming across the Arena. 14.433

USA is in 3^rd Place headed into the 5^th. The Netherlands are in 11^th and Belarus is in 15^th.

6:04 pm. Leyva (USA HB)  tak 1/1, to yami (flared out – so good!) double lay kovacs, kolman stalder rybalko (legs) tak 1/2, lay tkay to rybalko, endo 1/1, giant ½, double double to finish. Stuck (maybe) with the tinest of steps (possible)! YES THANK YOU!!!! 15.566 – PUTS HIM IN FIRST PLACE! YOU GO DANELL!

6:01 pm. Brooks (USA HB) 1 arm, yami ½, tak 1/1, yami, to straddle tkatchev ½, tak ½, lay tkatchev ½, giant ½, stalder rybaldo, tiant ½, Stuck his double double lay. 15.066 6th place

5:58 pm. Whittenburg (USA HB) giant ½, cassina (catch) quast, stalder, rybalko yami ½, tak1/1, tami, ½, endo1/1, (pause, tak ½, stalder, double double to end. Some sloppy legs but good landing position. I’m not sure if he was nervous after Paul or not but there was something weird with his rhythm. It felt WAY too fast. 13.833

5:54 pm. Ruggeri (USA HB) 1 arm, giant ½, off on his cassina 😦 NOOOOO. Almost didn’t make time after a fall and had to hop up quickly, redoes his cassina and falls AGAIN. WHY? NO. Paul DO NOT do that again. Tak ½, layout tkatchev, straddle tkatchev ½, tak 1/1, yami (close bent arms) botches the quast and almost falls off again – does come to a dead underhang, stalder, Chucks the double double lay and takes a huges step to the side. OK lets just breath. OK USA NO MORE LIKE THAT. 11.066

5:51 pm. Wynn (USA HB) yami, giant ½, tak 1/2 (bent knees) quast, ½, tak 1/1, giant ½, 1/1 to 1 arm, Weiler, 1 arm (back) ½, Huge flair on his full twisting double lay. 13.6

Rijken (NED VT) Tsuk 2/1 (tucked pretty heavily on the way down.)

USA is in 2^nd heading at the halfway mark and Whittenburg is in 4^th in the All-Around.

5:44 pm. Leyva (USA PB) Peach Peach 1/1 (swung on 1 support) , peach to 1 bar, peach 1/1, 1/ ½, diam, Suarez, Stutz, Almost stuck the double front, just a small hop. 15.633 – Puts him in 6th in 6th in the final.

5:38 pm. Whittenburg (USA PB)  uprise (solid) peach ½ (wobble) Peach to 1 bar OMG I don’t know how he saved that peach to 1 bar – he was like ALLLL the way over, Dimitrenko, back toss, suarez, long hang suarez, double front half out.

5:36 pm. Brooks (USA PB)  bent arms, peach to 1 bar (not long enough) peach 12, peach, Diam, Suarez, back toss, Tippelt (may have sat a bit) Sat the double front. Hopefully we don’t have to count this one. 12.933

5:33 pm. Wynn (USA PB) Peach, peach ½ (struggle) Tanaka, dimitrenko, healy, belle, Stutz, double pike to finish.

5:27 pm. Gorbachev (KAZ FX)  front 3/2, back 5/2 to punch barani, back 3/2 to front 1/1 tucked, back 2/1, single piked Arabian, split to handstand, fhs to front double full to finish.

Ruggeri (USA PB) Peach, Dimitrenko, Diam, Stutz, back uprise to handstand, back toss,  Peters (slightly crooked) double pike to finish.

Kardasovs (LAT VT) Tsuk 2/1! Stick

The Netherlands are headed to rings, USA to P Bars, and Belarus to High Bar.

USA has vaulted (literally) into 3^rd place after a fantastic rotation.

5:17 pm.  Kirmes (FIN SR) inverted, straddle planche to L sit, straddle to handstand, giant to handstand yami to johansson, iron cross, giant to handstand, back 1.5 tuck to finish.

5:14 pm. Whittenburg (USA V2) Ri Se Gwang! Lands it to his feet! Massive difficulty – in fact most difficult vault being thrown in the competition. 15.233 AVG 15.133 Currrently in 7th for finals. Paul is in 8th.

