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Post by Admin on Mar 17, 2019 18:40:31 GMT
Jade Carey took another step toward individual qualification for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Saturday, winning the vault title at the AGF Trophy, a gymnastics individual apparatus world cup event in Baku, Azerbaijan. Armed with a new Cheng vault that she debuted in Thursday’s qualifications and a solid double-twisting Yurchenko second effort, Carey topped a highly competitive field that included two-time Olympic vault medalist Maria Paseka of Russia and 2016 Olympic finalists Dipa Karmakar of India and Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan. She earned 14.933 for the Cheng and followed up with 14.6 for the double-twisting Yurchenko. Chusovitina, the doyenne of the sport at 43, continued to impress with a silver-medal finish, showing excellent form and mastery on the event where she holds seven world medals and Olympic silver from 2008 as she goes for an eighth straight Games berth. In Baku, she averaged 14.45, ahead of 2018 world medalist Alexa Moreno of Mexico, who was third with a 14.249 average.  The top-ranked gymnast on each individual event at the conclusion of the FIG World Cup series qualifies for the Tokyo Olympics. A gymnast’s three best performances at different world cup events count toward his or her final ranking.  After finishing second on vault at November’s world cup event in Cottbus, Germany, Carey’s win in Baku brings the 18-year-old within striking distance of the optimal number of ranking points that can be attained on vault in the world cup series. Another win at the upcoming world cup event in Doha, Qatar, would make it likely that she will earn the Olympic berth, and two more wins would all but assure it.  |
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Post by Admin on Feb 23, 2020 21:55:05 GMT
The U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials aren’t until late June, but Jade Carey is in position to qualify for the Tokyo Games in March.
Carey, seeking an individual Olympic gymnastics spot outside of the team competition, earned the maximum points in a World Cup series that is one path to Olympic qualification.
Carey has three wins each on floor exercise and vault with two World Cups left in March. Carey will mathematically clinch an Olympic spot if no other gymnasts earn maximum points on one of the apparatuses to force a tiebreaker.
A gymnast’s top three finishes across the eight-stop series count in Olympic qualifying. If Carey finishes atop the floor or vault standings, she goes to the Olympics.
Carey picked up those third wins on floor and vault at the sixth World Cup in Melbourne, Australia, this weekend.
So far, no other gymnast has two wins on floor. One other gymnast can get to the maximum points on vault with one win between the last two stops (and others with two).
The one downside to qualifying this route: Carey would not be able to compete in the team competition at the Olympics. Those four spots will be determined at and after June’s trials in St. Louis, with Simone Biles likely grabbing one of them.
“I knew I would be giving up being on the team,” Carey said in October of going the World Cup route, “but I think, for me, it made sense to just go for it.”
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Post by Admin on Feb 25, 2020 7:31:26 GMT
Carey is a world medalist on vault and floor, but she doesn’t have the all-around credentials of Biles and some other U.S. gymnasts.
Olympic team event roster sizes were cut from five to four for Tokyo, putting a greater onus on all-around prowess given a team must put three gymnasts on each apparatus in the Olympic final.
The U.S. is the deepest country in women’s gymnastics, so the only truly safe pick to make the four-woman Olympic team event roster is Biles.
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Post by Admin on Aug 2, 2021 20:57:28 GMT
Jade Carey kept the streak alive for the United States. On Monday morning, Carey, 21, won gold in the women's floor final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The win pushes the American gymnasts' medal total to five, which is impressive seeing how Simone Biles has missed four finals for mental-health reasons. This is the U.S.'s third consecutive gold in the floor exercise. Aly Raisman won in 2012 and Biles did the same in 2016. Italy's Vanessa Ferrari took home silver while Japan's Mai Murakami and the Russian Olympic Committee's Angelina Melnikova -- who posted identical scores -- shared bronze medals. The final results from Tokyo were as follows: 14.366 for Carey 14.200 for Ferrari 14.166 for Murakami and Melnikova Carey's medal-winning performance was far from predictable, as she had a rocky start to these Games. The gymnast took a hard fall off the balance beam in the all-around competition earlier in the Olympics. She was participating in the event as a replacement for Biles, and wound up finishing eighth out of 24 in that event.  But in the floor qualifiers, Carey showed promise. The Arizona native finished third, behind only Ferrari and Biles. Then, on Monday morning, she followed up on that with a winning performance. Biles will have one last shot at individual gold -- albeit in a different event -- on Tuesday morning in the balance beam final. |
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Post by Admin on Aug 3, 2021 2:52:09 GMT
Jade Carey traveled the world for a spot in the Olympics. Germany. Qatar. Azerbaijan. Australia. A lot of long flights. A little bit of jet lag. One unrelenting vision of what could be possible. She wasn’t going to let a little thing like a sticky patch of carpet get in her way. http://instagram.com/p/CSE0qQSp7o0 The 21-year-old American gymnast soared to gold in the women’s floor exercise Monday night, her powerful and precise routine capping a roller-coaster 24 hours in which she narrowly avoided serious injury during the vault finals when her right foot caught just as she was preparing her entry. Carey’s score of 14.366 gave the U.S. women’s team its fifth medal of the Games and assured that each of the six athletes who came to Tokyo — Carey, Simone Biles, Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles, Grace McCallum and MyKayla Skinner — will be checking some serious bling in customs when they return home. Considered one of the favorites after coming in second during vault qualifying, Carey was thundering down the blue runway Sunday when she tripped. Her planned Cheng vault instead became a simple back tuck, her medal chances evaporating in the process. Stunned, she recovered in time to complete her second vault but finished well off the podium before quietly retreating to the waiting arms of her father Brian, her lifelong coach, and the comfort of her teammates. http://instagram.com/p/CR7nBqSpuGe Knowing his daughter had less than a day to regroup in time for the floor finals, Brian Carey turned off the “coach” switch and flipped on the “dad” one. “I told her, ‘You know, right now, you feel like yesterday was the worst day in your life, but today can be your best day. So just don’t give up. Keep going,’” Carey said. “And she killed it.” Stomped it, more like. Carey doesn’t leap off the floor as much as she explodes. Her tumbling is as dynamic as anyone in the world not named Simone Biles, and she’s working on a triple-twisting double-layout element that — if she ever completes it in international competition — will be given the single-highest difficulty value of anything currently being done in the sport. |
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