SecondThe title decision of individual gymnastics equipment is very special: unlike in team competitions, the excellent practice of colleagues can make up for your own mistakes, or in all-around competitions, you may fail on the crossbar, but later on the ground to extricate yourself, the finals Only this time. Appears on the parallel bars about 30 seconds long. 30 seconds, in which the results of years (usually decades) of training on two bars are checked.
The eight best gymnasts in the qualifying rounds enter the finals, in order of drawing. Eight times of 30 seconds, plus the preparation for the section, wait for the green light on the scoreboard that says you must start practicing within 30 seconds, and then wait for the scoring-less than half an hour will last for the entire finale.
Lack of touch
Elizabeth SeitzHe finished seventh in the bar final qualifying game on Sunday (12:24pm ET) FAZ Olympics live broadcast, On ZDF and Eurosport) are very aware of this situation. She had already participated in the Olympic parallel bars in 2012, when she was instructed by today’s young national coach Claudia Schunk, who studied gymnastics with her in Mannheim. In her first big performance on the international stage, she did a lot of gymnastics, even pretty good. Only the practice of the game is more difficult, and the performance is equally good. Won sixth place in the Olympic finals-success. In Rio de Janeiro in 2016, Elizabeth Seitz entered the bar final again. She did gymnastics again.
But also in Rio, the performance of the game is more difficult or better.E.g. teamwork Sophie SheddWho won the bronze medal. She finished fourth in the Parallel Bars final of the second Olympic Games, which made Elizabeth Seitz a bit bitter at first. Especially because only one touch is missing: the 0.033 point difference on the medal is not a truly measurable variable.
“disaster”
So now is the third and possibly the last Olympic parallel bars final. At the same time, Setz has consolidated her international reputation as an excellent gymnast with this equipment: she won bronze medals at the 2017 European Championships and the 2018 World Championships. Things have not been so good recently: after the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Setz fell in Portsalto, and in this year’s European Championships she made it to the final again, but fell again in a Hunter’s somersault. Last year, daily training without a game prospect caused Seitz some motivation problems, which she described as “a disaster.”
Setz, 27, is one of those gymnasts who claim to be helped by a large number of loud audiences; this encourages them rather than intimidating them. Elizabeth Seitz, who was taken care of by Robert Mai in 2016, seems to have become accustomed to the lack of spectators in Tokyo: in Thursday’s all-around competition, she finished ninth, which is her best Olympic all-around placement. Setz entered the final with the lowest difficulty in the field-as long as the game does not pass, it means nothing.
