FX EF INQUIRY (Jordan Chiles Stripped Of Bronze Medal/USAG launches appeal)

[onodian]

Dance elements aren't the great equalizer, but they do offer some balance. Remove them as a requirement and you'll have an entirely different Top 8 and probably different podium order.

I'm fine with that. I just don't see the point with these super tough decisions hanging on a foot being round or not on a goddamm leap, tbh. It's cryptic and I think nobody is here for it, tbh. Did anyone ever get excited by a Gogean (again, except Doug). Have them do mandatory leap series, maybe even give them something for it or generally reward them for amplitude or whatever, but this D-score madness is doing nothing for the sport.

 

[Ginger]

It was a dramatic end to fx . First Voinea appealed to knock Barbosu off the podium and then Chiles did likewise to knock both of them off.

I wanted Barbosu on podium, but glad it wasn’t Voinea ending there, at least.
But again, what was the -0.1 deduction for?

 

[MRR]

I think the .1 was for the leap out of her 3rd pass, which she didn’t do today.

No, the full credited difficulty would be 7.1. No leap out of Biles puts her to 7.0, so something else wasn't credited

 

[Laura722]

 

[arabiandoublefront]

I just don’t see what they are there to prove? What is their function? No one is doing dance elements that are of genuine difficulty. The AG code is skewed

Yeah, I kinda agree. I feel like tumbling has suffered, not necessarily for the top elite gymnasts but the mid-tier ones, because of the greater emphasis on jumps and leaps. Like if we want to see more time for actual dance, the balance needs to change. And why is ending with a double tuck enough for elite women's gymnastics right now? What are the solutions?

 

[MaryClare]

Yeah, I kinda agree. I feel like tumbling has suffered, not necessarily for the top elite gymnasts but the mid-tier ones, because of the greater emphasis on jumps and leaps. Like if we want to see more time for actual dance, the balance needs to change. And why is ending with a double tuck enough for elite women's gymnastics right now? What are the solutions?

Yes. I want to see actual dance and expression and 3 difficult tumbles or at least interesting combo tumbling. No 4th pass

 

[Hatsumomo]

It reminds me of the Ukrainian men's team in 2012's TF after Uchimura's inquiry at the end was accepted and Ukraine was knocked out of the medals.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

Also what was the motivation for a leap series with steps in between instead of a connected leap pass? I hated it in 2008. I still hate it now.

 

[MaryClare]

Also what was the motivation for a leap series with steps in between instead of a connected leap pass? I hated it in 2008. I still hate it now.

It feels so unnatural and breaks the routine

 

[Seyonne]

Once again I have to say how much I hate FX. All that posey dance interspersed with stiffed armed galloping around the floor to launch themselves into leaps is just meh and sometimes cringe. I say get rid of the music and the “dance” and make it like men’s FX.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

It feels so unnatural and breaks the routine

Yeah, and it's like Nastia was actually one of the few who still did a true connected leap pass then. Shawn and Alicia didn't.

 

[Hatsumomo]

It feels so unnatural and breaks the routine

I'm not a dancer; I did tap dance when I was 5 and then moved on to gymnastics. But ballet teaches connected leaps and jumps right?

 

[onodian]

well yes but have you ever watched a gymnastics competition with a dancer? they cry on the inside with every leap

ETA: and sometimes on the outside

 

[onodian]

I'm not a dancer; I did tap dance when I was 5 and then moved on to gymnastics.

tap dancing FX routine would be AMAZEBALLS

 

[Hatsumomo]

tap dancing FX routine would be AMAZEBALLS

If somebody threw in some (properly done) Irish dance, I would love them forever. Imagine that footwork in the corner since the gymnast can't stand still for a second.

 

[onodian]

This has Listunova written all on it

 

[onodian]

How bad was bb ef you ask? The Spanish TV puts up all of the events of the day for rewatch, all event finals are up, except beam

 

[RAFIKI]

I do not know how to feel about my final day at Bercy arena. What a wild set of EF.

 

[onodian]

I mean, surely the Brazilians singing during Rebecca's medal ceremony must have made up for something. It was chilling on tv

 

[arabiandoublefront]

I do not know how to feel about my final day at Bercy arena. What a wild set of EF.

While I feel bad about going home before days 1 and 2 of event finals, I don't feel bad about not being there for day 3. Beam, high bar, and floor weren't even close to ideal.