Wieber, Hambuechen Win 2009 American Cup
Saturday February 21, 2009
 Jordyn Wieber Jonathan Daniel / Getty Images |
In the men's competition, German Olympian Fabian Hambuechen pulled out the victory over American David Sender on the last event. Hambuechen's 15.75 on high bar -- an event he won at the 2007 Worlds -- enabled him to edge Sender 90.65-90.45. Olympian Joey Hagerty placed third with an 89.55.
The competition was streamed live on the USA Gymnastics website, and hopefully will be archived for anyone who missed it. I'll post any videos I find of the event.
Did you watch? What were your highlights of the meet? Two of mine: Sloan's smooth floor tumbling (back 1 1/2 to triple full; piked full-in; Randi [front 2 1/2 twist]), and Kristina Goryunova's double layout on the same event.
Update (2/23): The full broadcast is available here on the USA Gymnastics site.
Comments
I liked Jordyn Wieber’s Amanar on vault. Even tough she had trouble on the landing, it will be great in the future.
A couple people and I noticed something interesting about Benoit’s vault (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewAvUnS2aQw&feature=related):
D score: 7.0
E score: 8.850
Either the judges didn’t count it as a fall, or they did count it as a fall and somehow only found .15 other execution deductions. His vault perfectly fits the definition of a fall for vault, yet there is no way they could have only found .15 in extra deductions.
Cidlover,
I agree — I don’t know how the judges would call it anything but a fall. Very interesting. I’d love to find out what their deductions were for that vault.