Yurchenko vault family

They had to come back from vault because Kuchin Chin on vault was okay.

Her Yurchenko double fold was really good in qualification.

Here in the air, it was nice.

she landed really short and had a lunge forward.

Mostly a great competition.

They did very well on Vault.

Charlie Bullock hit a Yurchenko double full, a lunge back.

Skye Blakely hit a great Yurchenko double full, more control than she showed in qualification.

a few errors everywhere except vault, and she's still in first by half a point in the all-around with a 55.99.

So I think our biggest concern after podium training was in her full run through on floor, she fell on her double lay, the Yurchenko double full looked rough with the videos that we... kind of saw of the Yurchenko double full so those looked better in competition which kind of allayed some fears about her competitiveness in the all-around I think

yeah and honestly talking to her so we talked to her after today and she just said like she looked really like happy and good and she said uh what was interesting is um she was asked about the code Um, and to say, uh, the French journalist is here, um, who she knows very well.

And she was asked her about the code and she said, well, it's so hard to get anything over 13 now.

It was kind of a question as to whether she was going to vault today.

She was in the start list.

She ends up vaulting a Yurchenko fall.

And it ends up being what Brazil needed that vault in order to make the team final because it got so close between them and Great Britain, which we'll talk about for a while.

She only got a 5.1 today, but she had the highest U.S. E score.

She hit a huge Yurchenko double full.

It was too big.

she bounced way back out of it but still got the same score that everyone else did for their Yurchenko double fulls because every vault is exactly the same but I think it was a reward for her amplitude which is superior to pretty much all the other Yurchenko double fulls we've seen so far yeah she had a couldn't have asked for more like bars maybe she could have asked for more because she's already in 4th which is a tough position to be in looking for an event final, but she did a very good routine.

Yeah.

She had an awesome routine.

She looks like that upside down, um, Jesus statue in Rio when she does her timers.

A nice double twisting Yurchenko, a little hop, casual.

Yeah, so we did not see a Cheng, correct?

We did not.

Ooh.

Like, it was full el- elbows at 90 degrees and I was like, "Uh-oh, she is having trouble adjusting to this vault." It progressively got better.

She did get a Yurchenko double full to her feet that we've seen, and thank you to, you know, all of, all of the media there uploading videos so we can all see these things even when, um, Fact Checker's in the hospital.

Um, but yeah, I'm p- I'm not 100% sold on vault and floor yet in, in terms of I'm n- I didn't watch podium training and say, "Oh, she's the lock.

So now we gotta talk about regression.

So when she was working on her vault, she had to go from a full twisting Yurchenko to a layout to a tuck to drills.

I mean, we had to back it all the way back.

And the reason for this is that when you have a skill that is mastered and then your brain detects a threat, it disrupts the blueprint in the mind, and it actually, it usually will break apart a couple of the moments in the skill so that it feels like you don't remember how or you can't get your body to do it.

To me, vault favorite, gold medal favorite, vault.

If she's doing the Chung, I mean, Chung and a Yurchenko double full, the way she performs them, it should be a runaway.

She's taking it easy on herself.

She's not doing floor.

It's sort of like Simone's relationship with the Biles one on vault, which is the adding a half twist to the Chung, the round off half on front double full where she did it that one year and got it named after herself.

And then it was like, assignment done i don't like it i don't want to do it anymore i feel like yo's relationship with the front double full is more like that like i it's not always gonna happen and the smarter choice for winning a medal is a rudy for her because it's valuable and she does it extremely well when she has that near chanko double full i think she has the form um So I see her as a frontrunner.

There are a few people with the Chung and Yurchenko double full combination who I think are right there.

Melnikova, perennial metal contender on Vault.

If she could complete her vault and stick her landing, it would guarantee gold for the Americans.

Kerri was going to perform a vault known as the Yurchenko one and a half.

It involved a round-off flip onto the springboard, a back handspring onto the vaulting table, and one and a half twists in the air before a blind landing on the mat.

Kerri took her place and was ready to go.

She gained speed as she went.

Faster, faster, faster.

She hit the springboard and launched into the air to perform the same Yurchenko one and a half twist.

Kerri soared through the sky, completing her twist with a perfect technical form.