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SUBDIVISION 3 | ROTATION 2

12:46 pm. Radomyr Stelmakh GER HB:

12:44 pm. Ares Federici ITA FX: 2.5 to double front, some cowboy in the air, hop forward. Double double, kind of a hard landing, chest forward. Triple full down the side was stuck. Front full to randi, the full was nice, the latter had some form and was a wee bit short. Arabian double front half with a step to finish.

12:42 pm. Joe Fraser GBR VT: Huge Kas 1.5! Really nice in the air, good chest position and just a small hop forward on the landing. 13.900

Timo Eder GER HB: 13.500

12:41 pm. Jermain Grünberg NED PH: Scissors to handstand, down to circles, single pommel with kind of floppy legs and hips, gets a little cleaner when he travels, some leg separation, into the dismount, hit routine. 11.933

12:40 pm. Jonas Rushworth GBR VT: Kas 1.5, mostly good form in the air, gets the landing well! 13.933

Riccardo Villa ITA FX: 13.466

12:38 am. Alexander Kunz GER HB: Zou Li Min went well, Tak half also, to Gienger to Endo, I think that was the series anyway! From my shady memory. Tak, front giants, stuck the dismount with his chest down. 13.233

12:34 pm. Touch for the second half!

Benjamin Osberg FRA PH: Didn’t get to see this on the stream but went 14.100! Currently eighth. Too bad the team doesn’t have him – he’s competing as an individual.

12:32 pm. Akseli Karsikas FIN VT: Sits the Kas 1.5, ughhhh. Just came up a bit too short and is too far back on his heels to save it.

12:30 pm. Noe Seifert SUI SR: I missed the very beginning, saw the planche, line maybe a little off, pike sit to saltos to handstand, a little short but muscles into position, nearly sticks the double double, just has a massive arm wave to keep his feet secure.

12:28 pm. Pierre Cassam Chenaï FRA PH: Scissors, a little muscle to handstand, Busnari had some adjustments and went a bit wonky into the flairs, ends up hitting his legs on the horse and coming off. Back on for flairs at the end of the horse, then travels in them, travels in circles, minor hip form, good push to the dismount.

12:27 pm. Robert Kirmes FIN VT: Kas full, looked pretty clean in the air, big step back.

12:25 pm. Elias Koski FIN VT: Kas full, some minor soft body line stuff in the air, step back.

12:23 pm. Illia Kovtun CRO PB: I caught this from the underswing to the single rail had minor form, some form and a slight hip adjustment on a half turn, Makuts, full and half pirouettes, some hand adjustments on I think an underswing half, stuck the double front, just some cowboy in the air. Gorgeous overall! 14.500

12:22 pm. Florian Langenegger SUI SR: Front pike to pike sit was lovely, clean press to handstand, saltos to handstand with tiny adjustment getting to position, hop back on the double double dismount. 12.600

12:18 pm. Moving into the second rotation now!

SUBDIVISION 3 | ROTATION 1

12:16 pm. Ooh, they just went back to show Arseniy Dukhno’s gorgeous floor routine from subdivision two! I watched on Twitter already but nice to see it get some attention on the main broadcast stream.

12:14 pm. Radomyr Stelmakh GER PB: Short in the opening pirouette and then way arched over on the half turn out. Front pike muscled to handstand. Double front half had some form in the air but a good landing. Not a tremendously good routine for what he’s capable of but still a hit.

12:12 pm. Mert Efe Kilicer TUR PH: Beginning goes well, lots his hip form on the single pommel work, but no major form breaks, travels well, good into the dismount, hit routine!

Why are they showing so much of Türkiye on pommels of all things lol. Courtney Tulloch is on rings you fools! He went 14.366!

12:10 pm. Timo Eder GER PB: Front pike to handstand, underswing goes well, then underswing half was a bit short. Makuts took a second to transition from the single rail. Hit a full pirouette well, then double front half, some leg form and a step back.

12:09 pm. Alperen Ege Avci TUR PH: Wasn’t typing but this was a hit routine, had some minor form and looked a bit tentative in some earlier parts of his routine, but was really aggressive in his traveling and got to the dismount well enough. 12.133

12:07 pm. Joe Fraser GBR SR: Maltese to iron cross, fine on both. Front double tucks to double pikes to handstand, good hold, back giant to handstand, and double double with a little shuffle back, minor form in the air but a good routine!

12:05 pm. Ares Federici ITA HB: Tak half, minor ankle form, layout Tkachev, straddle Tkachev, weird leg form on the Kolman, Kovacs is much better, stalder, hop full with ankle separation in the air, double double layout, leg form throughout, gets the landing with a step.

12:02 pm. Touch for the second half!

Switzerland was able to drop Florian Langenegger’s fall on pommels so they’re looking really solid right now score-wise!

12:00 pm. Naël Sakouhi FRA FX: Clean double layout, small hop back. Piked double front, hop forward. I think double full down the side, small hop back. Muscled up the press to handstand a couple of times which is just a weird issue to have. 2.5 to front layout, hop. Clean double pike, hop back. Iffy on every landing. 13.266

11:56 am. Gino Vetter AUT PB: Little muscle up into the first handstand, underswing to handstand with minor adjustments, Healy with slight leg separation, had a decent 1.5 but adjusted his hands a bit, pike sit pressed to handstand, double front cowboyed with a hop back. 13.133

11:54 am. Noe Seifert SUI PH: Lovely handstand out of his scissors at the beginning. Single pommel work goes well, into Busnari, tentative down to flairs but no big errors. Travels in flairs, minor hip form in the circles after, decent push to handstand for the dismount. Good!

11:53 am. Leeroy Traore-Malatre FRA FX: Front full to double front, cowboyed, hop forward. Double double, low landing, kind of a stumble back OOB. Clean double full down the side. Front double full with some leg form, to punch layout. Hop back on the double pike. 13.033

11:50 am. Robert Kirmes FIN SR: Wasn’t typing for this but a hit routine, had a hop to the side on the double double dismount but overall looked good to me! Nothing major that stood out as an error, just the usual little things. 13.233

11:49 am. Aurel Benovic CRO VT: OOF, Dragulescu ends REALLY short, head is so close to being ON THE MAT his chest is so low, punches forward practically into the table. That was hella rough. 12.900

11:47 am. Florian Langenegger SUI PH: Scissors to ahndstand to scissors, into the circles, loses his rhythm on the single pommel, looked like his hand maybe slipped? Fall. Back on for circles on both pommels, some leg separation, Russians on the single pommel, travels mostly well, minor hip form now, big press up to get to the handstand for the dismount. 12.666

11:46 am. Illia Kovtun CRO VT: Kas 1.5, lovely in the air, big lunge forward on the landing to steady himself. 13.900

11:43 am. Touch warmups are underway!

11:38 am. Athletes are being introduced for the third and final subdivision! MAG intros are so boring compared to WAG. CHOREOGRAPH SOMETHING YOU MONSTERS.

I’m at my office and multitasking so I won’t be able to get every routine, and have my laptop instead of my big screen desktop, so am watching the Eurovision Sport feed instead of the six different apparatus streams just to make this more manageable for me because I will HAVE to hop away at times. Doing my best! Don’t criticize me!

This session has Austria, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Türkiye, which is without Adem Asil last-minute due to some issues with his mental performance and nerves in podium training.