He Kexin BB @ 2009 Nationals TF

[AngelicPhantom]

Bloody hell... That was an exercise in tenacity and pure bloody-mindedness.

I can't believe she actually completed that with her hand... She is pretty damn impressive to have gotten up there at all with a broken hand.

[GymnasticJam]

cruel chinese coaches. They probably made her compete

[emmyjo720]

That first fall could have been nasty, it hurts to watch... Those who say she isn't very good, if she wasn't she wouldn't have trained this much. The top beam workers can have days like this..Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Shannon Miller included. Sometimes one bad fall sets off more and makes it tough to settle. She was lucky not to break something. She is already with a broken hand and should not be using it.

[undertheweatherandbu]

yeah this routine looks a bit messy. she looks like she's scared of landing her layout, cos if u look she turns sideways to land, but slips and falls. But come on...she's 17 okay...i'm almost 21 and everyone says i look like a high sch kid... -.- asians just look younger. period.

[SexyLiLLeilaniMya]

Her beam set was a hot mess she is only 15 they lied about her age how dare China!

[bo0tyful]

give her a break..she probably spent the last few years leading up to the olympics doing pure bar work, she just started training to be an overall gymnast

[CaliKitty17]

Wow she really is no good at beam is she? Excellent bar worker though. I bet she spends most of her time training bars.

[julmastra]

I'm proud of her! Bars maybe her best event, but she is trying to get better everything else! You go He Kexin!

[aps010154]

she's injured when doing rulfova a week before :( unluckily

[ip123pi]

ｆｕｎｎｙ！！！！

[KaeslinFan]

I'd hate to see the score

[humphrey861]

I like He Kexin and she is an amazing bar worker, but I don't think she could win the AA gold medal

[happystuff12345]

the thing is, this competition was a week after she injured her wrist on the BB. She's a lot better now.

[unevercalled]

@humphrey861 actually i think she could! she just needs to build up her strength on tumbling

[morenodelaorilla]

I think He Kexin moved to a higher level, she wants now a AA Gold medal, but needs to work harder, And I know she can.

[happystuff12345]

She's doing pretty well right now, this competition was just after she injured her wrist on BB... but she did pretty well considering that

[natalienat518]

she's ok at the prelims, but i wonder why she fall in here

[happystuff12345]

Injured wrist a week before this

[kitcat2400]

i think she had a wrist injury too maybe tht affected her

[0lilystrange0]

Elle a l'air drolement fatiguée! La pauvre miss =/

[natalienat518]

she's good at bars but not this

[happystuff12345]

She's actually pretty good on BB, this was just after she injured her wrist, actually, like, a week after she hurt in training on the BB

[amylily123]

wow, she's off balance. Even the crowd was being supportive. 'Bie zhao ji!'

And the guy was like 'Oh I have a feeling it's a high difficulty or she'd be good.'

Wrong. She's just really crap at BB sometimes.

Poor girl.

[happystuff12345]

Actually, she's not crap. She just injured her wrist a week before this competition

[amylily123]

Sor-ry!!

[dcmjkuyaf]

高低槓很好但這個....

[ericchengcheng]

沒辦法......

[iscawill]

She wasn't as... off-balance during the olympics... maybe she was tired or something. :/ No offence to her, I love her and everything, but I'm just rather curious about this being off-balance thing. :p

[bruadair11]

I think she's grown quite a bit so that puts u quite off balance.

[LilaDeCiel]

wow.....no wonder she only did bars at the olympics

[dancelife450]

oh my gosh she is soooo baad in beam. She should stick to her specialty bars.

[lifelaughlove06]

I say Stick to bars.. I'm sure there are plentyyy of other amazing beam workers on her team..

[carriemydear]

i love china's new leos :)

so much better than the velvet ones.

[missjpace]

Yeah, not only is crushed velvet out of style...it's so hot!!!

[mtmigoi]

i luv he kexin :) :) :) and since when does she wear gym shoes?

[CoCoNuTsiopatHic]

China is a country that cheats in gymnastics with underaged athletes. They should all be stripped of their Olympic medals.

[lolalycan]

Also, maybe she's not that excellent on balance beam because of the fact that she's so good at UB. As in.. maybe she puts more hours into UB .. and settled on getting great at that because she knew with that huge skill right off the top of her routine, she definitely has a chance for gold at the beijing olympics. So maybe she didnt practice balance beam and the others as much.. cause they settled her straight for UB. But who know's :P not me. lol. That's just what I think.

