The women’s gymnastics teams make war at Olympic games 2008
August 10, 2008 by bumeral
Filed under Olympic games
BEIJING – China (248275 points), United States (246800) and Russia (244400) shared escaped and left behind the other nine countries participating in the women’s artistic gymnastics competition of the Games, and are forced to make their way toward a codazos the top of the podium at the end of next Wednesday.
Romanian, Australian, French, Japanese and Brazilian’ll be in the final round, which remained outside the German, Italian, Ukrainian, fourth in Athens and the British.
For Brazil, reaching the finals is a collective show of force long sought after numerous individual medals won in recent years in continental and world championships.
Jade Barbosa, the surprise of 2007 with its world bronze, also played the final of eventing, after the twelfth better note, as well as the jump, and Daiana the Holy Land, now liberated from the nerves that gave the fifth Square in Athens despite came as world champion of the apparatus.
Spain had not classified his team for Beijing and its only two representatives, Laura Campos and Lenika de Simone, were eliminated from any final after a bad race, admitted as the selector Jesus Carballo. End in posts 47 and 49.
At the top, the Chinese gymnasts, who have never won the Olympic gold team, won today 248275 points, 246800 and 244400 U.S. from Russia, silver and bronze in Athens but they have completely changed their selections, with the exception Russian Anna Pavlova.
China moved to head in the first subdivision of the four disputed today and the day ended there. Yang Yilin took command, always above the 15-note, and gave the final push on with an asymmetrical 16650 which was the best score of the day.
His companion He Kexin, who was accused before the Games did not have the minimum age to compete (must be fulfilled in 2008, 16), to cut breathing National Stadium with a loose impossible in the same apparatus, but then fell in a much easier. With fall including his note was 15725 and will have a new opportunity in the bottom of this modality.
He holds the record for points in asymmetric with the 17,300 achieved this May.
The veteran Cheng Fei gave a jump in new exhibition (15912) and in soil and received the biggest show of public affection. Entered into those two finals and the bar.
The Americans shone a leap and slash and staged falls or exits in asymmetrical and soil, but not so severe as to distance itself from China.
The individual world champion Shawn Johnson spared no effort to immediately put in the head and accumulated 62725 points. Nastia Liukin follows with the 62375, two ahead of the local Yang Yilin, 62350.
Samantha Peszek injured left ankle during training and was only able to leave on an apparatus, the parallel when he was scheduled to make four.
Vanessa Ferari
Russia, plus third placed teams, got Ksenia Semenov, world and European champion asymmetrical, in fourth place and Anna Pavlova in the fifth in the individual classification, which leads to the best 24 in the final.
Ksenia Afanasyeva was sixth, but the limit of two per country outside the leave.
Among the more refined the Romanian was the runner global Steliana Nistor (60500), but the team does not seem capable of approaching that won gold in Athens.
It was also revealed as the public favorite Chinese veteran of the competition, the German Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbek origin. Sixteen years after winning gold in Barcelona 92 with the Unified Team, and now 33, Chusovitina was not only the best of all German, but was also put in the finals and individual jumping.
It came out in the last diagonal of a flashy floor exercise, but as always left an impression of serenity which is a balm for gymnastics. When asked to exit for its withdrawal, nor did not want to comment in jest: “I feel young and perfectly. I will withdraw when the time comes,” he said.
The Italian Vanessa Ferrari, the only western European who has been world champion in 2006, accused the injury suffered by the Achilles tendon. Lower the difficulty of departure for their exercises, but still fell from the parallel bar and balances. It is also in the final individual if his ailment is not what prevents.
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