Lee is ahead of Melnikova. We’ve all said that she is the 2nd best or 3rd best gymnast in the world for a while now (depending on Andrade) and tonight proved it.
I strongly disagree. There was a point in my life where I would have agreed (and assented to it… took me years to shed the harmful mindset). But now I don’t think so.
I would not give the connection on the side jumps, though. That’s 0.2 in D-score she’ll lose. And probably 0.1 in E also.
She really pulled around that dismount in a way that she did not need. I wonder why she didn’t open up like she usually does. It’s like she was worried about under-rotating it.