5:12 pm. Whittenburg (USA V) Dragulescu. Really nice vault. Lands right down the middle and hops just a bit to the right. 15.033

5:10 pm. Naddour (USA V) Tsuk double pike. Seemed like he had enough height and maybe didn’t rotate fast enough. The vault actually looked pretty good and he landed right down the middle and hit feet first but his knees sort of bounced down to the mat. 14.633

5:07 pm. Ruggeri (USA V) Yurchenko ½ on 2/1 off stuck!!!! YAY PAUL! So happy for him that he is finally on a World Championship team. It nearly broke my heart when I saw is interview post nationals in 2013!

VT 2. Yurchenko 2.5. His backhandspring on was so long that he was definitely at the end of the table. A little off side and a cross step forward.

5:05 pm. Brooks (USA V) Probably one of the best vaults I’ve seen him do. He usually scares me on vault. But a great Handspring double front. Great body position while landing. A little off to the side and a small hop that was accentuated by his hair that bounced when he did. 14.9

5:00 pm. Leyva (V) Tsuk 2/1. Pretty good but pikes down and sticks his butt out at the end.

Pham Phuoc Hung (VIE FX) front 2/1, back 3/2 to front tuck 1/1, 1 ¾ Thomas (some issues.) Russians, frong 3/2 back 2/1, Comes in twisting to his back 5/2 and falls out of bounds.

USA is in 4^th after the 1^st rotation!

USA is moving to vault where they can sometime struggle. Belarus is headed to P Bars and Netherlands to Pommel Horse.

4:55 Crovetto (MON HB) yami, endo grip change, grip hop, 1/1, off the bar on the tak ( he didn’t kick his feet out and just paused too long. Redoes tak, back giants ½, rybalko, doesn’t do a dismount and just hops off. Not entirely sure what happened.

Pizarro Silva (PER PB) L sit, straddle up to handstand, peach ½, peach to 1 bar (good) peach, ½ pir. Giant to 1 bar giant sits the Tippelt, ½ pirouette,  tosses the double front out and sits it.

4:51 pm. Wynn (USA SR) L cross into inverted iron, back giant to inverted, iron, johansson to planche, azarian maltese, L sit bounce iron cross, back to iron, invert, kip to handstand (slight arch and wobble). Stuck his double double layed out. 15.608 – currently in 3rd

4:48 pm.  The US team is slowly building on each other’s score, which is what you want. Up next are two huge routines.

Whittenburg (USA SR) Azarian maltese, bounce L cross up to planche, johansson to maltese,azarian cross, invert, kip to planche, giant to handstand (slight wobble and arch.) double double layout to finish. Great routine! 15.466

4:45 pm. Naddour (USA SR)Azarian maltese, invert, kip to planche (struggles at first then controls,) azarian Iron cross, invert, kip to johansson to maltese (high) bounce cross, kip to straddle planche, giant handstand (huge wobble) Almost stuck double back with 1.5 twists. Small hop at the end. 14.666

Yakauleu (BLR V) Handspring with 1.5 twist

4:41 pm. Brooks (USA SR) Takes a long time to get his grip, right into maltese, invert, kip to planche, invert back to high maltese, invert, yami, johansson, pike sit, press to handstand (little arch) back giant to handstand, front to handstand (form) back 1.5 tuck to finish. Small hop. 14.5

4:39 pm. Leyva (USA SR) invert, back swing to Iron, invert, L cross, invert, johansson, yami to straddle planche, straddle sit, Good handstand! Back giant to handstand, back double tuck to handstand. Stuck his double double cold! Great Start for Team USA. 14.4

The Netherlands start on the floor, USA starts on the rings and Belarus starts on the Vault.

We are just moments away from the start of subdivision 7! We have defending Bronze Medalists, Team USA, and Defending World and Olympic High Bar Champion, Epke Zonderland of the Netherlands. This should be a very exciting subdivision!

The only person to break into the top 8 of the AA was Cuba’s Manrique Larduet. He is currently in 6^th with an 88.556. That’s with OVER a point in deductions from running off the podium on vault. If he is able to duplicate today and fix vault, he is a SERIOUS medal contender! How cool would that be to see someone on the podium without a full team here?

