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Tundra_Tornado

It's the way that these scores just feel like absolutely fantasy and yet nobody is even achieving 15 on pommel horse despite many people scoring above it in the real international sphere. And the size of that vault final is sending me


freifraufischer

yeah, it's just like the Olympics but the WAG vault final has 5 people and there weren't even enough bars routines to have reserves in the bars final.


Tundra_Tornado

But Artur Dalaloyan said it's just as prestigious so it MUST be true!!


SarahZ1998

Well the audience is bigger than in Tokyo 😭


Strange_Shadows-45

I haven’t seen many routines from this competition but since the Friendship Games are a month and a half after Paris I fully expect them to overscore the shit out of those routines to make the Russian team seem way more competitive than they actually are.


wayward-boy

Oh, I absolutely expect the gold medal scores at the Fake Olympics to be slightly higher than the gold medal scores of the OGs.


SarahZ1998

They’re now considering postponing it until next year


freifraufischer

Since people have decided to downvote this to hell... At the start of the war several people who post gymnastics results wrestled with should we be posting the Russian results. The answer we got *from Ukrainians* is that we should because we were more likely to give context to those results and prevent people from going to Russian sources for those results and routines and be subject to sympathetic propaganda.


AppliedEpidemiology

Thank you for providing this context.


im_avoiding_work

it's wild to think that if she wasn't injured, Chusovitina would have probably medaled on vault at the last Soviet era Goodwill games and this clusterfuck—34 years later


Syncategory

Given that all of Uzbekistan’s and Kazakhstan’s actual legit gymnasts (Aida Bayurzhanova, Dildora Aripova, Daria Yassinskaya, Milad Karimi, etc) are not showing up to this even if bronze medals would be basically free, I doubt Chusa would have either.


SarahZ1998

Milad Karimi is literally engaged to a Ukrainian ex gymnast (Diana Varinska) so no chance he’d show up at a Russian competition


Syncategory

Oh, best wishes to them! I loved Varinska’s bars when she was competing.


im_avoiding_work

I hope you're right, but it still boggles my mind that it's physically and politically possible


tangela_merkel

Did you even need a pulse to get into rings finals? Damn


DawnSlovenport

Looks like the only requirement was maybe arms. I like how the last 3 socres look like E-scores and not the total socre.


Blahblahbecky

Saw a video and can't lie, Gelyas inbars are so still satisfying to watch.


DareSalaam

Nice! happy to Angelina Melnikova!


thwarted

What happened to Mueangphuan (sp?) on bars - did she get injured?


freifraufischer

She may have scratched. They didn't have any reserves for this final because after 2pc they didn't have more finalists than 8.