2025 World Championships | WAG All-Around Final Live Blog

Welcome to the live blog for the women’s all-around final at the 2025 World Championships, held in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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9:36 am. Final Standings

1. Angelina Melnikova, Russia (AIN), 55.066
2. Leanne Wong, United States, 54.966
3. Zhang Qingying, China, 54.633
4. Kaylia Nemour, Algeria, 54.564
5. Asia D’Amato, Italy, 53.532
6. Kishi Rina, Japan, 53.232
7. Sugihara Aiko, Japan, 53.132
8. Abigail Martin, Great Britain, 52.998
9. Naomi Visser, Netherlands, 52.299
10. Ruby Evans, Great Britain, 52.066
11. Lyudmila Roshchina, Russia (AIN), 51.999
12. Breanna Scott, Australia, 51.798
13. Dulcy Caylor, United States, 51.532
14. Alba Petisco, Spain, 51.399
15. Kaia Tanskanen, Finland, 51.266
16. Lena Bickel, Switzerland, 51.064
17. Natalia Escalera, Mexico, 51.032
18. Greta Mayer, Hungary, 50.666
19. Karina Schönmaier, Germany, 50.566
20. Lucija Hribar, Slovenia, 50.499
21. Silja Stöhr, Germany, 50.265
22. Laia Font, Spain, 50.232
23. Sona Artamonova, Czechia, 47.665
24. Zoja Szekely, Hungary, 22.000 (DNF)

9:30 am. Angelina Melnikova RUS FX: Full-twisting double layout, small hop back OOB. Double L to double spin. Double layout, big hop back. Just a full wolf turn, looked like she meant to do a double but fell out of it. Front tuck through to double pike, hop back. Switch to switch half. 13.466 (5.6, 7.966, -0.1) – moves her to first?!?!?!

9:26 am. Sugihara Aiko JPN FX: Lovely double layout, small hop. 1.5 through to double tuck, very strong! Switch ring to switch full. 2.5 to front layout, much better than quals. Double pike, small hop. This was fantastic. 13.666 (5.8, 7.866)

Asia D’Amato ITA UB: Nabieva to Pak, very nice! Toe full, Maloney to Tkachev, gets the front full pirouette to double front. 13.866 (6.0, 7.866)

Breanna Scott AUS BB: 13.566 (5.7, 7.866)

9:24 am. Naomi Visser NED UB: 14.200 (6.1, 8.100)

9:21 am. Kaylia Nemour ALG FX: 1.5 thorugh to triple full, much better than quals, hop to the side. Front layout through to double pike, good. Switch ring to tour jeté half. Double tuck, low with a stumble. Ugh, she was so close. 12.866 (5.3, 7.566)

Lena Bickel SUI UB: 13.466 (5.3, 8.166)

Lyudmila Roshchina RUS VT: Yurchenko double full, some crossed legs in the air and low chest on the landing. 13.800 (5.0, 8.800)

Greta Mayer HUN BB: 12.933 (5.2, 7.733)

9:20 am. Kishi Rina JPN VT: Yurchenko double full, solid landing! Not the most powerful and her chest is down but her feet barely move. 13.966 (5.0, 8.966)

Natalia Escalera MEX BB: 11.633 (5.3, 6.333)

9:18 am. Leanne Wong USA VT: Goes for broke with the Cheng, leg form in the air (crossed, soft knees) but gets the landing with a high chest and a step back. 14.466 (5.6, 8.866)

Kaia Tanskanen FIN UB: 12.400 (5.2, 7.200)

9:17 am. Zhang Qingying CHN FX: Split jump full. Full-in, big step back. Leap series was lovely, especially the switch ring. Double wolf turn. Good double pike! Step back. Switch ring with a half turn at the end. 12.900 (5.2, 7.700)

9:15 am. Alba Petisco ESP VT: Yurchenko 1.5, REALLY strong, comes down like a dart to basically stick with a little wobble. 13.500 (4.6, 8.900)

Sona Artamonova CZE BB: 10.866 (5.2, 5.766, -0.1)

Silja Stöhr GER UB: 12.066 (5.1, 6.966)

9:12 am. Dulcy Caylor USA FX: Memmel turn, a little overrotated. double layout, floaty but too slow in the air, deep landing. Back full through to double tuck to front tuck, that was good! Double pike, very steady there. Switch ring to tour jeté half. 13.433 (5.7, 7.733)

