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Post by Admin on Oct 4, 2019 18:51:07 GMT
Among those in action on the first day of women's qualifying today are the reigning world champion on uneven bars, Nina Derwael, European all-around champion Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos, and the Chinese women's team. 7:25 pm – De Jesus dos Santos into the all-around lead Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos is into the all-around lead! It's 13.316 on balance beam for the Frenchwoman – but an inquiry goes in about her difficulty score and it's increased to 13.616. That puts her top of the balance beam standings after the 5th subdivision. And she's now 1.341 points clear of Nina Derwael in the all-around. 6:55 pm – Going deaf! The French fans are certainly making themselves known. They are deafeningly loud. De Jesus dos Santos just finished her uneven bars routine to a massive roar. 14.600 – that's third best today. She had a little moment where it looked like she might not have enough momentum to go over the bar, but she handled it well and made it. She's had an awesome day today. 6:30 pm – Super vaulting from France Melanie de Jesus dos Santos boomed a Yurchenko double twist on vault for a 14.600. Then, teammate Aline Friess followed that up with a stellar Rudi of her own, which scored 15.000! A 9.200 execution score. It was superb. 6:24 pm – The long wait is over... After nearly 6 minutes, Melanie de Jesus dos Santos' score, a 13.966, was posted. That's the top mark today on the event. 6:18 pm – de Jesus dos Santos works the crowd The crowd are loving de Jesus dos Santos' floor routine! She opened her routine with a flawless full-twisting double layout and followed it up with same skill tucked. She closed out with a nearly stuck double pike.
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Post by Admin on Oct 7, 2019 19:41:42 GMT
In Simone Biles‘ second Olympic cycle, she has become comfortable speaking out. Whether it be about problems within USA Gymnastics or taking on the social media critics who disapproved of her last name being on the back of a competition leotard.
Biles begins what will likely be her final world championships — “99 percent” sure she won’t be back in 2021 or later, she said — with qualifying on Saturday.
She will compete with fuel added just this week. And she hasn’t kept to herself why she’s “pissed off.”
The International Gymnastics Federation women’s technical committee announced what point values would be awarded to new skills performed in Stuttgart, Germany.
Two of the unprecedented moves are Biles’ viral clips from the U.S. Championships in August: the triple-double on floor exercise and the double-double dismount off the balance beam. If Biles performs them in international competition — like at worlds — they will be named after her. She already has one eponymous floor pass and vault.
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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2019 20:26:09 GMT
Simone Biles won a record 21st medal at the world gymnastics championships on Tuesday as the United States retained their women’s team all-around title.
Biles’ 15th career gold medal brings her a total of 21 medals, breaking a tie with the Russian gymnast Svetlana Khorkina for the most medals by a woman at the world championships. She’s now two short of Vitaly Scherbo’s all-time record among men or women of 23.
“Every year it feels better and better just because we’re adding to the legacy,” Biles said. “I feel like I never think of records. I just go out there and do what I came to do, which is compete for the country.”
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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2019 5:00:25 GMT
The U.S. team won their fifth consecutive world championship in Germany Tuesday. Team USA's gold medal was Simone Biles' 21st World Gymnastics Championships medal in her career, the most in women's gymnastics history. Biles, 22, anchored the U.S. team, scoring the highest individual points in vault, balance beam and floor exercise. Fifteen of her world medals are gold — also a record. The Texan gymnast is now just three medals away from surpassing the all-time world medals leader, Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo. "I guess it's kind of crazy," Biles said. "I didn't really think about that. I think it's really impressive for someone to be able to do that. It's kind of exhilarating but I think I haven't had the chance to process it yet. I think we're celebrating tonight, for all of this: for the team, for the medal count, for the fifth year in a row." Team USA scored a collective 172.330 points. Second and third place went to Russia and Italy, respectively.
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Post by Admin on Oct 11, 2019 19:26:51 GMT
When five-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles won gold with Team USA at the 2019 World Gymnastics Championships on Oct. 8, she said that winning a fifth consecutive team title, adding to the US legacy, "means the world." Now, two days later, she's added on to her own legacy with her fifth all-around victory at Worlds. Simone previously received gold in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2018 (there was no championship in 2016, and she was still on a 14-month break after the Rio Olympics in 2017), and her 2018 win set a record in women's gymnastics. No female gymnast had ever won four World all-around titles, let alone five.
Simone and teammate Sunisa Lee, who finished eighth in the all-around after a fall on bars, started strong on vault. Simone stayed at the top of the leaderboard the entire competition. In 2018, she won by a record 1.693 points. This time, she scored a 58.999 and won over China's Tang Xijing (56.899) by more than two points. It's a new record under the current scoring system in the women's all-around at the World Championships.
Just like Simone did in the team final, she opted for a full-twisting double back dismount on beam instead of her double-twisting double, which officially became The Biles after she landed it in the qualifying round of Worlds on Oct. 5. She did, however, just like during Tuesday's team competition, bring out her triple-double on floor, soon going into the FIG Code of Points as the Biles II.
Simone said of her fifth title, according to FIG, "I feel like every one just feels so surreal, and every time I come back and I do it, it doesn't feel real in a way." She added that nothing beats the moment you win your first World all-around medal, but she'll go celebrate "just like it was the first time I won."
Yes, Simone continues to have the most World all-around medals on the women's side. But Kohei Uchimura, a Japanese gymnast on the men's side, holds the title for most all-around World gold medals in gymnastics, with six total that he won consecutively from 2009 to 2015 (2012 was an Olympic year so there was no championship). Simone's World medal count has now increased to 22 overall and a cool 16 gold. She has the most total World gold medals out of any gymnast. Hang tight because there are more records to discuss.
Last year, Simone became the most decorated female gymnast at a World Championships due to a tiebreaker with Russia's Svetlana Khorkina — since Simone had more golds than Svetlana, she was given the title. She then solidified her ranking at the very top after winning her 21st medal at the 2019 World team final. Today's performance brought that up to 22.
What's more, Simone now only needs to place on the podium two times to become the most decorated gymnast in World Gymnastics Championship history. That's the most decorated World gymnast out of men and women. The record is 24 medals, currently held by Belarusian gymnast Vitaly Scherbo. And, given that she's competing in all four event finals this weekend — vault and bars on Saturday, beam and floor on Sunday — and her scores are high above the competition, we'll likely witness history being made.
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