thiago_simoes

This is probably Mexico's best year ever in gymnastics: one bronze medal at the Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships, one bronze medal at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, fourth place at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup and now a gymnast reaches the semi-finals at the Trampoline World Championships. I'm really impressed!

He finished fourth in snatch, and for a country with no medals in this sport, big or small, any medal would give him a lot of headlines. Of course a total medal would be amazing, but even a small medal would be great for him by now. His entry weight is 440 kg, I think, but I'm not sure he was able to lift this much this year.

I don't really follow this sport because, well, Brazil sucks in weightlifting. But Fernando Reis will compete in the +109 kg division and he recently gave an interview where he said he had the third best result this year and he was hopeful for a medal here (he finished fourth last year). Does he have any chance even for a small medal? Things can change a lot over the course of one year in this sport, so... Just curious.

Where can I find the results for the South American Championships? Nothing on Consanat's website, or the Peruvian Federation, or on Wikipedia...

No gold medals for Japan. Who would expect that?

Finally an individual medal for Mikulak! He's the unluckiest gymnast I have ever seen (Zachari Hrimeche is quite unlucky as well) so it's good that he finally had some luck.

Well, I was wrong.

Zondelrland had a 0.5 deduction in a late pirouette, unfortunately. I think Uchimura will take gold here.

Srbic's routine is not very intelligent. Only four releases count, and he performs five releases. I'm sure he performs one of the releases so he can earn the connection value, but we're talking about 0.1-0.3 in deductions (or more) so he can get 0.1 in a connection. It makes no sense.

Flávia lost the bronze medal because of the penalty of stepping outside of the floor. Unbelievable! She got it right three times in a row and now she had her worst performance in the whole championships. I'm a bit sad but that's okay.

Poor Jossimar. I wanted him to win a medal so bad. Oh, well...

This is the straddled position. She usually lands on her feet and then connects an element performed in straddled position, so she can earn one more tenth, usually. This is what some fans call "code whoring", i.e., using what is allowed in the code of points to the fullest to earn more points even if the element is seemingly unnecessary and not pleasing to the eye. Another common form of code whoring is using a static jump after landings on floor, or a series of one-arm pirouettes on the uneven, even though the elements look the same (90% of the female Chinese gymnasts do this).

What? Her front aerial punch front sommersault is insane. Her ring leaps are perfect, and she cannot see the beam when she lands them what makes it more difficult to perform. The flow of the routine is just superb. Her difficulty score (6.3) is the highest among all of the competitors. What are you talking about?

Tingting!

I'm not really a fan of Wevers, but Tingting has my favorite routine in this final. If she doesn't nail it, I'll be bummed. It would be nice to see Canada with a gold medal, though.

Well, I'd say. Tingting and Wevers are the clear favorites here. But Padurariu on the podium is really exciting.

What a moment for Padurariu! After a terrible year, she will win a medal at the World Championships! Well deserved!

Shirai was terribly overscored. The landing on his first vault alone was worth 0.6 less in his execution score, so a 9.150 E score is unrealistic since there are other deductions that should be applied. Cunningham was robbed.

No medal for Armenia.

Very ugly first vault from the North Korean guy. It's unbelievable that he was given 8.9 in execution for a vault with lots of glaring mistakes. Poor judging at its worst.

The maximum number of nations to earn a medal at a single edition of the world championships was 19 in 2007. So far we have 14 different nations with a medal, and real chances tomorrow for North Korea, Netherlands and Ukraine, good chances for Colombia, Armenia, France and Croatia. Hong Kong has slight chances -- one gymnast from the country is in the final, so who knows what might happen? It worked for Vietnam in 2011. It would be nice to break the record this year.

I'm not celebrating a medal for Zanetti because he's a homophobic piece of trash and supporter of our future fascist president. So, congratulations to Italy and Greece. Deserved medals.

I can't believe Radivilov performed so bad. Man, what a surprising competition. And Petrounias was overscored, but he still deserves the gold medal even if all the other gymnasts perform the routines of their lives. No one can come close to what he does.

Derwael Biles Seitz

Yes, Seitz! She deserves a World medal soooo bad!