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Sheer delight :-)

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These are really poor photos I took of Aliya in my IPad, off the TV.  But they capture the delight of the moment - an 11th career World Championships medal, bronze on floor, for our Queen, who is one of the bravest, most graceful gymnasts I have ever known in 42 years of watching gymnastics.













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  1. Anonymous12 October 2014 at 09:40

    This made my whole year. Where the HELL did she pull that routine out from!?

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  2. Anonymous12 October 2014 at 09:56

    So happy for Aliya to get two individual medals at these championships! She has such a gorgeous and genuine smile! Excited to watch her gymnastics for many more years to come!

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  3. Unknown12 October 2014 at 13:32

    does any of you know if she got the Triple turn with leg held in 180 split position named after her?

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    1. Unknown12 October 2014 at 16:37

      No, an Uzbek gymnast submitted the skill and successfully competed it in qualifications.

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    2. Anonymous13 October 2014 at 19:09

      I thought Aliya also completed it successfully in quals...? Or was that just a Memmel?

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    3. Anonymous18 October 2014 at 07:21

      She did. Because they both completed it successfully, it doesn't get named after either of them

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  4. Anonymous12 October 2014 at 14:50

    Sooo overscored!!!
    I am a fan of Russian gymnastics and have always been, but it's painful to watch Mustafina's choreography, her leaps after the third acrobatic run, her lack of series and her elbows on BB. She seems pretty heavy on UB.
    Russia has no depth... We all agree on that, but cannot they polish the routines as they used to?
    It's not about Alexandrov or other coaches.
    It's just like they are unable to upgrade, unable to clean things.

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    1. Unknown13 October 2014 at 14:18

      See? That's the mind set that's killing the sport, the "lack of series" thinking, what about the lack of spins, or the lack of leaps? At the end, each gymnast decides how to increase their difficulty, unfortunately most of them just do flips, they don't attempt nothing new.
      I think it is a wise and smart decision, I f you come from an injury, have bad form while twisting and don't want to lose a of marks then why would you stick to tumbling, when you can make it up with beautiful leaps that worth even more than some acrobatics?

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    2. Anonymous15 October 2014 at 06:40

      I believe that the "lack of series" applies to beam where Mustafina finished third ahead of Teramoto who in my opinion deserved that medal instead of Mustafina.

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  5. Unknown12 October 2014 at 15:01

    Aww I was still asleep while this was on but her sheer delight made my kinda shitty day

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  6. Anonymous12 October 2014 at 16:01

    All I want to say is that judging in this championship reached a highest level of insufficiency ...
    I'm looking forward to see the final result book to compare between the E-panel and ER scores.
    John

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    1. Sasha12 October 2014 at 22:27

      agreed. mustafina is the queen of controversial bronze medals, nothing more it seems can define her career. It is a sad state of our sport when even gymnasts are pronouncing her status bonus publicly to media, and these arent gymnasts in the final with her or of a Big 4 country; just regular unbiased folks telling it like it is. Cheers to those three who are only sticking up for fair judging. I'm sure of Mustafina had been 4th to Sinner or robbed the way Asuka was, Elizabeth would be singing a different tune?

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    2. Anonymous13 October 2014 at 14:07

      Just to clarify my words, I believe this “insufficiency” was in favor of the Russian gymnasts in a few times but in favor of the Americans all the way, (for instance: I do believe that Asuka deserves a much more E-score and subsequently the bronze medal, as I believe that Bai deserves a much more E-score and subsequently the gold, not Mustafina or Biles fault though…)
      But on the other hand it was against them in many times in this championship (as what happened on UB where the judges kept mustafina and spridinova and even kramarenko’s E-scores in high 8s when they deserved 9+ in many times, while the judges had no problem to give mediocre routines from Biles and Ross a 8.8233 and 8.800 respectively in the AA final)
      Finally I don’t care about the scores that Nelli Kim’s subordinate judges stamp whether it’s in favor or against my allegiance to the Russian gymnasts as I shouldn’t be selective about those scores, so I chose to refuse it totally even if it intersected with my opinion. But I can compare these scores with themselves to prove the discrepancies and corruption in it.
      John

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    3. Anonymous13 October 2014 at 20:10

      Asuka and the rest of the world where all robbed by Biles. Thats what happened. Have never seen someone being so overscored like that. Thank god they had the decency to handle Hong the VT gold. Skinner got what she deserved (if not more) from her lousy form and horrendous splits and execution. Ferrari got 14.66 with much cleaner execution than Skinner and nobody thinks she was robbed? Lol.

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    4. K814 October 2014 at 20:04

      I think Ferrari knows she's always going to be robbed on execution. She usually ups her difficulty score in a FX final so she has a chance of a medal against gymnasts who are stamped as deserving of a high execution score. Didn't work out this time for her but most probably she'll be back.

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  7. ingriddiamond12 October 2014 at 17:59

    Oh Musty! Good to see her happy and increasing her level. What ambition, fierce and determination, it was great to watch.

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  8. Anonymous13 October 2014 at 22:48

    Aliya with 11 world medals now. :)

    If my list is accurate, she passed:

    Nastia Liukin (9), Shannon Miller (9), Alicia Sacramone (10) from USA; Maxi Gnauck (9) from the former East Germany; Eva Bosáková (10), Věra Čáslavská (10) from the former Czechoslovakia; Ecaterina Szabo (10), Simona Amânar (10), Daniela Silivaș (10) from Romania; Svetlana Boginskaya (9) from the former Soviet Union.

    She is now tied at 11 (though with fewer gold medals) with the following all (mostly) from the former Soviet Union:

    Ludmilla Tourischeva, Nellie Kim, Yelena Shushunova, and Oksana Chusovitina (who has won some of her medals for other countries)

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  9. Jared14 October 2014 at 13:13

    So happy to see her pick up some more individual medals after having such a tough week. :)

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