News on day 1 of China's internal test!! They tested vault and uneven bars today.
Vault
Qi qi (2003) vaulted an Amanar into the pit!!
Chen Yile and Liu Jieyu both vaulted good DTYs
Zhang Jin- DTT, Liu Jinru - DTT and Rudi
Du Siyu, Tingting, Luo huan, and Li Qi vaulted FTYs (Luo Huan had the best one.) It seems Tingting crashed hers, but apparently she did a dty in warmups and as of right now, there's conflicting opinions on whether it was an fty or dty during the actual test.
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Tingting had the highest overall and execution score of the day (6.1D - shap+pak+shap+gienger, 3 E pirouettes, DLO)
Du Siyu (6.0) - took out the gienger
Luo Huan (6.0), Lyu Jiaqi (6.1)
2003 junior Zhou Ruiyu had a 6.2 routine (highest D score of the day I think)
Liu Jieyu (5.6), Liu Jingxing (5.3 -stuck landing, but lots of leg sep), Lu Yufei (5.6, had a mistake), Zhang Jin hit with 5.0.
Why does Chinese gymnasts hardly do double layouts on floor?
for the most part, current chinese gymnasts tend to focus on twisting passes as they struggle to generate the height to do DLOs (and coaches seem to enforce converting all the girls to twisting passes but that’s another story...), but there have been quite a few who have trained/competed them throughout chn gym history!
here’s a list of them who have competed it: yu feng (1985), yang changmin (1995), mo huilan (1995), mao yanling (1995), kui yuanyuan (1996), ji liya (1996), xu jing (1996), sang lan (1996), chen mi (1997), chen maojie (1998), bai chunyue (1999), wang tiantian (2004), kang xin (2004), zeng panpan (2011), yao jinnan (2011), wang wei (2013), liu jingxing (2016), luo huan (2017), wang yan (2017), jia fangfang (2018), liu jinru (2018), & qi qi (2018 internal test, no footage)
Super smart on her part to basically ensure she qualifies for the Olympics. The vault final has the potential to be jam packed from the 3-12 range, especially if Simone and Jade take 2 spots. That leaves 6 spots, and we have seen Ellie black /shallon Olson consistently get in as well so those last few vault final spots will be CLOSE. (Like we also have Alexa Moreno, a Russian or two, Yeo Seojong w/ her front double twist, Ellie downie can contend, Liu Jinru made the final last year). That’s already 10 people and I’m missing people who qualified to the final last year. Don’t wanna miss the Olympics because you didn’t get a 10 on bars to get a 49 and easily qualify thru AA
And she got an 11.4 today soooo that is a huge help for her AA total.
Also I watched her routine and the only d skill was her dismount aka the dismount named after her almost 30 years ago.