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Thank you! Not a fan of the choreography but that's a great comeback from the beam disaster

Voinea gone top on floor - 13.66 with a .3 deduction. (I hope Camelia is checking that they called the out-of-bounds correctly!)

I am starting to entertain the wild hope of an Irish beam finalist.

Voinea's fall on dismount looked horrific - right on her neck. I hope she'll be able to manage floor. New safer mount no help with three falls in all, unfortunately.

Oh I love Ruby Evans's floor this year - thanks for posting @ArnoldRimmer

Melnikova into first on beam with 13.966.

Sabrina Voinea got 5.266 D and 4.9 E. I was hoping she'd come back a bit more robust here, but assume multiple falls ...

I kept expecting Ana Barbosu to bring back her rebound on the final pass as the stakes got higher with each floor routine at Euros. But she only ever did it at the Olympics. If she brings that back for worlds she can get up over 14.

Their Embassy in Brazil had better batten down the hatches

Well, who's going to argue with Oksana Omelianchik?

I feel that - unless they were handing out zeros like candy across the board - it absolutely should cause a stir.

No wait, you said TF. On the one hand, that's not so bad, because the average deductions from the other judges must have been around .3 across the team there. On the other hand, that was GB's final rotation and they were neck-and-neck with Brazil up to the last second. The difference was...

What?! Are you sure that's right? Ruby Evans and Becky Downie must have averaged .4 in deductions from other judges, but this one gave them none?! Did this particular judge give out lots of zeros?

Also, they had a nice festive atmosphere, happy crowd, little bit of a retirement do, Gina cracking a smile at one point on the sidelines ... were they going to throw all that away by giving another Russian gymnast gold over Khorkina? Have you ever watched the reaction to Zamo's win in Sydney?

I always like Produnova (and I love the audible whoop from the crowd at the end of her third tumbling pass here). I'd have given it silver over Khorkina very happily, but I can see arguments for Gogean's gold still. Neither has great dance here, and Gogean shows more flexibility and better...