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Her ankle isn’t getting better. She will be focusing on her education and is already coaching little ones a few days a week.
I am very sad about this! But good luck to her in her new career, and I’m sure at the end of the day it’s the right decision, even if it’s a pity she never got the international recognition she deserved.
Like all sportsmen and sportswomen who won gold at the Olympics, Sanne Wevers is now a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
She has been knighted in the Order of Oranje-Nassau, as are all the other gold medal winners in our country.
Yuri’s trial is happening right now, live on stream.
Verdict at 3:30pm.
According to the Portuguese commentators, Yuri van Gelder of the Netherlands who was set to compete in the rings final after Samir’s injury has been expelled from the competition by his federation because he spent the night out of the Olympic Village drinking. Way to take advantage of your first Olympic experience at 33…
Isn't that the same guy who got banned last quad because he was doing cocaine?
Team NL with Team USA :)
Russia: BB Melnikova Tutkhalyan Mustafina Spiridonova FX Tutkhalyan Melnikova Mustafina Spiridonova VT Melnikova Mustafina Tutkhalyan Paseka UB Melnikova Spiridonova Mustafina Tutkhalyan
Having Aliya up after Spiridoz on UB does suggest higher D…
Also Celine van Gerner seems ok, she’s up 1st on UB, 3rd on BB and FX and 4th on VT.
A couple of Dutch twitters mention something about Celine van Gerner’s calf, but no details other than that.
I thought that there was something, bc she didnt do beam and only a dance through on floor :(
KNGU just posted an article about their PT amd they said they were pleased. I feel like if something really bad was happening they’d say so, also because they were right on it when it turned out Epke was only going to be able to do HB. So I’m going with precautions.
Lisa Deen from Sports2Visuals tweeted (@lieez) that Celine had been having achilles issues for months that had just been coming back. She is improving from the last few days. They thought about bringing the alternate but decided against it. It’s a little risky for vt/fx. Other than her leg everything is great, she’ll be doing bars at least and they will decide 24h before qf what else she will do.
WAG Celine van Gerner Vera van Pol Eythora Thorsdottir Lieke Wevers Sanne Wevers
MAG Bart Deurloo Yuri van Gelder Frank Rijken Jeffrey Wammes Epke Zonderland
So today I went to the IAG competition in the Netherlands, the last competition where girls could make the Olympics training squad from which the team will be picked. You had to score above 54 points in the AA to make it, and no new girls made it. A few big names were missing today, namely Celine van Gerner, Noel van Klaveren and Lieke Wevers (though she was listed to compete originally and was there to support the others. I guess I’ll have to wait will Nationals to see her new routine live) Eythora started on beam and was a little shaky, she had one fall. She scored a 12.600. Next she debuted her new FX here and it was simply amazing. Very different from her last one but as I said earlier the choreo and her facial expressions draw you into the routine so much. She has such quality of movement, it’s amazing. She has 3 passes now, one of which is a triple to punch front. Score was a 14.300. Then she went to vault, where she debuted her DTY, which scored a 15.033. From where I was sitting it looked really high, she landed nicely upright, just a little bit of leg form issues. I have yet to see a video of it from side view but from what I could tell it looked really good, and the score reflects that too (though Dutch judges don’t often see DTY’s and sometimes I feel they’re blinded by them and instantly give them 15+ scores lol). I missed the beginning of her UB but she looked okay, scored a 14.533 which was a little overscored imo. She won the competition with a 56.466 Second in the AA was Mara Titarsolej with 55.398. She really made a strong impression today and I believe she really is a serious contender for a spot on the Olympic team. She had a solid day with a very nice VT (FTT 13.866), BB (14.333) and FX (14.166). Really the only big mistake was UB where she was very late on het clear hip 1/1 and touched the ground. The rest of the routine was very clean, 13.033. She is not a really well known gymnast yet internationally. She is 1999 born and was on the worlds team last year. She used to be somewhat of a headcase, especially on BB, and also got injured a lot in the past, but she is looking really strong this year and this is the second time she’s gone 55+ in the AA. Third place was Tisha Volleman. She was clean on VT (FTY, 14.000) and FX (13.900). Beam was not so good (12.600) and on UB she had a good routine, it’s just not a really strong event for her but she makes it work (13.000). I think she has an outside shot at making the Olympic team but I don’t think she’ll make it. Vera van Pol was 4th and didn’t really have the best day. VT was strong (14.233). On UB she had had a fall and her tkatchev-pak combination has major form issues but she somehow maneged