Don’t Be Fooled…A Look At The Real Scores From Qualifications
What if… …we took the top three scores only from the top four teams from preliminaries? After all, that’s exactly what’s going to happen in team finals. The only [...]
Women’s Team Qualifications…Themes From The Top Three
American Rookies Come Through! The USA faced quite the challenge at these world championships. This team has suffered numerous recent major injuries to several veterans who would have provided experience, [...]
Worlds Analysis: Is Romania In It Or Not?
Romania was solid, but they’ll need to be better if they want a medal. Catalina Ponor’s performance was simply an extension of the magnificence she’s been displaying in both [...]
Remembering Rotterdam…The 2010 Women’s World Team Final
Anna Dementieva Floor 2010 World Team Finals Ksenia Afansyeva Floor 2010 World Team Finals Since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991 and began competing as separate [...]
Remembering Rotterdam…Flashback to the Men’s Team Final
Chinese Win Men’s Team Final at 2010 Worlds The names were Teng Haibin, Chen Yibing, Yan Mingyong, Lu Bo, Feng Zhe, and Zhang Chenglong…one returning Olympic champion from Beijing, one [...]
Lauren Mitchell Back In The Game!
Well it appears Lauren Mitchell has been saving it. If fans had any lingering doubts about the world floor champion’s readiness for Tokyo, they can now be put to [...]
Meet The Chinese Men’s World Team…Are They Beatable?
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That must have been the philosophy of the Chinese delegation when putting together this year’s men’s world team, which consists of five [...]
Math Madness! And The Favorite for the Women’s Team Title In Tokyo Is….
After losing multiple world medalist Rebecca Bross, struggling through the most disastrous national championships we’ve ever seen, and selecting five world championship rookies for its seven-member squad, could the USA [...]
Reactions To The USA Women’s World Team
I think the motto here is, “What happens at camp stays at camp… and what happens at Visa’s means absolutely nothing.” 2011 USA Women's World Team Jordyn Wieber Alicia [...]
Andy’s Last-Minute Picks For The U.S. Women’s World Team…
My final world team picks! The announcement should be made tonight, so I wanted to throw out my last-minute final picks before the news surfaces. It sure is [...]
From the Judge’s Chair…Jake Dalton
Jake Dalton Floor 2011 Visa Championships Step 1: Calculate the Element Group Total Element Group Point Value EG 1: Non-acrobatic skills 0.5 EG 2: Forward Acro Skills [...]
From the Judge’s Chair…Steven Legendre
Ever wonder how in the world all of the intricate flipping, twisting, tumbling, turning, spinning, swinging, and soaring translates into actual numbers on a piece of paper? Believe it or [...]