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Hello and welcome to the 2012 gymnastics World Cup in Glasgow. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
The by new Emirates Arena is all set to host 16 of the world's top | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
gymnasts in a one-day All-Around competition. And this is the first | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
time members of the British team will be performing on home soil | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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since their hugely successful Beautiful routine! Thank you very | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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much! He has done the job. Wow, wow, wow. This is looking very good. | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
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Yes! Great Britain take a bronze in the men's team final! That was | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
super stuff. Lewis Smith, now is the time. That is superb. Lewis | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
Smith and maxed between them, silver and bronze. Their entire | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
gymnastic career has been building up to the next few moments. Beth | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
Tweddle has an Olympic medal at long last. Those pictures are still | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
give me goose bumps, and who better to reminisce with than the person | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
who has been the face and body of British gymnastics for more than a | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
decade, three-time world champion and our Olympic bronze medallist, | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Beth Tweddle? Great to see you again after a summer that I bet you | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
and the team will not be able to stop talking about. It was an | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
amazing summer. We knew we had a strong team, but nobody anticipated | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
how well we would do. We knew the games were going to be baked with | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
it being on home soil. But as soon as we all walked into that North | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Greenwich Arena, the crowd just erupted. It gave me goose pimples. | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
You will never get a scenario like that again. We were all lucky | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
enough to do our best performances. We came home with our Olympic dream, | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
a medal. Four medals in all. The other day, I heard you of being | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
talked about alongside the rower Katherine Grainger in the context | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
of how much you have both done for women in your sport. How much of a | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
relief was it for you to finally add an Olympic medal to your huge | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
collection? It was a massive relief. Everyone knew before the Games that | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
it was my last shot at an Olympic medal. It has taken me a long time | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
to get there, but as soon as I saw my name next to third place, I | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
looked at my coach and I could feel a massive weight being lifted off | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
my shoulder. It was also great for my family. Everyone has worked hard | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
to get me to those games, and I did not want to be remembered as the | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
most successful gymnast that never picked up an Olympic medal. | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
feels as though the medal has let you out of your cage and you have | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
become a thrill seeker. Tell us about your adventures? The 20 years, | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
it was all about gymnastics. Suddenly, I have a bit of freedom. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
The first thing I did was When walking, so I was upside down on a | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
plane. My mum was more nervous than watching me at the Olympics. Then I | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
did snowboarding and tried a bit of golf, lots of different things. I | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
might find something I enjoy. hearing rumours of a reality TV | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
show. You will have to wait and see. We look forward to hearing about | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
that. Beth will be with us throughout the show. Let's see what | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
else is coming up. The women's All-Around Features the | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
youngest member of Team GB, Rebecca Tunney, and the 2006 all around | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
were champion Vanessa Ferrari from Italy. A strong line-up in the | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
men's competition includes two of the three all around Olympic | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
medallists as well as Britain's Kristian Thomas and Dan Purvis. | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Angela Smith takes a break from dancing to tell us about life away | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
from the gym. We start with the women's event, anti-Brits who have | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
had very different fortunes in 2012 -- two Brits who have had very | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
different fortunes. She is having a wonderful time here. You seemed to | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
cope with that crowd so well at the Olympic Games. It did not seem to | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
faze you, being the youngest, shortest and lightest member of | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Team GB. You seemed to take it in your stride. Were you as calm as | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
you looked? You are always going to be nervous at competitions, even if | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
it is just a little one. But we were all behind the judge there. We | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
knew how to deal with it and keep each other calm. I was just | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
oblivious to it all, because it was those are real. Everything just | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
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happened, really. -- it was so so You were a reserve for the Olympic | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
team, which meant you had a gap in training. Has it been difficult for | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
you to get back into it? A lot more difficult than I thought. You don't | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
expect it to be as hard as it is. You get your skills back quickly, | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
but your fitness takes more time to build up. And confidence takes time. | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
With it being so tough for you to not make the team for London 2012, | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
has that give a new motivation to go for Rio 2016, or have you got | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
other plans? You always have to look at it one step at a time. Not | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
making this Olympics was emotionally hard. You have put | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
years of your life into it, it was not just the year before, you | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
worked your whole life for this one goal. Another four years is a long | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
time. Gymnastics takes out a lot of your body. It is not just whether I | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
can handle it, it is my body. If my body can't take it, I can't keep | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
going. You have to look at each part of the year at a time. With | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
the next competition coming up, can I make it? You can't lead at that | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
far ahead. You're fantastic year means you have been shortlisted for | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Sports Personality of the Year 2012. How did you feel when you heard the | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
news? I was a bit shocked. I remember watching it when I was | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
younger and thinking wow, look at those celebrities on the telly. To | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
be part of it is a great opportunity. It must feel a strange | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
that at 16, you are not the little one any more. No, I am told now! -- | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
I am old now. Sorry. Rebecca Tunney has had an incredible year, hasn't | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
she? It has been amazing. At the world championships last year, we | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
would not have put her in our team for the Olympics. But she worked so | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
hard, went to the Olympic trials, stormed them, became British | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
champion and sealed a place. Then she went to the Olympics at just 15, | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
the youngest member of Team GB, and withstood the pressure. It did not | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
faze her. She rose to the pressure and had an amazing games. You have | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
known the other Brit Performing today, Niamh Rippin, for years. She | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
was so disappointed at not making the London 2012 team. What can she | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
do to pick herself up and remain competitive within the women's | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
team? It is always difficult when you don't make a championships, but | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
she will have had a long think and thought to herself, I still love | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
the sport. She has worked so hard to get back and be ready for the | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
end of the season. She will show what she is made of. The cockroach, | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
Amanda, is now the national head coach for the women's team -- your | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
coach is now the national head coach. What changes do you think we | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
will see? The outlook she has, she has so | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
much experience. She is the only coach on the female side of | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
gymnastics that has brought home medals. She knows what it takes to | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
be at the top. She will be looking for the little pointers that will | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
help bring the younger gymnasts Durran hopefully bring home medals. | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Moving on to today, Vanessa Ferrari from Italy is the highest ranked | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
female here out of the age gymnasts competing. But she is not | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
guaranteed to be on top of the podium? Definitely not. Last | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
weekend, Elizabeth Price, one of the reserves for the Americans for | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
the Olympics, was the top ranked one injured guard. I am sure she | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
