The results are in:
1. Bridgette Caquatto
2. Ana Sofia Gomes Porras
3. Kristina Vaculik
4. Christine Lee
5. Elsa Garcia
6. Brandie Jay
It looked like this:
From what I have been able to see of the competition, finally Caquatto came to play, and obviously it payed off. She has good difficulty and managed to hit her bar routines twice in a row (that is a record for her right?!?!). She did a high and strong FTY although the landing was a bit out of control. Beam was not good, I still feel she has more to give. I want her to do better. I think she is a better gymnasts than this and whatever is holding her back she needs to strip herself of it fast because the Olympics are right around the corner. Her floor was mediocre, that choreo is disastrous, again I think she is better than this. She improved from the qualifications and took the gold because of it, yet I am not satisfied, and I hope she is not either. She needs to score in the 14.000s across the board and on the 15.000s on bars to be really a asset to team USA. Scoring in the high 14.000s like her sister did on bars and vault to get into last year's world team is not going to be enough to get Bridgette a place in the 5 women team. She is already at a disadvantage for not competing at Worlds, where Vega and Douglas demonstrated strong consistency, and the fact that Liukin and Li can deliver some much higher scores on bars than her is a problem. What she has is that she is an all arounder and in a 5 women team that is going to pay a substantial role, so she needs to be available on all four events, for real!
Vaculik did good for herself, I saw her floor which I really appreciated, I like her style and think her tumbling is good, even though not the most difficult, Kristina is very clean and her landings are good. It is unfortunate that floor in this code of point is such a low scoring event, this really hampers the parity in the sport, great vault or bar workers have so much advantage over good floor workers which to me is unacceptable. Since the TF/AA is about the best gymnasts a country can produce on all four apparatus, each routines' weight in the final score needs to be balanced or else the underlying structure of conception is lost, and this is what this code has done. Team Canada specially surfers from this as their floor is really good. I saw Vaculik's vault and thought she deserved more for it, her landing was controlled, she had a clean FTY, not as high as Caquatto's, but much cleaner in the landing. I am glad she got a medal in this competition, she certainly deserved it for a balanced showing.
Gomez Porras again delivered, she is young and will have time to push her difficulty a little more, but one thing she has to spare: the girl is mentally tough. She is consistent and delivers under pressure. She came in as the top qualifier, many have crumbled in this position, Ana Sofia did not, she put up very similar scores as in qualifying. She lost a little bit here on beam with some wobbles, but she pushed herself on floor and made up those lost tenths there. Her Q total and AA total were the same: 55.425. Bars is her weakest event and where she needs to apply herself in the coming year to be cleaner and raise her score. This is a great accomplishment for her and Guatemala gymnastics, she shows some good basic technique which speaks to her coach as much as to herself, and most importantly it says that given some other talented youngsters these results can be repeated.
Christine (Peng-Peng) Lee had a good competition, but bars really ended her chances at a medal. She did so good in Q that it saddens me. However I did not get her beam score, did she touch the beam at some point because in qualifying she got 13.675 with a fall, and today a 13.975. She did have three major wobbles today, but I still did expect a couple of tenths more. She seemed very happy to finish that routine without a fall, I wonder if she was happy with this score?
Elsa Garcia of Mexico came back from a not so great team competition (for her individually as Mexico had a great run!) to have a decent performance in the AA. Again beam was a problem, this BHS LO combination (that sometimes I think is a piked back in the end because she is so low and slow in the transition) is not working for her, she missed it twice here in Guadalajara, maybe she should work on another tumbling pass for her otherwise quite stylish routine. Other from that she was solid on floor, bars (where she is not great) and vault. An unfortunate outcome, but no one can deny she is just so elegant and beautiful gymnast.
Jay did not have the consistent competition she needed to medal, her floor and beam were in the 12.000s and it was her undoing, however she has done well in this competition, her first major one, and still has a chance to medal on vault. Best of luck to her.
And the competition continues with event finals. A preview of that soon!
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