Doha World Cup Yay!
March 7, 2008 by northernriver
VAULT
Oksana Chusovitina (GER) is still going. She’ll probably go on until she is 90. Rumor that she’s been throwing a Tsukahara doubtle-twist vault, but she hasn’t shown that yet.
Anna Pavlova (RUS) did not do her Amânar, and finished behind Chusovitina.
BEAM:
Yay for Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs (CAN)! She grabbed the silver behind Jiang Yuyuan, which is by all means a respectable feat. It could very well be her and Kristina Vaculik in Beijing (from my meager knowledge of Canadian gymnastics).
And I have this soft spot for Lyudmila Yezhova Grebenkova (RUS), mostly because Yelena Produnova is her coach. Ha ha.
BARS:
He Kexin won. Yawn.
The other two medalists (Jiang and Hopfner-Hibbs) would not have medalled in Olympic or World competition with their scores (both less than 16). Jiang actually messed up her bars (she was supposed to have a 7.0+ difficulty level) hence her sub-16.0 score.
FLOOR
Jiang Yuyuan won, though I’ve heard that she scrapped her floor music from Stuttgart. I am very, very sad. I loved that music.