will want to take home another gold medal. Let's get on with watching | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
some of the women's All-Around action. Are commentary team are | :09:28. | :09:38. | |
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have got this afternoon, and it is about consistency. The better you | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
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champion just a week ago. A very good all-round gymnast. Just missed | :10:25. | :10:35. | |
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out on the Olympic Games. She is a makes it look easy. Lamb's one foot | :10:46. | :10:55. | |
either side of the white line, beautiful height, beautiful flight. | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
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Big smile from Elizabeth Price, and vaulting. That is a huge score, and | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :11:33. | :12:20. | |
This vault can score a maximum of she will be delighted with that. | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
Very good start. Slightly to one side, but nothing too much. She was | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
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twist, but it is a very difficult vault. She did not really explode | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
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off the top of the horse. She was very briefly on it. Just lacking in | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
that explosion from the top. Yes, that real dynamic approach. The | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
most this can score his 15th. Ha run is not as powerful as the | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
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previous two gymnasts, so she does The slow-motion replay will show us | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
that the feet were not quite cleanly round for the second part | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
of the twist, which caused her to need a couple of steps to recover | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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herself, but it was a gutsy worked so hard to get the double | :14:22. | :14:32. | |
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twist. The landing caused the adjustment to the side. Yes, if you | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
watched the slow-motion, she bends her arms a bit on the top of the | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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platform, so she does not get the Germany, a good all-round performer. | :14:59. | :15:08. | |
She is the only gymnast not using the Van Gogh in front of the board. | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
A straight somersault with half turn up. That is what we have seen | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
on default more traditionally. She gets good height and flight, that | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
has its own tariff. He is not as high as the double twist, but it is | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
well performed. She did it very well. To get the proportion, the | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
push back through the shoulders, that is not an easy task. She | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
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pulled it round very nicely. Good, efficient faulting -- vaulting. | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
There is a spring at the front of the platform, and she uses that to | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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the youngest Team GB athlete in London. Is she the youngest British | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
champion ever? Negative macro. At one time, we could have them | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
younger than 16. But she is in her first year as a senior. She was our | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
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top scorer at the 2012 Olympics. Very clean. No problems. My great | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
performance from Rebecca Tunney. The vaulting has been iffy apart | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
from a Elizabeth Price. This is an opportunity for Rebecca to get into | :17:02. | :17:10. | |
second place. She has got a great opportunity. Very purposeful in her | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
approach. A good conversion upwards, nice and clean in the air. The | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
double twist was completed. That was good for 10. It was one of the | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
features of the British women at the Olympics, they upped their game. | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
The double twists were needed to make the team final, and they've | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
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responded fantastically. That has placed her into second place. The | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
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Just a tiny loss of tension in the legs during the vault, but a lot of | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
flight. She is always determined and competitive. I love watching | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
her work, she is what the sport is all about. She loves it, she is | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
aggressive, she attacks, she is competitive, and that was | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
impressive. But when it beat Rebecca Tunney? I would not have | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
thought so. It is a lower tariff. She was good and clean in her | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
direction, she landed with her feet in the middle, and she hoped to | :18:41. | :18:50. | |
decide. But she has bent knees before they need to be bent. She | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
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Beth Tweddle may have been up to all sorts of exciting things while | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
taking a break, but she has been missing her bars, so it earlier, | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
the crowds here were treated to pay special performance from the | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
Olympic bronze medallist to open up the whole event. She has now packed | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
away her sparkly leotard again there to join Christine Still and | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
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gymnasts in this competition, she has represented the company at -- | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
represented her country at five World Championships. We were there | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
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routine. A few extra elements to stop it being at the top drawer, | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
but this is good, strong twisting. It was businesslike, she never | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
looked in danger. She looked very comfortable. She did not link some | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
of the skills, but it was businesslike, every skill was with | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
precision, she was not worried about anything. It is a premium | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
rating, I have known her for a few years, she will get on with it. | :21:27. | :21:37. | |
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That will have done her standing no plenty of time to control it. She | :21:48. | :21:57. | |
has got height, she can see the bar before she puts her hands there. A | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
slight leg separation. This is a very long routine, but she picks up | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
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the difficulty throughout. A small Ferrari. The world and European | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
all-round champion. Going back five or six years. And she is still | :22:32. | :22:42. | |
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impressive. Another gymnast without delighted with that. That rating | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
was fabulous. There were a few areas here and there, but to be | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
able to put that dismount at the end, she will be pleased with that. | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
You can see in the background the gymnasts are trying to chalk it up | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
for need Ripon. -- for Niamh Rippin. She likes a bit less chalk. Denies | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
height. The coach is standing in for the safety aspect. The smallest | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
LED separation, but that is all the judges need. It was not quite a | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
handstand there. She uses an extra swing to build up her speed into | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
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the dismount. Then, the double front. The smallest hop on landing. | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
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That takes her into second place. over the years. But she can perform | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
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well, she has got very good basic has not taken any sort of extra | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
swing. A double front dismount. A very deep landing, but well held. | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
She will be pleased with that. had a few troubles last weekend, so | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
she will be pleased with that. She will take a big reduction on the | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
dismount, but she is a fighter, she got to her feet and presented to | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
the judges. She is one of the team that took the silver medal at the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
European Championships in 2010. She has got a better pedigree behind | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
her. She has had a couple of years of injury, she has had to fight | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
hard to get back. It is nice and high, not a lot of production. | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
Straight into the perfect handstand. Because that was connected, she | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
gets the difficulty bonus. In her mind, she will think, I have got to | :25:56. | :26:05. | |
concentrate for the dismount. It just set her off for the dismount. | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
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The low landing will take a very swings with great power. Some of | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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them floater round, she how was her She is taking a swing between each | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
release. She is not linking it. A lovely height, a lovely hands than | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
shape. Each gymnast has to have a full pirouette in the routine. She | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
missed a couple of connections, but for me, that is the best routine we | :27:22. | :27:30. | |
have seen so far today. She is chasing Kim Bui, her team-mate. | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
think that will score enough to overtake her team-mate. It is very | :27:36. | :27:44. | |
powerful, everybody knows that she is a specialist. This is where she | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
sometimes adds an extra full-term. She has played it slightly safer | :27:48. | :27:57. | |
today. She can see the bar before she goes for the catch. Very big | :27:57. | :28:07. | |
flight, this is what the judges want to say, lots of amplitude. | :28:07. | :28:15. | |
When she is hitting the handstand, she is always in the perfect shape. | :28:15. | :28:25. | |
