** Japanese Report, DAY 1
- by Toshiaki Fujii
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* MEN'S TEAM COMPETITION
I. ROTATION: Japan and the USA started on floor. *JAPAN's Yamamuro mounted and dismounted with arabian double variations (piked and double, respectively) but had a big hop forward.
Uchimura also had a big hop backward on his piked arabian double with a half turn, but stuck his triple twist dismount perfectly.
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USA had a big mistake:
Horton put his hands down on his tucked full-in dismount.
Ruggeri hit his routine with a gorgeous Tamayo(layout arabian double) mount.
*GERMANY started from pommel horse:
Hambuchen fell on Ross on pommel horse and
Spirdonov had a big leg separation on his flop to dismount.
*GREAT BRITAIN & FRANCE started with some strong vaults.
II. ROTATION: ... USA on Pommel horse
* USA's Brooks fell on his Mogilny after Tong Fei, and Cameron had a wobble on his dismount, but Naddour hit his routine with 360 degree kehre and beautiful circles.
* JAPAN's Tanaka showed a flawless routine, and Uchimra struggled on his flop and D combined elements. The last performer, Kobayashi, performed his routine perfectly with a good rhythm and speed.
* GERMANY's Boy took a few steps on his double-double dismount. Hambuchen stuck his piked double front with a half turn. Nguyen showed power in pull up to Maltese mount, but had a wobble on his back uprise to handstand.
* ROMANIA's Dragulescu showed his "Dragulescu" with a large step backward.
III. ROTATION - ... on rings,
* JAPAN had a big mistake from Tanaka: he fell forward on his shoot to handstand after Guczhogy series. However, Kobayashi had no major mistake and Yamamuro mounted with back roll to Maltese and stuck layout full-in dismount. * *GREAT BRITAIN's Brooks had weak expression in his strength elements and Horton bent his elbows in his shoot to handstand.
* GERMANY's Hambuechen did a double twisting Yurchenko, Nguyen did Driggs, and Fahrig did a high Rochè but had a large step backward.
IV. ROTATION
* USA's Ruggeri on vault showed a Shewfelt but stepped to his right side and stepped over the line. Brooks did Roche with a large step forward. Horton also did a Roche a but sat down on his landing.
* JAPAN's Kobayashi did Driggs but a few large steps. Uchimura's almost perfectly stuck his landing with beautiful execution as usual. Yamamuro did a very strong Lopez with a step backward.
* GERMANY went to parallel bars, and Nguyen did not do his trade mark, full-in dismount, but showed a flawless routine. Hambuechen had a small mistake on his peach, and had a big wobble on his Peters.
* KOREA: The silver medalist at Beijing Olympics, Yoo Won Chul, had a high start value on parallel bars but a little adjustment in peach series.
V. ROTATION:
* JAPAN at parallel bars: Kobayashi and Uematsu hit their routines, and the bronze medalist at the London world championships, Tanaka, had a big wobble on his Dmitrienko, but recovered well from that mistake.
* USA had no major mistakes; Brooks stuck his double front dismount impressively.
* GERMANY on high bar; Nguyen fell twice on his Kolman. Boy hit his routine with a good Kolman and Yamawaki and stuck his layout full-in dismount. Hambuechen had four flight elements (piked Kovacs, Kolman, layout Tkachev to Rybalko, Yamawaki), but could not connect his Yamawaki directly after his Adler-full.
VI. ROTATION: USA and Japan went to horizontal bar.
* USA's Ruggeri hit Adler-half to layout Tkachev, but had a big step on his layout full-in dismount.
Brooks showed impressive combinations: Adler-full to Yamawaki to Gienger; Adler-half to Tkachev.
Horton missed his Adler-full and could not connect to Yamawaki, but hit three flight elements (layout Kovacs, Kolman, Kovacs). He did not do his triple twisting double layout dismount but did layout full-in.
* GERMANY on floor recovered from the disaster on horizontal bar: Hambuechen stuck his layout double-double mount and tucked full-in dismount. Nguyen hit his tucked triple double (Ri Jongsong) amazingly, and had a great performance. Fahrig unveiled a piked arabian double with rudi out (- a new skill in the world, credited as "G" element, with best chances named the "Fahrig").
Having three arabian double elements, he brought Germany a silver medal over the USA.
* JAPAN 's Tanaka had an Adler-half to layout Tkchev, Adler-half to Yamawaki, stuck his layout full-in dismount.
Uchimura also hit his routine and stuck his dismount as well. Uematsu did a layout Kolman, Adler-half to Kovacs, Kolman and Adler-full to Yamawaki. It was somewhat nervous routine but he also stuck his layout full-in dismount. His D score was 7.3!
After his routine, Japan celebrated its two consecutive victories in the team all -around.
