2021 World WAG AA Finals (10/21/21)

[RedBirdie]

of all the gymnasts that have come through her gym, Kelli Hill gets her first world AA medalist in Kayla diCello.

 

[RedBirdie]

 

[QuietColours]

I think that nicely proves that getting up for two hours in the middle of the night does not improve my cognitive abilities!

 

[tsarinajen]

I didn’t wake up for it but yay Gelya!

Now she has Olympic Team Gold and a World AA title. She looks great here on beam… makes me wonder if that’ll be her event final title. I think she’s going to get one more gold here.

 

[QuietColours]

I don’t feel surprised that Kayla’s not planning for Paris. She gives the feeling of someone who will retire from elite after this competition and start getting ready for college for with solid elite achievements under her belt. It’s a big ask for any of the US girls (who have college as an alternative) who went through this cycle to go through it again so soon for Paris, especially the ones who went for Worlds. It’s not going to feel like they can do the usual relax for a couple of years and come back strong–it’s just going to feel like a three year slog. Wong strikes me as a little more likely to try for it–she seems to enjoy intensity–but I don’t really expect her to try for it either.

I think the 2024 team is going to be heavily influenced by (maybe or maybe not made up of, but influenced by) the 2006 girls who have been pretty off the radar between the lack of competitions and the fact every time they have competed this year, we haven’t been able to see any of it because of Flo.

 

[tempest]

of all the gymnasts that have come through her gym, Kelli Hill gets her first world AA medalist in Kayla diCello

That’s crazy but also reminds me of some Russians like khorkina, prod, Zamo or pavlova et al Have no team gold yet the Russians of 2010 and 2021 do

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

I don’t feel surprised that Kayla’s not planning for Paris. She gives the feeling of someone who will retire from elite after this competition and start getting ready for college for with solid elite achievements under her belt. It’s a big ask for any of the US girls (who have college as an alternative) who went through this cycle to go through it again so soon for Paris, especially the ones who went for Worlds. It’s not going to feel like they can do the usually relax for a couple of years and come back strong–it’s just going to feel like a three year slog. Wong strikes me as a little more likely to try for it–she seems to enjoy intensity–but I don’t really expect her to try for it either.

Plus also Leanne is someone who’s had massive unrealised potential. She has to be at least somewhat aware of that. Kayla on the other hand, you wouldn’t look at her and think this is a gymnast who ought to have achieved so much more with what she had. She could have been an Olympian, it wouldn’t have been a surprise, but she’s not a walking tragedy like Leanne was until this week. Going off to college as an Olympic alternate and a world AA medallist is brilliant for her.

 

[Seyonne]

I can’t believe Leanne hit two AA competitions in a row. I’m thrilled for her. I hope this gives her more confidence and gets herself a floor medal.

 

[ucrgirl]

Good for Leanne hitting 2 full meets. I’m also proud of Melnikova. I thought she was supposed to be pushed aside by the young Russians but she has had quite a year.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

With work and having stayed up until 11, I couldn’t get up early enough to watch, but I’m happy for the medalists.

 

[Onyxrose81]

I’m very happy for Melnikova…she’s always been a fave and she’s seemed to be under appreciated by the head ghoul in charge. Also congrats to Leanne and Kayla!

 

[RedBirdie]

My favorite part: sorting everyone by e scores!

All Around

Rank	Name	E Score	Overall
1	Wong	34.24	2
2	Melnikova	34.032	1
3	Urazova	32.798	4
4	DiCello	32.466	3
5	Viser	32.226	5
6	Stacey	31.833	15
7	Martins	31.799	7
8	Shin	31.366	11
9	Wei	31.199	6
10	Hubereva	31.199	14
11	Slevin	31.032	19
12	Fenton	30.999	17
13	Bachynska	30.933	10
14	Ceplinschi	30.898	16
15	Heduit	30.665	9
16	Al D’Amato	30.582	8
17	Lee	30.499	13
18	Maennersdorfer	30.498	22
19	As D’Amato	30.399	12
20	Bacskay	30.365	21
21	Woo	30.099	18
22	Williams	30.032	23
23	Serber	29.833	20
24	Siegenthaler	29.332	24

Ruby Stacey finished 15th but had the 6th best execution. Emma Slevin was 19th but 11th in execution. Conversely, the D’Amato twins had the biggest drop in execution compared to where they actually finished.

 

[Doug1233]

So Wong had a 9.041 E Score for vault. Which means E Panel intervention.

I’ve played around a bit with the numbers, I think the most likely scenario is E Jury 8.933 (middle 3 - probably 8.9, 8.9, 9.0) and R Jury 9.15 (average - so probably 9.1 and 9.2).

Interestingly, this range is beyond the allowed delta (which is funny because if the E Jury was those 5 scores, you’d have an E score of 9.00). So I think it probable the R Panel kicked in in Leanne’s favor and gave her over a tenth E bump.

I had her vault at a 9.1.

 

[Jack]

What was your overall score for her? You have to think that if she had performed like this through trials and the rest had been accurately judged that Leanne would 100% been on that team.

 

[Doug1233]

What was your overall score for her? You have to think that if she had performed like this through trials and the rest had been accurately judged that Leanne would 100% been on that team.

I can’t find her bars, can you?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16IvJ4DeYiyUbcNiwfL2K5OKIojCQiYVm-J-Sx8xH75U/edit#gid=1236659112

Can only find this which cuts off the beginning

 

[Doug1233]

Best floor Leanne’s ever done, IMO.

Judges had both Melnikova and Wong at an 8.333. I had Melnikova 8.1 and Leanne 8.3.

Going by my Tokyo AA scores, I would have had DiCello in 8th and Wong in 5th behind Urazova (assuming I agreed with the FIG bars score) in the Olympic AA final.

 

[Sasha]

That was some good quick thinking by Melnikova to throw in a Memmel when the wolf turn went sideways! Would it have changed the standings if she hadn’t done that?

 

[JaJa]

I can’t believe Leanne hit two AA competitions in a row. I’m thrilled for her. I hope this gives her more confidence and gets herself a floor medal.

I am thrilled for her too. I think she was overlooked by many before and I had some Olympic dreams for her. But she is coming into her own now.

 

[Gymfan93]

Considering Urazova was counting falls, thats very impressive.
Also strange to see a British Gymnast 6th in E score!

 

[Kittentoes]

How much has Urazova grown since last year?