Cairo World Cup Day 1

What a day of finals! Back bar and a very competitive rings and pommel group. WAG UB: 1. Nemour 14.033 2. Shuting 13.700 3. Hribar 13.100 4. Kuzmenova 12.933 5. Kundrat 12.800 6. Mester 12.733 7. QQY 12.500 8. Abel 11.700 MAG SR: 1. Petrounias 14.366 2. Avetisyan 14.300 3. Yang 13.866 4. Davtyan 13.833 5. Abdelkader 13.800 6. Mohamed 13.666 7. Alvarez 13.400 8. Jimenez 13.066

Abel (BRA): Maloney to pak, caught very late. Toe on to VL. Straddle jaeger, fingertips on and she doesn't catch. Does it again and cleanly on. Giant full and a double back full to finish. 11.700 (5.2, 6.500) Mohamed (EGY): I think they displayed his name incorrectly for the other EGY guy (Abdelkader) but this is definitely him. Backup planche, some angles. something then malt. Jonassen to backup malt, again bit of angles on the malt. Through to cross. Swing HS, nice and clean. Massive double double tuck dismount and a step forwards.

Hirbar (SLO): Toe half to el grip to straddle jaeger. Toe tkachev to pak. Maloney to bail. Giant full and a big double back full dismount. Clean routine! But won't have the difficulty to get in front of Nemour or Shuting. 13.100 (5.4, 7.700) Jimenez (ESP): Roll through to malt, good positions. Back kip malt, nice again. Pull to cross. Back swing HS, a bit of form. Jonassen swing HS, again some leg form. Back giant to double double tuck dismount, a bit of a pace backwards.

Shuting (CHN): Inbar full, turns really late and has to kip out of it. Downie to pak caught a bit close. Maloney to geinger again a bit close. Toe half clean. Double tuck full a bit slow but well landed. 13.700, Nemour still in first! (CHI): Backup to planche lower to malt nice. uprise invert cross maybe quick with the hold. Swing HS and backup malt, great position. Through to cross clean. Full twisting double lay dismount, the smallest hop back.

QQY (CHN): She's got a real opportunity here after Nemour's miss. Healy, Ling, Layout Jaeger literally perfect. Downie, lovely. Pak a bit late. VL and she doesn't make it to the high bar!!! I'm gonna cry. Does the VL again, low but clean. Toe full and comes off again the wrong way... Double tuck full and a bounce forward. What a shame. 12.500 (6.3, 6.200) Mohamed (EGY): Uprise to invert cross, uprise straight planche lower to malt, clean. Jonassen to backup malt to cross, a bit of leg form in the swings. Swing HS to double double dismount, small hop forward. Very loud cheers from the home crowd.

Nemour (ALG): The routine to watch. Inbar full to inbar tkachev half doesn't get the grip right and she's off!!!! Does the release again to ezhova to maloney to stalder full to stalder tkachev to chow to VL. Just does the double lay dismount today. What a routine! Really pulled it together after the fall. 14.033, even with a fall! 6.6D 7.433E Avetisyan (ARM): Press to planche, bounce malt, bounce cross. Swing back to HS, looking really solid. Back uprise to malt, a little short on hold maybe? Back uprise to planche, swing HS. Double double tuck dismount stuck! 14.300 14.366 for Petrounias and easily into first!

Mester (CRO): Clean pak to start. Toe half + endo + endo half. Goes for maloney and rips out off the toe on, has to re kip and try again. Maloney + Gienger, realllyyy low but catches. Back full dismount. 12.733 (5.2, 7.533) 13,833 for Yang, 13.033 for Davtyan. Petrounias (GRE): Butterfly ot malt and then another malt and then another all look clean idk what they're called though. Swing HS and straight blanche to cross. Double double lay dismount, another really clean routine. Maybe some angles on the malt positions.

Kuzmenkova (AIN): Stalder full + Chow + Pak, late on the pak and misses connection. VL, clean. Straddle Jaeger nice and easy. Handstand snap back tuck, unique! 12.933 (5.2, 7.733) Yang (CHN): Pull through to malt, nice and held, Back kip malt bounce to cross. Jonasson swing to HS, clean. Honma cross. Back swing to HS through to dub dub layout. Low chest but otherwise super clean!

Missed Davtyan's rings as I was switching to a laptop. Apologies! No major error though looked clean.

Kundrat (SLO): toe full a bit sloppy, toe shap, pak, chow, geinger clean. Piked jaeger nice, toe front half