SPOILERS: Gymnastics Individual Events

Men's Floor Ex:

Kyle Shewfelt won with an elegant routine and stick landings. He tied Marian Dragulescu in score (9.787), but through some tiebreak system that was pretty unclear from the CBC commentators, Shewfelt won the tiebreak. (Why even have a tie break to begin with?)

1 SHEWFELT   Kyle  CAN 9.787
2 DRAGULESCU   Marian  ROM 9.787
3 JOVTCHEV   Jordan  BUL 9.775
4 DEFERR   Gervasio  ESP 9.712
5 HAMM   Paul  USA 9.712
6 NAKANO   Daisuke  JPN 9.712
7 YONEDA   Isao  JPN 9.662
8 HAMM   Morgan  USA 9.65

What is with the version of "O Canada" played in Athens? It sounds like Charles Ives did the orchestration at his most ornery.

Women's Uneven Parallel Bars

1 LEPENNEC   Emilie  FRA 9.687
2 HUMPHREY   Terin  USA 9.662
3 KUPETS   Courtney  USA 9.637
4 PYON Kwang   Sun  PRK 9.6
5 LI   Ya  CHN 9.562
6 SOFRONIE Nicoleta   Daniela  ROM 9.462
7 LIN   Li  CHN 9.2
8 KHORKINA   Svetlana  RUS 8.925

'Nuf said.

Women's Vault

1 384 ROSU Monica ROM 9.575 9.737 9.656
2 412 HATCH Annia USA 9.400 9.562 9.481
3 394 PAVLOVA Anna RUS 9.425 9.525 9.475
4 395 ZAMOLODCHIKOVA Elena RUS 9.450 9.375 9.412
5 373 KANG Yun Mi PRK 9.462 9.300 9.381
6 404 KVASHA Alona UKR 9.312 9.375 9.343
7 335 WANG Tiantian CHN 8.812 9.350 9.081
8 351 CHACON Coralie FRA 8.912 0.000 4.456

Cheers for Hatch! And Pavlova gets her first individual medal!

Men's Pommel Horse:

1 TENG   Haibin  CHN 9.837
2 URZICA Marius   Daniel  ROM 9.825
3 KASHIMA   Takehiro  JPN 9.787
4 HUANG   Xu  CHN 9.775
5 CANO   Victor  ESP 9.762
6 HAMM   Paul  USA 9.737
7 ALEXANDERSSON   Runar  ISL 9.725
8 TOMITA   Hiroyuki  JPN 9.062


Men's Rings:

1 236 TAMPAKOS Dimosthenis GRE 9.862
2 108 JOVTCHEV Jordan BUL 9.850
3 163 CHECHI Yuri ITA 9.812
4 173 TOMITA Hiroyuki JPN 9.800
5 164 MORANDI Matteo ITA 9.800
5 140 BENY Pierre Yves FRA 9.800
7 205 SAFOSHKIN Alexander RUS 9.750
8 248 SCHWEIZER Andreas SUI 9.737

The audience must have been ecstatic, and what a fine score for Tampakos!

I haven't seen it yet, but it does sound like the U.S. women did very well. And way to go Hatch and Humphrey! They weren't the shining stars, but for both to walk away with Olympic silver is tremendous. And what a big win for the French girl on bars!

Where were the Koreans in these Individual events?

Joe

Joe:
All around gymnasts are gymnasts that are good/decent at all four events. Those aren't necessary the best gymnasts on each event and in this Olympics you have specialists who make it harder for the all around guys to make it to the finals. Also the Koreans may have had bad prelims which don't affect AA score.

