GYMN-L Digest - 8 Oct 1995 to 9 Oct 1995 - Special issue
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are 9 messages totalling 502 lines in this
issue.
Topics in this special issue:
1. commentary
2. World's Coverage.
3. Worlds: Event Finals (part one)
4. DSF Copies
5. WORLDS: Men: FX, PH, SR; Women: VT,
UB
6. Women's AA
7. Worlds
8. Aussie girls in 12th!
9. a non-score
post about Worlds
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 10:23:49
PDT
From: ***@LSS.CO.ZA
Subject:
commentary
Does anyone have the team finals (men and women) on tape?
If you do, I would
love it if you could write up a
commentary similar to the one Sherwin did on
the
women's AA and send it to the list. Hopefully someone will be able to do
so.
Thanx,
Helen. :-)
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 04:19:14
-0400
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: World's Coverage.
>"Kathy Johnson-Clark". When did
that happen! Congrads.
She got married in LA
over memorial day weekend......to that "Grant
Putnam"
dude from General Hospital that she
has been dating since God was a baby.
Dean
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 04:52:02
-0400
From: ***@IC.AC.UK
Subject:
Worlds: Event Finals (part one)
World Championships 1995
========================
Sabae, Japan 1-10 October 1995
Thanks
for all of the nice comments about my running commentary of
the womens All-Around! I'm going
to try to do the same now (and
tomorrow) for the
Event Finals. Hope you'll like it but since this
is
live I may get a few things wrong e.g. naming the wrong move,
etc. And my knowledge of the mens
especially isn't great so
please excuse.
Event
Finals
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Mens Floor
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Grigori Misutin was first to go
and he's pretty mean on this apparatus.
Full-twisting
double layout for starters. Hmmm... no problem with the
routine. An excellent score of 9.762.
Evgeni
Podgorni of Russia. A Triple back! Little hop but a
very cool
move nonetheless. Full-twisting double
back to finish. Oh in the
replay it looks he may
have put the hands down on his triple back...
9.400 is
his score.
Ivan Ivanov of Bulgaria. A very
fast performer this one... he's moving
around the
floor like lightning. The tumbling skills are nothing
special
(full-in back-out, double layout) but he certainly is speedy.
9.625.
Here's
Li Xiaoshuang the overall champion. Full-twisting
double layout
(I think) Stuck! And also a stuck double
layout to finish. 9.775 and
the lead is
his.
Advert break... and we return to catch the end of Jordan Jovtchev's
routine. Didn't see
much of it though... oh I just missed the score
as
well...
Alexei Nemov, who must've been ultra
disappointed about not qualifying
for the AA...
starts the routine with a nice full-twisting double
layout.
But he stuttered a bit in a punch front in the middle of the
exercise, and a step back on the double pike ending. Only
9.500
Ivan Ivankov, who is
having not too a nice meet either. Another full
twisting
double layout. Not perfect but not too bad either. 9.662 and
third place at the moment.
Vitaly
Scherbo. Let's see what he's got up his sleeve.
Different from
the others, he did the front
tumbling first... then the full-twisting
double
layout STUCK... more front tumbling and finishes on another
double layout (nearly stuck). The score is coming up...
9.812!! Scherbo
punches
the air in delight and waves to the crowd!
1. Scherbo 9.812
2.
Li
9.775
3. Misutin 9.762
The
medals ceremony immediately follows.
Womens
Vault and Mens Pommel Horse
----------------------------------
Simona Amanar, an excellent vaulter. A long double twisting Yurchenko
but a little hop backwarsd on the
landing. 9.800. Second vault: she's
very
determined. front vault with a 1/2 twist into layout.
(I'm not
very good at remembering the names of the
vaults...) 9.762 making an
average score of
9.781.
Mens Pommels - I really know nothing
about this apparatus! Li Donghua
of Switzerland the pommels specialist. Lots
of work on one pommel. 9.762
Khorkina
on vault - a bit low on the landing and a step forwards. 9.637.
Second
vault is probably the opposite to the first. Overrotated and
a hop
backwards. 9.600. Average: 9.618
Huang Huadong
of China on pommels. Good fast routine. 9.737.
Gina Gogean the defending world vault champ. 1 and 1/2 Yurchenko,
the usual little hop on landing as most people do with this
vault.