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A great this mad, that is the the gymnastics club there. This is | :28:59. | :29:09. | |
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the big combination. She is building a difficulty. This is what | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
Beth Tweddle was talking about, you have to link your difficulty. We | :29:17. | :29:27. | |
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have to see the full Pyrrha wet. -- beginning to end, she is linking | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
everything. That landing at the end was perfect. So she is very happy | :29:42. | :29:52. | |
with that, and her coach is also very happy. There was the nice | :29:52. | :30:02. | |
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handstand. Nice height, gets plenty of time to see the bar before going | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
down to the Loe Bar. Straight into the handstand. Great lines from | :30:09. | :30:19. | |
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Rebecca. Straight into the dismount. And a big smile to finish it off. | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
And she has put herself on top of the pile. But the USA are still to | :30:29. | :30:39. | |
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come. That was a great performance from Rebecca. Elizabeth Price is a | :30:43. | :30:53. | |
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very powerful, strong gymnast. Lovely flight. Full pirouette. She | :31:01. | :31:11. | |
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took a little extra swing. Up into the handstand. Beautiful elements | :31:12. | :31:22. | |
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linked together well. Up into a double somersault. That was the | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
biggest difficulty we have seen from the girls on the dismount. | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
is such a power for gymnast, and that really comes across in the | :31:33. | :31:39. | |
releases. It is when gymnasts like her go up that it makes the other | :31:39. | :31:45. | |
releases looked so much smaller. Luckily, she has gone last, so the | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
judges did not have anything to compare against, but that was a | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
fantastic routine. And Rebecca Tunney had to face that, and she | :31:54. | :32:02. | |
did. So much height that she doesn't know what to do with her | :32:02. | :32:09. | |
time. That was one of the most difficult combinations I have seen | :32:09. | :32:15. | |
being done. Every skill she has, she just does with precision. Then | :32:15. | :32:22. | |
she winds up into this difficult dismount. Just the smallest step, | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
but there are not a lot of deductions in that routine for the | :32:26. | :32:36. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :32:37. | :33:19. | |
judges to take. She is reigning years old, from Stuttgart. Five | :33:19. | :33:26. | |
world championship experiences. You can't buy that sort of nous. Good | :33:26. | :33:36. | |
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feel for competition. She showed her experience there. She was | :33:36. | :33:42. | |
slightly off, but she used her middle strength to pull herself on. | :33:42. | :33:52. | |
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Free cartwheel. These three elements are worth 0.4. Just a tiny | :33:58. | :34:08. | |
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wobble, but controls it well. There are marks for artistry, rhythm. On | :34:13. | :34:22. | |
the beam, they like to see fluency and not too many hesitations. It | :34:22. | :34:29. | |
makes it easier to stop. The more fluent the routine, the more taxing | :34:29. | :34:39. | |
:34:39. | :34:43. | ||
ates. But she is very precise with every element. You can always tell | :34:43. | :34:50. | |
the dismount is coming - the Poor's, the concentration. She did well to | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
hold onto that landed. Her hips were right behind the feet as she | :34:55. | :35:05. | |
:35:05. | :35:06. | ||
landed. Scary Debach, very quick feet. Did a great job. Very focused | :35:06. | :35:16. | |
:35:16. | :35:16. | ||
on the beam, and thought very quickly to rescue the dismount. | :35:16. | :35:23. | |
This was then example of her experience, quickly adjusting. From | :35:23. | :35:33. | |
:35:33. | :35:36. | ||
there in, she really did focus and concentrate. She needed this | :35:36. | :35:46. | |
:35:46. | :35:55. | ||
performance at this stage. Good awareness. Strong performances to | :35:55. | :36:05. | |
:36:05. | :36:06. | ||
come. The first of those is from her team-mate, Elizabeth Seitz. She | :36:06. | :36:16. | |
is a tough competitor. She is the German national champion. She has | :36:16. | :36:21. | |
been the leader of the German team for the last few years, more | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
renowned for her work on the asymmetric bars. But look at the | :36:26. | :36:36. | |
:36:36. | :36:36. | ||
power on the front somersault. Superb jumps, linked together. | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
Strong on the free cartwheel. It is all about the middle tension, | :36:41. | :36:50. | |
keeping the core of the body under tension. She did that well. She | :36:50. | :36:55. | |
came out at the right time. The gymnasts have to count not only | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
acrobatic moves, but also dance elements, leaps and jumps. At least | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
three of their difficulty have to be spins and leeks, so if you can | :37:04. | :37:14. | |
:37:14. | :37:17. | ||
add in the double spin, that is great. She gets good height on all | :37:17. | :37:27. | |
:37:27. | :37:30. | ||
her elements. She really had to fight. It is a very difficult leap. | :37:30. | :37:40. | |
:37:40. | :37:44. | ||
Double pike. But was a powerful routine. Sharp on the acrobatics | :37:44. | :37:50. | |
and powerful elsewhere apart from one wobble. Ilott has -- Elizabeth | :37:50. | :37:56. | |
Seitz was determined not to part company. She will have done her | :37:56. | :38:04. | |
prospects no harm. This was very impressive stuff. Some of the | :38:04. | :38:14. | |
:38:14. | :38:30. | ||
acrobatics were very sharp. Very launch yourself a bit and hope you | :38:30. | :38:37. | |
come out at the right time. But her power on the dismount, again, a bit | :38:37. | :38:47. | |
:38:47. | :38:53. | ||
Pike to on the landing, but that wasn't a strong performance. At the | :38:53. | :39:03. | |
:39:03. | :39:09. | ||
moment, she is top of the pile. Two performances still to come. At 16, | :39:09. | :39:16. | |
and Rebecca Tunney showed a measure of focus and concentration earlier. | :39:16. | :39:26. | |
:39:26. | :39:42. | ||
Super hi front somersault. She is very powerful and light. Lovely | :39:42. | :39:49. | |
sleep with the quarter term. -- lovely leap with the quarter turn. | :39:49. | :39:59. | |
:39:59. | :40:09. | ||
She joins those leaps well. You can see her focus and determination. | :40:09. | :40:16. | |
All the gymnasts have to join two acrobatic skills. Back-flip, | :40:16. | :40:26. | |
:40:26. | :40:29. | ||
Somerset, and she was off. She was there. Just a little unsettled now | :40:29. | :40:39. | |
:40:39. | :41:12. | ||
see her power. Just a bit of lack of precision in the middle. Still | :41:12. | :41:21. | |
one apparatus to go. If she was disappointed, she did not show it. | :41:21. | :41:26. | |
They need support at this stage after a mistake, but so high on | :41:26. | :41:32. | |
that front somersault. She has got superpower. But she is quite tight | :41:32. | :41:38. | |
in the Achilles, and it is difficult to absorb the landings. | :41:38. | :41:48. | |
But she was well off. Hips completely in the wrong direction. | :41:48. | :41:58. | |
:41:58. | :42:30. | ||
vault. Very accurate on bars. What with an easy mount, but this is not | :42:30. | :42:40. | |
:42:40. | :43:09. | ||
easy. Full twisting Tabak, she joining the forward and backward | :43:09. | :43:19. | |
:43:19. | :43:39. | ||
elements. That was rather tentative, is not particularly fluent. And the | :43:39. | :43:49. | |
:43:49. | :44:00. | ||
double pike. That was beautiful. This was just so square, look at | :44:00. | :44:10. | |
:44:10. | :44:17. | ||
that. Very impressive work. Absolutely packed with power, isn't | :44:17. | :44:27. | |
:44:27. | :44:27. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :44:27. | :45:11. | |
She is a confident tumbler. Nice double are buried -- double Arabian. | :45:11. | :45:21. | |
:45:21. | :45:21. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :45:21. | :46:20. | |
music with the movement, doing very well. Double pike, beautifully | :46:20. | :46:30. | |
:46:30. | :46:30. | ||
performed. Well done, Niamh. She has had a really good competition. | :46:30. | :46:38. | |
Comfort and performance. That was a brilliant routine. She has always | :46:38. | :46:43. | |
been known as a powerful gymnast. And she has had a great competition | :46:43. | :46:50. | |
today, to finish on that routine. This middle tumble, into the two | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
and a half twists, unfortunately she just took a little step out at | :46:54. | :47:00. | |
the end. The triple twist is fully credited, because it is all the way | :47:00. | :47:10. | |
:47:10. | :47:16. | ||
she sells the fruiting well. Yes, and this is the last tumble. That | :47:16. | :47:20. | |
is what the judges want to see. It is the final impression that the | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
judges get before she finishes. She will be really pleased with her | :47:25. | :47:33. | |
whole performance. Momentarily at least she finds herself on top of | :47:33. | :47:43. | |
the pile. Vanessa Ferrari, stand by for some thrills. She is still so | :47:43. | :47:51. | |
impressive. One of her favourite and most successful apparatus. | :47:51. | :48:00. | |
Standby. It could be great. She was a finalist at the Olympics on the | :48:00. | :48:10. | |
:48:10. | :48:10. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :48:10. | :49:42. | |
line. Gymnasts have to stay inside knows how to land a tumble! Hugely | :49:42. | :49:48. | |
impressive from Vanessa Ferrari. good finish to her competition, she | :49:48. | :49:53. | |
will rue the fact that she made the error on the beam. That was great | :49:53. | :49:58. | |
to come back after the error. But she is known for her powerful | :49:58. | :50:03. | |
tumbling. She has downgraded slightly, but it is still a very | :50:03. | :50:09. | |
impressive floor routine. Sh straight into the tucked back, that | :50:09. | :50:17. | |
is a very difficult combination. would not exactly describe her as a | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
beautiful dancer, but she sells her routine. Ever since I have known | :50:21. | :50:27. | |
her, she has been able to show off. She is not the best that sat at | :50:27. | :50:32. | |
there, but they have worked really hard on knowing exactly where to | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
sell it. She has had a great set of leaps. Perhaps her difficulty has | :50:37. | :50:47. | |
gone down on the tumbling, but she made up for it. She always knows | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
where the floor is, to show the landings. That is what the judges | :50:51. | :51:01. | |
:51:01. | :51:14. | ||
Ahead of Niamh Rippin. And ahead of Wakana Inoue. Can she moved up from | :51:14. | :51:22. | |
fourth place, into the top three positions? She was a finalist on | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
the floor at the European Championships. She can tumble very | :51:26. | :51:36. | |
:51:36. | :51:36. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :51:36. | :52:52. | |
perfect timing! How about that! She powerful flick, lovely double pike. | :52:52. | :53:00. | |
She lands beautifully. A great comeback from Rebecca Tunney. She | :53:00. | :53:10. | |
:53:10. | :53:10. | ||
is a great gymnast. She has put the disappointment of being behind her. | :53:10. | :53:15. | |
That will do her no harm at all. A great way to finish the competition. | :53:15. | :53:21. | |
She has done herself proud. She can afford a little smile. Well done | :53:21. | :53:31. | |
:53:31. | :53:31. | ||
ended. She has got unique tumbling as. She nailed the landing, she | :53:31. | :53:39. | |
knows exactly where it is. This is the Van Gogh into the one and a | :53:39. | :53:46. | |
half twists. There was a slight hesitation, so she will not get the | :53:46. | :53:52. | |
combination for that. A good landing again, into the straddled | :53:52. | :54:02. | |
:54:02. | :54:03. | ||
jump. The last Tumble, into the double pike. She needs 13.767 to go | :54:03. | :54:13. | |
