Gymnastics Olympic Event Finals Day 3

I'm really excited about this finals. The gentlemen will compete on parallel bars and high bar. The ladies will be on beam and floor exercise. The event finals will begin live at 9:00 AM EDT. Good luck to all the ladies and gentlemen. Start list: CLICK HERE  

The competition will start in about 6min I'm watching it live here: BBC

EDIT 1:

FULL RESULTS
1) Feng Zhe (CHN) Very high difficulty 7.0. Good clean stuff.
2) Marcel Nguyen (GER) Good difficulty 6.8 and difficult Tsuk dismount.
3) Hamilton Sabot (FRA) Good 6.7 difficulty and very clean routine.

EDIT 2: FULL RESULTS

This was a weird competition. Too many mistakes. Thank you China for being awesome. Afanasyeva showed GOOD SPORTS-MANSHIP. Ponor wining third is a travesty. I was rooting for Raisman to take 3rd. What a shame! Ponor was too wobbly and had many many execution faults. This will be one of the most controversial event finals. Congrats to the daredevil Deng Linlin, you rock. I thought Sui should have won but hey China 1-2, cheer up Sui.

1) Deng Linlin (CHN)
2) Sui Lu (CHN)
3) Catalina Ponor (ROM)
3) Aly Raisman (USA)

Edit 3: Raisman in 3rd Catalina in 4th. WTF this final was crazy. What is wrong with the judges! Get it right the first time!

EDIT 4: Oh god Sui Lu is such a DIVA!

EDIT 5: What an AMAZING high bar final! One of the best in history. Zonderland finally gets a well deserved gold medal. Hambuechen really stepped it up I'm happy for his silver. Zou in 3rd.

1) Epke Zonderland 2) Fabian Hambuechen 3) Zou Kai FINAL RESULTS

EDIT 6:

1)ALY RAISMAN. She is so powerful and such a phenomenal tumbler. Powerful gymnastics is just as beautiful as artistic and elegant gymnastics. Raisman may not be elegant but her attitude and determination is beautiful. She is a class act. She has such a difficult routine it's crazy. She finally gets a well deserved GOLD! It's really easy to like Raisman as a person. She seems like such a nice girl. Congratulation Aly Raisman :)

2) Ponor did a wonderful job. She had two stuck landing on DLO and dbl Pike. She really fought out there for a medal. I may not like her routine but she deserved this silver. She's freaking 24! Cool.

3) ALIYA MUSTAFINA! I somehow knew she could do it. She is a born champion. She just knows how to compete. I'm happy she got this. We at least got to see grace and elegance on medal. Mustafina is boss and I'm looking forward to seeing more of her in the next quad.

6) Afanasyeva. Once a headcase, always a headcase. I knew it was coming. She majorly went out of bounds on her third pass. She stuck her triple full from connections though :D. It wasn't meant to be Afan. She's still a wonderful gymnast.

8) Izbasa - I was rooting for her to take gold if Afan couldn't do it. She failed on her last pass. Everything else was going good though. It was really unexpected. Hey she has a vault gold LOL and she still has her 2008 floor gold.

FULL RESULTS

Men's Olympic All-Around Finals

The competition will begin at 11:30 AM EDT. I will be watching two streams at the same time :-D. CTV & BBC I'll put one on mute though :). There is also this stream http://tvpc.com/Channel.php?ChannelID=3 but it will be interrupted for local news and then you'll have to find another different link.

My favourite to win is Kohei Uchimura but I'm not going to have any high expectations. He hasn't lived up to all the hype and he seems to have lost his magic touch. He will have major competition. I hope he will have a clean competition and no falls for him. He can still win with probably two falls but it just wouldn't look good. I'm still rooting for him though. LET'S GO KOHEI!

EDIT 1: What a thrilling finals. Uchimura wins with one fall. I had hope that he didn't fall with a win but that's the C.O.P. and it also proves just how incredible Uchimura is. He has been crowned World Champion AA three straight times in a row. Now he has the 4th AA Gold medal as an Olympic one. He will be in the record books as one of the greatest gymnast of all time. Too bad for his teammate Tanaka. He was a last minute replacement gymnasts for the AA. He did well for a guy who wasn't expecting to do AA. He was so close to 2nd but fell on the pommel horse.

I am actually more happy for Marcel Nguyen. Who would of thought he was going to get 2nd? He was really the surprise of the day. Very inspirational stuff. Nguyen had always been in the shadow of his more famous teammates, but now he is shining. Congrats to Nguyen.

Also shout out to Leyva. He has work so hard for this. He will definitely be fighting for a gold medal in the event finals. HB gold medal? It could be his.

Full results: CLICK HERE

 

Some MAG European Vids

Smith D-6.9 + E-8.855 = 15.755

 

VS

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

Random PB Stuff

Nguyen's and Belyavskiy's PB dismounts are pretty cool. Thanks to gymnasticsgifs @ tumblr for making them. One day I'll learn how to use photoshop.

EDIT: The Nguyen gif is not working on my blog, it can be found here.