WAG Balance Beam Final Stuttgart 2019 OCH|NBC

beam and we put in the qualification rank as well we see gia from China leads it off but a rare a from Canada all the way down to Terra acre who initially didn't make it she was tenth but the three ethnic were country rural plus le black withdrawing from this final she gets in to even deeper store to tell their to which we will Simone biles qualified number one and then Flavia Saraiva from Brazil will found out the field here on being well talked about Simone making history and it did start in the qualification right here double twisting double back nobody in the entire world has ever done that now goes down in the co2 points as the miles - flips there's a twist there's another twist as you said nasty and never been done but there's been a lot of controversy here at these World Championships it was only given 1/10 Naji came back and said it is a safety issue but it's not right all right start off with the 15 year old from China Li XI Jia who qualified second and China had a really a disastrous team competition finishing off the podium Italy upset them and already two pretty big balance checks supposed to connect all three of those elements [Applause] this is big here relatively new combination that is earning favor with a lot of gymnasts good points for it and also very exciting that handspring front [Applause] [Music] she saw she qualified into this final and second place just behind Simone three tenths of a point so you heard that tone that means she has ten seconds to complete her routine if she doesn't she'll incur another deduction but she is overtime by one the World Championships is a 15 year old during the competition this year here's that connection so she was trying to connect these two leaps together into a back handspring so three elements in a row she was supposed to connect so she broke two of those connections that's the slight wobble so right and you know you say well why would you have a routine that is too long you would make it the right amount of time she would have easily done that if she had connected those skills yet - pauses in between them probably cost her at least three if not four or five seconds double backflip in a pike position shoulders up on the landing that's what the judges are looking for obviously that that stick but the position in your chest and shoulders when you your feet hit the mat just in case you're wondering the music during that theme routine was very loud that is not choreographed that's just NAT sound in the arena at times it's been a little bit like a disco in here commentators are very close together to that gets loud if it does I've heard that some people have had a problem sound problems taxi problems there are few but it's been a great week other than that it's just such a shame though because the Chinese all of them are so done you see that penalty of one tenth of a point so 14.3 is the number is Anna what a rare item from Canada get set the 17 year old who won a silver medal on beam at the World Championships last year and her teammate Ellie black who had a fantastic world was fourth in the all-around on her last event not look difficult but those turns they're called wolf turns they can be the demise of just about anyone started to say le black injured herself on vaulting high ankle sprain had to withdraw from the finals so she got a second chance beautiful combination but very rattled I thought she was very off right after the first layout step-out and not rotated enough yeah didn't quite just get the rotation that you need obviously she was a little crooked but sometimes you're able to fix that in the air if you have enough height and rotation and just wasn't able to pull it off you talk about the music that you hear right now the background that's just very not typical because normally there are three other events going on at once in the event finals it really is one event one athlete at a time get a little bit more pressure when you know your lies are on you that's a shame to Falls it is a different dynamic then you take it Simone biles all eyes are on her the dreaded bump turn where she's down low to the beam tries to spin around three times and off the balance beam in training I was watching before everything really even got going here and a number of athletes oh yeah way off to the side right they're quite opener hips up in the air that would have given her some more rotation and it seems like that first skill was ripped straight but really it was after the second one going into the third this is a rule day they gotta modify you know on the women's side they allow a sea-level dismount whereas in the past it would be a deduction you would lose bonus points courage of difficulties starting with an a a going all the way up in each letter that you go up it's another tenth a is 1 B is 2 all the way on up to Simone's what should be higher it should be a J Road get going for Sara Voss the 19 year old [Applause] three skills in a row [Applause] there you go a lot of times the leaps don't look as difficult but they can be and sometimes even more difficult I would not give that though too long of a pause she's trying to get some extra tenths of a point by combining elements together the dismount right here [Music] [Applause] [Music] foot injury she got to the all-around is there a boss in the second place thirteen point two six six as melodyday J Zeus dos Santos from France is underway on being just such a phenomenal athlete has struggled a little bit here few Falls unfortunately just did not have a great day multiple Falls and the entire delegation of France a lot of people had them in the hunt with Italy for an outside shot at a team bronze but just didn't happen during the team finals just a beautiful gymnast [Music] there you go [Music] [Applause] likes to finish a concept it wasn't good for her in qualified for both feed and floor so we'll see her a couple of times today Melanie tha Susie dos Santos beautiful back lay out her hips pretty open looking at Burton all the way around could have just gone just a little bit more for being extra picky got to be friends with Simone biles actually a spent time at a training camp files gym which on the other day Simone watching closely and cheering her on [Music] as you mentioned Tim just such a beautiful gymnast and kind of has it all the grace the beauty flexibility but the power and the strength as well yes she does and that's a rare combination you know a lot of times you can be really elegant and you know have this artistic feel for the sport these numbers 14 she would need [Music] awesome second right now yes she was arrested six of the old so it's really disappointing at performance so a long way from these number in the second she got to maximum starting score Asians yeah 15-7 what happens is the judges evaluate what they see how what the gymnasts were planning to do all right here is the reigning world balance beam champ 19 year old li Yu ting ting from China really wants to redeem herself in the team finals - falls on bars then went to beam fell again she said I'm a veteran that is unacceptable I shouldn't have let it get to me like that here we go hey Zhaan carry that routine that she won the gold medal last year at Worlds it was absolute poetry in motion just gorgeous everything but you see all these little doubts I think Nastya yeah she doesn't really seem like she's off [Applause] sometimes you know it's about being patient not rushing to finish and move on to that next scale [Applause] she qualified into this final in third place was broke that connection right there she was about to say she was over time so let's listen so that's your warning so now she has ten seconds I think she's gonna make it [Applause] [Music] says one minute 28 seconds so she finished with no time deduction