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Rotation 2: |
Allana Slater (AUS) starts her second
rotation with a fall from beam. 8,212
Daniele Hypolito (BRA) loses ground with too simple vaults.
9,056.
Lydumila Yezhova (RUS) sneaks around her
whip-triple twist opening on floor 8,975.
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Tasha Schwikert (USA) is quietly earning
points with her solid work – 9,350 on beam. (photo)
Andreea Raducan (ROM) fights bars, her
nemisis, and takes a hop on her double front dismount 8,862.
Verona van der Leur (NED) swings bars with
incredible easy and difficulty. She sticks her double-double dismount for a 9,4 –
highest basr score so far.
Natalia Ziganshina (RUS) gets through her
floor routine well to stay in the mix – 9,387.
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Sabina Cojocar (ROM) shows a combination of
hop full – full-twisting giant- 1 ½ pirouette- Tkachev on bars. 8,625.
Silvia Stroescu (ROM) is solid on beam.9,387
Svetlana Khorkina (RUS) brings
the rotation
to the end on bars.
Leaving out the full turn after the stalder on low bar and looking a
little hesitant, she scores 9,537 (9,8 SV).
Svetlana
Khorkina is in front now >>
after the second rotation |
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| Current standings: |
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| 1. |
Khorkina |
RUS |
18,905 |
2. |
Ziganshina |
RUS |
18,762 |
3. |
Hypolito |
BRA |
18,618 |
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| Rotation 3: |
Tasha Schwikert (USA) puts in
another solid performance on floor with a full-in mount. 9,35.
Verona van de Leur (NED) dashes her hopes
with a fall on her ff-layout on beam. 8,55
Natalia Ziganshina (RUS) has problems landing
her 1 ½ twisting Yurchenko but her double twisting one works just fine. 9,343
Sabina Cojocar (ROM)
has a wobble on beam but is confident enough in the rest of her routine. 9,337.
Silvia Stroescu
(ROM) powers through her difficult tumbling – double layout mount , 2 ½ twist –
punch layout front- for a 9,225.
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Tabitha Yim
(USA) vaults well enough to keep hot the heels of Ziganshina. 9,143.
Svetlana Khorkina
(RUS) nails her new dismount of RO-gainer 2 ½ twist. 9,237
Andreea Raducan
(ROM) is spectacular in places (full-twisting back tuck; double pike
dismount) but takes a
few steps on her front pike mount and has a few balance checks for a high 9,475.
Lyudmila Yezhova (RUS)
sits down her vault and can only average 8,175. <<
Andreea Raducan - after third rotation
on fourth place with a difference of -0.45 points to
Svetlana Khorkina. |
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| Current standings: |
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| 1. |
Khorkina |
RUS |
28,142 |
2. |
Ziganshina |
RUS |
28,105 |
3. |
Yim |
USA |
27,730 |
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Rotation 4: |
| Sabina Cojocar
(ROM) opens with a 2 ½ twisting front and charms the audience and the judges for a 9,462. Tabitha Yim (USA) avoids
trouble with a solid if not brilliant bars effort marred by some form breaks. 8,950 (9,5
SV).
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Svetlana Khorkina
(RUS) was far from perfect on floor with some stumbles on her
landings but entertaining as ever for a generous 9,475.
Daniele Hypolito
(BRA) finished her competition with another great effort on beam for
a 9,375 to collapse into the arms of her new coach Oleg Ostapenko.
Andreea Raducan
(ROM) needed more than a 9,90 to tie Khorkina for the AA title. If
she was dejected going to the floor, she didn’t show it. A step
out of bounds on her 2 ½ twist punch layout front cost her. When
her score of 9,262 was flashed their were boos from the audience.
Verona van de Leur (NED)
showed the crowd she wasn’t going to go out without a fight with a
great floor routine to end. 9,350.
In the final routine of the entire
competition, Natalia
Ziganshina (RUS) made up for all the mistakes she had made earlier in the competition by
nailing her ultra difficult bars set for 9,20 and the silver medal.
Swetlana
Khorkina >>
After 1997 in Lausanne she won the all-around
title for the second time |
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| Final
standings: |
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| 1. |
Khorkina |
RUS |
37,617 |
2. |
Ziganshina |
RUS |
37,305 |
3. |
Raducan |
ROM |
36,949 |
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(Report:
Nora Schuler
Photos by Don Johnson;
Translation: Reinhard Linder;
Web editors: Eckhard Herholz/Sonja SchmeisserGermany) |
