Wow, how cool was Zhang Yimou’s choreography of the opening ceremony! And I haven’t seen Li Ning since 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and he HAS aged but to have him ‘run’ that length, slow-mo, his body tilted at an angle, takes some endurance from this 44 year old!
Anyway, day 2 of the Games and the women's gymnastics had a good start. We had first coverage of the Chinese and Romanians on the beam & vault and later floor excercise. And indeed, from my previous post, they have started using the new scoring system – with the perfect score of 17.
In summary, the scroring changes are as follows:
A Score = Difficulty
Starts from 0.00 and builds according to difficulty, with 7.0+ on some apparatus.
B Score = Execution
Starts from 10.00 with deduction for errors. (9.0+ is excellent)
Final score = A + B
After watching the Chinese in action on the floor excerise, these athletes have raised the bar (to suit the new scoring system) by choosing up to 5 (diagonal) tumbling runs! The tumbling combinations are SICK but so far the Chinese have nailed the team event.
We have yet to have any coverage on the Aussie girls but we're keeping the telly on. Watch this space...
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Have you seen how much Li XiaoPeng has aged? But his routines were spot on! And Oksana Chusovitina! At 33! You don't see her do Yurchenko on to vaults but her vaults are awesome!
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