a very good routine absolutely balance checks you've pointed out nasty at the end she didn't connect something really difficult combination going to forward elements in a row that was gorgeous right there that's called a ring leap and so many gymnasts at this competition have been just really brutalizes they think they're getting a certain level level of skill and they don't give it the judges don't there it is right there once again there's like dismount so just a double fall here really when you're doing it dismount that's you know a sea level difficulty so not as difficult as so many you cannot give away a single ten let's see that that's why I think the FI G made a mistake with that it just you know it historically has not been allowed she would have you know incurred deductions on top of that and she's capable of doing more [Music] [Music] so you see they actually raised her t-score by a few times talk more about that in a moment too because the next gymnast who is set to go you qualified third right behind Lee who is the leader and then Chen ela from China qualified fourth she's not here to athletes book country and that tops it fourteen point four three the leaderboard you have plates from China one to right now era acre is next the sixteen year old from Grain Valley Missouri told you that the two athlete per country rule also ally black withdrawing so she gets in but there's even more drama back to the qualification that she gets underway gorgeous she keeps her beam moving but what happened was she competed and they only gave her a starting score of fifteen point eight the USA coaches thought that was too low they put in an inquiry and they came back lowered it by four tenths of a point they have spoken with officials and judges here they don't agree with it but they're making some modifications to this routine to try to alleviate that well you know I think the most is that the USA was in the last round of qualifying in the competition and she was basically already guaranteed a spot before they put him that inquiry yeah she was in then out after the inquiry and then of course le black scratching from balance beam moved her up and she gets her shot again but a range of emotions [Music] off on her switch statement something to bother her two and a half twist right here she'll actually add a back handspring not if I can't spring two and a half [Applause] dancing the beam final last year and also a second national championships couple of seasons so it's going to be really interesting to see what the judges value this routine as once again in qualifying 15.8 then lowered to fifteen point four in the team championships though she did a routine that was sixteen point zero and in the US and at the pan-american games had of her team that was valued at sixteen point six has long been known for her tremendous abilities on balance beam but really wants to be considered Wow she was very crooked but that's what the great ones do you know they're they're presented a challenge and they don't they don't fade they they keep it going and she did cuz wow she could have been completely off on that either as a round up or the back handspring gara who was born in China and it's a gymnast from China sitting alongside in the lead right now so we get the number for Cara acre and then it's Simone biles gone after middle number 24 gold medal number 18 Tara acre waiting for the number the you cheating the leader [Applause] Aker goes into third place overall and now Simone biles on beam already had the record for gold medals coming in at numbers up to 17 at the World Championships now really tricky skill you don't see Simone struggle on that too often big test right here three elements in a row back handspring two two layouts [Applause] [Music] she was very upset with her performance in Rio on the balance beam certainly thought she could come away with a gold medal we've heard her say outside of the competition hall that if there's one medal she wants most in Tokyo it is a gold on balance beam but you heard from her coach that to her coach right before she will not be doing the double twisting double back here [Applause] [Music] [Applause] she probably doesn't need to do it [Applause] it's a shame though if it was valued at the right level that wolf turned that not always my favorite but the way she does it is just perfection you see a lot of gymnasts that struggle to make it around and she is like cut out a few more warp speed fantastic right there and here's that connection I mean even in slow motion it just looks so quick that's exactly what the judges are looking for so she had a 16 point 5 maximum score in qualification but she did the double-double which gave her only 110 tears it's gotta be on top here it's two-time world champ already on B would be a three-time champ at her 24th medals overall [Applause] I'm the most decorated World Championship females the great Vitaly sure Bo give it to her 15:06 again [Applause] hard that's for sure we knew it but that is metal number 24 nobody no male no female has ever had 24 medals at the World Championships unbelievable just incredible [Applause] so one more gymnast to go Flavius arrived a twenty year old from Brazil her cell just unfortunately had such a devastating round of qualification unfortunately didn't qualify their team to the Olympic Games Flavia herself earned an individual spa and the all-around they lost an athlete to injury while they were here and really their top all-around gymnasts tore her ACL again I think she has three of them Rebecca and Raji she is hoping to make a comeback and qualify through what's called the continental championships in the all-around just such a stunning routine here - that first fall now we talk about those bring leaps so often and Flavia does them so well there's one right there you see your head goes all the way back looking up past the ceiling and so that means they lose sight of the balance beam which you don't really ever like it's very it's just the dismount double pike [Applause] she's got one more shot though she is also in the floor exercise finals but up until that fall on that super hard super gorgeous layout from a roundoff she has been phenomenal [Music] all you see on her round off her feet were already almost off the beam there and unfortunately just no matter how higher roads how much rotation she had she wasn't able to save that one but this was gorgeous same combination we saw Simone biles do perfect I mean literally perfect like to see the double pike pretty good body position on the landing the smallest of steps only a tenth of a point for that disappointing week though simone waits for that number for the final gymnast Saraiva from Rio de Janeiro so Simone is gonna be about 6/10 better than the second-place gymnast and she's like that on so many events it's scary she was talking about the fact that it is kind of wish there was someone there challenging her at this point the one person that comes closest didn't have a great all-around meet and that's her teammate the 16 year old sue Neely I used to say Simone can fall for sure two times three maybe even four with someone like suni if she hits I don't think that's the case thirteen point four into sixth place so now it is really a or here in Stuttgart at these World Championships for some known from shine of the silver and they see Gia the bronze medal so a couple of athletes but that top-spec step belongs to Simone biles kara acre almost didn't make it into this final ends up in so the twenty fourth medal at the World Championships 18 gold medals now for Simone and she is not done yet a little bit later we will see her try to capture gold war gets it done on beam to the collection for the greatest gymnast [Music]

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Published: Sun Oct 13 2019