Ruby Evans GBR VT: Yurchenko double full, mostly gorgeous, minor knee form at some points, but powerful, and just a hop back on the landing. 14.033 (5.0, 9.033)

9:11 am. Laia Font ESP UB: Toe full to Chow to Pak, leg separation on the latter. Maloney to bail to toe shoot, kinda weak on the piked Jaeger, double pike dismount with a hop back. 12.533 (5.2, 7.333)

Lucija Hribar SLO BB: 12.300 (4.7, 7.600)

9:10 am. Abigail Martin GBR VT: Yurchenko double full, big hop back and minor form in the air but a solid vault overall. 13.866 (5.0, 8.866)

9:08 am. Karina Schönmaier GER FX: Fall to her knees on the double double. 1.5 to front full. Big bounce back on the double tuck, chest down, could’ve been another fall so a nice save. 11.900 (5.4, 6.500)

9:06 am. Rotation 3 Standings

1. Zhang Qingying CHN 41.733
2. Kaylia Nemour ALG 41.698
3. Angelina Melnikova RUS 41.600
4. Leanne Wong USA 40.500
5. Asia D’Amato ITA 39.666
6. Sugihara Aiko JPN 39.466
7. Natalia Escalera MEX 39.399
8. Kishi Rina JPN 39.266

9:03 am. Sugihara Aiko JPN BB: Switch leap mount to switch ring to Korbut I believe was her opening, it looked good. Front aerial to split jump to straddle jump. Check on the bhs loso. Full Y turn, slight wobble. Side aerial with a stumble back. Big wobble on a leap. Small hop on the double pike. 13.366 (5.9, 7.466)

9:01 am. Kishi Rina JPN FX: Double double with a big hop back. Front layout to rudi. Big stumble out of the Memmel, scooted OOB, girl what?! 2.5 was lovely, small hop. Double pike, deep with a hop forward. 12.800 (5.4, 7.500, -0.1)

8:59 am. Kaylia Nemour ALG BB: Loso mount went well. Bhs loso loso, solid. Front aerial to split jump to straddle jump, nice. Switch to switch half. Side aerial, lovely. Off halfway through the double wolf turn, same as quals. PLZ. Double pike with a step back. 13.066 (5.8, 7.266)

8:56 am. Leanne Wong USA FX: Triple wolf turn, nice. Double double, decent height, chest a little down and a step back. Whip half to front full, step forward. Switch ring to switch half. Strong double pike, small hop. Popa. Well, this was very solid. 13.200 (5.3, 7.900)

8:50 am. Zhang Qingying CHN BB: Switch leap to switch half to Korbut, fab. Roundoff layout, a little crooked but barely wobbles. Switch ring to bhs to split jump, lovely. Switch side to cross straddle jump to back loop. Switch to split jump half to straddle jump 3/4 I think? Double pike, tiny step. Perfection. 14.833 (6.7, 8.133)

Naomi Visser NED VT: 13.100 (4.2, 9.000, -0.1)

Greta Mayer HUN UB: 11.533 (4.8, 6.733)

Alba Petisco ESP FX: 12.233 (5.6, 6.633)

8:47 am. Ruby Evans GBR FX: Front layout to randi, OKAY!!! Front full to front double full, big hop forward OOB. Tour jeté half to switch full, I think the latter is a bit short. Gets the double layout with a small hop. Double wolf turn. Double tuck, hop back. 13.200 (5.9, 7.600, -0.3)

Lena Bickel SUI VT: Yurchenko full, nice in the air at first, loses some of the hip form before landing and has a hop back. 13.066 (4.2, 8.866)

Natalia Escalera MEX UB: Van Leeuwen, blind change to straddle Jaeger, Tkachev to Pak, minor form throughout so far, Maloney to Gienger, big leg separation and really close bent elbow catch. Misses the toe-on before the blind full. Sticks the full-in. 12.933 (5.7, 7.233)

8:45 am. Dulcy Caylor USA BB: Switch leap mount, slight check. Bhs loso loso, very nice. Wobble on the full turn. Side aerial, switch leap to straddle jump. Front aerial to split jump to Korbut, goes the tiniest bit crooked. Off on the double wolf turn. Double pike, chest down. 11.900 (5.4, 6.500)

Sona Artamonova CZE UB: 11.466 (4.7, 6.766)

