Olga Kapranova AA Hoop @ 2007 Olympic Test Event

[anna342000]

So beautiful!

[incats]

the elements of kapranova are far more difficult compared to bessanova.. although bessanova executes expressively kapranova still receives higher point bec difficulty receives 10 maximum points compared to choreography...i like bessanova more in terms of performance but i think she has to select her GCO and NONGCO with higher value to nail the competion....

[croma84]

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[magnatexs]

I agree with all of the comments...I think that Kapranova has the best flexibility and technic, but it seems like she´s very boring with the routine or something...and her legs are like jellow isn´t it???

[onlyRG]

yes, she is repetitive and she has no elegance at all. she doesn't interpretate the music and her exercises don't follow the music...i can't deny she's very, very flexible, but rg isn't just that..

[kindheittraumer]

and why did she win the competition?

[onlyRG]

i don't know it!ask the judges!the code of points ecc..but she is STILL tooooooooo overscored!

[kindheittraumer]

the code give preference to her style of rg so she always will win with this code of poinjts

[onlyRG]

true, but she's still overscored. how many gymnasts can drop 3 times the apparatus and place 3rd?

to me, this code of points is destroying the beauty of RG. we will have soon some kind of circus on the carpet, as gymnasts like kapranova show us. you can't compare kostina, petrova, timochenko, gontar, dunavska to this kind of RG. if you like kapranova's stile it's all ok-everybody can have its own opinion- but i hope something will change, or RG will be always more riddicoulus.

[kindheittraumer]

well it will be difficult to return the old rg style because the coaches are now exploting (i don't know if that is the word, i have very bad english) the flebility of the little girls so i think it will be more and more flexibility

[onlyRG]

yes, but we can also hope in a code of points which give preference to elegance and expressivity....although with flexibility! ;)

[kindheittraumer]

yes maybe...like in ribbon there are so many turns, pivots.. and we can see nothing of expressivity

[onlyRG]

i hope you were talking seriously, because to me it seems to be like that...in RHYTHMIC gymnastics, the music and the interpretation have just 1.000 points...;(

(something wrong with the grammar...sorry for my terrible english;)

[eulucil]

I agree with you: She is dull and repetitive.

I think she is really overscored. She didn't complete her ring pivots, when she jumped at 00:58 she didn't perform the rings and the stags at the same time, and she didn't complete the rotation at the end, but she had 8.900 at DV

[chucklemuffins]

She isn't my favourite gymnast out there but her flexibility is amazing I must be fair on that. What I don't like about her routines is that they're all quite dull and repetitive and to me she seems to be performing seperate from the music, she doesn't really have a feel for it the way Bessonova and some others do. I think the judges often overscore her too but having said that she does have admirable traits as a gymnast. What does everyone else think??

[kindheittraumer]

her elements of difficult value in the routine are the most scored in rg...because if the gymnast has more flexibility she can do more creative elements that anyone can do and that's how the points are higher than other gymnasts who has no flexibility and do elements with low scored and less difficulty...