None of the teams were able to break into the top 8 so as it stands the order is:

1. Japan
2. China
3. Great Britain
4. Russia
5. Switzerland
6. Brazil
7. Korea
8. Germany

2:51 pm. Larduet (CUB HB) ½, layout tkatchev ½, tak ½, layout tkatchev, to stalder ½, tak 1/1, yami, stalder ryalkeo, 1 arm, ½, quast, triple double to finish. 14.958

2:48pm. Leru (CUB HB) full twisting tkatchev, layout tkatchev, straddle tkatchev, 1/1/, tak 1/1, lay tkatchev 1/2, 1/1, endo 1/1, 1/1, giant ½, stalder, Stuck double double cold. 14.533

2:42 pm. Killer set from Scott Morgan of Canada on Floor! I mean massive! 14.833

2:39 pm. Corral (MEX V) Handspring double front. HUGE height but sat it. He really should have landed but his legs just gave out.

2:35 pm. Cournoyer (CAN FX) punch double front, whip into double Arabian (small shuffle) back 5/2 to punch barani, back 3/2 to front 3/2, split to wide arm press, punch front 2/1, full-in to finish. Only just a little short on the landing but overall a nice routine. 14.233

2:32 pm. Cerda Gastelum (MEX V) Tsuk 2/1 stuck cold…only a little off to the side.

The big news of this round is Cuban gymnast, Manrique Larduet! So far he is in finals for Floor and P Bars and doing really well in the AA. There are still two more subdivision left to go but he has definitely impressed me and caught my attention.

We are headed into the final rotation of the sixth subdivision.

2:19 pm. Zapata Santana (EXP FX) back 3/2 to double front double pike, double double straight, fhs front ½ to front 2/1, back 2.5 to barani to Shushunova (I doubt this is what it is called in Men’s Gymnastics and if anyone knows if it is called differently let me know), 1 ¾ layed out Thomas, Ends with a double layout (small step back) 15.266 – Puts him in 3rd place heading into finals

2:16 pm. Cournoyer (CAN HB) Yami, endo 1/1, tak, back giant ½, straddle tkatchev, straddle tkatchev ½, (legs) 1/1, hop change, endo, giant ½, Stuck the double double and then took a step back.

2:13 pm. Vera Mora (ESP FX) front tuck 1/1 to punch 2.5 twists, half in half out, back 3/2 to front 3/2, back 5/2 to punch barani, Russians, wide arm press, 1 ¾ tucked Thomas, FHS front 2/1 STUCK to finish! Great routine! 14.633

2:11 pm. Tallon Fernandez (ESP FX)  front 1/1 to front double tuck, double layout, 1 ¾ tucked Thomas, handstand forward roll to straddle press handstand, back 5/2 to punch barani, wide arm press, front 2/1 to finish. 14.566

Nasser (MAR V) Tsuk Double

2:08 pm. Kriangkum (THA V) Stuck Tsuk double. 14.4

Smith (CAN HB) giant ½ stalder, tkatchev, off on layout tkatchev off – ish on rybalko (saved it), giant 12, endo, 1/1, 1/1, full twisting double layout/tuck…form changed halfway through.

Canada is in 10^th, Spain 12^th, and Mexico in 18^th

1:56 pm. Angelov (BUL) A great Yurchenko 2.5 right down the middle. 15.00

Abad (ESP HB) fall tkatchev lay 1/2, quast, rybalko, 1/1 pirouette, (pause) stalder 1/1, endo, giant ½, Full twisting double lay to finish but his legs are too tired and he drops to his knees. 12.566

1:52 pm. Lopez (ESP HB) pikey cassina, beautiful kovacs, and a cassina, giant ½, tak ½, stalder, quast, giant ½, tak, giant ½, Full twisting doube straight (actually a pike) to end. Lots of difficulty and potential. Some form things to clean up but he is one to watch for sure! 14.233

Aleksandrov (BUL V) Yurchenko 1.5. Clean but not dynamic and pretty slow in the rotation. 14.0

1:47 pm. Davtyan (ARM FX) Back 3/2 to front 1/1 to front 3/2, nice Russians, back 2/1, lots of combination tubling , back 1/1, finished with a triple twist.

