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MAG Entry List MAG Day 1 Results Canada is leading after Day 1 of MAG team. Emard (CAN) is leading AA with 79.632 after Day 1. Event leaders are FX: Whitehouse (GBR) - 14.566 (6.1) PH: Kamiljanov (UZB) - 14.433 (5.6) SR: Emard (CAN) - 14.000 (5.3) V: Ng Chun Chen (MAS) - 13.416...

This really stood out to me watching the U.S. Classic over the weekend. What I remember from my previous years watching the sport, even gymnasts lacking strong choreography, execution, and dance skills (think Raisman) still carried themselves and presented the routine rather than just going...

Put me down as one who cares. I don't know this code well enough to have caught this in watching the routine or scores, but now that I know, I'm little worked up. Some ideas on how this could have happened: Were the judges so familiar with her routine that they put down what they expected to...

I liked the turn, too. Also nice to see a real mount. I enjoyed her floor, too. (And I always love a low bun.) I would love to see artistry deductions for some of these. A back layout dismount on beam? I didn’t expect that. Don’t remember who it was.

No roster, but FIG has a short preview with a few more names. MAG Luke Whitehouse (GBR) Hamlet Manukyan (ARM) Nazar Chepurnyi (UKR) WAG Emma Malewski (GER) Jana Mahmoud (EGY) Zofia Kovacs (HUN) Zoja Szekely (HUN) Lee Yunseo (KOR) Shin Solyi (KOR) Eom Dohyun (KOR) Ting Hua-Tien (TPE)

These numbers include all four scores for complete teams in qualifying, not the three counting scores. Team Qualifying Averages: 1. Brazil - .19 2. Japan - .29 3. China - .30 4. Canada - .31 4. Italy - .31 4. Netherlands - .31 (only 3 scores) 7. Romania - .32 8. Australia - .33 9. France - .35...

Thanks for sharing these! This will be interesting to go through for each country, and also how compare gymnasts did in different competition phases.

It's been a while since I've watched Grigoras on beam. That was nice, very easy, smooth way of working. Even Retton's back tucks look labored.

I totally agree that attacks are uncalled for, and from what I've read of this situation, it sounds like it was pretty harsh. And to be clear, I think that judges can have a negative opinion of music, dance style, skill selection, etc. and still do their job and judge a routine fairly. But in a...

Yes! I was just looking for these videos to make the same comment. It really is a shame she didn't have the opportunity to compete at the Olympics.

Agreed. I would worry that a comment like this, even on a personal Twitter account, could possibly raise questions of bias in judging. She seems to be a great resource, and an explanation of potential problems with the music could have been helpful.

Watching her on beam is very calming. She is one of the rare gymnasts who really works with the beam, not on it or against it.

In the 1979 code, first flight had a .30 deduction for "Strong tuck or pike (not according to the nature of the vault)" and an up to .20 deduction for "Body position fault (trunk, legs). In the 1985 code, the first deduction was an "up to .30." I don't know if that was one of the changes before...

Maybe on vault. She was only third in prelims on FX. Throw in a couple of Soviets, and floor is tougher.

Are the complete results with artistry deductions for eveyrone available anywhere, or absent all the numbers, even just the rankings by artistry deduction. Who had the fewest deductions, and who were the two behind Biles?