Event (FIG) 2025 Pan American Gymnastics Championships @ Panama City, Panama. June 12-15

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Hang into 2nd....credit for a Pod, not a Lopez.

Navas Mustafina, messy, but fully around.

When we speak about the Mustafina we should be referring to the Pike version, since that's all she ever did (incorrectly getting credited for a layout in qualification at the one event where she ever tried it, but then correctly credited as pike in event final).

Roundoff 1/2-on layout 1/1 off should be known as a Maroney-Izbasa.
 
When we speak about the Mustafina we should be referring to the Pike version, since that's all she ever did (incorrectly getting credited for a layout in qualification at the one event where she ever tried it, but then correctly credited as pike in event final).

Roundoff 1/2-on layout 1/1 off should be known as a Maroney-Izbasa.
What? Mustafina got credit for the vault in 2010 worlds prelims. One downgrade in an EF doesn't take away the naming rights. It doesn't matter if it was the right call or not.
 
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When we speak about the Mustafina we should be referring to the Pike version, since that's all she ever did (incorrectly getting credited for a layout in qualification at the one event where she ever tried it, but then correctly credited as pike in event final).

Roundoff 1/2-on layout 1/1 off should be known as a Maroney-Izbasa.
No one has attempted this big of a reach when it comes to COP naming rights since Nelli Kim. Congratulations
 
It doesn't matter if it was the right call or not.
Of course it does. Look at how Zhang Yihan got credit for her Clear-hip Nabieva in competition in 2024, but then when reviewed by the committee for naming they said "no, we're not crediting it." I think that call was BS, thank goodness Zhang now officially has the skill named after doing it again in 2025, but Mustafina's vault was certainly piked. Like, a full 90 degree hip angle going into the salto, not just a sort-of piked shape that gets downgraded now.

and in the quad, Wasn't it impossible to do a piked front with a full according to the COP

She got credited for a pike in event final, .4 less start value, it was definitely a thing. Nabieva was also credited with the pike in finals (she did not attempt the vault in qualifications, but since they both did it at that competition, the Roundoff 1/2-on Pike 1/1 off should perhaps be called a Mustafina-Nabieva).
 

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