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[Dex]

This afternoon there is a competition between the Netherlands and Belgium.
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It starts in three hours at 13:30 local time…

 

[Dex]

Nina did a double double dismount from Bars…

 

[Dex]

So far Naomie Visser looks really good on bars and beam. Elze Geurts looking good on floor.
Eythora does a double layout on floor though so far only with a spotter.
Looks like Sanne Wevers will only do beam but she does have some upgrades it seems

 

[lovegymnasts]

Just started to watch but the overwhelming question to me is: Why is the beam directly in front of the vault? Maybe it’s because I’m not a gymnast but that is scary to me. An out of control landing seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
editing to add: They don’t have a lot of power in their vaulting so extremely unlikely

 

[Doug1233]

Here’s Eythora’s AA

Attempts a layout Mount on beam. Per the layout rule I don’t think this would get credit, right?

Opens with a DLO on floor. Not even close. Killed her ankles and had to stop. Hopefully she’s ok. She gave a little nod to her coach after, so hopefully just a stinger.

 

[Doug1233]

Sanne beam



Wevers to Illusion! That is ambitious!!

She has such gorgeous fluidity

 

[Doug1233]

This looks to be Nina’s new bars:



I’m not a huge fan of these full pirouettes right before the dismount when the gymnast is tired as hell. It’s just asking for a 0.3 late turn and a scrappier dismount. I always think of Beth and hers in Beijing EF costing her the gold.

 

[blake]

her ro-bhs technique looks a little better compared to how it was in the past. I wonder if the break w/covid had anything to do with that - sometimes time away helps with forgetting bad habits, or at least making them easier to correct in my experience.

 

[Doug1233]

Thank goodness she’s ok!

 

[Alinxz23]

I think Eythora would be better off with her triple twist mount that Dlo doesn’t look like it will be ready anytime soon.

 

[tempest]

Has anyone seen Nina’s bar set from this meet?

 

[Doug1233]

She probably can’t do it anymore.

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

I’ve been thinking the triple full should maybe be an F. Is that a crazy thought? Very few gymnasts compete it nowadays it seems, relative to full-ins.

 

[Doug1233]

I think that’s a result of gymnasts getting older.

Twisting is easier with pre-pubescent hips. Adult bodies find saltos easier. It’s physics.

 

[irichluck21]

Triple full is hard to land without takin a step back. Plus three twists is going to occur with crossed legs.
Right away crossed legs and step back are built in deductions.

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

Even with younger gymnasts, though. Is there a single person on the US team competing a triple full on floor? Oh Al Fong’s girls. But besides them?

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

For the life of me I can’t decide whether it’s fine, because she’s always had a full pirouette just before the dismount and done it comfortably and consistently, or this is a massive risk and she’s asking to be Beijing Tweddle mark 2 because she’s always been a releaser not a pirouetter. Veering wildly between the two at present.

 

[RichardL]

Yeah, the gymnasts who lose their triple full as they age are LEGION. Including of course our 2012 Olympic floor champion.

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

Off topic, but at the time I remember thinking Ponor should’ve been closer to Raisman. I enjoyed her routine more. Was there even ever a consensus regarding where Ponor had a downgrade: the Gomez or the DP 1/1 + back puck?

 

[Doug1233]

I didn’t think she got credit for either. It would have been close if she had managed to get them credit. But, of course, it’s shoulda woulda coulda. Neither deserved credit.