Posted by Becka on 2/7/2007, 2:00 pm, in reply to "Re: Aussie teams..."
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Couldn't find it in the online version, but there is a story (with a picture of Chloe & Naomi) in the Courier Mail today. It was exactly as those of us that were there last night thought - Peggy has worked them almost to the ground during their training camp in the past week. She pointed out in the article that only Dasha seems to understand how to hit when tired without being tapered. Another comment was that she was impressed with Naomi's upgrades. I didn't see her vault but although she had a 9.2+ B score, she did only vault a yurchenko full so I don't see the upgrade there. I believe she had a full-in dismount off bars again...but unless they're referring to upgrades back to her competition routines from last year - I don't know what they're referring to in 'upgrades'. Tonight will be interesting - no team on the line. Will be interesting to see if some of the girls go for some new skills - especially Dasha whom I've heard has a triple twist up her sleeve on floor. --Previous Message-- : 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? : : : : : : : : :