Here are some more:

Men's Vault:

1 DEFERR   Gervasio  ESP 9.687 9.787 9.737
2 SAPRONENKO   Evgeni  LAT 9.712 9.7 9.706
3 DRAGULESCU   Marian  ROM 9.9 9.325 9.612
4 SHEWFELT   Kyle  CAN 9.687 9.512 9.599
5 YANEV   Filip  BUL 9.625 9.537 9.581
6 GAL   Robert  HUN 9.525 9.55 9.537
7 LI   Xiaopeng  CHN 9.075 9.662 9.368
8 BONDARENKO   Alexei  RUS 9.1 0 4.55

Women's Beam:

1 383 PONOR Catalina ROM 9.787
2 416 PATTERSON Carly USA 9.775
3 382 EREMIA Alexandra Georgiana ROM 9.700
4 394 PAVLOVA Anna RUS 9.587
5 414 KUPETS Courtney USA 9.375
6 336 ZHANG Nan CHN 9.237
7 333 LI Ya CHN 9.050
8 306 SLATER Allana AUS 8.750

Looks like maybe B&S' and S&P's decision not to skate at Worlds 2002 after SLC was sound; Hamm is performing well, but not brilliantly, and the scores are within thousandths of each other.

Men's Parallel Bars:

1 GONCHAROV   Valeri  UKR 9.787
2 TOMITA   Hiroyuki  JPN 9.775
3 LI   Xiaopeng  CHN 9.762
4 IVANKOV   Ivan  BLR 9.762
5 NAKANO   Daisuke  JPN 9.762
6 CUCHERAT   Yann  FRA 9.762
7 HAMM   Paul  USA 9.737
8 YERIMBETOV   Yernar  KAZ 9.737

Women's Floor Ex:

1 PONOR Catalina ROM 9.750
2 SOFRONIE Nicoleta Daniela ROM 9.562
3 MORENO Patricia ESP 9.487
4 CHENG Fei CHN 9.412
5 dos SANTOS Daiane BRA 9.375
6 BHARDWAJ Mohini USA 9.312
7 RICHARDSON Kate CAN 9.312
8 KOZICH Alina UKR 8.500

Woohoo for Ponor!!!! Second individual gold of the night!!!!

Joe : your favorite from the all-around, Sofronie, won the silver!

Men's Parallel Bars

1 CASSINA Igor ITA 9.812
2 HAMM Paul USA 9.812
3 YONEDA Isao JPN 9.787
4 HAMM Morgan USA 9.787
5 NEMOV Alexei RUS 9.762
6 XIAO Qin CHN 9.737
7 HAMBUECHEN Fabian GER 9.700
8 GONCHAROV Valeri UKR 8.887
9 NAKANO Daisuke JPN 8.750
10 YANG Tae Young KOR 8.675

Both Hamm brothers lost tiebreaks.

I've heard that this is goodbye to Nemov, which is very sad.

hockeyfan228 said:

I've heard that this is goodbye to Nemov, which is very sad.

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Nemov went just before Paul H, and the officials had to tell him to wait. The croud was hysterical over Nemov's low scores, booing, yelling, making a fuss. The scores were reevaluated and reposted higher than before, but still not good enough to medal. I've never seen anything like it. The fact that Paul could give a solid performance after such a distruption was admirable.

Although Nemov performed with a lot of style, he didn't stick the landing. He was very professional about it and even signaled for the cround to be quite and sit down, trying to restore calm. You would think you were at a soccer match.

berthes ghost said:

He was very professional about it and even signaled for the cround to be quite and sit down, trying to restore calm. You would think you were at a soccer match.

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Hmm. No soccer match reaction to Khorkina's scores though...

berthes ghost said:

Nemov went just before Paul H, and the officials had to tell him to wait. The croud was hysterical over Nemov's low scores, booing, yelling, making a fuss. The scores were reevaluated and reposted higher than before, but still not good enough to medal. I've never seen anything like it. The fact that Paul could give a solid performance after such a distruption was admirable.

Although Nemov performed with a lot of style, he didn't stick the landing. He was very professional about it and even signaled for the cround to be quite and sit down, trying to restore calm. You would think you were at a soccer match.

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Let me tell ya this: NEMOV ROCKED! NEMOV IS GOD!!!
Which is no real surprise, though, since his first name is Alexei ...

