UB: Kexin EF (the highest UB overall score since D score system). By connecting the 1 1/2 pirouette with dismount, her highest D score is 7.4(done that in WC TF).
BB: Sui Lu EF - gymtruthteller called it the best BB routine of the year. She took out the bhs from her first pass (used to be front pike+phs+bhs swingdown)- one lesson learned from WC TF.
FX: Sui Lu AA - I finally begin to like her floor music. :) "Scent of a Woman" really fits her personality.
VT: Huang Qiushuang VT- best DTY landings for her, probably throughout 2010. Coach Lu mentioned in an interview that Huang is training for Y900.
Congrats to Sui Lu for the wonderful performance in AA. But we wish Chinese AAers, Jiang & Huang, can outperform our BB&FX specialist next time. Besides, with new 554 Prelim and 533 TF lineup for London quad, any team can hardly afford specialists(max two 2-apparatus specialists). For Sui Lu to make for the 2012 OG team- given Kexin is going, she needs to make some significant progress in one of her two weak events. She should have a better shot with bars. Hope our girls can make some improvement during the winter training.
Earlier today, in Guangzhou, China, the Opening Ceremony for the 16th Asian Games took place, with lavish stagecraft, costumes, fireworks and performers welcoming participants. Some 14,000 athletes from 45 countries and territories will compete in 42 sporting disciplines until November 27. Collected here are colorful scenes from Guangzhou, China.
(shows scene of Chinese WAG team entering arena) Narrator: Night of November 11, 2010, the 6 team members of the Chinese WAG team, Jiang Yuyuan, He Kexin etc., showed up at the podium training in preparations for the beginning of competitions. In their one and a half hour training, they completed the exercises for UB, BB, FX and VT, along with the Japanese and Indian teams. We noticed that every crucial technique was repeated twice by the athletes due to being in good mental and physical conditions; it seems that the lost of spirits since the recent gymnastics World Tournament Championships (WTC) was swept away. WAG team head coach, Lu Shan Zhen, had a smile on his face.
(Coach Lu interviewed) Coach Lu: The girls had done well at the podium today, they had shown their spirits and competitiveness. After we had summarized their insufficiencies at the last gymnastics WTC, we asked that (look forward that) our girls could perform undeterred. Indeed, they had performed well on podium today, but it does not guarantee the same results when they’re at the competitions; but I hope their high spirits could be brought forward to the actual competitions.
(shows scenes of gymnasts from different countries at podium training) Narrator: While the Chinese WAG team’s current main opponents are the Europeans and the Americans, but Coach Lu stressed that the strengths of the Japanese and the Koreans are not to be underestimated; especially, the North Koreans, who were reportedly banned from participation due to the disclosure of a violation of age falsification of one of their athletes recently, however, if the North Koreans were allowed to compete, they would be the formidable VT contenders.
Coach Lu: Each of the Japanese athletes is strong; they were 3rd in AA and 2nd in UB at last year’s Worlds. Also, one Korean was in the Worlds VT finals…Then there are the North Koreans…
Interviewing reporters: …the North Koreans aren’t here this time, are they?
Coach Lu: …I really don’t know, at this point, it is not definite as far as I know. Right till this moment, to my knowledge, it is not definite that the North Koreans are banned from this competition.
Reporter: Have you seen them here, so far…?
Coach Lu: But, no, I have not. Then again, if they were here, they would be a very “secretive” team (having the capability of great intimidation).
Narrator: Lastly, Coach Lu expressed that the Chinese team will not lower it’s D-value to play safe just because the opponents are not too challenging this time around, as this meet is part of the groundwork for the 2012 London Olympics.
China is sending its same squads to Asian Games from last month's world championships in Rotterdam. With Japan not sending its top men's team and North Korea banned from competition, the door is open for China to win all 14 gold medals. The roster includes 127 gymnasts from across Asia, but few should be able to challenge China.
Jiang Yuyuan said the women's team is training very well, and that the responsibility of being team captain will not add pressure in her first Asian Games.
"I participated in the Olympic Games and world championships before and have a plenty of competition experience, so I'm not too nervous," she said. "Many people have asked me about being the captain, but actually no, I don't bow to the pressure."
On 9:30 this morning, Li Shanshan, a champion gymnast of the Beijing Olympic Games, received the torch from Chen Jixing, Municipal Party Secretary of Jiangmen, to run the firstleg from East Lake Square, which begins the journey of the trend in Jiangmen.
Li retired after 2009 11th Chinese National Games, is now studying in Central University of Finance and Economics(so is her teammate Pang Panpan).
November 13, 2010 Saturday: Men’s Team 09:30-11:30 Men's Preliminary & Team Finals 15:30-17:30 Men's qualifying & Team Finals 19:30-21:30 Men's Preliminary & Team Finals 21:30-21:45 Men's Team Award Ceremony
November 14, 2010 Sunday: Women’s Team 09:30-11:30 Women's Preliminary & Team Finals 15:30-17:30 Women's Preliminary & Team Finals 19:30-21:30 Women's Preliminary & Team Finals 21:30-21:45 Women's Team Award Ceremony
November 15, 2010 Monday: Men & Women’s AA 15:30-17:45 Men's All-Around finals 17:45-18:00 Men's All-Around Award Ceremony
19:30-21:30 Women's All-Around finals 21:30-21:45 Women's All-Around Final Award Ceremony
November 16, 2010 Tuesday : Event Finals Day 1 19:30-20:00 Men’s Floor Exercise 20:00-20:10 Men’s Floor Exercise Award Ceremony
