Team USA honestly should’ve replaced Alicia on floor with Bridget Sloan, as she was much better in qualification and made a smaller error in comparison to Alicia’s huge errors. I understand why they didn’t use Bridget on beam, but had they known what would happen in the final, she would’ve been a better choice there too. Oh well, it is what it is.
Alicia's floor was good, though she did have an error in sat down and miss steps. I feel sorry for her in how she's emotionally is taking it. Nastia's floor was beautiful and excellently well done, though she miss step too. Both her's and Alicia's floor I enjoyed.
The execution scores back then make more sense than the E scores now... these days, the E scores seem as arbitrary as the scores often were in the 10.0 system.
Deng Linlin did a really great job in her first Olympic trip as the youngest girl in the team. Beautiful performance on the beam. These are the reasons why she became the leader in 2012 and won the gold medal on beam.
The younger male commentator (first voice in this video) annoyed the hell out of me. BBC are generally great and I love the other two but this dude obviously knows nothing about gymnastics, or math for that matter. Feels like the BBC plucked some morning radio show presenter and said “here go do the Olympics”. Not only did he make mistakes in his math he obviously had no idea that China had enough difficulty to destroy US in bars, and they did, by nearly 2 points. China’s weakest score was better than USA’s 2nd and 3rd score. It just annoys me today even as I watch this.
During Anna Pavlova's beam routine I recognized music from my favorite composer, Yuki Kajiura. She seems to be popular with gymnasts. I've heard several of her songs in Olympic and World competitions, particularly those used in the anime Tsubasa Chronicles. Makes me wonder how many of these girls like anime.
Susan Di Laudo Aw, don't feel bad for confusing Tkatchevs with reverse hechts, as they are one in the same! :) A Gienger is a giant -> back flip -> half twist (see Nastia Liukin @ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8_VymzUh4GA.html), whereas a Deltchev is a giant -> half twist -> front flip (see Ksenia Semenova @ 1:45). This is my understanding, as a non-gymnast, anyway!
no part 3, 7, 8 or 9! you kidding me! so not happy!! I had been looking for the NBC broadcast but watched this annoyed that they never pronounced Nastia's name right and get parts cut out. so not nice of them to do this to us
Nastia's score its a joke. I never seen a 'perfect' routine gets over 9 on execution. And her routine full of strange or missed handstands, connection mistake and horrible dismount gets a 9.2? C'mon. Love her beam, but hate her bars. Always off tune.
There actually is newspaper articles about one of the Chinese girls the year before in 2007 stating her as 13 at the time meaning she would have been 14 here, nevertheless amazing work just thought I would say some people opinion is based on more them not looking 16
Because this was just one subdivision, there were other good bar workers from the other subdivisions that got in and it's only top 8 that get into the finals. That's why they said Memmel probably wouldn't hold on to eighth :-)
From qualifying to final, four people had difficulty level values changed (first is qualifying second is final for their A scores): Kexin (7.500->7.700), Tweddle (7.600 ->7.800), Nistor (7.300-> 7.000) and Zgoba (6.600->7.100)- and everyone else has the same score of difficulty level from qualifying round to final (same A scores). My question: can someone explain why the difficulty level for these routines had different difficulty values from qualifying scores to final round? Or was there something different in their routines from qualifying to final that made the change in it? What makes the difficulty value change for what appears to be the same routines?
+Natalie Evers The difficulty score will change depending on how the routine is performed. Typically in qualifying, the full difficulty routine will not be performed by some gymnasts. Now, for the example of Kexin, she lost a connection bonus in qualifying since she fell. Her jaeger and pak salto connection would've earned her the 7.7 start value; however, since she fell, her connection bonus was not awarded, which was .2, which dropped the value down to 7.5. I'm assuming Beth Tweddle's qualifying routine lost a connection bonus since she smacked her feet on the bars, whereas in the final, she didn't. It's usually simple connection bonuses that are gained or lost, depending on how the judges see fit. They could downgrade the value of a move (say a move had a D rating if performed properly, but the gymnast didn't perform it properly, they could lower it to a C value) or take away connection bonuses. It's up to their discretion really.
***** Now that I look back it, in the final, she did a toe-on pirouette worth a D value connected to her dismount, another D value. In qualifying, she only did the toe-on without the pirouette, a C value, so she lost .1 in value and .1 for not doing the D+D connection.
