My review - London Olympics Women Gymnastics Individual competitions

Here are the results of each women’s gymnastics event.

Vault

1. Sandra Raluca Izbasa - ROU 15.191
2. Mc Kayla Maroney -USA 15.083
3. Maria Paseka- RUS 15.050
4 Janine Berger- GER 15.016
5 Oksana Chusovitina- GER 14.783
6 Yamilet Pena Abreu- DOM 14.516
7 Brittany Rogers- CAN 14.483
8 Elsabeth Black- CAN 0.000

Uneven bar

1. Aliya Mustafina- RUS 16.133
2. Kexin He- CHN 15.933
3. Elizabeth Tweddle- GBR 15.916
4. Jinnan Yao- CHN 15.766
5. Victoria Komova- RUS 15.666
6. Elisabeth Seitz- GER 15.266
7. Koko Tsurumi- JPN 14.966
8. Gabrielle Douglas- USA 14.900

Balance beam

1. Linlin Deng -CHN 15.600
2. Lu Sui -CHN 15.500
3 .Alexandra Raisman- USA 15.066
4.Catalina Ponor- ROU 15.066
5. Kseniia Afanaseva -RUS 14.583
6. Larisa Andreea Iordache -ROU 14.200
7. Gabrielle Douglas- USA 13.633
8. Victoria Komova -RUS 13.166

Floor Exercise

1. Alexandra Raisman USA 15.600
2. Catalina Ponor ROU 15.200
3. Aliya Mustafina RUS 14.900
4. Vanessa Ferrari ITA 14.900
5. Lauren Mitchell AUS 14.833
6. Kseniia Afanaseva RUS 14.566
7. Jordyn Wieber USA 14.500
8. Sandra Raluca Izbasa ROU 13.333

My review

Gymnastics is known as one of the most difficult sports and to win in the Olympics game, which is viewed by billions of people in the world, athletes need perfect mindset, besides their talent.

Vault

Usually Vault is my least favorite event in gymnastics because there tends to be no artistry in the performance.

But for this year, I was very inspired by Mc Kayla Maroney’s Vault she did in team competition.

Although she had a toe injury, she was amazing.

In individual competition for vault, unfortunately she made a major error in the landing for one of her performances, so she was unable to win. First one was great, just not as perfect as she did in team competition, though very beautifully done. She looked very disappointed. But I will always remember as she is the best gymnast for vault.

Uneven bar

Aliya Mustafina was wonderful and I’m glad she won this one. Very well deserved !

It was shame Victoria hit her foot on the lower bar but her performance was beautiful to watch.

Kexin He was also great, she is still keeping her difficult technical skill. During growing time, I’ve heard that many gymnasts lose the technical ability they could do before, but she is still doing well. Only thing I wish she cared more for the beauty of her movements.

Balance beam

Except for two Chinese gymnasts Linlin Deng and Lu Sui, all the other gymnasts for this competition were not stable and lost balance.

My impression was Lu Sui did the best for this because she has more artistry than Linlin .

I often loved Catalina Ponor’s balance beam, she was usually stable, but for this one she lost balance twice.

And for this one, Alexandra Raisman was more stable compared with Catalina, even though Catalina is more artistic to watch.

It was unfortunate Viktoria lost balance and fell twice. Her performance is always beautiful to watch and I think she is the most artistic gymnast. All she needs is a perfect mindset.

Having negative emotion such as anger, sadness, fear, worry - all these emotions repel gold medals.

Michael Phelps said really interesting thing , “ smile” .

“ When I started these London Olympics I was too tight. Then I started to relax more and started smiling, and then things went well and I started winning. “

Being tight, you can not show your best performance. Especially when you are feeling down, by smiling, your emotion will change to be more relaxed.

I also noticed that Catalina Ponor is not smiling much in this Olympics , in Greece Olympics 2004, she looked more cheerful and was often smiling with her teammates.
Why ?

Floor Exercise

My favorite performance for this Floor exercise completion is Catalina Ponor’s performance, because technically and artistically she did the best. Not even losing the balance in the difficult spins and she landed all the jumps without any extra hops.

Aly did excellent for all the jumps, but for artistically, I felt her movements were not artistic.

But I think the result she received is coming from her mind, her mind set was perfect. This is why she won.

I also liked the Russian gymnast Alya Mustafina’s graceful performance. Even with some minor mistakes, we both enjoyed it. Her movements looked very light and effortless and artistic and beautiful like classic style which I love. Nowadays, most of gymnasts don’t move like her, so it was a pleasure to see it.

We also liked Sandra Raluca Izbasa from Romania ‘s performance with Pink Floyd’s music. It was shame she made a major error in the last jumps, it was really good until then.

Congratulations to all the medalists !!!

I have a lot more to write about my review of Olympics, for Swimming, men’s gymnastics, Track & field.

And look forward to seeing men’s relay 4 X100m , and women’s 4X 200m relay and also men‘s diving 10m.

Disappointed to hear that Jeremy Wariner wo't be in the men’s 4X400m relay. And Merrit canceled to attend the race for 400m because of injury.

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