The winner needs to be Staniouta for the security of the sport.
Thank you, sneakers. The reason for the 2 spots rule is because judges in Apparatus or All Around Final MUST NOT BE from the same country than a gymnast taking part of that specific group, it also gives chances to other countries to have their gymnasts taking part of more competitions and avoiding a podium sweep (so no conspiracy theories about scores and placement might take place)
Laura Zeng is an amazing gymnast. Last season she was 8th at World Championships, she really deserves her spot for Rio
and she's still 16 turning 17, she might place Top 10 in Olympic but she will improve still next quad
but will she stick around until 2020 Tokyo ? usually RG you are prone to injuries like back pain and knee, legs , some requiring operations
I think she will: just look at Neta Rivkin or Carolina Rodriguez, they will be 3 times Olympians in Rio. Their training is different from other countries, they focus on long term success, not in just going and grabbing medals
I don't have much love for Laura Zeng. She's a good gymnast, but she's so robotic in her movements I can't really enjoy her gymnastics. I dont understand half her scores either. In this WC she scored close to what Pazhava has been scoring lately, and that's BS for me.
yep 18.050, Pazhava scored about the same as that, they are neck and neck in scoring low 18's
she does look very robotic although she's still young, her PCS score shouldn't be that high
I prefer Pazhava, even Halkina is terribly underscored this season
she is rarely getting 18.1+ marks even when clean !, I guess judges are all putting all their basket on Belarusian No1. Ms. Staniouta
There's no PCS, just Difficulty and Excecution
sorry I meant Artistic
I guess they removed that
in the 30 point judging
it was E-execution, A-artistic, D-Difficulty
Laura Zeng is an amazing gymnast. Last season she was 8th at World Championships, she really deserves her spot for Rio
Some gymnasts were not present at this world cup because national championships are close OR just because they can choose to accept or reject an invitation to an event.
I loooove Laura, it was time for her to grab some medals, and more still to come