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Well...if Simone forgot her leo....or overslept....or was in the bathroom during an event....or decided to skip an event for the heck of it...or fell on every event twice, I guess then it could happen.I love Aly. But her chances of beating Simone and winning AA gold are less than nonexistent.
I get your point, but they were separated by 1.75 in qualifying not 8 points.And Aly was even better in team final. I get that Simone is still a huge favorite, but cmon "8 falls"? Aly has closed the gap enough that 2 falls(perhaps one if that fall also meant loss of skill/connection values) would put her ahead. And Kohei just won by less than a tenth...I think it's going to be closer than we imagined it could be coming in to the games.Well...if Simone forgot her leo....or overslept....or was in the bathroom during an event....or decided to skip an event for the heck of it...or fell on every event twice, I guess then it could happen.
I was being funny.I get your point, but they were separated by 1.75 in qualifying not 8 points.And Aly was even better in team final. I get that Simone is still a huge favorite, but cmon "8 falls"? Aly has closed the gap enough that 2 falls(perhaps one if that fall also meant loss of skill/connection values) would put her ahead. And Kohei just won by less than a tenth...I think it's going to be closer than we imagined it could be coming in to the games.
I get your point, but they were separated by 1.75 in qualifying not 8 points.And Aly was even better in team final. I get that Simone is still a huge favorite, but cmon "8 falls"? Aly has closed the gap enough that 2 falls(perhaps one if that fall also meant loss of skill/connection values) would put her ahead. And Kohei just won by less than a tenth...I think it's going to be closer than we imagined it could be coming in to the games.
Aly really was amazing last night, only 0.834 behind Simone on the 3 events they both did and her UB from qualifying would have scored similarly to Simone's team finals routine...we might actually have an AA competition after all!
I know, Iwould have made the same joke before this week. But after Aly's performance last night...Simone's dominance doesn't seem to be guaranteed to comical proportions any more.I was being funny.
It's huge. This is an individual AA not a team event.1.75 is alot in gymnastics at this level. Excluding falls.
Agreed, hopefully Simone and Aly knock it out of the park to finish 1, 2 by a mile...Andrade and Mustafina put on a show to battle it out for 3rd...maybe someone like Thorsdottir or Murakami has the meet of her life to make the battle for bronze even more interesting.I do agree that Aly is closing the once insanely insurmountable gap between Simone and The World. The gap is still sizable, but a major error + a sprinkling of minor ones by Simone could now open the door, whereas before, she would have had to make more than a few major errors on a single day (pretty much zero possibility).
Of course none of us would want to see Simone make a major error in an Olympic Final! And Aly winning gold on the back of a catastrophe by Simone is surely not what Aly would want either.
Edited to add: The prospect of that smaller gap DOES, however, turn the final into at least a little more suspenseful (perhaps fun in a sense) to watch as opposed to watching a final where you know the leader could literally fall 5 times and still win.
But Aly closed that gap to less than a point with her performance in team final...that is not huge gap when a fall is 1 point.It's huge. This is an individual AA not a team event.
To win you need to have the highest score. All it will take 0.25But Aly closed that gap to less than a point with her performance in team final...that is not huge gap when a fall is 1 point.
It's archived on nbcolympicsAt least you guys got to watch it. It was on at like 5am here, and (in the repeated, identical telecast I saw later on), they only showed about 20 minutes of it all-up - two of Simone's routines, two Chinese girls and 1 Russian. Instead, last night, we got to watch about 2 hours of water polo, soccer and table tennis. Woo. Not.
It's archived on nbcolympics