The Russians compete for worst vault of the day in Stuttgart!

And the winner is...... Shelgunova! With a score of 12.550. Not only did she fall, but she also underrotated a DTY badly enough to get her vault devalued. What a performance. Watch the action here:

Dmitrieva came in second with a DTY worth 13.250 and Melnikova third with a DTY worth 14.250. A DTY that scores over 14, wow. Kapitonova competed the worst worst vault. A solid FTY. The score (13.900) was bit lower than Melka's, but I'm giving Melka the bronze medal for terrible execution. Congrats to everyone!

Oh, and a special mention goes to my favorite, Seda Tutkhalyan, who competed at a different competition but still stuck to the party line with 13.400 for an underrotated DTY with hands down. Amazing camaraderie, just like in Glasgow.
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Now that the awards for the worst vaulting have been given, I'm going to move on to the actual competition, DTB Pokal Team Challenge. I'm actually really happy that we got an entire team of Russians for this competition. They kept the most important (and injury prone) players at home, and failed to acquire a visa for Maria Kharenkova (who was supposed to compete in Glasgow World Cup earlier), but sent a team of youngsters, all of whom are fighting for one final spot on the Olympic team, to Germany to show their skills.

This is a happy day because MY GIRL SEDA HIT BEAM!!!

Why work on my final thesis when Seda Tutkhalyan is competing and actually hitting? Hitting beam at that!!!

And sorry about the videos not fitting that column, but it's a problem with the theme and I'm going to fix it one of these days...
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The last of the World Cup events for this season (2015-2016) was in Stuttgart and had a nice turnout of gymnasts. And I actually remembered to tune in for the live feed!

My congrats go to Sophie, what a fantastic night for her. She was the only one to hit every routine without any notable mistakes, it was a great win in front of the home crowd with tears of joy. 

Seda however managed to give me heart palpitations again, actual arrhythmia with chest pain and everything. I feel like I'm super old with a weak ticker. Russian gymnastics might just kill me some day. What a lovely way to die.

ummm...

It was a weird competition for Princess Tut (I decided to call her that back in 2014 but then completely forgot about it).