Event (FIG) Fig World Challenge Cup in Paris

[Sasha]

Martin with a dicey landing on her Chuso, but she seems okay. Trouble on the wolf. I do like that she integrates dance into her leap passage, it's much less awkward than the usual. 13.166.

 

[MaryClare]

It's been two years and Jess G's Ezhova is still bloody awful. But I suspect she'll medal here anyway.

They need to put a straddled Yezhova into the code, so that there’s something to downgrade it to. It’s absolutely hideous.

 

[Sasha]

Vaelen 13.33, very balanced final so far, lol. Shoshani with an engaging performance but slips and falls on her last pass.

 

[Sasha]

I missed van Eijken but she's sitting in 3rd. Evans is next.

 

[Sasha]

Evans with a fumble on her third pass, tucked the layout and nearly sat it down. But she kept her butt off the floor. 12.8, no medal.

 

[Sasha]

Voinea through with no major issues, should take it easily I'd think.

Edit: 13.8, into first.

 

[Sasha]

Clean routine from Melnikova. I don't imagine it will be close to Voinea but I really appreciate how detail-oriented she is in her dance. You can see the work she puts into it (not in a bad way though). 13.4 for second.

Floor:

1. Voinea
2. Melnikova
3. Tanskanen

 

[Gymfan93]

Voinea's FX is growing on me.

 

[Sasha]

Her first pass is a gem: skills she can do, put into a difficult combination. Maybe she could apply that approach on beam...

 

[RichardL]

How she gets the power she does from those awful back handsprings is beyond me, but I do still love the first pass despite the technique in the double layout.

 

[RedBirdie]

It's been two years and Jess G's Ezhova is still bloody awful. But I suspect she'll medal here anyway.

I have no idea how it still looks so bad. You'd think bars would have been the one event we saw improvement on. And yet that Ezhova almost looks worse than it did in 2023.