Glasgow: The Disappointments

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  It was an overall sub par performance for Aly: she started out with a bit too much adrenaline and emotions on the event dearest to her and went out of bounds with both feet on the double Arabian to front layout, then her Amanar was a bit messy and relatively low scoring (15.133 after two big steps), she opened the bars rotation and she was not mentally ready after the disappointing previous rotations and she fell on a Tkachev, while on beam she was not her usual secure self. Placing 5<sup>th</sup> overall after qualifications, Aly mainly lost the battle for individual finals within her own team – outscored by Gabby Douglas for the AA and by Maggie Nichols for the floor final. She would go on to redeem herself with solid performances on beam and floor during the team final (to paraphrase her statement after the competition, I am sure Martha still wants her in the team), but this was not the big international come back she was preparing for.
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    I was also pretty disappointed with <strong>the overall showing of the gymnasts of the balance beam final</strong>. Simone Biles was the exception, she managed to HIT during the final. I appreciate her a lot for the fact that she did not let herself influenced in any way by the mistakes of others or by the fact that she too had a mistake on this event during the all around. Even medal winners Sanne Wevers and Pauline Schaefer did not deliver their best performances but kudos to them for at least managing to capitalize on the mistakes of others and for doing enough to medal. But all the &#8220;loaded&#8221;routines, in terms of difficulty missed: Seda Tutkhalyan, Ellie Black, Yan Wang. Even Komova and Thorsdottir, with less difficulty, were defeated by nerves. The disastrous performances during beam finals are starting to become a general habit though: 2013 and the 2014 beam finals were not much better and this makes me extremely sad.
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    Back to you Sara, did anyone break your heart this year at Worlds?
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    <strong>Article: Bea Gheorghisor</strong>
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    <strong>Photo: Myriam Cawston</strong>
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