REWIND : Week FOUR : 14/10 : 2007 European Championships

[MaryClare]

As requested, in celebration of Vanessa Ferrari’s career. Unfortunately the only English speaking commentary I could find was extremely poor video quality and split into 4 parts. So here is the Dutch Eurosport version


My takeaways:

It’s easy to forget that Izbasa was actually a decent AA gymnast.

This was such a nightmare quad for Russia generally, but this competition exemplifies it. You would genuinely think that they were on their way out, like the rest of the ex eastern bloc.

I hate this COP for everything except bars. It made bars what they are today.

A lot of gymnasts from the previous quad were still competing, but very few had any success

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

05-07 was rough for Russia, but I was pleasantly surprised by how good they looked in Beijing prelims. There's a huge difference between them at this Euros and the Olympics. Obviously we all know how that one ended, but I did not think they were going to be closer in quality to the US than to Romania.

Would argue it was a decent quad for vault too. Beam and floor.... yeah.

 

[RichardL]

I was really surprised and impressed by Palesova's 1.5-L turn + side aerial combination. Zgoba was also really ahead of her time on bars.

 

[MaryClare]

I was really surprised and impressed by Palesova's 1.5-L turn + side aerial combination. Zgoba was also really ahead of her time on bars.

I think Nistor did a giant 2/1 by mistake!