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  1. They were good landings . . . in the 05-08 code you could lunge on your landings . . . now they have to be stuck cold or you get a deduction!!

  2. Can someone explain to me what a "lunge" out of the jump is and the difference between that and the jumps or leaps (like a stag jump/leap, I think it's called) that they are now allowed to do after their landings?

  3. a lunge out of a landing (not a jump) is the step that women typically take after tumbling passes. this was changed in the 09-12 code, so women have to stick landings cold.
    so some women connect their tumbling passes to jumps so they are easier to stick or so they can dance out of it without a landing deduction

  4. So overscored!!!!! Whip to triple had perfect form, but a knee locked landing. Doesn't even hit the splits. Nastia won because of beauty, lines, and execution!

  5. The 15.5 she got at the olympics for a cleaner routine was MUCH more accurate, Olympic trials and domestic competition scores are so weirdly unhelpfully inflated. A 9.6+ execution score is beyond absurd and that’s what Shawn got for floor both days

  6. Why have we taken such a huge step backwards in floor music? This is gorgeous, so was Nastia Liukin's, so was Alicia Sacramone's. Compare it to the cheezy club mixes of today and its a bit saddening.

  7. She never got the triple full all the way around but she was close. The problem was she took a big step out of it that should have been a deduction (.1-.3) for lack of control. I think she got screwed over on floor because the Olympic judges didn’t score her anywhere near as well as the domestic judges. At the Olympics they took off for the poor flexibility and uncontrolled landings when they didn’t in the US. She got a 16.2 in the US for this routine. She did better routines at the Olympics and got a 15.5. People thought she would win because they’d assume she’d het higher scores on floor (and the other events to a lesser degree.)

  8. Such a wonderful routine but she was extremely overscored domestically. It did her no favors when she performed at the Olympics and she did not get the score she thought she would. She basically scored .5 less on floor at the Olympics than she thought she would. One of the reasons why she did not get the all around gold.

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