Some MAG European Vids

Smith D-6.9 + E-8.855 = 15.755

 

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Golden Berki D-6.9 + E-9.058 = 15.958

 

Marcel Nguyen Gold PB 15.766

 

Vlasios Maras Bronze HB- 15.266 - I liked this routine

2012 MAG European EF

Just finished watching live stream of finals. Europeans is nothing like worlds but still worth watching. Here are the final results. I put the results down like this for my own personal reference. Having a blog is good because I can go back and re-read things for references :)

Floor Exercise: CLICK RESULTS
1) 15.766 GRE Eleftherios Kosmidis
2) 15.300 BLR Dzmitry Barkalau
3) 15.166 FRA Gael da Silva
3) 15.166 ISR Alexander Shatilov

Pommel Horse: CLICK RESULTS
1) 15.958 HUN Krisztian Berki
2) 15.755 GBR Louis Smith
3) 15.300 ARM Harutyum Merdinyan
An interesting tidbit: Louis Smith tweeted, "Berki's start score was wrong and I should have won." Oh oh someone is mad. Smith thought he should of won. I'm not an expert on PH. Here is the article source from BBC: bbc.co.uk/sport

Still Rings: CLICK RESULTS
1) 15.666 RUS Aleksandr Balandin
2) 15.466 ITA Matteo Morandi
3) 15.433 RUS Denis Ablyazin

Vault: CLICK RESULTS
1) 16.166 ROM Flavius Koczi
2) 16.066 UKR Igor Radivilov
3) 16.062 RUS Denis Ablyazin

Parallel Bars: CLICK RESULTS
1) 15.766 GER Marcel Nguyen
2) 15.666 UKR Oleg Verniaiev
3) 15.600 SLO Mitja Petkovsek

High Bar: CLICK RESULTS
1) 15.833 RUS Emin Garibov
2) 15.566 CRO Marijo Moznik
3) 15.266 GRE Vlasios Maras

MAG 2012 European Team Finals

I just finished watching the live stream of the men's European team finals. It wasn't the most exciting competition. A lot of falls and mistakes from the gymnasts. Click for Results

1) Great Britain 266.296
2) Russia 265.535
3) Romania 261.319

I know that comparing scores from different competitions are sort of useless but China's 275.161 team score from Tokyo was not even close to being matched by the Europeans. Japan had 273.093 with falls in Tokyo. This means the Europeans have a lot of improving and consistency to do if they want to rival China and Japan. Great Britain is improving as a gymnastics nation but I do not see them winning team gold in London. This is Great Britain's first team gold at Europeans.

Friday Gymnastic News

Since I already started talking about the Canadian National's I felt like I should finish what I started. There hasn't been any official scores out yet but the very reliable gymnastic blog gymnasticscoaching.com has a lot of Canadian National news. I especially liked how he had some MAG details.
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MAG Europeans is going on in Montpellier, France. Here are all the details from: International Gymnast
The official website: ffgym.com
Tons of videos are being uploaded here: GymPOWER1 YouTube Channel
Official European YouTube Channel: europeangymnastics

Olympic hopeful Louis Smith of GBR tied with world champ Krisztian Berki of Hungary on PH in qualification. But with the tie breaking rule Berki finished first because of Smith's lower E-score.

Berki D-6.7 +  E-9.2 = 15.9
Smith D-6.9 + E-9.0 = 15.9

Quick Thoughts on 2012 European Event Finals

The Romanians dominated EF. Izbasa, Ponor and Iordache were golden. Izbasa won on VT with a DTY and tucky ro-1/2 on front 1/1 twist or unofficially known as the Mustafina. Iordache took gold on FX, she is a NEW STAR. Komova easily won UB but had a million wobbles on beam and sat down her Patterson dismount. Komova went all out with her dismount! Grishina fell off beam, damn. Grishina at least won 2nd on bars.
Beam finals was a splat-fest yet comical. I laughed during beam finals, not in a rude way but it was comical to watch. I couldn't help but laugh out loud. Three gymnasts fell on their dismounts after Iordache's routine. The expressions on Ponor's, Iordache's and her coach's face said it all. They all couldn't believe the splat-fests and were trying to be respectful by not bursting out in laughter.

 Komova's GOLD UB

For more EF videos go to ArtisticGymnastics1 YouTube Channel

2012 European Team Finals

2012 European Team Final: click here for detailed results

1. Romania 176.288
2. Russia 175.536
3. Italy 171.430
4. Great Britain 167.763
5. France 164.295
6. Belgium 163.821
7. Spain 163.522
8. Germany 160.497

Romania won over Russia! I'm not surprised. Romania was exceptionally good tonight except for bars. Romania looked well prepared and ooooooozed confidence. The Russians were headcasey as usual. What does this mean? Not much in my opinion. Even with Russia's issues (which the judges were hammering them) they still managed to finish close behind Romania by -0.752 points. Of course though, Romania's new star Larisa Iordache did fall off beam but Russia wasn't too far behind Romania considering they weren't in 100% full force. Russia has a lot of work to do but I'm not too worried. Komova did not perform on all events and Mustafina is progressing well considering she is coming back from a serious injury. She showed more difficulty on floor. Mustafina's double arabian is fantastic. I especially liked her prelims double arabian + stag, so much power and aggression. Mustafina is slowly regaining back all her difficulty.

Russia still has time to get their gymnasts to be at their ultimate peak. Europeans is not the place to peak and dominate. Plus they still have other strong contenders sitting at home, while a team like Romania lacks less depth. Octavian Bellu, "Russia is Russia. We know what they are able to do when they are in big form." I'm also pretty sure that Romania will have some surprises up their sleeves come London time. Romania winning over Russia makes the Olympics even more exciting. Throw in the Americans and the Chinese and there will be a showdown. I've always heard the term never count out the Romanians and it's so true. I would also like to point out that China should never be written off too.

Aliya Mustafina on UB. Beast.