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Theisen-Eaton had a bit of a slow start in the 100m hurdles, but made up for it in the high jump.  She's currently in 5th place with 2151 points.  She was in 5th with 2105 at the WC last year, so doing a bit better so far.  Unfortunately, so are her competitors.  113 points from 1st, 91 from the podium.  She'll need to pick it up.  

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Just now, intoronto said:

Rosie will be doing a degree of difficulty less than the Chinese, so unlessthey mess up, Rosie will not win gold :(

 

As we saw in London, even when the Chinese do mess up they still get medals.  

 

I'll admit I don't know much about gymnastics, but in my mind, if you fall, you fail.  Just seems like the favourites do high degree of difficulty, and even if they fall they still end up on top.  I remember Shewfelt in Athens on the vault.  The Romanian guy falls on his 2nd, yet still beats Kyle because his difficulty was higher.  Who cares?  He fell?  Why doesn't everyone just do the hardest routine and land on their head then?  Oh right, it's gymnastics and certain countries will always win.  Same with figure skating (which admittedly, Canada sometimes benefits from (cough cough Chan)).  And don't get me started on the farce that is synchronized swimming.   Sorry, even Phelps and Bolt lose races sometimes.  The same three countries finishing 1-2-3 for over a decade is ridiculous.  

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17 minutes ago, orangeman said:

Theisen-Eaton had a bit of a slow start in the 100m hurdles, but made up for it in the high jump.  She's currently in 5th place with 2151 points.  She was in 5th with 2105 at the WC last year, so doing a bit better so far.  Unfortunately, so are her competitors.  113 points from 1st, 91 from the podium.  She'll need to pick it up.  

That seems like a small enough margin to be able to catch up in 5 events though.

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il y a 14 minutes, orangeman a déclaré:

 

As we saw in London, even when the Chinese do mess up they still get medals.  

 

I'll admit I don't know much about gymnastics, but in my mind, if you fall, you fail.  Just seems like the favourites do high degree of difficulty, and even if they fall they still end up on top.  I remember Shewfelt in Athens on the vault.  The Romanian guy falls on his 2nd, yet still beats Kyle because his difficulty was higher.  Who cares?  He fell?  Why doesn't everyone just do the hardest routine and land on their head then?  Oh right, it's gymnastics and certain countries will always win.  Same with figure skating (which admittedly, Canada sometimes benefits from (cough cough Chan)).  And don't get me started on the farce that is synchronized swimming.   Sorry, even Phelps and Bolt lose races sometimes.  The same three countries finishing 1-2-3 for over a decade is ridiculous.  

I don't even watch synchronized swimming anymore.  The results are fixed in advance.

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7 minutes ago, james89 said:

That seems like a small enough margin to be able to catch up in 5 events though.

 

Oh absolutely.  Her best events are coming up, while (judging by results from the 2015 WC) they are weaker for many ahead of her, except Ennis-Hill who holds a similar lead over Theisen-Eaton as last year.  The main take-away is that she didn't look comfortable in the first event, but did better in her 2nd.  That's good news.  

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