Leru (CUB V) Perfectly stuck tsuk 2/5 right down the middle. 14.9

Larduet (CUB V) Kas 2/1. Came in Twisting and ran off the podium a la Purvis toward the judges. 13.8

VT.2  HUGE BLOCK…I mean in the rafters on his Handspring with 2.5 twists. Holy Moly. Shame he can’t use that score for the AA 15.066

On to the 4^th rotation

1:40 pm. Aleksandrov (BUL) invert, kip to wobbly straddle planche, L sit, yami to joh, to straddle sit, push to handstand (big wobble – not sure he will get credit for that) back giant handstand, giant handstand, 3/2 double back to finish. 13.4

1:33 pm. Aldyani (QAT SR) high iron, back bounce iron, invert, johansson to yami to L sit, big push into handstand, giant to archy handstand, full twisting double back to finish.

1:30 pm.Larduet (CUB SR)  azarian to great maltese, maltese bounce cross, invert, yami to johansson to great handstand (ooh arch at the last second) iron, up to planche (legs slightly low at first then he fixes it.) Double twisting double layout to finish and looked like a solid landing but then he bounced out of it a bit but didn’t put his hands down. 14.933

1:27 pm. Morgan (CAN V) Handspring double full. Weird weird block. Almost no height but he shot straight out. Off  to the side a bit. 14.6

Vt. 2 Tsuk 2.5 but it was had to even count rotations because his legs were so messy. It actually looked like a helicopter. AVG. 14.45

1:26 pm. De Luna (MEX FX) Punch double front, pike double arabina(run) double lay hop back. Double full (legs) wide arm press, back 1.5 to punch barani, punch 1/1 tuck to 1.5, double Arabian tiny hop.

Smith (CAN V) Kas 1.5. Big vault but lots of power and giant step forward.

Lytwyn (CAN V) great handspring double tuck. Down the middle just a step forward.

Cournyer (CAN V) Handspring double front and rebounds into another front tuck….if only you could get bonus points for that because it looks so cool!

1:22 pm. Balboa Gonzalez (MEX FX) back 2.5 to punch barani 12.966, double arabian, double twist, punch 1/1 to front lay, punch 3/2, double tuck to finish.

Spain is in 9^th, Canada in 12^th, and Mexico is in 15^th .

1:10 de Luna (MEX HB) jami kch ½, fell on the kovacs – seems like that’s probably more common than not base on the team reaction, straddle tkatchev, giant ½, tak, basically fell on top of the bar ala Mikulak 2013 AA finals, weiler (top of bar pause again) giant ½, stuck his double double layout. His teammates were holding their head the whole way through.  Fabian used to compete for USA. In fact he competed at the Winter Cup earlier this year that offers placement for the national team. Not sure when he switched to Mexico. 9.133 for his routine.

1:05 pm. Vera Mora (ESP V) kas 1.5 right down the middle just a small step forward. 14.9

Zapata Santana (ESP V) Huge Tsuk double pike with too much power and just rolls out of it. 14.033

Lytwyn (CAN SR) Maltese, bounce cross, invert, kip to high inverted cross, giant to handstand, joh, to yami, to iron cross, invert, back giant to handstand (slight arch) full twisting double lay to finish just a small step back.

1:03 pm. Abad (ESP V) Big Kas 1.5. Wayyy too much power though. He went shooting off the podium and almost ran into the camera man. 13.566

12:59 pm. Moussa (MAR FX) double Arabian to opne, 1 ¾ Thomas, Almost bounce out on 3^rd pass. Wide arm press, Side somi kicked out! Finishes with a slightly scary back 5/2 as he was still twisting into the landing. 12.533

Lopez (ESP V) Handspring double front. A little cowboyed but stuck perfectly cold. I think he shocked himself because he stood there for a while like, “Is this real life?” 15.033

Tallon Fernandez (ESP V) Kas 1.5 loose legs but lands well with a step forward. It was definitely a long vault versus one with a high block.

Mexico is in 7^th, Spain in 8^th, and Canada in 17^th.

