10/20 Day 1 Event finals competition Mens: Floor 680 BOTELLA PEREZ Isaac ESP 572 HYPOLITO Diego BRA 595 SHEWFELT Kyle CAN 931 DRAGULESCU Marian ROM 773 SHATILOV Alexander ISR 582 JOVTCHEV Jordan BUL 682 DEFERR Gervasio ESP 616 ZOU Kai CHN Womens: Vault 451 HONG Su Jong PRK 472 IZBASA Sandra Raluca ROM 303 CHUSOVITINA Oksana GER 397 SACRAMONE Alicia USA 488 ZAMOLODCHIKOVA Elena RUS 486 PAVLOVA Anna RUS 155 SOUZA Lais BRA 190 CHENG Fei C Mens: Pommel Horse 795 TOMITA Hiroyuki JPN 525 SELLATHURAI Prashanth AUS 932 KOCZI Flavius ROM 954 KRYUKOV Nikolai RUS 612 FENG Jing CHN 630 SELIGMAN Robert CRO 614 XIAO Qin CHN 833 ARTEMEV Alexander USA Womens: Uneven Bars 391 BIEGER Jana USA 394 LIUKIN Anastasia USA 371 KURODA Mayu JPN 113 JOURA Daria AUS 474 NISTOR Steliana ROM 404 KRASNIANSKA Iryna UKR 294 TWEDDLE Elizabeth GBR 363 FERRARI Vanessa ITA Mens: Rings 560 IVANKOV Ivan BLR 582 JOVTCHEV Jordan BUL 783 COPPOLINO Andrea ITA 610 CHEN Yibing CHN 780 ANGIOLETTI Matteo ITA 956 SAFOSHKIN Alexander RUS 872 VAN GELDER Yuri NED 615 YANG Wei CHN 10/21 Day 2 Event finals competition Mens: Vault 572 HYPOLITO Diego BRA 806 YERIMBETOV Yernar KAZ 705 WIGNANITZ Rapha

I was shocked when I checked out the news section and read that Nastia didn't win bars. She's one of my faves! I didn't find out a/b aa til a few hours ago.

Ya, Tweddle from GB won bars...Nastia had a small step forward on her landing, Tweddle had no misstep, Nastia's routine was really good, Tweddle's was really aggressive with back-to-back releases. Scores are in from day 1 of event finals competition! here are the scores. highlights: Marian (Romania) won gold on floor, Artemev got the bronze for USA in pommel horse, Jordan (Bulgaria) got silver on rings (now he has to go get surgery on his shoulder, prob. b/c of all the pressure from the rings event, he put off surgery to compete at Worlds), Oksana competed for Germany and got the bronze! she's the oldest women competitor! Alicia got the silver on vault for the USA. Uneven bars event Britain's Tweddle got gold over Nastia, then it was Ferrari of Italy who got the AA yesterday! Mens Floor: 1 931 DRAGULESCU Marian ROM 16.250 2 572 HYPOLITO Diego BRA 16.150 3 595 SHEWFELT Kyle CAN 15.700 4 682 DEFERR Gervasio ESP 15.675 5 582 JOVTCHEV Jordan BUL 15.600 6 616 ZOU Kai CHN 15.550 7 773 SHATILOV Alexander ISR 15.525 8 680 BOTELLA PEREZ Isaac ESP 14.600 Mens Pommel Horse: 1 614 XIAO Qin CHN 16.025 2 525 SELLATHURAI P. AUS 15.750 3 833 ARTEMEV Alexander USA 15.500 4 954 KRYUKOV Nikolai RUS 15.450 5 612 FENG Jing CHN 15.375 6 932 KOCZI Flavius ROM 15.350 7 795 TOMITA Hiroyuki JPN 15.225 8 630 SELIGMAN Robert CRO 14.750 Mens Rings: 1 610 CHEN Yibing CHN 16.525 2 582 JOVTCHEV Jordan BUL 16.325 3 872 VAN GELDER Yuri NED 16.300 4 615 YANG Wei CHN 16.275 5 560 IVANKOV Ivan BLR 16.225 6 956 SAFOSHKIN Alexander RUS 15.850 7 783 COPPOLINO Andrea ITA 15.625 8 780 ANGIOLETTI Matteo ITA 15.500 Womens Vault: 1 190 CHENG Fei CHN 15.425 16.000 15.712 2 397 SACRAMONE Alicia USA 15.475 15.175 15.325 3 303 CHUSOVITINA Oksana GER 15.275 14.925 15.100 4 155 SOUZA Lais BRA 15.125 14.850 14.987 5 486 PAVLOVA Anna RUS 15.100 14.850 14.975 6 488 ZAMOLODCHIKOVA Elena RUS 15.100 14.825 14.962 7 451 HONG Su Jong PRK 14.750 14.550 14.650 8 472 IZBASA Sandra Raluca ROM 14.950 14.175 14.562 Womens Uneven Bars: 1 294 TWEDDLE Elizabeth GBR 16.200 2 394 LIUKIN Anastasia USA 16.050 3 363 FERRARI Vanessa ITA 15.775 4 371 KURODA Mayu JPN 15.400 5 391 BIEGER Jana USA 14.550 6 113 JOURA Daria AUS 14.375 7 474 NISTOR Steliana ROM 13.975 8 404 KRASNIANSKA Iryna UKR 13.475