:54:13. | :54:16. | ||
into the lead. She is just off it! She is just behind Vanessa Ferrari | :54:16. | :54:26. | |
:54:26. | :54:26. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :54:26. | :55:36. | |
good, high, for twisting double good Judge -- very good landings. | :55:36. | :55:46. | |
:55:46. | :56:06. | ||
will have done her no harm at all, she gave very little away. Not the | :56:06. | :56:14. | |
most artistic, but very few errors. She was in third place coming in, | :56:14. | :56:21. | |
and she will be keen to hold on to that position. Very impressive | :56:21. | :56:31. | |
height on the tumbling. It was brilliant throughout. Just a small | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
hop on landing, but the power and determination, she knows where the | :56:36. | :56:46. | |
:56:46. | :56:46. | ||
landings are. That is the required double somersault tumble. She has | :56:46. | :56:50. | |
got great leaps, showing all this Blitz, which is what is required to | :56:50. | :56:57. | |
get them counted. The choreography was brilliant, it fitted the music | :56:57. | :57:07. | |
brilliantly. Straight into the double pike landing at the end. | :57:07. | :57:12. | |
good job from Ken Berry. What a great competition she has had! You | :57:12. | :57:22. | |
:57:22. | :57:39. | ||
can see it in her face. She can now we will see it again here. But that | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
was right out the floor, that is very expensive, because she landed | :57:44. | :57:53. | |
out of the floor. At least half a Mark off. But she comes back world. | :57:53. | :58:03. | |
:58:03. | :58:05. | ||
Very clean. She bounced out of the triple spin. She will only be | :58:05. | :58:15. | |
:58:15. | :58:48. | ||
element as well as backward elements. We have seen only | :58:48. | :58:58. | |
:58:58. | :59:04. | ||
very costly. The two and a half twists outside the floor area will | :59:04. | :59:12. | |
be a big reduction. It could all change, she is leading -- she is | :59:12. | :59:22. | |
:59:22. | :59:24. | ||
needing 13 to take the lead from as you land out of the floor area, | :59:24. | :59:32. | |
she was out of line and the judges will deduct heavily for that. It | :59:32. | :59:38. | |
was a shame, because the rest of the routine was so precise and well | :59:38. | :59:43. | |
choreographed. The audience were enjoying it. But with the triple | :59:43. | :59:50. | |
spin, they will not credit that. It will only be a double spin. And | :59:50. | :59:57. | |
there was a small hop at the end. She knows that mistake will be very | :59:57. | :00:06. | |
costly. It could cost her a medal. A little dip in focus for Elizabeth | :00:06. | :00:12. | |
Seitz. What a great competition Elizabeth | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
:00:22. | :00:27. | ||
price has had. She has really given us a demonstration of power. | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
:00:37. | :01:07. | ||
Beautiful height on the twisting Cleanly landed. We have seen two | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
:01:17. | :01:18. | ||
very big tumbles so far. She was out as she landed. We saw the flag | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
:01:28. | :02:05. | ||
well there. But I can't say I felt that was quite as classy a | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
performance as her bars and bolt. The First tumble was excellent. | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
:02:21. | :02:21. | ||
That was just another level of gymnastics. Not many gymnasts do | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
that. That is your next level of tumbling. Then she was a small step | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
out. It will only cost her a point, so it will make no difference in | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
the standings. And again, precision on this landing. Then the Double | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
Tongue, and One Foot seemed to land out, and that will cost her again. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
That was an emphatic performance. She faltered on the last apparatus, | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
:03:05. | :03:36. | ||
but emphatic. A superb all-round front of a home crowd? The home | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
crowd were amazing. It really helped. I enjoyed it. Rebecca, you | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
looked like you were enjoying it, too. Yeah, I was proud to do those | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
routines. It was like the Olympics. After such an incredible year, you | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
must be looking forward to a break over Christmas. Definitely. It has | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
been hard. But that is just one Chisnall -- gymnastics is. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Elizabeth, congratulations on your gold medal. It felt like you nailed | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
it pretty early on. Yeah, I think I had a good lead after the vault. I | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
tried to keep calm so I could maintain that lead. So I won! | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
is the secret behind you peaking at this time of the year? I am not | :04:27. | :04:36. | |
sure. I was just training harder. I was peaking during the summer, | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
during trials back home, and I tried to keep that going. It was | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
impressive that you have kept it going, because so many people are | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
tired from the Olympics. What are your plans now for 2013? How did | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
you find it performing in front of a huge crowd like this? Is it was a | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
great experience being able to come to Glasgow and be in the World Cup. | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
I enjoyed it. For 2013, I would like to go to the world | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
championships. That will be a great experience for me. What do you make | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
of the final women's podium? It seemed like the beam was the game | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
changer. It was. It changed the rankings. After the floor, the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
standings did not change. Price was out there in a league of her own. | :05:29. | :05:38. | |
She just was not going to get caught. Rebecca Tunney has had an | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
incredible year, an exhausting year. But she still chose to compete in | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Glasgow. Is that because of the experience events like this can | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
give her? Definitely. She has had a tiring year, but she had a rest | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
after the Olympics. Now that she has finished here, she will take | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Christmas to chill out and get ready for next season. But the | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
experience from events like this will help her leading up to Rio. | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
was great to see how much the home fans got behind both Rebecca and | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
her Niamh. It was a sell-out crowd today in a history that already has | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
such a great sporting heritage. Sports fans will have even more to | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
cheer soon, as Glasgow gears up to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games. A | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
major element in Glasgow's successful bid was the fact that | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
70% of the planned venues are in place. As well as the Emirates | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Arena, stadia like a Celtic Park, Hampden Park and the Sir Chris Hoy | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
velodrome are up and running. The gymnastics will be staged at a | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
venue still under construction in the West End of the city. With the | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
great British public likely to be out in force, it is a fantastic | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
prospect for the home nation's athletes, who received such Arab | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
support in London this summer. Competing in the Olympics was my | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
first competition in front of a home crowd, and it was fantastic. I | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
will never forget the standing ovation as we walked out of the | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
arena and the immense atmosphere. It is a big thing. Dan Purvis, who | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
competes for Scotland, is particularly looking forward to the | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
2014 games and sees them as a crucial stepping stone on the road | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
to Rio in 2016. I have got the 2014 and 2015 World Championships in | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
Glasgow. It is a good lead up. And Dan Keatings is on the Scottish | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
squad, so we have a good team. have been joined by Sam Oldham, was | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
part of the incredible bronze medal-winning team in 2012. Doesn't | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
an event like this after the Olympics start to gear you're up | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
for Glasgow 2014? Definitely. At the London Olympics, the crowds | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
were unbelievable. We really felt the home support. Today, with Dan | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Purvis and Kristian Thomas and the two girls, it will be a great event | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
and will set the scene for two years' time. It is great to have | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
the Commonwealth Games on home soil again so soon after the Olympics. | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
Beth, 2012 has been a huge year for British sport and the public do not | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
have to wait long before another home games. In his great. Everyone | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
keeps asking what they should be after the Olympics, but with | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Glasgow just around the corner, we have something else to look forward | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
to. Glasgow are hosting the Gymnastics World Cup and the | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
velodrome was completed a few weeks ago. It is an opportunity to keep | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
youngsters inspired. So I am, for you and the other gymnasts, you | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
have this great road to Rio with another major championships here in | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Glasgow with the 2015 worlds here. It will be amazing having the 2015 | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
World Championships on home soil. That is where we qualify for the | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Olympic Games. To have the home crowd behind you really does help, | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
as we have seen over the summer. So we have the Commonwealth Games in | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
two years, so we will get used to the arena. Then the 2015 were | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
championships should hopefully give us an advantage. Back here in 2012, | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
we still have the men's all-around competition to look forward to. The | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
Olympic champion in this event is not competing today. In London, the | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Japanese gymnast showed why he is the star of the sport. But behind | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
him, the battle for bronze and silver went down to the wire. | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
