Koko Tsurumi - Uneven Bars - 2009 Tyson American Cup - Unive

[whitetiger126]

she has no grips... O.o thats talent

[WithurShield]

they should let the girls test the bars before their routine, just to make sure it's to their liking.

[ParanoidAndroidDA]

@WithurShield They do, they have podium training and warm-ups before the routine so they know what to expect

[camjay8]

No grips? What a bad ass!

[cwgcGymnast]

awww, you can tell she is so frustrated with herself and her coach is so supportive at the end even though he knows she will not medal now....

[summerbaer25]

"on the uneven parallel bars" Did he really just say that?

[marykay116]

well for one thing she is not wearing grips that is probably on of the reason that she isnt staying on the bars. you cant put enough chalk on you hands you have to have grips when doing giants

[AshaMcGuiness]

@marykay116 you don't HAVE to have grips when doing giants... its a choice, you choose whether you want to use them. i do giants without grips, i've never used grips in my life and i don't get what all the fuss is about.

[bayleighboo22]

she is so talented but she fell poor koko

[Missnewyork28]

Her Ono's are magic

[gymnasticsfreak95]

how does she do all that without grips??? oww!

[Icy6222]

i think the chinese and japanese have really nice piroeting

[MegaRachelWhite]

@Icy6222

Yeah but she is JApanese

[Gracie76028]

why doesnt she wear grips??

[veevee305]

@Gracie76028 Personal preference. Some gymnats like the secure hold that grips give them, othes like to "feel" the bars directly.

[LMA629]

@veevee305 i think its incredible that she doesn't use anything at all to prevent rips, not even gauze like the romanians use. can you imagine how big her rips must be and how bad her hands must hurt? i can just imagine how tough they must be too.

[luv4cascy]

lol he said uneven parallel bars

[TinyAva93]

@luv4cascy well, they are.

[pinklavva]

omg shes like me and doesnt wear grips

i legit thought i was the only one :D

[theghastlypirate]

@pinklavva There are actually a lot of bar workers who don't! A lot of them like to feel the bars and not have material in between. But I feel like those are the tough ones! So way to be tough! :)

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

She has really beautiful lines and form.

[iwinyoulose101]

does she wear grips?

[ivanovsgymgirl]

oh my god!she's not wearing grips!

[MiiAmoure]

@ivanovsgymgirl

She never wear grips. xd

[aylakellfan]

what happened?

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

That pirouette was SO beautiful and SO high.

[eaglegymgirl1228]

no grips!!

[markedexclusive]

It's ok. She won silver on uneven bars this past worlds :)

[tnao123]

aww it looked like she was gonna cry and she was so good if she hadn't have fell she would have been amazing

[Bissen]

Aw, that was such a shame - it looked like she was about to cry...

[talkin2myself246]

:(

she seems to fall alot

[zhujp98]

at 1:03 when she is spraying the bars, i saw the names in the back. RIP Y(uri) Ryazonov! and good job koko

[gymshiv]

I got her autograph when i went to worlds last year, she was so sweet :)

[KaeslinFan]

i've met Her

[panicatthediscoxgirl]

I think Koko has A LOT of potential, she just isn't using it in the right way. I love her, and I think she's fab!

[missmouse35]

she did win bronze a the 2009 worlds. first japenese womens individual medal in a major international competition for 65 years!

[TheHorseyGymnast]

2 falls? the 1st 1 seemed like she just gave up. the second she was trying too hard. koko is awesome nevertheless. she rocked at worlds. odd. 2 falls and still higher than amelia racea's 1 fall face plant

[runswimchick10]

she is such a cutie! :) i love her gymnastics and i'm so glad she was able to make such a statement at worlds

[jimnastix123]

she doesnt wear grips!!!

[cronopio131]

i'm so glad she won bronze at worlds this year! Boy, I love her.

[443554371]

errors happen every :P

[Gymya100]

0:17 was bad to carry on otherwise she'd off still fell.

0:41 Now way bad she knows she's thrown it away

[1ShawnJohnson1]

poor girl 2 mess ups... it looked like she was gonna cry

[Illja3]

Haha.. The commentator.. "This is Koko Tsurumi at the uneven parallel bars.." That's a pretty stupid mistake..

[AnneSPD]

well. they're parallel, too. so it's not a mistake, actually.

[gymnast768]

really. thats their proper name : the uneven parrallel bars. back, about 20 years ago, they were as close as the mens parallel bars, just uneven height wise. hence the proper full name uneven parrallel bars. dont call things mistakes when u dont no. cause no u r the mistake

[ItsNastiaFan101]

Uneven parallel bars is another name for them. And it's not like it's wrong. They're uneven. They're parallel. They're bars...

[EverythingElse723]

haha! i laughed when i read this.  so true. sooo true

[lucascampelovianna]

I love her ono and the ono plus half twist. She finishes totally on the handstand.

[KseniaSemenovaFan]

her routine would be great but this was total disaster!

Best wishes for your next competition Koko!

[UltimatumHS]

That was a sad routine, especially after her Olympic run.

[be2000be]

Wow, she looks really small.... Could she be underaged (sarcasm)?

[Sublue]

is it just me or are the gymnasts generally sucking?

[mrflipz]

its the year after the olympics, this is when they usually arent at their best. and they dont want to be their best here. they want to peak in 4 years.

[lepetitpoulet]

very well said dude!

[audie83]

I think it's because of gymnasts like Vanessa Ferrari who won a world championship AA in spite of a fall and gymnasts like Nastia Liukin and He Kexin who are great but still made bars finals at the Olympics in spite of falls/major errors.

[intldawn]

Such things wouldn't happen with the old scoring system of the 90's...

The FIG really needs to stop screwing around with the scoring. It's long since stopped making sense.

[cuttingice47]

Poor Koko, so talented but seems to have bad luck