"U.S. Gymnast Liukin Loses in an Upset Defending Gold Medalist Nastia Liukin Settles for Silver at World Gymnastics Championships" - http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=2592288&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 Nastia: [quote]"I guess it's a little disappointing, but a silver is still great," she said. [/quote] Martha Karolyi on Nastia's uneven bars routine: [quote]"I feel a little frustrated," Karolyi said. "Her routine was so exquisite, her form and technique was, by far, the best. It's getting frustrating. There are a lot of European judges, and you start to feel like they're saying, `America was too good at last year's worlds, let's go out there and prove Europe is just as good.'" [/quote] Difference in sticking the landing.... [quote]There was one small mistake for Liukin, a tiny step forward on the landing. Yet she got execution scores of 9.1 through 9.3 from a panel composed of judges from Germany, Uzbekistan, Island, Russia, North Korea and Brazil. Tweedle, who finished third on bars at last year's worlds, didn't misstep on her landing and got marks as high as 9.5.[/quote] China, more medals: [quote]"The biggest stars of the first day of event finals were, once again, the Chinese, who added three more golds to their stash from Xiao Qin on pommel, Chen Yibing on rings and Cheng Fei on women's vault. They now have six, including both team golds and the all-around men's won by Yang Wei."[/quote]

Ferrari's Comaneci on bars was cool! It was funny, in the skill it's a small cast then flip forward to catch the bar, so it's like with no set-up and so Bart Conner was "wow" and Tasha (she does the commentary with Bart for the womens competition) says something like 'that's a Comanec', Bart knows of course cuz it's named after his wife! Seems like Blaine Wilson and Tasha have the announcing the skills as part of their job description - and it's nice! Not that many girls do the Comanec in international competition, Vanessa Atler had it in her routine, and it was inconsistent. Diego's floor routine was really awesome!! Blaine was even having a hard time trying to keep up listing all the skills he was doing!

[color=darkred]She fell down some stairs yesterday & they said she would not do beam today; now they say she is fine. I hope she really is ok and goes for gold![/color]

[color=darkred] Irina Krasnyankaya 15.575 (15.775) Sandra Izbasa: 15.500 Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs: 15.475 Anna Pavlova: 15.275 Nan Zhang: 15.275 Vanessa Ferrari: 14.675 (fall) Steliana Nistor: 14.575 Olga Scherbatykh: 14... (fall) [/color]

Fei Cheng got gold on floor, Wei Yang won the p-bars (and the AA), Australia's Rizzo Philippe got gold on high bar--Australia's first ever gold at World Championships! Romania's Marian Dragulescu got the gold on vault, and Ukraine's Iryna Krasnianska got the gold on beam. Jana got another silver on floor!

Here are the results for event finals day 2: Mens Vault: 1 931 DRAGULESCU Marian ROM 16.500 16.475 16.487 2 561 KASPIAROVICH Dimitri BLR 16.275 16.350 16.312 3 721 HAMBUECHEN Fabian GER 16.075 15.575 15.825 4 806 YERIMBETOV Yernar KAZ 15.950 15.475 15.712 5 572 HYPOLITO Diego BRA 16.150 15.175 15.662 6 900 BLANIK Leszek POL 15.800 15.500 15.650 7 821 SAPRONENKO Evgeni LAT 14.850 15.975 15.412 8 705 WIGNANITZ Rapha

Marian's vaults: 1) named after him: Handspring double front with