Posted by Asha on 2/7/2007, 1:47 pm, in reply to "Aussie teams..."
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Thanks for taking the time to post that report Becka, hopefully GA will post scores soon! --Previous Message-- : Australian 'A' team was: : Daria Joura : Lauren Mitchell : Chloe Sims : Shona Morgan : Ashleigh Brennan : Melanie Jones : : Individuals/"Team" B: : Georgia Bonora : Olivia Vivian : Melody Hernandez (UB only) : Naomi Russell (VT & UB only) : : Australia beat Japan in the women's, Dasha : was by far the class of the competition. 15+ : scores on vault, beam (a little shaky) & : floor. Has added a new pass on floor - a : back handspring,layout full twist, making 5 : passes in her routine. : : Beam was basically a splat-fest. All but : Dasha fell. Lauren fell on her step-out to : layout two feet and then again on her double : pike dismount. Ashleigh fell on a twisting : skill late in her routine and almost smacked : her head on her beam on the dismount - it : was scarily close. : : Shona had a late fall on her rulfova - she : seemed to have it and then relaxed and : toppled off the side. Melanie didn't : contribute beam but went up last - some nice : skills there. Chloe had a fall but still : scored 14.7 I think. Great full turn in : y-scale and by far the highest double front : dismount I've seen her do. : : Georgia had a shocker. Fell on her dismount : after having loads of troubles in warm-ups - : Liz C. spent a lot of time coaching her on : the skill. She also missed her foot on her : layout-stepout series and attempted to make : it look like a deliberate korbut. I missed : Olivia's beam but she scored around the 13.7 : mark so I think she had some problems. : : Will have to look back at the video but I : believe Shona may have upgraded her vault to : a 1 1/2 yurchenko and it was basically : almost stuck. She got a huge hug from Peggy : for that. Dasha did her yurchenko double : twist but I didn't really see it - scored : around a 15.1 I think. Ashleigh and Lauren : did yurchenko fulls, Chloe lunged out of her : tsuk 1.5 and scored around 14.6 I think. : Melanie competed a tsuk full. : : Bars was judged really harshly IMO. Not one : Aussie scored over 15.0. Only Kuroda from : Japan scored around a 15.3 I think. Dasha : top scored with a 14.85 or so. Next best : Aussie was actually Ashleigh Brennan with a : 14.6 (6.5 A score). Chloe got hammered but : it took her three goes to get a handstand : half over on the low bar. Think she got in : the low 14s. Lauren got a 14.0 flat, Shona : around a 14.3. Melody scored in the 12s (saw : one fall out of the corner of my eye), : Georgia in the 13s and Olivia around 14.3 I : think but she looked quite messy from what I : saw. : : Loads of OOBs from Australia on floor. : Nailed full-in & double pike passes from : Shona but she only scored in the high 13s I : think. : : Chloe took out the double layout but put : back in the running double front which was : GREAT. Stumbled OOB on her opening arabian : double front. Nice front pass, floor seemed : to come up a bit fast on her in her double : twist pass. Finished with a big double pike : I think and went way OOB. Lovely : presentation though and a really nice triple : spin at the start. : : Ashleigh went OOB on her 2.5 punch front : pass but had a nice full-in opening. Her : double pike finish was a bit low. Seemed a : bit rushed in her presentation tonight. : : Lauren had a nice double layout to open. : Large lunge out of her arabian double-front : but stayed in bounds. Tucked front of her : closing 2.5 twist pass rather than the : layout. Huge smile when she finished - good : to see her finish on a good note as opposed : to her beam routine the rotation earlier. : : Dasha was her usual sassy self. Nice to see : that adding her full twist pass straight : after the 2.5 twist punch rudi didn't take : anything away from the choreo. This girl : just loves to perform and her double pike to : finish just dropped out of the sky. Bit : suprised her score didn't go more than 15.15 : but the scores were tight. : : Melanie went last after Dasha. A real pity : to see her put her hands down on her arabian : double front considering she stuck just : about every tumbling row she did in : warm-ups. Had issues with another pass too : and seemed really off on her 2.5 twist too. : She actually stepped OOB preparing for her : last pass. Peggy seems to like her though : and Melanie appeared really positive despite : a few errors. : : Didn't really get to see much of the men : competing but did catch Prasanth's pommels. : AMAZING. Did this beautiful move at the : start which I have no idea what it is - kind : of almost stops in mid routine and holds a : press - and then continues on. He scored : around 16.2 and had the hugest smile as he : completed it. : : --Previous Message-- : pretty sure it starts at 7:30 tonight and 8 : tomorrow night. : : --Previous Message-- : thanks : : --Previous Message-- : Does anyone know who is in the team for this : event? : : : : : : :