SCAM

So Rebecca Bross won the SCAM, no surprises there. Her vault and bars were solid, though I will forever hate her legs. She was incredibly lucky she was American on beam, any other country and she would have been deducted properly. She didn't get round her full pirouette in crouch, her foot hit the beam, though she didn't fall off. She seemed a bit off balance after that but stayed on. She has a new floor routine. Initially I was excited by this prospect. Then she performed it. It's actually worse than her old one. The choreography doesn't suit her or the music. Anyone else notice that it's just a weird version of Dark Eyes? WOGA has no imagination. Smooth for swearing on live television Bross.

Alexandra Raisman placed second. Her vault was a lot cleaner than Bross', but her bars still suck Brestyan style, though she's better than A-Sac. Her beam was powerful, and her flexibility isn't that bad. Her double arabian dismount is so much better than Bross'. So was her floor routine, though it was so obviously A-Sac it's ridiculous. Nice 1.5 twist through to double arabian.

The lucky draw for third place ended with Jessica Lopez of Venezuela grabbing it. We only saw her beam and floor, but they were nice. Her beam was solid enough, great form on her dismount. Floor was better, she had choreography that actually went with the music, and her tumbling, whilst not uber difficult, was good.

Yuko Shintake of Japan looked awesome. Her bars was great, perfect handstands and form throughout. I love Japanese double fronts of bars, they just scrunch up so tiny. I loved her floor routine. It wasn't hard, (mildly confusing too, if she can end with a double pike I'm sure she can do a double tuck instead of a double twist, and get an extra tenth there), but the music was prettyful and the choreography was good.

Tiny mens observations. I don't really follow mens gymnastics, but even I know Horton was overscored hugely. Seriously? 13.600 for that parallel bars routine? and in the 16s for his vault, landed under rotated and stiff legged? And what on earth was up with Flavius Koczi? Why the hell did he decide to dismount high bar with a TUCK BACK?