9.775. Similar second vault except with a
forward entry, 1 and 1/2
off. Landed a bit low and
had to sit a bit before getting it under
control.
9.637. Average: 9.706.
Hikaru Tanaka of
Japan starts on the pommels with flairs. 9.650.
Advert break...
We
missed somebody's vault... Hatakaeda's pommels score
is in the 9.7s...
Oksana Chusovitina who is
always in the vault finals. A nearly stuck
first
vault. Only 9.625 though. A very long and high and
stuck
second vault, maybe not as high tariff?
9.600 is the score and the
average is 9.612.
Eric
Poujade of France. Looks as though he fell out of his
dismount
and didn't perform what he was supposed
to... 9.575
Podkopayeva who must be on a high after yesterday. Nice form in
the
air as always, and a stuck landing. 9.800.
Good score. Second
vault looks very similar but
it's equally solid. 9.762 making an
average of
9.781, tieing with Amanar
for the lead.
Fan Bin of China went on the pommels. And he fell off
it... 9.125.
Mo Huilan - a wild double
twisting Yurchenko and a big step forwards
with arms flaying as well. 9.625. Much
better second vault but still
there's a step.
9.662 - average 9.643.
Mihai Bagiu of USA does a free flowing pommel horse routine.
He
seems satisfied with his performance.
9.650.
Meng Fei of
China on vault. 9.662 for her first, and she stuck her
second
(but not difficult). Oh no the satellite link is fading...!
After an
advert break it seems things are fine again.
Marius Urzica's pommel score : 9.725. Li Donghua was happy since
this
means he won the pommels.
Elena Grosheva's
vault... I think this is a replay.
Oh the judges didn't score Meng Fei's second vault! So her
average
score was 9.662 divided by two =
4.831.
Back to Grosheva.
She only scored 9.293 on average. Simona Amanar had
won it and she
receives a congrats kiss from team mate Gina Gogean.
Amanar of course tied Podkopayeva
for the gold.
1. Podkopayeva 9.781
1. Amanar 9.781
3.
Gogean 9.706
1.
Li
9.762
2. Huang
9.737
2. Hatakeda 9.737
Womens Uneven bars and Mens
Rings
---------------------------------
Dina Kochetkova
is the first to go on the bars. A flowing routine
from
start to finish with no mistakes. 9.737.
Hikaru
Tanaka on the rings 9.562
Jaycie Phelps of
the USA nest on the bars. Jaeger, Tkatchev, and
a double front dismount (little step). It was well done and
she
should be pleased with her work. 9.687.
Li
Xiaoshuang performed a strong rings routine, ending
with a
full-twisting double layout dismount (with
a step). Only 9.650
though.
Now here's
someone I'm very much looking forward to seeing.
Alexandra Marinescu of Romania. A Jaeger and a clean stuck
full-twisting double back dismount. Lots of reverse swings
work
in there also. 9.800 and the youngster takes the lead.
Can Yuri Chechi
retain his title yet again on rings? Who'd bet
against
it! Here he goes. Every move was applauded by the
knowledgable crowd. The stuck double back dismount
and the
familiar punch in the air for Chechi. 9.850.
Now the title's yours also if you
stuck your bars, Mo Huilan.
Caught the Gaylord...
and the Tkatchev, and just a little step
on the double layout landing. the
smile returns to little Mo's
face after a
disappointing All-Around. How nice to see! 9.837...
the
score is beatable though...
Jordan Jovtchev
of Bulgaria. An excellent routine! And a good
score
of 9.750.
John Roethlisberger concentrates, while the second of
women
are warming up for the bars. He goes on the
rings and
begins his routine. It seems quite a
simple routine but then
after seeing Chechi's everything else is simple! The dismount
is nice though, looks like a double twisting double back.
9.550.
Lavinia Milosovici.
A clean and familiar bars routine, as is
the
trademark for all Romanians. She smiles and waves to the
camera
which is nice after the sadness of yesterday. 9.775.
Now if there's
one who can beat Chechi, it's Andreas Wecker.
It looks very good as Chechi looks on. Let's wait for the
score...
only 9.687 and third behind Li Xiaoshuang.
Podkopayeva, can she sweep the medals?!
Full-twisting hop
over the high bar... and again. Geinger... Stalder... and
the Sugahara full-twisting double
back dismount. And she
shares the lead with Mo
with 9.837!
