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Do we know what the enquiries from Kyla and Simone were for and why they were given?
Simone’s was for her start value. I’m not sure about Kyla’s.
You can only file an inquiry in regards to the routines difficulty score. They don’t accept inquiries about execution scores.
Yeah I know that, I was just wondering if anyone knew what kind of connection they wanted to be credited.
Well I was replying to the person who replied to you. If I had to guess specifically I would say Kyla’s walkover+sheep jump, and Simone’s tour jete+back tuck.
Oh, well in that case I have no clue which skill.
Can we discuss how Aly Raisman has access to like every professional dancer/choreographer at DWTS to choreograph a new floor routine and yet she said in an interview with Inside Gym that Sylvia Brestyan is going to be choreographing her routine… again.
*le sigh*
Exactly.
I second Alyssia’s question. Beam finals was an inquiry-fest. All the beam scores seemed rather low. It’s crazy that a 14.9 won the beam title. There was a time when any routine in the 14s was considered subpar. The code just keeps getting harsher. I don’t understand why the judges gave Kyla a sub-9 E score on beam in EF. To my eyes, that set was nearly perfect.
I also wanted to thank FIG, USAG, and Universal Sports for bringing us such unprecedented, amazing coverage during Worlds! The feed was incredible! It was also nice not to have commentary for once. I don’t need a “narrative” to keep me interested; it’s enough just to watch the routines. I am not sure whether I’m going to watch the NBC coverage, since they won’t show as much anyway and the commentary can get old quick. Who am I kidding? I probably will watch it, but watching without commentary was a nice change. The arena announcer was fun to listen to and he seemed to be enjoying himself.
I would also be curious to know where the adjustments came in for Simone and Kyla. I think it would be really valuable for the FIG to make this information more publicly available for those people who are interested so that we don’t have to speculate about what was changed!
Oh, and I would say that Cheng Fei and Afanasyeva are truly artistic floor champions from the last 10 years. 🙂
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Jessica, I love you, but I’ve noticed you always say “Yao Jinjin.” I don’t speak Chinese, but I don’t think that’s how you say her name. (Then again, I’m not sure how you actually say it either, maybe Jin-non.)
Phonetically I think Yao Jinnan is pronounced yow yee-nahn
It’s definitely pronounced the way it’s spelled. I’ve heard the Chinese commentators say it that way. And yes, please say it correctly! I don’t speak Chinese and I can say it so I bet you can too. Or you can just say her nickname – It’s Nannan (emphasis on the second syllable). Oh – and I love the show!
I suck at the names! I’ll add this to my pronunciation cheat sheet. Thanks for the correction and the very gentle delivery 🙂 – Jess
First of all I love your podcast– it is simply the best! This is in response to Julie’s comment on the Chinese names. I am absolutely not picking on Gymcastic, as I said you are the best! But it is a problem with every gymnastics announcer– NBC, BBC, in arenas, except during the Beijing Olympics, etc. It annoys me and every other Chinese speaker / gymnastics enthusiast I know, because their names are absolutely butchered. In Yao Jinnan’s name, the “Y” sounds the same as the “y” in “yes”, “ao” is similar to an “au” sound in English, similar to the word “sauerkraut”. “Jin-nan” is two syllables. It is also her given name, yao is the family name. Jin, hard for me to describe but I think the “in” has a similar sound to the “een” in “keen”. Nan, think of the Indian naan bread, it sounds more like this than “nan” thinking of the British word for grandmother. Also “Cheng” the “en” does not sound like “an”, rather it sounds like “un”. Fei is the same ‘f’ sound with an ‘ei’ as in ‘weight’. This is a good resource! http://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pinyin-chart.php
On it! Thank you for this link!
Whos floor routine was horrible? I couldnt hear that well
Lauren Mitchell caused the raucous disagreement towards the end there.
I love Mitchell, and I always that the routine in question had a lot of potential. She never really worked it though. You’ve got to be really badass to pull a routine like that off. Camelia Voinea comes to mind.
I wonder why Kyla hasn’t competed the side ariel + layout stepout combo on beam yet. She’s trained it at the Ranch and it was beautiful. Might she put it in next season? It would make her gorgeous beam routine even more glorious.
Were both Huang Huidan and Yao Jinnan competing without grips? It looks like they were. That would mean that the Romanians competed with grips and the Chinese without them. Weird…
Also what did you think of Shang Chunsong’s scoring? It seemed like the e panel judges were being ridiculously hard on her. I think she got better scores at Chinese competitions, and the Chinese judges are notoriously harsher than international ones.
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