to score a 13.666 which I didn’t really get, cause I thought it wasn’t a strong routine and there’s no way it should’ve been a 14.6 had she not fallen. I missed her beam but it scored a 12.533. On floor she landed her arabian in a very deep squat, rest of the routine was quite nice. I think it was new choreo for her but I’m not sure (13.066) Lisa Top competed BB and FX only. FX was really nice for the first two passes, double piked arabian and double front (she gets sooo much height, it’s amazing) but unfortunately she kinda missed her punch on her 1.5 t0 front 1/1 and fell (12.733). I missed half of her beam but her double tuck dismount was nice and high (13.466) Sanne Wevers only competed beam today and scored a 15.500 with a 6.6 D score. It was a very clean routine but to be honest I thought the score was a little too high and I don’t think she would score that internationally. But watching her do pirouettes with so much ease is just breathtaking. She had both the triple pirouette as well as the double L turn in her routine and did it like it was nothing. Her gainer dismount looked very piked down from my where I was sitting and if I was a judge (lol) I would’ve downgraded it. Judging was kinda weird overall today, all the bigger names competing (so basically everyone I’ve described above) were scored fairly/sometimes a little overscored, and all the lesser known gymnasts were scored very harshly, especially on beam. Overall I think Eythora and Sanne are basically locks for the team right now, the others still have something to prove. As I said Mara has made a great case for herself today and has proven to be a real contender. If I had to pick the team today it would be Eythora, Sanne, Lieke, Celine, Mara. Lisa and Tisha are also strong options imo. Noel van Klaveren is also still an option but she hasn’t competed all year and is coming off an injury so I don’t really see her making it, but hopefully she’ll surprise me cause she too is a strong gymnast. Of course it is still a long way till the team is decided but these are my opinions/what I’m thinking right now. Next up is an internal competition on June 10th, Dutch Nationals in the June 25/26 weekend and another competition (no information on this yet) on July 9th. These 3 competitions count as qualifiers and the team will be announced on the 10th of July.
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Okay now that it was posted, it was the Netherlands, ugh I feel so bad for their new seniors but most of them have D-scores of like 2 on bars and I’m like ???? NO ugh one of the girls I didn’t profile has “Rio 2016!!!” in her bio but like her most recent AA score was a 34 for ALL FOUR EVENTS ugh ugh ugh it’s NOT HAPPENING I’m SORRY your difficulty is too low darling!!!!!! Even Polderman, their best, would be lucky to make it as alternate unless she really revamps her bars. I feel like the majority of my new seniors posts will be like “no one has a chance” though so at least they’re not alone.
yeah, I don’t really see any new seniors from NED making it to the oly’s, they have enough back from injury seniors that can score higher in the places they need like vault. NED’s beam and FX seem locked down, the rest is up to who is strong on vault and consistent enough on bars.
Yeah that’s why I think Polderman is the only one with a shot in hell if she can continue to increase on bars…she’s had some good upgrades in the past few months, like inbar + Maloney + bail + toe shoot and then she was also working a Komova II + pak so she’s on the right track and upped her bars difficulty by almost a point in under a year so she’s clearly hoping to get that bars spot but she has to actually hit consistently? I love her swing but yeah, she needs to stay on.
Ned is having a drought rn, they’ll have to continue pulling on the veterans until 2018 before we get some new talented seniors
Tournaments we’ll see the girls at:
International Gymnix, 3-6 March - Maartje Ruikes, Kirsten Polderman, Eythora Thorsdottir
American Cup, 5 March - Tisha Volleman
Glasgow World Cup, 12 March - Lieke Wevers
Stuttgart World Cup, 19 March - Celine van Gerner
DTB Cup, 18-20 March - Reina Beltman, Vera van Pol, Eythora Thorsdottir, Mara Titarsolej, Dyonnailys Supriana
Cottbus World Cup, 31 March-3 April - Sanne Wevers, Lisa Top, Noel van Klaveren
Rio Test Event, 16-19 April - Sanne Wevers, Lieke Wevers
OMG
interesting choice…
Yes indeed! much prefered eythora or one of the wevers sisters!
Yes, I agree, but still, Tisha has nice lines and such.
Wonder how many changes there will be in the next 2 months as well.
What? I definitely would’ve gone with Eythora or Lieke
I’m not surprised at all. Worlds was her first assignment, and she’d definitely need more experience in case she makes it to Rio. Eythora and Lieke are basically locks, have more experience, and we’ll probably see them at Euros. I’d see this as testing her out.
The Netherlands have qualified to the Olympics, made the team final, had a gymnast in the top group of the AA and won a silver medal. Making history.
lieke and sanne after the aa!
When your squad is new, but need to make sure everyone remembers they saw you at the party.