Kaia Tanskanen FIN VT: Tsuk full, minor pike down and a small hop. 13.100 (4.4, 8.800, -0.1)

8:42 am. Abi Martin GBR FX: Powerful full-twisting double layout, big step back. Popa. Really strong double layout, hop back. Switch half. Gets the double wolf turn around. Front layout full through to double tuck, a little deep, but not bad, small hop. Queen! 13.266 (5.8, 7.566, -0.1)

Lucija Hribar SLO UB: 13.166 (5.5, 7.666)

Silja Stöhr GER VT: 12.966 (4.2, 8.866, -0.1)

8:40 am. Karina Schönmaier GER BB: Punch front mount, massive wobble. Hit the jump series after. Bhs loso with a break at the hips. Switch leap to switch half, a bit short, to back handspring. Break at the hips on the side aerial. Gainer full dismount. 11.900 (5.4, 6.500)

Lyudmila Roshchina RUS FX: 12.633 (5.5, 7.133)

Laia Font ESP VT: Yurchenko double full, leg form is all over the place but the landing was fab! 13.766 (5.0, 8.766)

8:39 am. Asia D’Amato ITA VT: Yurchenko double full, some soft hip and knee form in the air but strong landing. 13.966 (5.0, 8.966)

8:38 am. Breanna Scott AUS UB: Caught the piked Jaeger, Pak, Maloney to clear hip to half turn, short, blind full, full-twisting double layout, good landing. 12.666 (4.9, 7.766)

8:37 am. Angelina Melnikova RUS BB: I couldn’t type for this but she fell on the same series that she missed in qualifications. The rest was fine. 12.800 (5.6, 7.200)

8:34 am. Rotation 2 Standings

1. Angelina Melnikova RUS 28.800
2. Kaylia Nemour ALG 28.632
3. Leanne Wong USA 27.300
4. Zhang Qingying CHN 26.900
5. Karina Schönmaier GER 26.766
6. Kishi Rina JPN 26.466
– Natalia Escalera MEX 26.466
8. Greta Mayer HUN 26.200

8:29 am. Kaylia Nemour ALG UB: Inbar full to inbar layout Tkachev, short handstand before the Pak to Maloney to stalder full to stalder Tkachev in mixed grip to Ezhova to Chow half, amazing. Toe full to double layout, kinda comes off low but gets it around NO problem, small hop. 15.166 (6.9, 8.266)

Lena Bickel SUI FX: 12.666 (5.2, 7.466)

8:26 am. Leanne Wong USA BB: Switch leap mount, switch half to straddle jump. Good side aerial. Solid switch ring, couldn’t really see the shape from this angle. Gets the wolf turn around. Strong bhs loso. Front aerial to split jump, slight check. Side somi with a medium-ish wobble. Pike jump to sissone. Tucked gainer full, stuck! 13.500 (5.5, 8.000)

Kaia Tanskanen FIN BB: 13.266 (5.5, 7.766)

8:24 am. Zhang Qingying CHN UB: Weiler to Weiler half to Pak, love it. Good handstand before the Maloney to Tkachev, toe-on to toe full to full-in, stuck cold. FAB. 13.900 (5.7, 8.200)

8:22 am. Alba Petisco ESP BB: Loso mount is hit! Switch leap to switch half. Off on the double wolf turn, UGH. Bhs bhs loso is solid. Side aerial. Cross split jump half was pretty short, wobbly as well. Double pike, lunge back. 12.200 (5.5, 6.700)

Greta Mayer HUN VT: Who is doing a tsuk full like her?! 13.500 (4.4, 9.100)

Silja Stöhr GER FX: 12.533 (5.3, 7.233)

8:20 am. Dulcy Caylor USA UB: Great handstand before the toe full to Maloney to Tkachev, low but gets it. Another good handstand before the Pak and before the van Leeuwen, form on the latter is weak, blind change to straddle Jaeger, low, slips and falls. Ugh. Back on for the blind change to front half, double layout, lands on her toes with her chest horizontal. 12.233 (5.6, 6.633)

8:18 am. Ruby Evans GBR BB: Wasn’t typing at the beginning but she hit everything, some wobbly elements, but got through it. Bhs bhs loso had a big wobble, leg up, again good fight. 2.5 dismount with a hop forward. 12.033 (4.9, 7.133)

Natalia Escalera MEX VT: 13.500 (4.6, 8.900)

