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Has anyone come across any full length meet coverage on youtube or elsewhere?

Can anyone post Hardie's floor routine? Or where is the most complete source of routine videos, not seeing any on youtube yet.

^ I mean, when I see an arm that bent, I think "support with only one hand" is what's going on, though it's all a matter of degrees to which that's happening. If you take a later freeze frame you'll see that left arm bent even more to get out of the way while the right arm is still straight...

It's not particularly hard to justify in my opinion -- "this gymnast has demonstrated scoring potential throughout the season that puts her routine in medal contention". You can argue how heavily to weigh her consistency, but that's a justification, and particularly in an individual worlds...

Happy to see Leanne do relatively well but she's back to the problematic one arm block.

Wouldn't the test of that be more related to her Vault/Floor performance? Is it known if or when she intends to return to competing on those events?

Exactly the same here -- those Atler/Maloney-era dreams finally come true! Seems like it's almost verboten in these parts to praise Voinea, but this routine was very exciting to me. :)

Do the gymnasts have immediate access to their artistry scores? Because I think it's wild that WTC would introduce this extremely consequential set of new deductions and then basically hide that result from the athletes who would stand to learn and improve from their scores? Even if the answer...

Thank you for compiling that youwannacranson. Very useful to see what the artistry rules are rewarding and penalizing on floor and beam. I will say that on Floor, the gymnasts do look more or less correctly ordered in terms of average deduction, and it feels fairly reasonable that Simone...

I think the artistry results are more than a bit concerning. A 5-6 tenth spread between judges working at the highest calibre of Olympic competition does not do much to reinforce the idea that these standards are in fact standard. It really creates a big black box without much...

A Junior National title these days amounts to: who has high enough D scores at age 15? And not much else. It's almost a negative indication of who might survive until the next olympic cycle for eligiblity. It was interesting to hear (via Gymcastic) that Lavi Crain's coaches at GAGE apparently...

There's so much to pick from with passes she's already shown. She has a remarkable diversity of tumbling elements, and she's done them all pretty dang well with maybe the exception of the 3.5 which has caused her some trouble a few times: Silivas Double layout Arabian Double Pike + stag 2.5...

Would love to see Leanne do 1) Silivas 2) 2.5 punch front full 3) triple twist as her passes. That'd be a 5.8 d score.

Maroney actually went from a full twisting yurchenko to an Amanar. I do sort of agree with your overall point about the Cheng... I think in recent years we have seen judges being overly strict on downgrading the Lopez (I think this happened very unfairly to Blakely at a recent Worlds maybe?) At...

Yeah, so this is the thing, as a gymnast I preferred double pikes to double tucks because doing a double tuck without cowboying is actually sorta terrifying -- your knees are just all up in your face. So, if you decide to cowboy, then there's the built in deduction. I think for most of these...