2021 Russian Cup (June 8-12) -- last Russian competition before Tokyo, besides videoless verification meets

[Jack]

Most importantly and germane to the Olympic conversation, was Nabieva there and on a scale from Lobazniuk Arabian to the time it takes an international panel to calculate a beam d-score, how long did she pant in the corner before attempting a double twist?

 

[tsarinajen]

No, she wasn’t.

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

Listunova’s Silivas is a mess and I can’t believe they’ve taken out the whip + whip + triple. What the hell… Her Kochetkova also needs to go. Her Fabrichnova is a very welcome addition and her vault looks improved.

Good to see Urazova seems much healthier now than before. Removing the triple on floor was probably a smart move, as is dismounting with a double full. Her handstands on bars are also slightly improved, I think.

Ilyankova is an easy choice for a +1. Not sure how she saved this Tweddle + Ezhova. She can be really hit or miss but she’s right up there with Fan Yilin to challenge for bronze.

 

[Marcio_Custodio]

Lilia’s bad form on floor annoys me so much!

But indeed she has a real shot at Making the team!

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

That was… extremely strange.

 

[irichluck21]

it’s horrible!!!

 

[glamafonic]

At least that choreo gave me a giggle rather than putting me to sleep lol.

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

I take it Listunova’s double pike second pass is a placeholder for her DLO. Given that she under-rotates both her Silivas and DLO, this is pretty dumb. Sure, her whip + whip + triple full has those flexed feet, but it’s one of the highest we’ve ever seen and has typically been a very consistent pass for her.

 

[onodian]

It’s like skinner’s coaches came and gave them a workshop on routine construction

 

[Marcio_Custodio]

All Around final:
1-viktoria listunova 14,233 14,866 14,6 14,266 57,965/ 113,698
2-vladislava urazova 14,4 14,833 14,5 13,6 57,333/ 113,666
3-Angelina melnikova 14,366 14,9 12,933 14,433 56,632/ 113,463
4-lilia akhaimova 108,631 (final:53,799)
5-elena gerasimova 107,630 (final:53,332)

 

[onodian]

hm, so melnikova apparently lost it on bb. Those bb scores look quite inflated, specially Uzarova’s, imma wait for those vids before I get excited.

 

[Alinxz23]

Videos are up

 

[irichluck21]

Russian Cup uses bonus, so the scores are inflated due to said bonus points.

 

[RAFIKI]

Argh I’d stopped worrying so much about Melnikova on beam but this year the worry is back in full force.

 

[Doug1233]

I was just gonna say. This reminds me of Grishina in 2012. These last minute upgrades often don’t work out well.

 

[blake]

She went back to the DLO in finals. It looks much better than it did at Euros.

 

[onodian]

ok so mostly everything here is much improved. Except that f-ing Kochetkova, that needs to go. She’s pulling that in line with sheer core strength. And they need to stick with DLO, whip-whip-triple. She was never really underrotated right? just those horrible feet. Then she can do 2,5 punch front and the double tuck.

Also, did she do a fabrichnova off bars at Euros? The bar set looks great, but that can change fast cause sometimes she’s reaaaally off on the piked 1/1. The DTY looks great and so I’m sure they will show up at the olympics having her do something else and fucking it up. Yay strategy!

 

[onodian]

Uzarova’s beam is pretty legit, turns out. I specially love how she landed the layout basically on the one foot and just kept all cool about it. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

That floor is pretty terrible though, what is UP with the music mixes of these girls, are they trying to confuse the judges?

 

[blake]

I’ve never seen Valentina looked less impressed than when Vlada stepped out on the front 2/1 lol

 

[Puffin]

When will they pension Valentina off? Isn’t she like 85?