Marius Toba of Germany. 9.700 as Chechi prowls the arena.
Svetlana
Khorkina with her original style on the unevens.
She's hitting
every move and she's happy. It's going to be
close...
oh no it isn't, it's 9.900 and she takes a clean
lead.
Podkopayeva smiles whilst Mo remains
expressionless.
Dan Burinca of Romania,
another rings specialist. A long
routine ending
with a disappointing dismount where he
was waving
his arms to keep his balance after the double
layout.
9.762 though and he claimed the silver. Chechi,
meanwhile, is hugging everybody!
Shannon Miller
last to go on the bars. It's clean and
just a
little step on the landing. Khorkina is quietly
confident she's done enough as she winks to the camera.
Miller's
score... waiting for it... Khorkina still
looking on whilst everybody else has left the podium.
It's
taking a long time and here it is, Miller scored
only
9.712 as Khorkina put a finger up confirming
she's
first.
1. Khorkina 9.900
2. Podkopayeva 9.837
2. Mo
9.837
1. Chechi 9.850
2.
Burinca 9.762
3. Jotvchev 9.750
The
standards of gymnastics is very high today with only one
person
falling off the apparatus. All the vaults were nicely
done
especially since people tend to mess up on that.
The awards ceremony
is taking place now as I post this off...
More event
finals tomorrow.
Sherwin
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 09:52:15
+0100
From: ***@GL.RHBNC.AC.UK
Subject:
DSF Copies
Thanx Sherwin...my hero.
Copies of all would be best,
but anything is better than nothing.
Just get around to it when you
can.
Thanx again.
Sarah :) :)
:)
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 04:39:46
-0600
From: ***@RMII.COM
Subject:
WORLDS: Men: FX, PH, SR; Women: VT, UB
1995 World Gymnastics
Championships
Sun Dome, Sabae, Japan
9
October 1995
Day one of Event Finals
Men's Events
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Floor:
1 Vitaly Scherbo
BLR
9.812
2 Li Xiaoshuang
CHN
9.775
3 Grigory Misutin
UKR
9.762
4 Ivan Ivankov
BLR
9.662
5 Ivan Ivanov
BUL
9.625
6 Jordan Jovtchev
BUL
9.575
7 Alexei Nemov
RUS
9.500
8 Eugeni Podgorni
RUS
9.400
Pommel horse:
1 Li Donghua
SUI
9.762
2= Huang Huadong
CHN
9.737
2= Yoshiaki Hatakeda JPN 9.737
4 Marius Urzica
ROM
9.725
5= Mihai Bagiu
USA
9.650
5= Hikaru Tanaka
JPN
9.650
7 Eric Poujade
FRA
9.575
8 Fan Bin
CHN
9.125
Rings:
1
Yuri Chechi
ITA
9.850
2 Dan Burinca
ROM
9.762
3 Jordan Jovtchev
BUL
9.750
4 Marius
Toba
GER
9.700
5 Andreas Wecker
GER
9.687
6 Li Xiaoshuang
CHN
9.650
7 Hikaru Tanaka
JPN
9.562
8 John Roesthlisberger USA 9.550
Women's
Events
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Vault:
1= Lilia Podkopayeva UKR 9.781
1= Simona Amanar
ROM
9.781
3 Gina Gogean
ROM
9.706
4 Mo Huilan
CHN
9.643
5 Svetlana Chorkina RUS 9.618
6 Oxana Chousovitina UZB 9.612
7 Elena Grosheva
RUS
9.293
8 Meng Fei
CHN
4.831
Uneven bars:
1 Svetlana Chorkina RUS 9.900
2= Lilia Podkopayeva UKR 9.837
2= Mo Huilan
CHN
9.837
4 Alexandra Marinescu
ROM 9.800
5 Lavinia Milosovici ROM 9.775
6 Dina Kochetkova
RUS
9.737
7 Shannon
Miller
USA
9.712
8 Jaycie Phelps
USA
9.687
# # #
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 08:11:37
-0400
From: ***@PANIX.COM
Subject:
Re: Women's AA
> How many athletes (M & W) who competed here
were at Rotterdam? (There
> aren't any from Montreal, right? Or are there?)
Italy has 2 men
in Sabae -- Paolo Bucci and
Boris Preti -- who both
competed
at the '85 Worlds (!!).
