Skip to main content

World Champions on the uneven bars!

By

Lovely montage from Maria Kharenkova for World Champions in the uneven bars, Daria Spiridonova and Viktoria Komova.  Molodyets!  You were the champions of beauty! 

Comments

  1. Anonymous31 October 2015 at 18:21

    Congrats to Komova, spiridonova for the gold medals
    what happened in UB final is a laugh, as the judges can no longer differentiate between the gymnasts' routines in terms of executions and it means that they have reached to unprecedented level of incompetence ... Nellie Kim should go and NOW
    John

    ReplyDelete
  2. Russiafan31 October 2015 at 18:54

    I am happy for both. What a great day for Russia, gold medals on two event finals. However, not to take away from a good day for Russia, but Komova deserved the gold. She should have had the highest E score of the four.

    Russiafan

    ReplyDelete
  3. Anonymous31 October 2015 at 19:11

    Please explain how Komova and Kocian had the same E-score?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anonymous31 October 2015 at 21:12

      Maybe because Kocian had many leg separations and Komova not?LOL
      it's a festival: gold for every one, even who doesn't deserve it ...
      John

      Delete
    2. Unknown1 November 2015 at 02:53

      Komova had bent arms on the releases. Bent legs every times she had giants. Half turn before dismount wasn't on handstand. And sadly, she was attempting layout jaeger and failed, judges gave piked jaeger and deduction on E-Score for body position not piked enough.

      Delete
    3. Anonymous1 November 2015 at 03:33

      the only explanation: the world is not just

      Delete
    4. Anonymous1 November 2015 at 11:58

      @cts sam, about which routine are you talking about? and the judges told you that or it is just your ideas?
      the same cliche I hear talking about her "handstands" which is perfect for me by the way, while they don't comment on the Americans' gymnasts handstands and legs and landings and fluidity which are things they lack very badly.
      John

      Delete
    5. Unknown4 December 2015 at 15:30

      Maybe it was her "russian tap" before the pike katchev and before the dismount, that's already 0.6 in deductions, but anyway she delivered the most beautiful and fluid routine.

      Delete
  4. ossiana31 October 2015 at 23:29

    As they say: not all gymnast are ballerinas. Even though Kocian cannot keep her legs together and has flexed feet , she deserves huge scores because it is her way to be artístic. LOL

    ReplyDelete
  5. Anonymous1 November 2015 at 00:09

    Among all the judges who produced these score on UB final, I want to know the scores of Oksana OMELIANCHYK!!
    John

    ReplyDelete
  6. Anonymous1 November 2015 at 00:17

    What is wrong with you people? Why can't you be happy for once? For you watchers in front of computers and televisions it is cheating if Russians doesn't win gold or heavens forbid them sharing glory with anyone else.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anonymous1 November 2015 at 03:44

      I agree. Sheesh. Just congratulate all four and be happy for Vika and Daria.


      Todd

      Delete
  7. Anonymous1 November 2015 at 02:56

    Agree with the other anon: why can't y'all be happy? The gymnasts seemed beyond thrilled for each other and themselves. Also, if you truly think Komova alone should have won then you wouldn't be singling out Kocian. May I remind you there are two other gold medalist? Yet you only care about the American... Good job to all the winners.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Anonymous1 November 2015 at 12:09

    we will be happy for the deserved one, and we are talking about the execution here they got so obviously the other two got lower that Komova and Kocian, amd that is why we singling out Kocain, I thought it is simple and plain like that
    John

    ReplyDelete
  9. Anonymous1 November 2015 at 15:33

    there's a statistic that religious people are happier than atheists. I wonder what the statistic is for russian/usa stans. seems to me one group is positive and the other is always trying to find ways to drown in its own sympathy and misery.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Anonymous1 November 2015 at 23:39

    If the gymnastics that USA represents stands for the positive and happy group, then no thanks I would stick with the Russian misery...
    John

    ReplyDelete
  11. Anonymous7 November 2015 at 09:21

    1 Gold for viktoria, 2 Gold for the other two, and USA may be fourth

    The Maximum score for each apparatus, why is it NOT equal????
    If Zimone near 16 at FX, then the maximum of UB should also near 16, NOT only 15.4, VERY VERY Bias for this era of judge !!!!

    ReplyDelete
  12. Unknown9 November 2015 at 20:10

    I was curious about that point you just raised there. There is no doubt that Simone is a wonderful technician on floor and deserves her very high marks on floor. Her floor routine in the event final had very little deductions other thsn a couple of hops back after her tumbles. But was this not the case with Viktoria komova's uneven bars set in the event final ? Yet her execution was nowhere near as high as Simone's. Anybody know why ? Do you think it's bias ? Or is this something to do with her comments about the Americans ? It does seem rather unlikely but I did wonder ...

    ReplyDelete
  13. Anonymous9 November 2015 at 22:41

    In fact the Judges had no problem giving Douglas almost 9.0 Execution on Bars (in Team final) but they had a real problem giving it to Komova or Spiridinova ...
    John

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Head MAG Coach Alfosov on Russian gymnastics prospects in 2026

By
"A Really Good International Level": Alfosov on the Return of Russian Gymnasts, Belyavsky's Videos, and the Games Qualification Alfosov: Belyavsky's presence on the team was a big plus Interview by Elena Vaitsekhovskaya  Google translate Russian gymnasts competing under neutral status will be able to take their first step toward qualifying for the Los Angeles Olympics as early as October, Valery Alfosov, head coach of the Russian men's team, told RT. He believes that qualifying for not only the individual but also the team competition at the World Championships is one of the season's greatest achievements. He also explained the criteria he uses to compare his players with their competitors and described David Belyavsky's decision last year as hard-won. The current season began with good news for the gymnasts: almost all of the leading Russian team members are participating in international competitions. Does this mean the suspension situation is a thing of...
Post a Comment
Read more

Artistry versus acrobatics???

By
Watching videos of this weekend's competitions - the qualification and all around rounds of the Russian championships, medal winners from the American Cup - I am struck, more and more, by the huge difference between the American and Russian schools of gymnastics. It led me to ask the question : do artistry and acrobatics have to be mutually exclusive? (I am afraid that I think naming 'American' gymnastics a 'school' is perhaps lending an undeserved dignity to work which has become excessively obsessed with the difficult and the consistent, but I am using the word here so as not to label unfairly those individual gymnasts who are blameless in the direction of their training.) The FIG's vision for gymnastics is said to embrace more artistry; at least the publicity it has put about on the subject of its new Code makes that fairly plain.  So perhaps the Russians, with their inconsistent brilliance and superior body carriage (Mustafina, Komova, Grishina, Afanasy...
39 comments
Read more

Angelina Melnikova and Arseny Dukhno - Results from Serie A competitions in Italy

By
  Russia's neutral gymnasts have been performing very well in competition recently, not least at the Cottbus Cup last week where a fairly inexperienced group of young women took medals on every piece - and their men did well, too. The team is still in the position where its veterans, or at least its established performers, are the leaders.  For the women, this means that Melnikova is assumed to be the top, while for the men, Marinov is the one whose name is most likely to be spoken.  But he is still recovering from multiple injuries and not expecting to be ready for competition until later in the year.  In fact the leadership of the men's team has skipped a couple of generations: first year senior, Arseny Dukhno, is taking the lead for the team. So while the youngsters head off to the World Cup competitions to make a name for themselves there, the leaders are competing in the Serie A league in Italy - and they aren't doing too shabbily there.  Both Melnikova and...
Post a Comment
Read more

RRG Archive - scroll by date, from 2024 to 2010

Show more