The Gymternet

Jade also leads floor with 76 points at the moment, but if Flavia Saraiva and Jade Barbosa help Brazil qualify, Marta Pihan-Kulesza would be bumped up to Flavia’s 30 points, Lara Mori would get Jade’s 25 points, and Jade would get Marta’s 20 points, so her score would change from a 76 to an 80, which would again give her a pretty solid lead over Lara with her new total (which would be 75). At the time, it was just a rumor that the YOG qualifiers would also serve as the team qualifiers for junior worlds, but you’d think they should have set something like this in stone beforehand because some countries didn’t send gymnasts to the YOG qualifiers at all, like the Netherlands and Belgium, meaning neither of these teams is eligible to send a team at junior worlds this year. For gymnasts who don’t qualify at the previous year’s nationals and who don’t go to national team camp, however, they have to attend elite qualifiers to get their scores to qualify elite (and then they attend the classic meets to get their qualifying scores to nationals). I actually can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a national team gymnast have to re-qualify elite by going to a qualifier, however…in the past, gymnasts with injuries that have taken them out of competition for a year or more will generally just petition back to camp through videos sent by their coaches, and if they’ve proved readiness, they will re-qualify at camp.

Ellie Downie came in second by less than a tenth despite her foot issues, and Angelina Melnikova, who qualified in first, took the bronze with minor errors adding up over the course of the meet. Alice D’Amato came in fourth with a fall, Anastasiia Bachynska had a good day for fifth, and Giorgia Villa, who apparently had a fever in quals, had errors and a fall to take sixth. Dalaloyan also took the floor title and vault and high bar bronze, compatriot Denis Abliazin won rings and vault, and Nikita Nagornyy won parallel bars. Max Whitlock took the pommel horse title despite more questionable scoring, and Epke Zonderland won yet another high bar title.

Back on for a beautiful layout Tkachev, then a good layout Tkachev half, stoop to L grip to stoop half, a little short, stalder, hop full, crooked a bit, double double layout with a lunge forward. Tin Srbic CRO HB: Front giant full, stalder Tkachev to straddle Tkachev to layout Tkachev to straddle Tkachev half, amazing series, stoop half, layout Tkachev half, stalder, full-twisting double layout with a hop. Layout Kovacs is good, layout Tkachev half, also good, stoop half, layout Tkachev, blind change to front giant L grip swings, Yamawaki, stuck the double double layout dismount! Endo full is a little late, love his one-arm pirouette, a little short on his stoop half, nice Yamawaki, Kovacs is excellent in the air, blind change to L grip work, layout Tkachev is nice, Tkachev, then off on Tkachev half, UGHHHH.

Inbar half, a little form break, into a good piked Jaeger, short handstand before a giant half, toe full is late, into a full-in, a little low with a hop forward. Good handstand before the van Leeuwen, great handstand before tie inbar half to front giant full, tentative on that but gets through it, full-twisting double layout a little low, lunge forward. Chow half, nice toe half to piked Jaeger, short handstand before Ricna to Pak, clean on both of those skills, short before van Leeuwen as well, but that is also good. Samir Aït Saïd FRA SR: I missed the very beginning, a little crooked on his planche, and got a little bobbly in a handstand, double pike to double tuck to planche, excellent, lowers into an iron cross.