Debbie
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 07:38:00
CST
From: ***@CCLINK.NET.UOKHSC.EDU
Subject:
Worlds
Way to go Shannon !!!! Qualifying for every
event final !!!
Now, who's the old
lady???
By the way, not to anger some of you, but did you see how Dominique
Moceanu
did? She ended ahead of Shannon in the AA, just like at
Nationals? Not that
I'm for her or anything, but she proved herself in
the
world. Way to go Dominique !!!
Most of you don't like
Bela, but he does produce champions.
Ligia.
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 22:38:07
+1000
From: ***@OZEMAIL.COM.AU
Subject:
Re: Aussie girls in 12th!
Its great to see the Aussies still up with
the best and good to see the
mens
program finally showing the rewards
Good luck to all the Aussies.
Haydn
Currumbin
gymnastics Qld.Au.
> I thought
they wouldn't be able to do it but they did!
>
> Congrats girls -
well done.
>
> Well done guys as well - 16th isn't bad - two go
to Atlanta!!
>
> Simone
>
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 07:17:02
-0600
From: ***@RMII.COM
Subject:
a non-score post about Worlds
Wow, it's kinda nice to not have to type in ten million
scores. ;)
You all should see
the faxes -- the 5's and 6's are indistinguishable.
On a particularly bad
fax, all numbers look largely similar except for
1, 2, 4,
and 7. I am unsure about
some of the scores I posted,
especially Joanna
Hughes of Australia in the all-around -- that line
of
the fax was just amazingly blurred.
I wonder why Strug
did not compete in vault finals?
Proudneva
on floor -- Arabian double front, *punch front*! Also, her
front
hs, 1.5 twist (Rudi) in her middle pass -- she uses
only one arm
to twist, the other arm is held above
her head. I had to replay it
in
slo-mo to be sure,
grin.
Khorkina! Such wonderful choreography,
not just on floor but
everywhere.
Re the
sentiment that the Romanians should not have won the team
competition: I just wanted to remind people who watched it
on US TV
that you saw maybe six or seven routines
from Romania, and I'd guess
about the same from
China. However, there are 48
routines to a team
(40 scores that are added), and one simply cannot say
that China
deserved to win without seeing all of
the other routines! Don't let
TV
warp your perspective -- the competition is both compulsories and
optionals, and is often more about
how good the 4th through 7th
gymnasts are, rather
than the top gymnasts of a team that you see on
TV. I might point out, too, that China did
outscore Romania in
optionals. China had to count some low scores on
compulsory vault and
bars, which is where I would
say Romania won the competition (in
addition to
floor in general):
Total
VT UB BB FX
=====================================================================
1.
Romania
387.865
48.199 48.048 47.374 48.949 192.570 Comp
48.323 49.174 48.649 49.149 195.295 Optl
====================================================================
2.
China
386.476
46.673 47.649 48.224 48.273 190.819
49.023 49.023 48.874 48.737 195.657
Chinese men on pbars -- insane. Opening out of double backs piked,
between the bars! The Chinese men everywhere were
incredible.
Xiaoshuang's double twisting double
layout mount on floor is an
outstanding
skill. And opening out of a double double lay off high
bar! The Chinese men are just such amazing
athletes with impeccable
form. Seems like the men
are helping out the women on vault too (Mo's
double
twister!). Together, the men and
women are setting examples
for the rest of the
world.
The USA men seemed to do quite all right. While their
finish this
year is the same as last, from the TV
I get the impression that there
is a lot more
positive energy now, versus the 9th place finish last
year.
Re
the USA women's team, I think that the rash of injuries is actually
a good thing. This is said without any offense intended to
those
injured, but I think that it only does the
USA program a whole lot of
good to get more experience. Our younger gymnasts were certainly
capable of representing the US at a Worlds (obviously), and
it's nice
that they were given the opportunity to
do so, that some room opened
up for them. Think about it: next year, we could
potentially have
ELEVEN women who have competed in a World Championships:
Miller,
Moceanu, Strug,
Phelps, Arnold, Thompson, Kulikowski, Dawes,
Borden,
Chow, and... Zmeskal (?). And they've all been on a medal
winning
team.
I thought the TV coverage
was fine, actually. Quite a number of
gymnasts,
equal coverage of men and women. Fairly positive.
Rachele
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