2021 Worlds Day 2 EFs

[Livi]

I’m okay with this podium, though wouldn’t mind Leanne Wong on there. But Ashikawa gold please

 

[onodian]

so right now it’s been just all falls except for the podium right? I still like this better than 2015 EF

 

[RAFIKI]

Melnikova hasn’t fallen off beam yet this championship. Now is the time.

Please put some good thoughts into the universe for FX finals

 

[onodian]

Melni’s double pike is GORGEOUS

 

[onodian]

Wong hand down on acro series, I’d say that’s that

 

[Livi]

Oh Leanne…

 

[RAFIKI]

Ashikawa’s beam save is even more legendary now.

 

[Denn]

The scores are basically lined up with their E-scores. Beam is all about Execution.

What we all need to learn about beam routine construction: Do as few skills as possible to fulfill the requirements, dance a lot (partly in relevé), be a little creative, and get off. Because every trick you do is just going to lower your score probably.

6 out of the 9 finalists fell or grabbed the beam. Wow.

 

[onodian]

this was yet another final where we could have sent doug to do a single-salto, tuck 1/1 stravaganza to get a medal

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

I TOLD THEM SO.

 

[Denn]

I can’t believe FIG thought it was important to forbid one-touch warm-ups when they spend all kinds of time with these antics before the awards ceremonies.

They could have the guys warming up parallel bars right now, do the medal ceremony, and then give a green light to the first guy… UGH.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Yes, tell the lazy bitch to get out of his pit and slap a leotard on, we have a job for him to do.

It’s interesting just how bad a splatfest we’ve just seen, because beam is the WAG EF with the strongest field, easily. Obviously there being 9 of them helps a bit, but the lineup wouldn’t look out of place at a fully attended worlds. Two Olympic AA medallists, a former world beam champion, the world cup series winner, three world AA medallists, and one of the two new names is Luo Rui. Yet it was really, really crap. Compare that to vault, where the bulk of the field probably would barely be top 20 if everyone was here, and yet in terms of how well the competitors hit to their ability, it was excellent. Just shows what a complicated issue this is.

 

[onodian]

Yulo’s handstands on pabrs were ridiculous He had the one break but still, it looked like he was doing a completely different apparatus

 

[onodian]

come on Vlada give us that 1988 tumbling we came here for

 

[onodian]

well that was a lovely routine, way to shut me the f**k up Urazova

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

That has to be her best performance of the championship though. None of the knackeredness we saw in prelims and the AA. They probably would’ve been better with her specialising, as it turns out.

 

[RAFIKI]

That’s the best Memmel-illusion she’s done. Beautiful routine. Ended with the music today as well!

 

[onodian]

Bachynska looks VERY nervous, come on girl you got this

ETA: very nicely hit routine. I mean I loathe the music but that was really a very nice work throughout. It will be interesting to see the comparison to Urazova’s score

 

[KorbutFan]

Even back in 1988 a double pike opener was considered weak.

 

[Livi]

Rough landings for Leanne. Not her best