8:16 am. Karina Schönmaier GER UB: Tkachev to Pak, good! Toe-on to van Leeuwen, minor knee form. Blind change to front giant half, blind full, some leg separation, full-in with a little bounce. 13.200 (5.0, 8.200)

Sona Artamonova CZE VT: Yurchenko full, bit of a pike down, big step back. 12.900 (4.2, 8.700)

8:14 am. Abi Martin GBR BB: Strong double wolf turn. Front aerial with a bobble. Bhs loso loso, solid. Switch to switch side, also hit a cross jump. Big stumble on the side aerial. Double pike dismount with a bit of a stumble. 12.400 (5.4, 7.000)

Laia Font FX: Think her music is in the background of beam and it’s “Highway to Hell” hahaha love that for her. 12.133 (4.8, 7.333)

8:12 am. Angelina Melnikova RUS UB: Inbar full was great, to Komova II to clean Pak to van Leeuwen, wow. Deep inbar half to piked Jaeger, minor leg separation, half turn was short before the toe full to full-in, excellent landing. 14.700 (6.3, 8.400)

Lyudmila Roshchina RUS BB: Saw her fall in the background of floor, I believe on her mount. Yeah, in the replay it was the front tuck mount.Switch ring, flexed back foot. Hit the rest, stumble on the front acro series. 11.733 (5.7, 6.033)

Lucija Hribar SLO VT: Yurchenko full, clean, step back. 13.100 (4.2, 8.900)

8:10 am. Asia D’Amato IT AFX: GORG Memmel. Big double layout, hop back. Arabian double front, hop forward. Love that random tucked barani before the double tuck. 12.800 (5.2, 7.600)

Zoja Szekely HUN VT: Oh no, what happened here?! 10.500 (3.2, 7.400, -0.1)

Breanna Scott AUS VT: 13.133 (4.2, 8.933)

8:07 am. Sugihara Aiko JPN UB: Toe half to straddle Jaeger, toe full to clean Pak, Maloney with leg separation to Gienger, rotation looked off and she was REALLY close to the bar. Back on for the dismount which she hits with a step. 112.200 (5.2, 7.000)

Naomi Visser NED FX: 12.766 (5.5, 7.266)

8:05 am. Kishi Rina JPN BB: Double wolf turn goes awry and she stands up out of it. Big break at the hips on the side aerial loso. Switch ring to split jump to straddle jump, toe point! Side somi was good. Front aerial slow to the split ring jump, deep landing. Double pike, chest low, step back. 13.433 (5.9, 7.533)

8:03 am. Rotation 1 Standings

1. Angelina Melnikova RUS 14.100
2. Dulcy Caylor USA 13.966
3. Sugihara Aiko JPN 13.900
4. Lyudmila Roshchina RUS 13.833
5. Leanne Wong USA 13.800
6. Karina Schönmaier GER 13.566
7. Kaylia Nemour ALG 13.466
– Alba Petisco ESP 13.466
– Abi Martin GBR 13.466

7:59 am. Natalia Escalera MEX FX: Powerful double layout to start, a couple of steps back. Cutesy dance, love this. Front full through to double pike, tiny bounce. Switch half. Front layout through to double tuck, deep with a lunge forward. Switch leap to tour jeté half. Split jump full. Great routine!! 12.966 (5.3, 7.666)

7:58 am. Sona Artamonova CZE FX: 12.433 (5.1, 7.333)

7:53 am. Kaia Tanskanen FIN BB: Back pike mount, good! Nails the bhs loso loso. Front aerial to straddle jump, slow connection and really short on the split, small wobble. Full wolf turn. Switch to switch side, again splits are a little short. Side somi. 1.5 with a little bobble on the landing. 12.500 (5.0, 7.500)

Lucija Hribar SLO FX: 11.933 (4.5, 7.433)

7:52 am. Alba Petisco ESP UB: Straddle Jaeger, short handstand before the Church to Pak, some leg separation but minor, Maloney to bail to toe-on to toe shoot, a little short on the handstand before the blind full, minor leg separation, sticks the full-in dismount. 13.466 (5.5, 7.966)

7:50 am. Silja Stöhr GER BB: Hit the mount but then had wobbles on both jumps and missed the connection. Hit the acro series but was wobbly in it, then switch leap to sissone and side somi, better there. Tour jeté half was short in rotation and split. Double full dismount with some form in the air. 12.700 (5.4, 7.300)