Larduet of Cuba is currently in 6^th  for the floor final!

12:47 pm. Larduet (CUB FX) front double pike – small hop, Beautiful Tamayo, front double to front lay, Arabian double pike (hop) Big wide arm press, back 2.5 to front ful, huge 1 ¾ Thomas – kicked out of it, Ends with a double Arabian to finish. Routine reminds me a lot of Michigan’s Stacey Ervin. 15.166

Loran (CAN PH) Scissors, lots of single pommel work, some bent knees and leg separation throughout but clean into the dismount. Seems happy. 13.566

12:45 pm. Balboa Gonzalez (MEX PB) with a fall on pbars.

Ikeda(CAN PH) switch scissor, travels down the horse, spindle into double Russian, magyar to sivado, triple Russian to dismount but I think he hit his feet on the horse.

12:41 pm. Tallon Fernandez (ESP SR) invert, up to high maltese, azarian iron cross, yami to really bad inverted iron cross, nice planche, back to handstand, johansson, to straddle planche, giant to super archy handstand, Layout full-in with several steps back.

12:38 pm. Bonilla Ruiz (MEX PB) Dimitrenko, Diam, Giant, Suarez, small push through the handstand, peach to double back between the bars, ½ pir, Ippelt, Double pike with a step back to finish

We are live with subdivision 6 featuring Canada, Spain, and Mexico. Mixed groups include athletes from BUL, CUB, QAT, CRC, ARM, THA, and MAR.

Oleg Verniaiev Just Bumped the Reigning Olympic Champion out of the Pommel Horse final…Since Berki is not an All-Arounder and his team won’t qualify to the test even….it is likely his Olympic bid is over.

None of the teams from this subdivision made it to the top 8, however Oleg is currently in 2^nd behind (.4) Uchimura. No one from this subdivision qualified for floor or high bar finals. Robert Seligman (CRO,) Vid Hidvegi (HUN,) and Verniaiev are currently qualified for Pommel Horse.  Samir Ait Said (FRA,) Igor Radivilov (UKR,) and Verniaiev (UKR) are currently qualified for rings. The same two Ukrainians are also qualified for Vault finals. Verniaiev tops the leaderboard for parallel bars and currently has the highest score out of any competitor (male or female) across the competition. Axel Augis of France currently sits in 7^th for P Bars.

11:19 am. Really nice clean routine or Oleg Verniaiev on the Pommel Horse. 15.166

After an injury on the rings, Baldursson’s teammate, Jon Gunnarsson still has to compete.

11:13 am. Interesting Dismount for Tommasone of France. He did a full twisting double back over the high bar

Yermak (UKR HB) nice Russians in between the pommels, some knee bends he and here…actually a lot of bends and separation but stays on.Triple Russian to dismount.

Baldursson (ISL SR) Missed the tap and flung out his dismount and landed right on his knees. He has been down for a while. Think Rebecca Bross 2011 Vault at nationals. Hard to watch.

11:09 am. Tsukahara (AUS SR) invert, V cross (high ) to v sit, maltese, kip to johansson, yami to high iron cross, invert, kip to planche, giant handstand, Nice double double to finish.

11:08 am. Colak (TUR V) Simple Tsuk 1/1 but well executed.

Ukraine finishes on Pommel Horse, France on the High Bar, and Hungary on PB.

Uchimura reclaimed the lead with Verniaiev in 2^nd.  Both had less than stellar floors. It now comes down to pommel horse to see how they stack up heading into the final.

France is in 9^th, Ukraine in 10^th and Hungary remains in 15^th.

10:58 am. Semiankiv (UKR) Front double roll out, back 2.5 to punch barani, back 1.5 to front full, struggles with the wide arm press, Arabian, handstand press, stuck back double full, back triple to finish.