Everyone was expecting him to win. I wasn't. My goal was to knock he | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
him off the throne. It was definitely a roller-coaster. I was | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
not sure if I would be second or third, but first, I was not | :09:52. | :10:02. | |
:10:02. | :10:05. | ||
expecting it. Started on the floor exercise. I was the first gymnast | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
up. The floor went really well. started off well on the floor. I | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
did a great routine. I had a difficult start on the pommel horse. | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
Then I was in 24th place. I went to pommel horse, and for some reason, | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
I was really tired. I don't know why. He made a big mistake on the | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
pommel horse. He missed his dismount, which is a big deduction. | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
I just did not have any more strength and they took off a lot of | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
points. That ended up putting me down to a pretty low standing. I | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
sat down and put the towel over my head and just went aaagh! To myself. | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
My dad came up to me and was like, relax. Nothing happened. Trust your | :10:59. | :11:09. | |
training. You will be great. then encounter vault, that is my | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
make-or-break event. Unfortunately for me, that they did not quite pan | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
out. The coach said to me, if you had landed that, there would have | :11:22. | :11:29. | |
been a medal in it. It is one of those things, but that is sport. I | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
remember watching Dan Purvis and thinking if he could keep it | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
together, he had a chance at a medal. Then he messed up. I was | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
aiming for a medal, but unfortunately, I went to pieces and | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
:11:54. | :11:58. | ||
could not make a comeback. But gymnastics is like that. I just | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
went on rings, did a good routine. Did a good vault. On the parallel | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
bars, I had a different mindset. I did not know where I was in the | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
standings and I was not watching anyone, but I just told myself to | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
have fun and show-off. And I did it. I saw some of the other routines. I | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
saw who was first and second in the table, of course. So I knew what I | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
:12:39. | :12:40. | ||
had to do. I tried to make a good performance. He is one of the real | :12:40. | :12:50. | |
class performers. In such a high- pressure situation, you know there | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
will be competition from everyone. My goodness me. How easy to let a | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
medal slip away. On the high bar, I did what I felt was a really good | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
routine. I did not know where I was until I finished. Then I looked up | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
and saw myself go up into second. I was ecstatic. For the floor routine, | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
I knew if I made a good one, I could get a silver medal. It was an | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
amazing feeling, because it was the Olympic Games. I knew I had done | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
enough on the floor. A brilliant performance gives the German a | :13:33. | :13:43. | |
silver medal! When I was up there, it felt like a dream. That was | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
probably the happiest moment of my life. Let's see who can steal the | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
show in Kohei Uchimura's absence. Our commentary team are poised and | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
ready to go. The first of six apparatus for the | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
:14:13. | :14:41. | ||
the last minute. First up, floor exercise, from Japan, Kazuhito | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
:14:51. | :15:00. | ||
emir for this big opening tumble. Two somersaults in one series. That | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
makes the difficult to rise. Every move is given its own difficulty | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
rating. The best 10 moves are added together to give the difficulty | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
:15:26. | :15:27. | ||
score. So, the name of the game is 10 difficult elements. Absolute | :15:27. | :15:36. | |
control on the fairly basic skills like handstands. Beautiful landings, | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
:15:46. | :15:46. | ||
making sure that the judges cannot take any points away. Very clean so | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
far. Just a tiny hop back on the landing, but that was a pretty | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
impressive floor routine. Not the highest difficulty, but great | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
execution. Very clean, and that is what it is all about. Take your | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
:16:14. | :16:28. | ||
a wonderful, clean gymnast. He is not too shabby on the floor. Very | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
clean and difficult. We missed the double straight somersault that he | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
started with, they will see it on replay. Not only dynamic but very | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
strong in the lifts. The very precise. A nice half term, a simple | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
forward combination. It is important to stamp control. A bit | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
:17:08. | :17:10. | ||
awry on the dismount. A hop to the side. He is renowned for accurate | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
landing. He has had a couple of dodgy ones so far. He has undercut | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
it. Signs of nerves. He missed his start, but I am sure you will | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
Torcross through it. He attempted to finish with a double strike, so | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
:17:39. | :17:39. | ||
possibly this is his first tumble. Cliff two twists. That is something | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
we did not want to miss. It is the stamina that is a problem for the | :17:44. | :17:53. | |
gymnasts. They will have absolutely peak for the Olympics, and to get | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
yourself back into shape within six months, five months, it is very | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
:18:09. | :18:26. | ||
round gymnast, parallel bars as well. Fast across the floor, | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
:18:36. | :18:39. | ||
beautifully done. No effort at all. A little bit low, but a very good | :18:39. | :18:49. | |
:18:49. | :19:25. | ||
game. So far, this is why he is worthy of a silver medal. Superb | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
:19:35. | :19:36. | ||
work. He just lost it a little at the end. But he has not even warmed | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
up. He got in last thing last night, and if he can produce that, what on | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
earth...? He looks in great shape. My concern in the last year, | :19:48. | :19:57. | |
watching him, was that he looked so slight, his body weight, he was | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
carrying no fat cattle, but now, he looks a bit heavier. I think that | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
has increased his power greatly. This is fabulous tumbling. | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
Everything looked secure. There was no scrabble to fall would walk out | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
of the somersaults. Really strong. He is obviously very light, they | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
can handle his body very easily. So dynamic as well. He just bounced | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
:20:39. | :20:44. | ||
back, so that his 0.1 at least deducted. That is not a bad score. | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
He is substantially in the lead at the moment, ahead of Yusuke Saito. | :20:50. | :20:59. | |
Kazuhito Tanaka is in third place. Kristian Thomas, the Olympic bronze | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
medal-winner and European team champion, such an important member | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
:21:12. | :21:22. | ||
crowd, the first taste of Great Britain. He led the British team to | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
the bronze medal. A super start. Then immediate rebound into the | :21:31. | :21:41. | |
:21:41. | :21:41. | ||
roll-out. The double Arabian. He is a tall gymnast. He has to be very | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
measured with everything. It is easy to bounce out of the floor | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
:21:55. | :22:13. | ||
area when you are as tall as he is, and rolls out. Very precise work so | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
:22:23. | :22:24. | ||
far. He licks his elements so well. But this is the tester, where is | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
the stamina? It is, no doubt! He meets the floor with absolute | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
control. Well done, Kristian Thomas. You will not remember a sixpence, | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
but he landed on it twice, amazing, accurate. He opened and finished | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
with total accuracy, a fabulous start to the competition. His coach | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
:23:02. | :23:15. | ||
it, a kick out from the legs, fabulous start. He almost ambles | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
into his tumbles, but so much under control with his landings. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
absolutely uses technique. Some gymnasts charge across the floor | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
area and just use speed, but with him, it is all technical stopped a | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
great technique. What a way to finish, a double the radiant, he | :23:38. | :23:48. | |
:23:48. | :23:51. | ||
plonked it on to the floor. Very stylish work. What a great start. | :23:51. | :24:00. | |
The German is in the lead at the moment. But that is a colossal | :24:00. | :24:10. | |
:24:10. | :24:22. | ||
score for a fabulous floor exercise. very impressive young Spaniard, 20 | :24:23. | :24:32. | |
:24:33. | :24:41. | ||
years old. He has got a great sense Spaniards at the Olympic Games, and | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
that is a lovely start. The bit deep on the landing. But it is | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
:24:56. | :24:56. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :24:56. | :25:41. | |
The judges are hot on the lumpy eighths! He was ninth all around in | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
the Olympic Games, a young man with a great future. That was a very | :25:49. | :25:58. | |
:25:59. | :26:07. | ||
measured performance. Very well ever seen a gymnast go cleaner to | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
the edge off the floor. You cannot properly see it, but he was within | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
a millimetre of the end. He did it again on one of the side passes. I | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
think that trouble was pretty nearly round. You are the most | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
:26:34. | :26:47. | ||
severe judge that has ever walked With just one performance to come. | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
That performance is from Daniel Purvis. He has won this event, he | :26:54. | :27:03. | |