Zhang Qingying CHN VT: Tsuk full, not a huge block, a bit piked, step back, a hit though! 13.000 (4.4, 8.600)

Ruby Evans GBR UB: 12.800 (5.2, 7.600)

7:47 am. Dulcy Caylor USA VT: Yurchenko double full, some soft form in the air, but the landing is really strong, small hop back. 13.966 (5.0, 8.966)

Abigail Martin GBR UB: Nice handstand before the toe full to Maloney to Tkachev, power! Hop change to straddle Jaeger, Pak, another good handstand before the van Leeuwen, full-in, nearly stuck!! WOW! 13.466 (5.6, 7.866)

Laia Font ESP BB: 11.800 (5.2, 6.600)

7:45 am. Breanna Scott AUS FX: Double layout, good in the air I think, maybe a bit short on the landing, hop forward. Front tuck through to double full with a big hop back. Switch leap to tour jeté half. Hit the last pass, great routine! 12.433 (4.8, 7.633)

7:43 am. Karina Schönmaier GER VT: Yurchenko double full, hop to the side, a couple of steps after that, ends up fully OOB. Lawd. 13.566 (5.0, 8.866, -0.3)

Zoja Szekely HUN FX: 11.500 (4.3, 7.200)

Lyudmila Roshchina RUS UB: Toe full to Komova II to stalder piked Tkachev to Pak, Chow to Gienger, a little close, a lot close actually, basically catches on her elbows, short handstand before the toe half to piked Jaeger, some form there, short handstand before giants to full-out dismount, leg form but stuck. 13.833 (6.6, 7.233)

Asia D’Amato ITA BB: Hit the mount, bhs loso with a tiny check, front aerial to split jump to straddle jump, good. Switch leap, little check, switch half was a little off, bobble. Big wobble on the side somi but she fights through it. Split jump half, wobble. Strong double pike. 12.900 (5.4, 7.500)

7:41 am. Angelina Melnikova RUS VT: Yurchenko double full, mostly okay in the air but then in the second twist she falls apart a little in terms of hips and crossed legs, hop to the side right onto the line. 14.100 (5.0, 9.100)

7:39 am. Kishi Rina JPN UB: Maloney to stalder full, pretty nice Pak, short handstand before the van Leeuwen, but that was also mostly clean, stalder to blind change to straddle Jaeger, really nice! Half turn was REALLY short, toe full was a little rushed to full-out with a couple of steps back. 13.033 (5.7, 7.333)

Sugihara Aiko JPN VT: Yurchenko 1.5, lovely and STUUUUUUUCK!!!! 13.900 (4.6, 9.300)

7:37 am. Naomi Visser NED BB: Clean back handspring mount. Front aerial. I think had a side aerial bhs but missed a hand and fell. Hit a leap to side somi. Nice double spin. Split leap to sissone. 2.5 with a good landing. 12.233 (5.2, 7.033)

7:36 am. Kaylia Nemour ALG VT: Yurchenko double full, no big problems today, mostly clean in the air but she’s pretty short on the landing still, obviously not as bad as quals, but her chest is like at her knees and she has a big hop forward OOB. 13.466 (5.0, 8.766, -0.3)

Lena Bickel SUI BB: 11.866 (5.1, 6.766)

7:35 am. Leanne Wong USA UB: Clear hip half to straddle Jaeger is good, toe full right over the bark to Bhardwaj, looks really good there, Maloney to Pak were clean, really nice van Leeuwen, double layout with a hop back. 13.800 (5.7, 8.100)

7:32 am. Greta Mayer HUN FX: Double layout, STUCK! Cold. Damn! Full-out with a tiny step back. Front tuck through to double tuck, deep landing and a step back. Double pike deep with a step forward. 12.700 (5.4, 7.300)

7:30 am. Action should be starting in just a couple of minutes!

22 thoughts on “2025 World Championships | WAG All-Around Final Live Blog

  1. Oof that Melnikova score will be a bit controversial again. You could rwally make arguments both ways but my heart wants to give ot to the cleanest performance on the day.

    Crazy to have AA medallists go 1-2 4 years apart.

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    • SO controversial. It was a weaker routine than quals but scored so much higher?! It makes absolutely no sense and for it to be exactly a tenth to push her into the lead feels wild. After that routine I was like “I wonder if she’ll even make the podium.” EEK.