10:52 am. OLEG! (UKR FX) Let’s go! 1 ¾ layed out Thomas, back 3.5 to front full stuck, fhs back 1.5 to front 1/1, (out) double full bounce out of bounds. Nice flairs to wide arm press. Back 2.5 to punch barani, triple full to finish. Small hop. I believe he did all of his passes out of round-off. Interesting. He did two front fulls so  I think that is a deduction. 14.2

10:51 am. Dudas (HUN V) Tsuk 2/1

10:50 am. Hryko (UKR FX) fhs, frong 2/1, back 5/2 to barani, fhs to front 5/2 – bounce,) back 2/1… he is having a log of trouble controlling his landings, wide arm press, side somi kick out, back 2/1, triple full to finish. Just a small hop back. Probably his best landing of the routine.

Vagner (HUN V) tsuk 1/1

Hidvegi (HUN V) Tsuk 1/1

10:45 am. Radivilov (UKR FX) double pike Arabian (almost stuck,) frong 2/1 to punch barani, double arabian almost stuck, Russians to side arm press (struggles slightly and a little arched,) front lay to front double front (slides and sits,) ends with a full-in to finish. 13.166

Heading into the 5^th rotation, Ukraine is in 9^th, France in 10^th, and Hungary is in 15^th.

OLEG!!! He has taken over the lead in the AA from Uchimura by .134

10:36 am. Semiankiv (UKR HB) Tak ½, tkatchev ½, tak 1/1, yami, endo ½, straddle tkatchev, stalder ½, hop change endo 1/1, 1/1 pirouette, giant ½, full twisting double lay that he basically lands on his knees then stumbles forward. UKRAINE. Someone get them a High Bar Coach Stat. 13.4

10:33 am. Hryko (UKR HB) Straddle tkatchev, back giant 1/1, stalder,  tkatchev, stalder ½, endo, endo 1/1,  double double lay that he pikes down and has to take a step out of. Not great. 13.2

10:26 am. Willig (FRA V) DTY! Really fantastic snap on the RO. Right down the center with chest upright.

Seligman (CRO PH) Amazing extension. Struggles through the triple Russian dismount.

Okachev (UKR HB) Lay tkatchev, lay tkatchev ½, giant 1,2 straddle tkatchev, ½, tak , endo to grip change, endo ½, hop change, 1/1, ½, stalder, double double to finish.

Augis (FRA V) Great handspring double front. Hop forward.

Ait Said (FRA V) Huge Handspring double front. Big hop forward.

10:26 am. Willig (FRA V) DTY! Really fantastic snap on the RO. Right down the center with chest upright.

Seligman (CRO PH) Amazing extension. Struggles through the triple Russian dismount.

Berki is in 7^th and could possible not make finals at this point. That would be a shame because it was a stunning routine. With two pommel specialists from Croatia in the upcoming routine we shall see.

10:12 am. Patra (IND V) Tsuk 2/1

Verniaiev (UKR PB) – has a long wait waiting on Okachev’s score (14.533)

Stunning start of handstand, peach ½, peach to 1 bar – healy from 1 hand, peach, Tippelt, Bhavsar, up to handstand healy 1/2, Peters, double front ½ out to finish! Fantastic routine from him. 16.133

Berki (HUN PH) Flip flop handstand, His extension is SO beautiful, triple Russian in the middle to Russian travles, Magyar spindle to sivado,eeekk only did a B dismount. Struggled swinging into the dismount. Other than the dismount it was stunning.

10:09 am. Kumar (IND V)  Tsuk Double tuck. Wow! Stuck it and down the middle!

10:05 am. Great double double to finish for Willig (FRA) on rings.

Colak (TUR V) Tsuk 1/1

Baldursson (ISL HB) Yami, clear hip, giant ½, tak, endo giant ½, double arabian dismount with CRAZY legs. Falls to his back. Jumps back up. Guess he’s redoing it. Sticks a full twisting double lay dismount. Weird. Hopefully (knock on wood) Berki will hit his pommel routine and we will have a really exciting final between him and Louis Smith of Great Britain. For newer fans, they tied at the London Olympics but with the tie-breaker rules, Berki was awarded the gold and Smith the Silver. Smith is currently in first headed into this rotation.

AA after 2: Uchimura, Belyavskiy, Radivilov (30.533)

Team: Ukraine 116.830 (6^th) France 11.797 (11^th) , Hungary 105.564 (15^th)

9:58 am. Patra (IND SR) invert,  up to planche, azarian iron cross, invert, iron cross, kip to yami to johansson…didn’t hold something long enough – not sure what it was supposed to be, maltese, handstand, full twisting double tuck to finish.

