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GA posted the following pic of the team upon learning the news...
AUTOMATIC TOKYO TEAM FINALLISTS
AND LONDON 2012 OLYMPIANS
AFTER 10 ROUNDS OF PRELIMS...
AND LONDON 2012 OLYMPIANS
AFTER 10 ROUNDS OF PRELIMS...
1. USA 234.253
2. Russia 231.062
3. China 230.370
4. Romania 227.228
5. Japan 223.543
6. Australia 221.846
7. Germany 221.163
8. Great Britain 220.553
Lauren Mitchell and Emily Little will contest the all-around final
Lauren is first reserve for the floor final
There is a nifty photo gallery featuring the purple Aussies here.
48 comments:
THAT IS A*W*E*S*O*M*E .... Fingers crossed our boy's can get there too!!!
Congrats to the girls = they must be absolutely on top of the world at the moment :)
Lauren and Larrissa and 8th on floor and bars respectively going into last rotation, I really like Beth Tweddle so is it wrong that I want her to stuff up at least one of her routines?
Emily is, appropriately, dressed in gold! ;)
14.433 for Beth - knocks Larrissa out of Bars finals. :(
They did good!!!!
The worst case senario Lauren Would be 2nd Reserve in floor finals, JPN and FRA have been none of them have scored higher than Loz. GBR are on floor now. Fingers crossed :)
Prediction- australians end qualifications in 5th!
I think will finish ahead of Japan and there may not be much between us and GB, anyway I think will start our competition in TF on beam with GB. Unless Francd does really well on beam Germany will be the eighth qualifier.
Tweddle just got knocked of beam finals by DoufOrnet, maybe France can qualify for TF after all.
argh lauren misses fx final, beth just knocked her out! shame she stepped out of bounds ;( good luck next year ;)
Tweddle hits and knocks Mitchell out of finals :( That OOB did end proving costly. Misses finals by 0.009!
well done aussie girls you did us proud :)
We qualify ahead of Great Britain but Japan doing very well on bars.
Wow Japan's bars scores are HUGE!!!
Japan qualified ahead of us after a really good performance on bars but we qualified sixth which is a great effort. Just disappointed Lauren missed out on making the floor final by such a small margin.
Sooo proud of our girls. We qualified in 6th place - what a fantastic effort, and I feel we left alot out there yesterday so you never know we could jump a couple of spots in team finals.
You never know....if Loz is 1st reserve, someone could pull out giving her a spot in the floor finals.
In TF we will rotate with Japan starting on, you guessed it, beam!
Happy for Germany. How many Olympic Games will this be for Chuso?
Well the girls qualified into floor finals will all be doing team finals and/or AA and with the way that injuries have been stacking up this worlds she might get the call up.
anon 11:33 If Chuso competes in London then it will be her sixth Olympics
Wow that's unbelievable!!! Surely that's some kind of a record - especially for a gymnast. The woman is a legend!!!
So both Lauren and Emily have made AA final??
She qualified second for vault finals here would love her to Medal. Phan Vie from Vietnam also made the vault final. I doubt a gymnast from Vietnam would have ever made a final before well done. Does anyone know where Emily and Lauren qualified for AA, int gymnast on FB only has listing with two per country rule I could work out where they had qualified but I thought someone else may have done it.
I think Lauren qualified about tenth and Emily about seventieth, I could be a bit out though, even without the two per country rule they both would have qualified so definitely in AA final.
Seventeenth
Yes according to The All Around Lauren has qualified tenth and Emily seventeenth, so Lauren starting on bars and Emily on beam.
SMH got it badly wrong!!!
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/aussie-gymnasts-secure-olympic-berth-20111008-1lfbi.html
It's churnalism.
No time to check all the facts.
I'm loving the Blackbooks celebration! Great show :)
You would think they would get thier facts right. None of it was correct!
According to the Longines results
Lauren placed 13th, Em 24th. Is this thier correct final position.Then with the 2 per country rule for AA, brings thier ranking to 10th and 17th for the AA.Tweddle placed 7th on floor.
So Tweddle did'nt make bar final!WOW, thats interesting! GB would have to be pleased they got through. Imagine being the host country and having to go through to the test event. Not Good!
When you look at the girls individual rankings per apparatus, they were very low, they have done well to qualify.
Don't agree with Liukins timing to announce a come back! She could have waited until at the end of Worlds. Some people are so selfish.Let the girls do thier job and get full attention for what they do. Talk about a big head!Why are all these oldies making a come back! Let the young ones have thier turn in the spotlight.
I was thinking the same thing. Especially after the USA hit every routine, qualified first despite having to compete with only five gymnasts they should have been focusing on that rather than Luikin's comeback
If the young ones are good enough than the keep their spot
Yes, media has been pretty much a non event from the selection of the team and even now when this is monumental. Very average effort and really poor for the promotion of the sport.
No World Champions from 2010 will contest their event this year!!
VT - Alicia Sacramone
UB - He Kexin
BB - Ana Porgras
FX - Lauren Mitchell
Also AA champ Mustafina is out. Beth Tweddle won bars last year not He Kexin but she is still not in the final.
This years worlds are crazy!
Tweddle's bars routine is mind blowing, did she make a mistake? Did I miss something?
Oh and Lauren, i'm heart broken for her not getting in, I hope someone gets gastro or the flu so she can regain her title, she has the start value!
But she can fight for a place in the AA and make history along with Monette.
Well done team Australia!
Next year is going to be great with MAM at full strength as well as Chloe Sims, Amelia Mcgrath, Zoe Lorenzin and Britt Greeley. Fingers crossed everyone stays injury free and it can be great year!
Ps: I agree, when I saw liukin coming back on twitter I wasnt suprised. I understand she loves gym and misses it but she already won a heap of gold medals. For the other gymnasts sake, I hope they can beat her.
Go Aussies! :). Re: Liukin, I don't agree with the timing of the announcement, but it doesn't matter how many medals she already has, if she's got the goods, she's got the goods. Plus USA will need her for UB to fight it out with Russia.
Agreed, if Liukin is good enough then she deserves to make the team and she is probably what the US needs. Bars are the highest scoring apparatus and with Russia possibly having a bars lineup up of Komova/Mustafina/Grishina Nastia will be a welcome return to the US team. The timing of her announcement was really unfair though, taking away from the great performance of the US girls.
Apparently Beth Tweddle did miss her first skill; hence the low score. I haven't seen any footage though.
Anon 1:07 while the girls apparatus rankings may be fairly low they were so consistent which means Australia did not have to count any poor scores to our team total, Also don 't forget we had two mid 14s on vault which helped our score.
Also remember that they did perform exceptionally early. The scores in the later, and especially the last, subdivisions were much more generous. Britain for instance shouldn't be close to Australia on beam and yet they were getting the scores that indicated that they were.
go aussies!
does anyone know where i can see a video of beth tweddle's bars? i can't believe she didn't make it in to apparatus finals!
Did you guys really expect her NOT to make such an announcement at such a time? Of course she would do it now! It's perfect media wise and her agent would've orchestrated it. What better way than to drum up publicity and hype around her comeback than to go to Tokyo, and announce it as she is working for FIG as a rep and the American team is doing so well? If she had done it at any other time barely anyone would really know she had announced a comeback. It, while selfish and attention grabbing I agree, was absolute media GOLD.
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