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  2. Beyond angry about Gelya’s FX score. That was the highest execution floor routine of the day, set aside the OOB, that’s utter nonsense.

    They also gave her 7.2E on BB with a fall, which would have been highest E by far there of the day.

    Ah well, what a nasty note to end on.

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    • Truly a terrible way to end the day! I think it’s cool that she came back after four years of not competing internationally and I was like, if she can pull off the gold here after that, I respect her as an athlete. But this was not the day for her to win gold based on beam and floor.

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  3. Just from following the live scoring here, in another blog, and in FIG’s site, for me, even from the very beginning, it felt like they were gearing to give it all to Melnikova. Her scores and others’ seem to agree with my hunch. Just saying.

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    • Yes, totally. Her bars were fantastic, I’ll give her that. I’m trying to be as neutral as possible in how I talk about her because I don’t agree that Russia should be here BUT I also respect her as an athlete and don’t want to discredit the work she’s doing. I feel like I’d fully agree with her as world champ if it was deserved, but all politics aside, I don’t think it was a great day for her and I think her floor score is atrocious for what she competed. Like literally five tenths higher than I expected in terms of her E score based on how she competed. Just really don’t see how her scores add up.

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      • I may say, too, as well, that it’s probably mostly on the judges. She just did what she did. They did whatever they wanted to do for whatever reason. Clap! Clap! Clap to her, maybe. But certainly there’s enough in everything that happened that could make people aptly ask about the results and all.

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        • Yes, definitely on the judges! I don’t want to be all conspiracy theorist about it but it feels like the FIG has not supported the Russian ban given that the FIG president has been to Russia many times since the start of the war and has asked the international community to choose sport over politics, which is like…bizarre. So of course my brain is like, well, the FIG clearly wanted this win, conspiracy, conspiracy. I think she did just enough that the judges could KIND OF get away with it but her scores do look very shady compared to other scores so it feels like they were trying to push her into that top spot. Definitely more on the FIG/judging than on the athlete.

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  4. I completely agree with Oki and Lauren above. It felt like the judges were holding her up all day. Her beam execution score was too high, but her floor score was ridiculous. I agree it was about five tenths too high on execution. Also, from the Peacock feed it looked to me like both of her heels were out of bounds, so it should have been three tenths, not one tenth deduction.

    We know Russia cheats at all kinds of sports, and the FIG clearly wants Russia back in. It felt like the judges were instructed to give it to Melnikova if it was at all plausible. I found it odd that the replay didn’t show her OOB. Hiding anything? Maybe she only had one foot out, but on Peacock it sure looked like both heels were out.

    Lastly, Melnikova should not even be there. She supports the war. How is she a neutral athlete. The whole thing just stinks all around. So frustrating when you love a sport to see it tainted like this.

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    • Fully agree with all of this. Again, respect her as an athlete, and she looks SO good for someone who hasn’t competed internationally in four years, but yes – she doesn’t belong here and the FIG was pushing for her to get the win. And yeah, both heels were definitely out – someone said one may have been just on the line or she was on tiptoe or something, but in every angle I’ve seen, both are out and down.

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      • https://www.instagram.com/p/DQODuayDqM5/

        No scandal : one heel is in. Incredible spins and magnificent jumps, and probably no deduction for artistry (Unlike Wong). She didn’t fall on her wolf turn, but only did a single one, which weakened her D-score. Nor was there any FIG conspiracy against the United States and in favor of Russia. How crazy to think that… Melnikova deserved the gold medal as much as any other world champion before her. Sorry for Wong who had a great day, but has lower D-scores, average execution, and completely lacks artistry.

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        • I didn’t say it was against the United States – it happened multiple times in all of her finals, like vault, where her DTY somehow outscored both Schönmaier’s and Fontaine’s, and bars, where her weakest routine of the competition was only two tenths lower in execution than her brilliant AA bars routine when it should’ve been at least five tenths lower (comparing her to herself there because even her own scores back to back don’t make sense). The scoring wasn’t anti-any other athlete or nation but it was simply pro-Melnikova. She should have won gold on vault regardless based on how that final played out, so it’s mostly not a big deal in that case, but it’s simply terrible judging when she had the weakest DTY of those three athletes and scored the highest on it. Embarrassing for the judges honestly.