won it last year. He has taken up a bronze medal on the floor in the | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
world championships as well, that was in 2010. An amazing gymnast, a | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
great performer. Starting with an incredibly difficult front | :27:15. | :27:24. | |
somersault. Really speedy. Just a tiny Hopps on landing, which is not | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
like him, he is usually very precise. He works out of that won | :27:31. | :27:39. | |
cleanly. He is really very good at building height. When he does one | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
of these multiple somersault runs, the first somersault is not too | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
high, and the second one is higher, that is what is really impressive. | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
He is really gaining strength nowadays. You can see the power in | :27:54. | :28:02. | |
her shoulders in that handstand. A lovely style, and he is quite well | :28:02. | :28:09. | |
known for that. Taking the momentum from the somersault to get him up. | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
A deep breath here, he needs to concentrate, the big hands brink. | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
He did not have quite enough in the locker to make the last tumble. | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
Unfortunate for Daniel Purvis, but there are five events still to go, | :28:26. | :28:34. | |
and he has an all-round mentality. We talk about thinking about the | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
next thing it, and he has got that mentality. He is favouring the | :28:40. | :28:50. | |
hamstring. A double somersault combination. A double pike to open. | :28:50. | :29:00. | |
He normally has great security in his work. There are signs of nerves. | :29:00. | :29:10. | |
:29:10. | :29:33. | ||
Thomas leads the pack in this very did not turn Louis Smith into a | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
household name, strutting his stuff on Strictly certainly has. The | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
three-time Olympic medallist had a fantastic run and introduce | :29:40. | :29:50. | |
:29:50. | :29:59. | ||
Just swing like there is nobody watching. The come on. Keep your | :29:59. | :30:06. | |
head. Goodness me, he did not let anybody down. 2012 has been an an | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
extraordinary year, not just for me, but the British public and the rest | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
of the world. With the Queen's Jubilee and the Olympic Games, | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
there was so much talk about it beforehand about whether it would | :30:19. | :30:27. | |
work. It was such a positive ride. It was such an amazing thing. And | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
on a personal level, having done so well at the Olympic Games in the | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
team and individual, then going into Strictly. It has just been | :30:36. | :30:42. | |
crazy. It has been a whirlwind. the Pall Mall final, you were so | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
close, could not have been closer. How do you reflect on that now? | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
There was a sense of disappointment, because the Olympic Games was | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
fantastic for everybody in Great Britain. So many gold medals were | :30:56. | :31:02. | |
won. But I have to look at the bigger picture. I have a single- | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
parent mum who sacrificed so much of her time to help me. My coach | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
sacrificed time. I have had sponsors who helped me get to where | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
I am. So to be able to do the routine I did under that pressure, | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
with everybody watching, it was the main reason why I was at the | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
Olympic Games, that pommel horse routine. For it to go the way it | :31:23. | :31:30. | |
did and for the result to happen, to even get a medal, I am just so | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
grateful, because it could have gone the other way. I am used to | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
doing six days a week in a gymnastics Jim, 32 hours a week, | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
training hard. It is very different to Strictly training. There is a | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
lot of work on my feet. I am not supporting myself on my hands, | :31:47. | :31:52. | |
which I am used to. So my physique is changing. I am not overweight, | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
but I am definitely picking up aches and pains that I do not | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
normally get when training in gymnastics. You said you saw some | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
of your team-mates this week. Have they been teasing you, saying you | :32:03. | :32:08. | |
are getting soft? Or are they admire you? They know where their | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
boundaries are! I think they can appreciate that I am not just doing | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
this for myself, but also bringing awareness to the sport. British | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
gymnastics has had a fantastic profile after the Olympic Games. | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
They are all very supportive. I think a few are even voting for me. | :32:26. | :32:33. | |
Do you miss gymnastics? I do miss it, yeah. Normally when I wake up, | :32:33. | :32:40. | |
for the last 19 years of my life, it has been gymnasium orientated. I | :32:40. | :32:45. | |
have had holidays for maybe two weeks at a time, but I have never | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
had this long of the sport, so I look forward to get in back in the | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
gym and getting some training done. Are you thinking about Rio? At this | :32:53. | :32:58. | |
moment in time, we'll is too far away to think about. I am looking | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
forward to get in back in the gym and training. And if the spark | :33:02. | :33:08. | |
comes when we get to real, it comes. Once Strictly is finished, I | :33:08. | :33:18. | |
:33:18. | :33:40. | ||
believe the sparkles here. -- I horse. Is it going to be your day? | :33:40. | :33:50. | |
:33:50. | :34:01. | ||
building up a combination. This is nice work. Goodhand a placement. | :34:01. | :34:08. | |
Quick on the triple Russian. Or was it a double Russian? Look how | :34:08. | :34:16. | |
accurate his hands are. I'll, and he almost lost it at the end. That | :34:16. | :34:24. | |
will be relief for Purvis. really rescued that at the end. I | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
think that was a bit of a step up on pommel horse for him. He looked | :34:28. | :34:34. | |
much more confident. There were a couple of new elements in there. | :34:34. | :34:40. | |
That was really nice, clean work. You want to keep the body as | :34:40. | :34:47. | |
straight as possible. A little flair of the arms. He looked as if | :34:47. | :34:56. | |
he enjoyed it. Very sharp, good hand placement. What will the | :34:56. | :35:05. | |
deduction be for the slight loss of leg form at the finish? It will be | :35:05. | :35:15. | |
:35:15. | :35:37. | ||
three tenths, I would say. That is is not that tall, but he looks tour. | :35:37. | :35:47. | |
:35:47. | :36:14. | ||
his legs a little. Good catch up with the hands. Smoothly into the | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
handstand. Good performance. A tiny bit of danger in the middle, but he | :36:19. | :36:25. | |
gritted his teeth. He is actually a very stoic performer. He was night | :36:25. | :36:30. | |
all round at the Olympic Games, and you can see why. He is very | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
efficient. He doesn't look like he wants to throw things away. He does | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
not look too stressed by it all. He looks like he enjoys it. That was | :36:40. | :36:50. | |
very quickly and well performed. For 20 years of age, he has a lot | :36:50. | :36:58. | |
going for him. This young man has five years to capitalise. You saw | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
the little split of the legs, but he did not let that throw his | :37:03. | :37:10. | |
rhythm. He kept it going. He is a good technician. Good character for | :37:10. | :37:20. | |
:37:20. | :37:22. | ||
competition. Gonzalez, 20 years old, finds himself top of the pile at | :37:23. | :37:32. | |
:37:33. | :37:44. | ||
the moment. This is a big challenge They have got to stay flatter them | :37:44. | :37:54. | |
:37:54. | :37:55. | ||
that. -- than that. He seems to be settled now, but that was a shorter | :37:55. | :38:04. | |
route team from him. Yes, he's zipped through. It was as if to say, | :38:04. | :38:10. | |
I will not subtle and less a mistake comes, but it was ragged. | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
And it was not as difficult a routine as others. But he seems | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
very happy to have got it over and done with. It is not one of his | :38:19. | :38:27. | |
favourite pieces. But that was good. He carried on at great speed, but | :38:27. | :38:34. | |
his style was not the greatest. Gymnasts should keep the body as | :38:34. | :38:43. | |
flat as possible. Very expensive, three tenths from each of those | :38:43. | :38:50. | |
swings, at least. I would be very surprised to see Marcel top of the | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
pile after this. But he made that look impressive. Very quick, very | :38:56. | :39:06. | |
:39:06. | :39:20. | ||
top three. He is in fifth at the moment, but there are still four | :39:20. | :39:28. | |
apparatus to go. Kristian Thomas was top of the pile after the floor | :39:28. | :39:38. | |
:39:38. | :40:06. | ||
event. He is last on the pommel He has made the two and a half | :40:06. | :40:16. | |
:40:16. | :40:16. | ||
Russian, but he is losing the swing. He went for a big difficulty, but | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
you could see he was struggling with the swing and almost lost | :40:20. | :40:30. | |
:40:30. | :40:30. | ||
momentum in the middle. This is the tough bit. 30 seconds to get back | :40:30. | :40:40. | |
:40:40. | :40:43. | ||
on. Decision time. To pick it up from where he fell off? He has | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
tried it again, and that was not the thing to do, Kristian. Look up | :40:48. | :40:58. | |
:40:58. | :41:00. | ||
to the heavens. You have got to do that dismount. So a wrong decision, | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
but he has now completed the dismount with a couple of | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
pirouettes. Unfortunate for Kristian, but it is tough and that | :41:10. | :41:15. | |
apparatus takes no prisoners. thinking as he came up, having done | :41:15. | :41:22. | |
so well on the floor, and therefore being last on the pommel horse, it | :41:22. | :41:30. | |
was almost a tough call. He was really Pie King on the swing. You | :41:30. | :41:36. | |
have to be as stretched as you can. And he went for it again. Unlike | :41:36. | :41:46. | |
:41:46. | :41:47. | ||
Kristian to make an incorrect decision. That was an expensive | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
episode for him, but he rescued with a good dismount. His face says | :41:51. | :42:01. | |
:42:01. | :42:01. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :42:01. | :42:49. | |
it all. A real uphill job for him strong apparatus. Olympic silver | :42:49. | :42:59. | |
:42:59. | :43:02. | ||
medallist. The rings suit him well, because he has a light weight. | :43:02. | :43:12. | |
:43:12. | :43:12. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :43:12. | :43:55. | |
Excellent strength to weight ratio. forward, but that is the class of | :43:55. | :44:02. | |
Marcel Nguyen. To come back from quite an indifferent pommel horse. | :44:02. | :44:07. | |
That was really super rings work. An uncharacteristic slip on the | :44:07. | :44:13. | |
landing. That is not usually a thing he is worried about. But he | :44:13. | :44:23. | |
:44:23. | :44:29. | ||
is really broad-shouldered, with a like that and killed the swing into | :44:29. | :44:38. | |
the cross position. Superbly and work. Lovely flair on the dismount. | :44:38. | :44:48. | |
