US WOMENS GYMNASTICS-UNEVEN BARS Part 3-NATIONALS Day 2-20

NATIONAL Team Competition. Boston
Day 2. Individual Competition
Uneven Bars. Part 3.

In order of appearance:
NASTIA LIUKIN
SAMANTHA PESZEK

Anastasia "Nastia" Valeryevna Liukin (Russian: born October 30, 1989) is a
Russian-American artistic gymnast. She is the '08 2008 Olym.pic individual all-
around gold medalist, the 2005 and 2007 World Champion on the balance
beam, and the 2005 World Champion on the uneven bars. With nine World
Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon
Miller as the American gymnast having won the most World Championship
medals.

Samantha Peszek (born December 14, 1991 in McCordsville, Indiana) is an
American national team gymnast. She is a member of the United States' '08
Olym.pic women's gymnastics team. She was a member of the gold medal-
winning U.S. team at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and
the 2007 Pan American Games.

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• samantha
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[Gymnasticsbabex]

it annoys me that american commentators never acknowledge beth tweddle.. i no its the US nationals so they're not really focusing on international gymnasts but they always say that nastia has the highest difficulty in the worl when in fact bethtweddle has higher.

[eMthegymnast]

geeze i hate squeeky bars.

[Craigers22763]

I give her a 10

[anulay]

@Gymnasticsbabex : I agree. I also don't understand WHY THE HELL Nastia's coach thought it was a good idea to keep that hideous dismount in. It tends to sour all of the beautiful work she does throughout. Obviously it takes it's toll and it wears her out at the end. Keeping that dismount in looks bad AND incredibly painful. Poor gal. Still, an amazing gymnast, as is Beth.

[Tori2120]

my best friend goes to colardo to do american games for this and another for ice skating

[Knouse94]

Beth really didn't have the start value until the olympics, so at the time of Nationals, Nastia did have the highest in the world.

[TsubasaDreams]

To be fair, Tweddle's DV has been wavering between 7.7 and 7.8 because there would times when she would do the toe-on full to her dismount but most of the time she did a toe-on toe-off to her dismount so she would lose the .1 in CV value. It should be noted that the only time Tweddle competed the toe-on full to her dismount in the Olympics was in the final.

[turckhater]

Had Beth added all of the extra difficulty into her routine by then, though? I think at one point she wasn't quite up to the 7.8 that she had at the Olympics, don't know if it was June of last year or not. It's also quite possible that the commentators hadn't heard the gossip about Beth's routine by that point (if she was up to her 7.8 difficulty by then), as well.

It wouldn't surprise me if they really didn't know--it IS Elfie and Tim, after all.

[Knouse94]

At the time nationals took place, Beth did NOT have a higher start value. She really didn't unveil that until the Olympics, so at this time BEFORE the olympics, Nastia's was the highest start value in the world.

[glenndelossantos15]

Did Nastia really get a 17.1 score? WHOA!!!! AMAZING!

[glenndelossantos15]

I don't really know what it is, but I'm pretty sure that a pourett is a spin. lol