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        • Dear Lauren, you wrote that : “And yeah, both heels were definitely out – someone said one may have been just on the line or she was on tiptoe or something, but in every angle I’ve seen, both are out and down”.

          Could you recognize that you were wrong and spreading “alternative facts”.

          It would be great for the credibility of your blog.

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        • That was based on every angle I saw to that point! Which was like three different angles. I even said “maybe she was on tiptoe” which when a new angle emerged turned out to be the case! Obviously we can only go off of what we physically see with our eyes, which until that new angle emerged was both heels looking out and down. I literally posted the video of the new angle on Twitter to help address this! I still think her beam and floor were overscored compared to other routines in the all-around final regardless of the heel.

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  5. Leanne Wong was robbed. Angelina’s execution scoring will never make sense to me on any event but bars. I am done wasting my time and energy on a sport where they cheat time and time again and never suffer any consequences. The Federation for Gymnastics needs to go. Leanne has to fight USAG to get here, and then the judges to be rewarded for her work.

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  6. Your live blogs and quick updates of rotation-standings and scores are awesome. They have been very helpful and entertaining this world championships (and for several years going). 

    Question? Is there a specific reason you’re continuing to associate Melnikova, Roshchina, et al with their nationality in your results? I believe AP guidelines advise against associating AIN athletes with the countries they hail from. While you’re obviously not required to follow AP, they are the standard for journalism for a reason. 

    Similarly on your twitter account, you posted the WAG All-Around records and attributed record-credit to Russia, who is not competing at these championships. This is not a matter of opinion or a stylistic choice. It is factually incorrect to say Melnikova has set any new records for Russia in Jakarta.

    For over a decade, The Gymternet has been the gold standard in collecting and collating results. You do all the hard, detailed work that “lighter” gym sites don’t put in. The Gymternet is one of the best, probably the best, active elite gymnastics site around for accurate resources for results and records.  

    Would you please consider reconsidering the way in which you report the results of AIN athletes?

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    • Thank you! I’ve explained this a couple of times and am going to include it in my results as an asterisk, but with AIN including two different countries, I mostly am using countries to differentiate between RUS and BLR even though AP Style advises against it. It’s mostly just to help keep things straight because I see things like Kalmykova and Kuzmenkova and get confused and even though it doesn’t matter for official purposes, it matters for how I track athletes via my site’s backend so I’m just differentiating regularly to keep things consistent. On Twitter I put “AIN (Russia)” when sharing podiums, and when I talked about Melnikova’s records on Twitter I purposely said “for a Russian athlete” instead of “for Russia” meaning that she is Russian in nationality, not that Russia has claim to those medals, if that makes sense. It’s a lot of asterisk-ing on my end, because officially, they are neutral and their nations do not have a claim in these accomplishments, but I also for my own personal record-keeping want to be able to differentiate. I also used “Russia” instead of “ROC” for the 2020 Olympics, where they were banned for a different reason, albeit not as serious as why they are currently not allowed to have their nation represented on an international stage.

      In my personal opinion, I’m kind of like…AIN, schmain. It’s meaningless, just as the ROC designation was meaningless. The IOC and FIG have instated this pseudo-punishment, but as Valentina Rodionenko said in an interview today, “even though these athletes are neutral, everyone knows they are Russian.” Officially Russia will not be able to claim these results and records, but everyone knows they still belong to Russia, and the Russians are laughing all the way to the podium at the IOC and FIG bending over backwards to let them do whatever they want. If the IOC and FIG aren’t going to recognize a legitimate, ongoing ban against aggressor nations, I’m not going to recognize their silly non-punishment as being a real thing and that’s why I’m choosing to say RUS/BLR on live blogs or other posts where I’m not officially tracking anything / am just differentiating between nationalities. But of course, officially I will make it clear how these results stand in the record books to keep it accurate! And when I do medal counts, I plan on doing something similar to how things are differentiated for athletes who competed on the Unified Team or who have represented different countries throughout their careers – so Melnikova will have her list of however many medals she has at worlds/the Olympics, but it will be clear that some medals are RUS, some are ROC, and some are AIN.

      I feel like I understand where you’re coming from, and I think I’m coming from the same place even though my response is the opposite. I’m just so mad at the IOC and FIG for allowing this and for thinking that they’re doing something when really they should be embarrassed for letting it happen and for once again giving Russia exactly what they want.

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