:44:48. | :45:11. | ||
That is one of my more favourite experienced. He has a light frame, | :45:11. | :45:21. | |
:45:21. | :45:32. | ||
and it suits the shrink to weight performance of his team mate. Can | :45:32. | :45:42. | |
:45:42. | :45:47. | ||
he do likewise? We will see. That is a very impressive start. Believe | :45:47. | :45:57. | |
:45:57. | :45:58. | ||
it or not, that will cost him 0.1. A good upstart to leave a very | :45:58. | :46:08. | |
:46:08. | :46:11. | ||
simple and very impressive Pike body press. Those combinations are | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
notoriously difficult to control. He put a giant handstand on the end | :46:16. | :46:26. | |
of them. It is quite a virtuoso performance. Full twist and the | :46:26. | :46:33. | |
double straight, no nonsense about that. A good performance. Yes, both | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
of the Japanese gymnasts really looking very impressive on the | :46:37. | :46:44. | |
reins. They looked a little off the boil on the floor, but they are | :46:44. | :46:50. | |
sharing their class on the rings. The Japanese culture is about the | :46:50. | :46:57. | |
all-round performer. They are coming through very well. The third | :46:57. | :47:03. | |
apparatus, they are coming to the fore. This is an apparatus that | :47:03. | :47:10. | |
suits their physique. Like frames,... Look at that. That is | :47:10. | :47:17. | |
beautiful swinging. You see double France quite commonly, but the | :47:17. | :47:22. | |
double back, this is good. Interestingly, both of them have | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
struggled a little bit on the handstand phase, which some of the | :47:26. | :47:36. | |
:47:36. | :47:59. | ||
winner of this event last year. Here he is, the top scorer on the | :47:59. | :48:05. | |
pommel horse. He needs to be impressive on rinks. He starts with | :48:05. | :48:12. | |
good strength and control. Shoulders beautifully down. He is | :48:12. | :48:18. | |
definitely gaining strength and power. Could it lead position on | :48:18. | :48:28. | |
:48:28. | :48:40. | ||
beautifully performed. A double bubble to finish, a double twisting | :48:40. | :48:45. | |
double back. That is a really compact retain. Very delighted with | :48:45. | :48:51. | |
that performance. And so he should be. That is really good work from | :48:51. | :49:01. | |
Daniel Purvis. He was second in stuck Court last week. He is | :49:01. | :49:08. | |
chasing the German. He performed within himself all the way through | :49:08. | :49:12. | |
the strength and swing the parts, and he surpassed himself when he | :49:12. | :49:20. | |
got to the dismount. He is a very good competition performer under | :49:20. | :49:25. | |
pressure. This combination is good. He nailed the swing to handstand | :49:25. | :49:34. | |
from it. Good control. The Double Double, plonked, well done, Daniel | :49:34. | :49:44. | |
:49:44. | :49:50. | ||
Purvis. Look at the score. Fabian Gonzalez, if he had to pick a week | :49:50. | :49:56. | |
gritting, this would be it. He is very slight. This is his personal | :49:56. | :50:06. | |
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challenge. The leader after two. Forwards again. He cannot rely on | :50:19. | :50:29. | |
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strength. That is almost a junior school. He has got some work to do | :50:34. | :50:42. | |
on this apparatus. But his swing is superb. The Double Double, just a | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
little skip to the side. Once he puts the strength into his | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
conditioning regime, he will be a force to be reckoned with. That is | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
the difference at the moment. quite a lengthy gymnast, he is | :50:55. | :51:00. | |
quite tall, so you have got to become powerful in the shoulders to | :51:00. | :51:04. | |
control the long body on the reins. It is quite a tough apparatus for | :51:05. | :51:12. | |
the taller gymnast. For Kristian Thomas,... He is supposed to be in | :51:12. | :51:19. | |
a straight line, horizontally. Not vertically! But he is a great high | :51:19. | :51:25. | |
bar worker, and he showed it with the lovely swinging. As soon as he | :51:25. | :51:33. | |
gains the strength and power, and picks the rings up, he will be a | :51:33. | :51:43. | |
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kicks off the fourth apparatus from six for the men. He is in seventh | :52:19. | :52:27. | |
place, going in, but it can change after this. Such a dynamic fault, | :52:27. | :52:34. | |
you have to go for broke. It is out of seven. He was of direction right | :52:34. | :52:41. | |
from the word go. It difficult decision. You have to marry the | :52:41. | :52:47. | |
height and the strike. He squeezed it, overcooked it, and not a happy | :52:47. | :52:56. | |
day. He was off line from the beginning. Yes, he came way to the | :52:56. | :53:02. | |
side, he polled really hard. You have to be square. You have to time | :53:02. | :53:12. | |
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it very accurately. As he hits the pulse rate a little. It will not be | :53:37. | :53:46. | |
the most difficult, but he needs a good, strong vault. A double twist, | :53:46. | :53:55. | |
and he may also go. That is just what he needed. They are not going | :53:55. | :54:02. | |
to take an awful lot of that. coach and stepfather highly | :54:02. | :54:06. | |
delighted. He has not had too many things to cheer about this | :54:06. | :54:12. | |
afternoon. He will be deducted a little bit for lack of height, but | :54:12. | :54:20. | |
nothing for other things, like legs apart. He is dead down the middle, | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
right on the white line, no steps on landing. Look at the shape when | :54:25. | :54:30. | |
he comes out of the twist. It is a very good fought indeed, that is a | :54:30. | :54:40. | |
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big score coming up. Have a look at that school. That will give him the | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
lead over Kristian Thomas. That is just the performance that Danell | :54:46. | :54:55. | |
Leyva needed. I have been very impressed with this young man. | :54:55. | :55:05. | |
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whipped patina. That was super. He lifted high, and he wrapped the 2 | :55:23. | :55:28. | |
1/2 twists in. He has got such elegant lines. He twists | :55:28. | :55:35. | |
beautifully. Long, lean, and very efficient. This was grateful to end, | :55:35. | :55:42. | |
a leisurely approach, he converted beautifully. Immaculate LED form, | :55:42. | :55:46. | |
the two-and-a-half twists, this was beautiful Saltend from Fabian | :55:46. | :55:56. | |
:55:56. | :55:57. | ||
Gonzalez. The platform has really aided could fall to end. If they | :55:57. | :56:02. | |
can meet the platform with straight arms, they can rocket off. | :56:02. | :56:12. | |
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impressive from the rings, but not so impressive on the pommel horse. | :56:27. | :56:33. | |
He was in third place at the halfway stage. It is very important. | :56:33. | :56:43. | |
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It needs to be a good fault, it very efficiently into the two-and- | :56:53. | :57:01. | |
a-half. He is a very experienced performer, he is 25, it is coming | :57:01. | :57:06. | |
good for him lately. He got a silver medal at the Olympic Games. | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
He made sure of two-and-a-half twists. He stepped forward at the | :57:11. | :57:20. | |
end. This is good, clean, efficient. He is pacing himself. This could | :57:20. | :57:30. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :57:30. | :58:12. | |
make a little difference to him. He is still up for grabs. He played a | :58:12. | :58:22. | |
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little bit safer. That is from 16.2. When you play state, you have to | :58:22. | :58:30. | |
perform perfectly. For as we saw from the German and the American, | :58:30. | :58:33. | |
they went for slightly less a difficulty, but they worked | :58:33. | :58:39. | |
perfectly. This was lovely, but it was an untidy landing. He made a | :58:39. | :58:44. | |
bit of a meal of it, really. He got Super distance, he really travelled | :58:44. | :58:54. | |
a long way. In the air, it was very nice indeed. Really tight and clean. | :58:54. | :59:04. | |
:59:04. | :59:11. | ||
He did not print the arms out to Spanish at ahead of the Japanese. | :59:11. | :59:21. | |
:59:21. | :59:30. | ||
Here was the leader at the halfway been there a few times. He is good | :59:30. | :59:40. | |
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under pressure. Super two and a half twists, very nicely performed | :59:43. | :59:48. | |
in did. Lovely hiked in flight. Excellent under pressure from Dan | :59:49. | :59:58. | |
Purvis. 6.6 difficulty. He did not hold back. The characteristic shrug | :59:58. | :00:07. | |
of his shoulders. He is quite pleased with himself. Accelerates | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
into the board, good conversion upwards. Look at the way he | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
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measured the run, punches hard from the top of the platform. That was | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :00:31. | :01:22. | |
pedigree. Can he bring something very fresh to parallel bars? | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
Straight up to the handstand. This is usually where the swinging | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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stuttered a bit on he has hand placement. It is all there, but it | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
does not look as secure as we have seen it sometimes. Oh! I was going | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
to say a nice little Pike, but then he ricocheted off on to his | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
:02:16. | :02:17. | ||
backside. Another double pike. He laid the shoulders back to try and | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
rotate, but there is evidence of how that guy approaches the | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
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apparatus. Today it did not work, but he is such a good gymnast. | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
Simple work. Lost with them slightly. -- lost the rhythm | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
slightly. But he is swinging and pirouetting. Great stuff to watch | :02:54. | :03:04. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :03:04. | :04:15. | |
when it comes off. That score shows precision. There was never a moment | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
:04:25. | :04:25. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :04:25. | :06:01. | |
arms on all the work. Really What has impressed me with a Nguyen | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
is that he has modified his routines. He is working at slightly | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
below his absolute maximum, so he is able to come out and give a | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
measured performance. He knows it is a six-piece event. You do not | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
have to win every event, so he has cut back on difficulty so that he | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
can give a confident performance, and that has worked for him. He is | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
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very sharp on his techniques. No lead. Marcel Nguyen finds himself | :06:57. | :07:07. | |
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almost a mark ahead of the Japanese four. Going into apparatus five. | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
:07:31. | :07:40. | ||
Can he hold on? Lovely full pirouette. Very well controlled. | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
:07:50. | :07:58. | ||
Nice, precise work. Lovely front somersault. Lovely double pike | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
dismount. That was a very good routine. We have seen him faltered | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
once or twice on parallel bars. That looked much more confident. | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
:08:18. | :08:26. | ||
Brilliant under pressure. Not fazed at all. Very impressive. Goodbody | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
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line. He works with accuracy. This is good work under pressure. Nguyen | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