9:55 am. Colak (TUR SR) up to planche, azarian malteze, bounce iron cross, kip to johansson to to planche (low at first then corrects,) maltese to invert, Iron cross, kip to handstand (arch,)Stuck front double pike to finish.

9:52 am. Augis (FRA PH) Flip flop sequence, nice rhythm but pikes his hips a bit on the swing, some leg separation here and there but easy up into the dismount!

Arican (TUR SR)Iron cross to invert, kip up to a very pushed wobbly handstand, back giant to handstad, front giant to archy handstand, Lsit , straddle push to handstand, ymai to front double pike

Vagner (HUN FX) Running front double pike, Fhs, front lay to front double tuck, double aragian (big bounce up,) Russians, Beautiful well-controlled wide-arm press, frong 3/2, stuck-ish double tuck, front 2/1 to finish. 13.866

9:50 am. Verniaiev (UKR V2) Kas 2/1! Really nice. Crosses his legs and maybe has to pike down slightly but good direction as his feet were right down the middle. 15.366 AVG> 15.216. Puts him in 4^th for finals at the moment.

9:48 am. Verniaiev (UKR V) HUGE HUGE Dragulescu. Much different than his teammates. But has too much power and has to run a few steps back out of it. He had so much room before landing.  15.066

9:44 am. Radivilov (UKR V) Dragulescu. I actually don’t know how he landed that so solidly because his block didn’t seem great and it seems like he rotates slower than others who do that vault but it was solid. He landed of to the right and hopped off into the red but a good score. 15.2

VT 2. FANTASTIC Tsuk double pike! Two 6.0 D score vaults. Better landing position, better direction. 15.133 AVG. 15.166

9:42 am. Dudas (HUN FX) Double arabian to open, back 3/2 to barani, split to wide arm press,  front tuck 1/1, back 2/1, Stuck 5,2 to finish – ah nevermind he took a small step back.

Hryko (UKR V) Tsuk 2/1

Ukraine with a 58.031, France with a 56.032, Hungary with a 52.332 after the first rotation.

Igor Radivilov with at 15.333 in 2^nd and Oleg Verniaiev with a 15.266 in 3^rd in the AA after the first rotation.

9:35 am. Vecsernyes (HUN HB) The first thing I notice is that he is exceptionally tall – barely has to jump to grab the bar, tak 1/1, yami, endo1/2,  tkatchev lay ½, tak ½, straddle tkatchev straddle ½, 1 arm (struggles at the top,) endo 1/1, giant ½, Big double double but waited too long to start twisting and stumbles to his knees. 13.266

9:32 am.  Verniaiev (UKR SR) Lets see what he can do. azarian to beautiful maltese, maltese to bounce cross, kip to yami to johansson to iron, kip to perfect planch, giant handstand (slight arch) back giant to handstand (slight arch) Great double double to finish. Small step. 15.266

9:31 am. Baldursson (ISL V) Tsuk 1.5. Off to the left and big lunge forward. 13.666

9:26 am.Tommasone (FRA FX)  Front lay to front 2/1, back 3/2 to front 1/1 tucked. Some nice flairs into Russians into split into wide arm press, Thomas, back 2/1, back 5/2 to finish. 14.033

Tsukahara (AUS V) Tsuk double.  14.166

9:23 am. Arnaud Willig (FRA FX) front lay to front 2/1, 1 ¾ tucked thomas, back 2/1, back 3/2 to front 1/1, Some really nice flair work with gorgeous pointed toes – MAG take note! Back 2/5 to finish! A more simple routine but really nicely executed! 14.266

France is starting on floor, India and Turkey on Pommel Horse, Ukraine on Rings, Australia and Iceland on Vault, Singapore and Croatia on Pommel Horse, and Hungary will begin on the High Bar.

Good morning from Scotland! We are live with Day 2 of MAG Qualifications. The Big things to watch for this first subdivision are Ukraine led by Oleg Verniaiev and Hungary’s Pommel Horse King and reigning Olympic Champion, Krisztian Berki.

 

Article by Kensley Behel