Event 2025 Asian Championships (Jun 5-15)

[Denn]

I caught the floor final live. it was a good final. Yulo won, then Karimi, and then a local FX star from Korea.

Tang Chia-Hung (Taiwan), Yang Haonan CHN, and Huang Mingqi CHN all withdrew from FX finals though.

So Yeh Cheng TPE (who was 2-pered) and one of the koreans who qualified in like 87th place competed. And the korean medaled.

Not sure which yet. the characters were in Korean.

 

[Denn]

Nariman Kurbanov added some difficulty to his PH set and won.

-BUT-

Hur Woong SHOULD have won. Kurbanov has fugly technique and body shapes, but the rules don't have tools to penalize him.

Dang Ngoc Xuan Thien and Shiao Yu-Jan were both awesome — they both did triple russians in the middle of the pommels, coincidentally — but they didn't get the score Hur Woong did because they stalled on the way up in their dismounts. Dang Ngoc Xuan Thien got the bronze.

 

[Denn]

Lan Xingyu is competing in rings finals. Yang Haonan is there, too, so why did he skip FX final?
China... Sigh.

Lan Xingyu has won rings at the Asian Championships 3 times previously. Today will be his 4th. (He was first up, but it's already over. Nobody can beat that.)

Apparently China doesn't think he deserves to go to any other event. They sent him to 2021 Worlds, but that was because they kept lots of guys at home after the Olympics.

 

[Denn]

Lan Xingyu, Yang Haonan, and Siahi Kolankouh Siavash got gold, silver, and bronze.

The Irani guy only did a double layout dismount, like it's the year 2000 again. He loses 0.2 for only doing a C, but he does increase the chance of sticking, I suppose (which he did), so he gets 0.1 back there as well as avoids a deduction, so it does make sense.

 

[RAFIKI]

Interesting tactic. I wonder if we’ll see more of this with the stick bonus?

Thanks for the reports

 

[Denn]

Related we already are seeing quite a few double pike dismounts on floor. But they actually made that a D, so there's more incentive.

I'm actually in favor of that. It looks nice. And it's harder than a double tuck to do cleanly.

 

[RAFIKI]

I strongly associate MAG FX double pikes with Nemov. It’s weird to be seeing so many of them now.

I am enjoying not having 90% of routines finishing with a triple twist. Wild that Whitlock could win without a double only nine years ago and now a double is required as the final pass.