#Vault finals olympics update#
#Vault finals olympics full#

Pulled it out at the end, just one off pass there.ġ4.933, a little under his qualification score but close.

#Vault finals olympics full#

Zapata – does his front lay 1/2 in, back full out, stuck landing and less tucking that before – 1.5 to double front pike, large lunge back, some knees – double front pike 1/2 out, slide – double front 1/2 out, sticks ith a swim – 2/1, stuck – 2.5 to front full, pulls it out with a stuck, looked like he was going to be short – DLO, stuck landing. We’ll be second guessing the decision to go for that triple pike, but also he’s like, I have a team gold so you can eat it. and I loved it – double double, very short, lunge. Nagornyy – goes for the triple back pike with a huge stumble OOB – double front pike 1/2, short, step forward – front 2/1 to double front is stuck – 2.5 to tuck 1/2, rouggggh and unintended – 1.5 to rudi, low hop back – that was a full FML rudi. #analysisīridget comes out as team anti-touch warmup. Vault is without a doubt one of Skinner’s best events. John and Bridget are like, “everyone else is butts, let’s move on to bars.” Lee got the better of Derwael for the first time in the all-around final, which I thought portended some advantage to Lee because it wasn’t her best routine, though having seen something closer to the judges’ side angle from the NBC rebroadcast, you really couldn’t tell from that position how crooked Lee was on her combo, so that may not have been taken into account too much in the scoring. The conclusion of the much-anticipated Lee/Derwael race. This one should get real, and the rotation order lends to the excitement as we have some actual gold medal contenders ending the final instead of getting them out of the way in the first half like on the other ones. Whitlock’s execution scores have not been high at these Olympics thus far, but he’ll set the mark to beat with that first routine with the most difficulty in the field. Lee, McClenaghan, and Kameyama all tied in qualification on 15.266, with Yoder just behind them at 15.200, and then Whitlock at 14.900. Theoretically, her Cheng form should give her enough of an advantage that she wouldn’t need the Amanar, but the reality of the scoring in the all-around final may put the pressure on for her to do the 2.5 so she can match Carey and Skinner on difficulty. The big strategic question will be whether Andrade elects to pull out the Amanar as well.

We know that Carey and Skinner will be going for the Cheng and Amanar combo. He was not far behind Dolgopyat in qualification with a 6.2 D, but “keep it safer for a medal” has never really been the way of the Russian men. It will be interesting to see whether Nagornyy elects to pull out a triple a push it with the opening routine. It’s possible that she might still compete that one and elect to do something less with no twisting as a dismount, but time will tell there.

#Vault finals olympics update#

The current Simone update is that she has withdrawn from vault, bars, and floor, though we haven’t yet heard about beam. We’ve got four today, starting with men’s floor, then women’s vault, then pommel horse, and then bars. Welcome back, and on to event final season.