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It's much easier to decide which is your weakest event when the choice is a DTY vs scoring 12 without a fall on beam. Beam being your strongest event is also tricky because scores are a lot more variable even if you stay on. Italy also had the problem that Casali lost 4 tenths on floor, without...

Italy had the highest combined score across the three rounds. Their third round score would have beaten Germany in round 2 (but only by a tenth). There was only 0.5 in it between their 2nd and 3rd rounds though, maybe they thought beam wasn't worth the risk before the final. Germany and GB had...

There was only 0.033 between the teams in these events in qualifying. Beam didn't go well for either

If it's the gold medal round the worst that can happen is silver. I think the strategy for the top teams has to be to go for your best event in round 2, and unless you are really good at beam you should leave it for the final.

6 of the top 8 from qualifying went through. The two who didn't - Hungary and Sweden - were also the teams who chose beam (though for Sweden P-Bars didn't go well either). The two lower qualifiers who went through, Norway (12th in qualifying) and Belgium (14th) both used MAG FX + WAG VT, which...

Switzerland, GB, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Norway qualify.

They haven't shown Williams on beam either have they? Scored 13.433, over a point down on qualification. Not really the wrong choice in her case, that's still tied with her next highest apparatus from qualifying. But Sweden are out.

With only six teams left Switzerland and France are through to round 2. Hungary qualified 4th but because they did beam they are down in 5th already, needing others to make mistakes.

Hungary showing why only 2 teams are doing beam first. Standings after rotation 1: Switzerland 27.033 Hungary 25.666 Poland 25.366 Finland 24.966 Turkey 24.333

Kevric and Schonmaier are tied for mixed team qualification. Not sure what the rules say but if they have a choice I'd give Kevric a rest.

6th for GB. Ruby Evans is in the AA, floor and mixed finals (barring disaster for the men tomorrow). No one else in any finals.

This seems to be the standard configuration for big events, but the British Championships manages to fit all the apparatus in the arena at the same time, so it can be done in some arenas at least.

The IOC are really pushing mixed events, they will absolutely want all the big names in it. They aren't holding an extra event at LA 2028 for USA WAG to send their third or fourth best gymnast. it'll be interesting to see if it is an advantage for the AA final to qualify second from your...

The full format for the mixed team final has been published. Appendix 12 in the work plan appendices zip file linked on this page https://www.europeangymnastics.com/event/2025-mens-and-womens-artistic-europeans-leipzig-ger/downloads Round 1 - 16 teams, each gymnast competes on one apparatus...

I have to assume the event at Euros this year is the format they are thinking of for 2028. It's weird that the IOC have included an event at the Olympics without it being contested at a World Championships (yet), but it'd be weirder if they'd done it without seeing a proposed format. We'll see...