2022 Commonwealth Games

[RAFIKI]

I’ll be there for the opening ceremony and all the gymnastics. I’ve also got athletics, hockey, netball, basketball, badminton and beach volleyball tickets.

All the 10 year London anniversary posts are making me very emotional and I feel really old (also bitter about the state of the country but that’s a whole other rant). I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the anniversary than going back to live sport and making some more memories.

 

[Gymfan93]

It’s also been exactly one year today since the Tokyo TF, according to Twitter.

 

[RAFIKI]

Yikes, what a rollercoaster that was! I hope the BBC coverage can be safely uploaded to YT soon.

It blows my mind that Paris is two years away. I haven’t even digested the new vault values yet.

 

[RAFIKI]

Whitlock is going to have a prominent role as one of the final baton bearers at the Opening Ceremony tonight.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

MAG sub 2 is on now. I don’t recognise most of the names and only following between work stuff, but I did notice Rhys is top of pommels qualifying with 14.350. Difficulty 5.7, execution 8.650. That’s a decent score under the new code, no? Obviously he will make the final with it.

 

[RedBirdie]

Looking at the world cup results, that score would challenge for a medal. Since MAG world cups are so much more competitive than WAG, I’d say Rhys is looking good for worlds.

 

[irichluck21]

Moldaeur won Pan American Championships with 13.200

Asian Championships was won by Abu Al Soud Ahmad of Jordan with 15.233 (6.3/8.933)
second was 14.800 (5.9/8.900) from Kazakhstan, Nariman Kurabanov. 3rd was 14.600 (6.5/8.100) from Yin Dehang of China.

Al Soud Ahmad is not qualified to Worlds as of yet, Kurabanov is likely to be on the Kazakh team, but unsure if Yin will be there for China.

But yeah 14.500 should be enough to make event finals most likely, but will need a bit more difficulty to get into the medals.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

A little bit of the routine here, haven’t found full footage yet.



Wales are currently winning but they’re the only team to have done 18 routines thus far, so only to be expected. 236.300 total and I haven’t paid nearly enough attention to MAG this year to guess whether they might hope for bronze with that.

 

[Samxo]

WAG start list for tomorrow is anyone is interested: https://b2022-pdf.microplustimingse...W------------------QUAL--------__C51B_1.0.pdf

 

[irichluck21]

Cyprus MAG are putting up some bigger numbers. If they can stay on pommels they could win a team medal.
Australia in the hole after counting a 10 on rings. Looks like Tyson Bull either fell or made a major mistake on high bar. His 13.250 is being dropped.
England running away with the team title. Already 1st ranked on floor, pommels, rings, and vault.
Canada is looking great for silver, but lets see how high bar goes.

Wales likely to drop out of the top 6 as Canada currently in 4th need only 11.966 average to pass them. New Zealand, currently 7th is fighting for 6th and need 12.975 average on parallel bars and high bar to pass Wales. It is definitely doable but they need to hit.
Exciting men’s meet!

 

[RedBirdie]

Tyson fell on his HB dismount.

 

[irichluck21]

Tyson fell on his HB dismount.

Thanks! Missed it but saw the score.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

There was like 0.05 between England and Cyprus at one point! But England pulling away now. It seems like a great atmosphere, I wish I’d managed to get tickets.

 

[Puffin]

Tyson fell on his HB dismount.

yes a real shame as he looked really good until he stumbled off the podium on dismount

 

[J175]

England: Achampong, Fenton, Kinsella AA, Simm VT,UB Fragapane BB,FX. No one doing two vaults. There are 13 gymnasts in total competing for 8 spots in the vault final

Australia only have Georgia Godwin and Emily Whitehead doing AA, so no 2pc question for them.

Not sure about the listing for Wales. Is Mali Morgan a vault specialist?

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Gearing up for a good last rotation! There’s 0.9 between Cyprus in 3rd and Scotland in 5th… and Canada are only 0.8 clear in second. England are ten points ahead but that’s not interesting, we all saw that coming.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Cyprus have the bronze, how exciting! First time a team medal has gone outside the home nations, Canada and Australia. Still less than a point between 3rd and 5th in the end.

 

[irichluck21]

Cyprus takes home their first ever team medal at the Commonwealth Games. Huge deal for their program. Australia just made too many mistakes. The Mitchell Morgans rings disaster cost them the team silver. They really should have beaten both Canada and Cyprus.
New Zealand fell apart on high bar to allow Wales the chance to grab 6th.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Also, England won everything tonight. A sweep.

 

[Gymfan93]

That was an exciting competition. England of course was always going to win gold (barring absolute disaster).
Joe Fraser had his appendix removed around 6 weeks ago and has an ankle injury (information from his instagram). To perform as he did is simply astounding really.
Really thought Cyprus had blown it, so pleased they got the bronze.