[pong0622]

she is in all around training.

[lolalycan]

Omgsh.. she looks like she can NEVER be 17. WTF!!!! lol. ohwell, she's a great gymnast :D age is nothing.

[yellowbanana104]

this routine is very very awkward and unprepared, but this is just a start. who noes? she may be the all around champion some years later.

[adulationx]

She fractured her palm though, too.

So that would do a number on consistency and routine success...

[tigerluver3000]

Yeah! I agree! He Kexin is still number 1!!!!!!!!!!

[WhoIsJohnGalt27]

clearly the chinese, they peak at 12-13 and once they turn 14 it's over for them!

[okhan001]

liu xuan? cheng fei? kui yuanyuan? mo huilan? etc etc.

[YURIJOCO]

GOOd FoR start

[MichalekMM]

He KeXin still number ONE!

[alexzjay]

BAD routine. But this is good experience. She needs to know how it feels to fall in competition.

[LiveBreatheLoveGym]

She's competing with a broken hand give her a break!

[kananily16]

@LiveBreatheLoveGym

shes not competing with a broken hand. thats just a paw--wrist support

[LiveBreatheLoveGym]

@kananily16 No she had a broken hand at this meet.

[kananily16]

@LiveBreatheLoveGym

but if she has a broken hand why is she putting so much pressure on it, that would just make it worse...just sayin. but i guess i dont know.

[LiveBreatheLoveGym]

@kananily16 It was broken during this meet, and if you notice her routine doesn't use her hand at all really. Roundoff skills put very little pressure on the hand...

[Yuri92001]

@LiveBreatheLoveGym Hehe...a break :P

[Vlekify2]

@Yuri92001 Hehe funny xD

[x3SummerNightsx3]

you really need to give her a teenytiny break, guys. she fractured her hand, this was her first competition back from the injury. her performance at the 2007 nats. was not that bad, other than a fall.

she DOES HAVE A POTENTIAL as an aa. she just needs to keep working.

good luck && best wishes for the future ! :D

[yueshili]

Yes, the beijing team should NOT use her, her health is much more important than the team qualifying into final.

[lepetitpoulet]

stick to UB !!

[alexabt]

that was terrible

[Kofeey123]

i fink cheng fei cud be gud allround

[yueshili]

Cheng Fei's UB only had a 4.8 difficulty.

[chinesegymgals]

she has acrophobia...=|she didn't do UB, did she?

[yueshili]

not exactly, she said she's afraid of UB from some childhood experience, not the height itseft, she got height when she does her beautiful double double, and maintains this skill for almost 5 years. She trained UB until the end of 07 to help her province team in the national competitions.

[chinesegymgals]

oh, thanks for clarifying! once again...hahaz!=)

[yueshili]

You're welcome

[macassar88]

That was three years ago during the old code out of 10. She would probably be able to do a shawn Johnson difficulty UB set if she trained it.

[yueshili]

She's 20 years old, maybe a little bit late now.

[AndromedaAiken]

Kexin's 17 this year, not 20.

[adulationx]

talking about Cheng, I think

[CoCoNuTsiopatHic]

Like Hell she's 17. She is 15.

[alexgym09]

LOL is right

how does she have such terrible basics on the beam. 100% of everything she did on this beam was a fugly mess

she just about wobbled on everything and messy legs on the dismount

she does not have AA potential... they are wasting their time - and that's coming from the person who used to rave about her future as an AAer

[pigberto]

her hand was injured. cut some slack for the little girl would ya?!

[chinesegymgals]

guess she was just too nervous... and with her hand injury, i'm sure she's already trying her best! she's still young, she'll have time to work on it. although, honestly, i'm getting a bit worried about it... maybe she should just stick to UB to be safe, but if she really wants to have a go at it, why not?

besides, YYL's injured anyway, so they're lacking AA talent... she could be their best bet for now, till YYL's back...=)

[adulationx]

you guys take JYY and DLL for granted... they're established AA's and are very good at what they do.

and there's future AA's like TSX that are absolutely fabulous as well.

there's no lack in talent :]

[chinesegymgals]

well, at least for now... i'm not taking DLL for granted, just thought she should just concentrate on BB, though i'm not saying she's got no potential! she's great, and so is JYY, but the latter lacks consistency...=| she hasn't been performing well on AA so far, frm what i see...

[shoably]

you are always leaving ingnorant comments why dont you ever say something nice for a change

[smiFromBelarus]

LOL