Friday 30 September 2011

Izbasa Out!?

Olympic Champion Sandra Izbasa is out of the world championship after suffering foot pains. The Romanian team + delegation left on Friday without Izbasa.


Romania have replaced her with Daniela Andrei but she definitely won't be able to contest like Izbasa. Octavian Belu said ''we don't want to push her, she was in pain''. 


The official start list for the Romanian team is: Chelaru, Haidu, Ponor, Porgras, Andrei and Racea leaving Bulimar as the reserve ?



Thursday 29 September 2011

Potiental Final/Medalists?

Coming to the Worlds, I have been assessing and looking at the potential and great gymnasts that could rise to victory (sort of been watching). Here are the people you need to look for;

Jordyn Wieber
This new girl has popped up into the scene. Her first major win was when she was 13 at the Tyson American cup. She's been in the national training sqaud since '06 (since she was 11). Wieber has got some big tricks in the locker, she just needs to pull them out consistently and she'll be first place.

Anna Li
Collegiate gymnast, aged 22. She's not the all-around package but the reason I've selected her is because her bars is amazing. At the VISA's, she had the highest start score, so she can bring a lot to the table for the American camp.

Elisabeth Seitz
We just want her to hit. Bars is where she excels. She's got a def and a full twisting shapo! She can work well with AA as she showed at the Europeans in Berlin. Vault is also another 'Good' event as she has two vaults but It's going to be pretty hard for her too challenge for a finals spot.

Giulia Steingruber
Switzerland's new gymnast. When Kaeslin packed her bags, Giulia was the girl who stepped. We've seen throughout previous meet's that she has more heavier work than other's but she is quite good on the legs and execution side of it. Vault is her main strength. Euro finalist. Bars is good one for her for me, I feel. The heavy work looks quite good. Floor isn't the best place but she could still make top 24.

Brazil!
This up-coming nation is definitely up-coming. They have a lot of strong and powerful team members. 3 bring a lot of experience to the table, they are, Jade Barbosa, Daiane Dos Santos and Daniele Hypolito. Adrian Gomez is another good gymnast. Watch out for Jade in the vault and Daiane in floor. If Daiane is in full strength, she will jump out the square 2 times (likely!)

JLO
Not forgetting Venezuelan Veteran Jessica Lopez. Last quad, she managed to get into the top 12 but she has set each routine to 16+ difficulty scores, giving her a more likelier pass to the top 6.

Part 2, Later:)

Wednesday 28 September 2011

Hai

Saturday marks the 1st of October, leaving very little time until the Worlds (eek!), So, rapidly I'll give you the Romanian roster.


Ana Porgras
Amelia Racea
Sandra Izbasa
Diana Maria Chelaru
Raluca Oana Haidu
Diana Bulimar
Catalina Ponor.







Tuesday 27 September 2011

Mexico!

The Mexican Squad for the 2011 Worlds has finally been decided. It is as followed;

Elsa Garcia Rodrigues Blancas
Marisela Mata Cantu
Yessenia Estrada
Alexa Moreno
Karla Salazar
Ana Lago


Alot O'News

Sorry everyone, I've been away for the weekend so couldn't cover the Gymnastics worlds news. In this bulletin, We've got lot's of news. GB Squad, Salamun Memorial Results  & The Yokohama Junior.

I'll start Salumun. It was a mixed field. But Israel where the overall medal winners.

Vault.

2.10 seperating 1st from last, so quite an easy one. Valeriia Maksyuta went on to be the eventual vault champion with a great 14.125. Way below in 2nd with 12.875 was Teja Belak and third went to Orsolya Nagy. Moving from the medals, Thelma Hermansdottir was 4th. Jasmin Mader was 5th then Dina Madir followed closely by Norwegian Madeline Larsen and Icelandic Agnes Suto.

Bars.

Another good round for Valeriia but It was Kristyna Palesova who won. But, Val did show us her double front full dismount !! (Much Love). That Crazy Croatian Leotard (Freak?) Tina Erceg was the bronze medalist. Looking down the execution sides, the highest was 8.250. I'm scared. 6.25 was posted by Laura Gombas though.

4th- Jasmin Mader
5th- Roni Rabionvitz
5th - Vasilike Mllousi
7th - Fiona Novak
8th - Laura Gombas

Beam

From 5th to 1st, Vasiliki managed to take 5th and take it to gold. 14.00 was a great score for beam but close second Maksyuta (13.950) just couldn't catch her. Veteran Adela Sajn showed that age is just a number proving the that the 23+'s can make their stand, look @ Chuso go!!

4th- Krystna Palesova
5th- Roni Rabinovitz
6th- Elisa Hammerle
7th- Tina Erceg
8th- Laura Gombas

Floor

Israel's medal streak was closed of well but not by Val. Nope, Roni did the job with a 13.60 and funky music, she was the title taker. Croatia with second and Sajn bronzed, they couldn't get to Israel.

4th- Fiona Novak
5th- Elisa Hammerle
6th- Kristyna Palesova
7th- Madaline Larsen
8th- Lisa Ecker

Great Britain now. Not much change from the squad of last year's quad (Yesh, another 6th place team final qual here we come), just Laura Edwards is replacing Nicole Hibbert. But, If you can't remember last year's It's as follows;

Beth Tweddle
Danusia Francis
Hannah Whelan
Imogen Cairns
Jennifer Pinches
Laura Edwards
Becky Downie

Yokohama.