Pongo is my AI assistant. Read here his calculations of who might make the best Russian MAG team at the World Championships in October. Please do feel free to disagree audibly, in the comments and note that Pongo admits, even he makes mistakes. I don’t generally write such statistical material, so this may be a one off. With apologies for any errors, mine entirely and I wrote the brief. Yes. I’ve treated this as a genuine team-construction problem , rather than simply taking the six gymnasts with the highest AA scores. For the calculation I used the most recent strong competitive score available for each gymnast: the Spartakiad scores for Yakubov, Novikov and Kisel , and mainly European Championship team-final/final scores for Dukhno, Marinov, Zaika and Sieedin , supplemented by Russian Championship scores where a recent European score was not available. That matters because Dukhno and Marinov, for example, were substantially stronger in Zagreb than some earlier...
I hope Komova wins the AA gold in Rio...
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She has the talent and the skills to do it, but it will come down to physical health and especially mental stability. I hope she does it!
ReplyDeleteShe is the BEST gymnast ever.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely deserves the AA Olympic gold.
Hi! According to today's news from Valentina Rod. Aliya Mustafina maybe will compete at Stuttgart before RC http://rsport.ru/artist_gym/20160226/898690992.html
ReplyDeleteI hope she wins the Gold in Rio!! She is truly, the best gymnast in the entire world. Yes, I know Simone is great, but I'm rooting for Viktoria!
ReplyDeleteKomova has the talent sadly I don't think she has the mental strength to back it up. What the Americans do so well like what the Soviets did back in the day was hit. As it currently stands Komova cant do a single beam routine without wobbles and major breaks.
ReplyDeleteshe has it all
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