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was trailing a little. A tiny bit laboured through to the handstand, | :08:53. | :09:03. | |
:09:03. | :09:03. | ||
but he pulled it together for the dismount. Daniel Purvis finds | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
himself ahead of Marcel Nguyen, with one apparatus to go. What a | :09:09. | :09:19. | |
:09:19. | :09:50. | ||
performer on high bar. -- the male labour is a great guy on high bar. | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
He has had a wild day so far. has not been his usual, consistent | :09:57. | :10:07. | |
:10:07. | :10:17. | ||
self. But high bar is a speciality of his. Lovely, straight arms. Oh, | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
he kicked too late and kicked over the bar. I saw him train several of | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
those yesterday. But still, when he releases, he throws the arms out to | :10:32. | :10:42. | |
:10:42. | :10:45. | ||
the side with style. When the arms came back, the FA had just moved a | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
centimetre in front of him. watched him when he was training | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
and the one he court, he made the hip open action much earlier down | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
the backswing. He has to pull himself together now, make sure he | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
doesn't have any more errors. Are we getting it again? Yes, he opened | :11:10. | :11:20. | |
:11:20. | :11:28. | ||
the hips much earlier. He is packing it all in now. Giving us a | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
bit of a treat. Swings with excitement. Beautiful, straight | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
line. Well, he has not had the best of days, but he is one very | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
exciting gymnast. Even when he makes mistakes, you can still trace | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
the class. It is obvious. What a performer he is. He has some | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
:12:15. | :12:15. | ||
marvellous touches. Watch the arms fly out, back in. That is the | :12:15. | :12:25. | |
:12:25. | :12:44. | ||
trademark. He has quality. Put a mark on that, and you are looking | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
:12:54. | :13:00. | ||
at a very classy routine indeed. Now, Fabian Gonzalez from Spain. | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
:13:10. | :13:10. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :13:10. | :13:58. | |
This, without doubt, is his most style on high bar. That was really | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
:14:08. | :14:30. | ||
great. That is his favourite and There was no interruption to the | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
swing. Very good work. He really enjoys this high bar, you can see. | :14:39. | :14:49. | |
:14:49. | :15:12. | ||
moment about doing a turn out of it. moment. Three big performances | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
:15:22. | :15:42. | ||
knows he still has a job today. Third place coming in. He has got | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
:15:52. | :16:19. | ||
to keep contact with the bar. the full twist. That was quite a | :16:19. | :16:29. | |
:16:29. | :16:44. | ||
in the forward struggle. Measuring it, opening the hips, lifting into | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
the double twisting, double straight this mad. That was a very | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
controlled performance. He knows exactly what he had to do, he wants | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
to hang on at least a third place. He opted for consistency. He played | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
a bit safer. He has a great mental attitude. The Japanese really have | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
a team mentality, they know they have to stay solid all the way | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
:17:27. | :18:04. | ||
top of the swing. Very nice. The double double. With the little | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
:18:14. | :18:15. | ||
stagger forward to. A great end to the competition for Kazuhito Tanaka. | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
:18:25. | :18:28. | ||
With two performances to go, 89.998. To beat him, the other two have got | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
to get into the 90s, which is truly world class. The pressure really | :18:34. | :18:44. | |
:18:44. | :19:03. | ||
He needs to perform accurately and in a spectacular fashion. Very | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
clean in the one arm. That went the wrong way. He put an extra turn in. | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
He should have put it in after the full term, but he has covered it | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
:19:26. | :19:28. | ||
very cleverly. A big release. Shuffling along the bar. A good | :19:29. | :19:38. | |
:19:39. | :19:51. | ||
He did not hold back much there, we put all of the difficult, exciting | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
somersaults in, and he has laid the gauntlet down, if Daniel Purvis | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
wants to beat him, he has got to be excellent. They had to lose one of | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
his combinations. He meant to do a full turn, he had to think fast, | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
but the rest of it was still impressive. He swings with | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
virtuosity, with excitement. He wanted to go forwards out of the | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
swing, but he put in the difficult... He played that a bit | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
safe. He was not going to let go of the bar. Bent arms on the long | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
swing after the somersault catch. He really lifts up strongly into | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
the double twisting dismount. He could easily have tipped forward on | :20:51. | :21:01. | |
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the 90 Plus Club. 90.098. He has set the target for Daniel Purvis. A | :21:10. | :21:20. | |
:21:20. | :21:29. | ||
bit of pressure on the young man. He has done it before. He needs to | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
do it again. What a thrilling finish, the last man up. Can he win | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
the Glasgow World Cup event for the second year in succession? We will | :21:43. | :21:51. | |
find out in 40 seconds. excitement has built. Nothing but a | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
clean routine will do. A very nice swing. That has gone the wrong way, | :21:59. | :22:09. | |
:22:09. | :22:11. | ||
I think. Like the German, he will have lost the combination. If all | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
:22:21. | :22:51. | ||
He really pulled something out there. He made the same combination | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
:23:01. | :23:05. | ||
error as the German. It will be close. He does not know. He will | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
need 14.475, something like that. It was going well, but this | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
combination, it does bring problems. He went the wrong way. He had to | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
swing back. Exactly as the German had to spit the combination... He | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
was a bit ragged in some of the Pyrrha what skills, and a bit late. | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
I hope he has done enough. It will be mighty close. The hop forward | :23:40. | :23:50. | |
after the double double. What a job for the judges to sort that one out. | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
It is not enough. The German has pipped him on the last apparatus. | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
That was great, two fabulous all round gymnasts. It went to the very | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
:24:15. | :24:16. | ||
last performance. It went to the wire. The German emerges victorious. | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
Daniel Purvis has slipped to third place. What a shame. To be leading | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
into the final event, finishing third, behind the German and the | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
:24:36. | :24:37. | ||
Japanese, but it was a thrilling The crowd was absolutely deafening | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
when you work on each bit of apparatus, could you hear them? | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
through the competition, they were behind us 100%. It was a long | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
competition. I was really proud of the crowd, they did a fantastic job. | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
Another medal on home soil, a lovely way to end the year. It has | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
been a great year, a dream come true. To finish off in Scotland | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
with a medal, a great end to a great year. It was always come in | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
to be tough, competing after the Olympics, building up my fitness | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
back up. I had a month off. It was always going to be a struggle. But | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
I am still disappointed, I wanted to compete well. It was not my day- | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
to-day, but I will be back next year. It was quite a good | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
competition, I did not make big mistakes. It was not the perfect | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
competition, but really good, without big mistakes. That was my | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
golf. Great to see Daniel Purvis coming away with a medal, but the | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
German got the gold medal. It was really close, incredibly tight into | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
the last apparatus. Marcel made a mistake, and Dan almost made an | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
identical mistake. Dan has done incredible this year, it has been a | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
really longed year, we started with the test event in January, | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
everybody has done well. It was not Kristian Thomas' day. That is how | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
it goes sometimes, he has had an amazing year, called at the | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
European Championships, Proms at the Olympic Games, so it has been a | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
long year for everybody. That was not his day to day, but he will | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
bounce back. Everybody will get the break. Huge Games next year, | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
starting with the European Championships. It is not that big a | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
break, because the trials will start in February/March. It is a | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
vital year, it is about individual apparatus, so the specialists will | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
be looking to take their place on the rostrum. With it being the year | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
after the Olympics, it is so important to make your place ready | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
for the next cycle. The European Championships are in Moscow in | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
April, and we will have full coverage of those, as well as the | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
World Championships from Antwerp in the autumn. Before that, plenty of | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
:27:19. | :27:19. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 46 seconds | :27:19. | :28:07. | |
I cannot wait for that. That is it from the gymnastics World Cup in | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
Glasgow. It was great to see some of the stars of the London Games | :28:11. | :28:16. |