Anke

Nemov's routine just seemed so breathtaking! I didn't understand what deductions besides the landing might have been taken. Paul took a hop on his landing. Is that hop less of a deduction than the huge step Nemov took? Otherwise Nemov's seemed like a routine that would even merit bonus points. Why do such a difficult routine when less difficult routines done cleanly will still win? I'd love some illumination by those in the know.

Alexei was robbed!!!!!

I hate Al's commentary that b.c the Korean messed up the HB, he's not as worthy as Paul Hamm. I think Al needs to think back to when Paul fell on his a$$ on the vault before ripping on a gymnast for making a mistake.

I'm not impressed with Paul's effort on the HB, however he had more variations on swings than Nemov, I think if Nemov had some one armed swings and changes he would have won the HB. His program was heavy on the release moves and not much else.

But I still think Nemov should have gotten a medal (at least the silver).

Just watched the high bar. I agree RealtorGal, just don't understand on the bar, Nemov's routine was obviousely more difficult than Paul, the only difference was at landing, but Paul had a small hop as well. Then if you watched the Italy guy again his routine was much more difficult than Paul's and both landing had a little hop. Why they got the same score?

soogar said:

I hate Al's commentary that b.c the Korean messed up the HB, he's not as worthy as Paul Hamm. I think Al needs to think back to when Paul fell on his a$$ on the vault before ripping on a gymnast for making a mistake.
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ITA.

Such drama on the HB!!!

soogar said:

I hate Al's commentary that b.c the Korean messed up the HB, he's not as worthy as Paul Hamm. I think Al needs to think back to when Paul fell on his a$$ on the vault before ripping on a gymnast for making a mistake.

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Just another example of biased commentating. How easily they forgot Paul's ignominous fall on the vault!

Nice to see Catalina win two golds in the individual events. Why was she not in the all around competition? Did she mess up some events earlier? I was surprised to see there was just one woman gymanst from Romania in the all around competition.

It seems the gymnast that wins the all around seems to level off in the individual apparatus and the 'loser' often does very well (e.g. Ecaterina Szabo in 84, Daniela Silivas in 88, Shanon Miller in 92- I may have the years wrong). A case of being hungry, perhaps for the silver medalist in the all around? The exception may be Vitaly Scherbo among men.

There was supposed to be a 2nd Romanian gymnast in the AA: Oana Ban, but she withdrew due to injury.

My heart sank so low when Daiane Dos Santos of Brazil stepped out of bounds, and I nearly fell of my chair in grief when she got that 9.375. She took a risk in changing up her floor routine to include that Arabian double layout, especially when she's capable of pulling off 9.8s (like when she won the FX EF at Worlds last year) having the double pike instead of that Arabian double layout. She brings such energy and enthusiasm to her routines that I can never help but when she's on screen. I suppose she just needs to control that energy consistently. This sounds so cliche, but "it just wasn't her night."

Wow, a 3 1/2 twist by Moreno the Spaniard. What will these girls do next, a quad!

Glad to see a gymnast do a classical-style, attention to detail choreography FX from Chang Fei (sic?). I thought those were long gone after Lilipod retired.

After Dos Santos didn'tdo so well I was hoping Bhardwaj would rock so I wouldn't feel so bad, and she did, IMO, but I suppose if you do an 'easier' FX (relatively speaking of course, lol) you have to be darn near perfect. Bhardwaj has some of the most musical tumbling passes I've ever seen. She looked like she was dancing in the air! Especcially her double layout-punch front.

My respect went up a few notches for Nemov and Paul Hamm after all the HB drama. To nail a HB routine after that ruckus is amazing.

I'm officially fed up with hearing Al Trautwig speak. I just don't get how Paul Hamm "never messing up like that on high bar (like the Korean did in the EF)" has to do with anything. Shut up already! We should be grateful that we have Terry Ganon and not him.