re: #2 LSU at #14 Kentucky Gym Meet Thread/ LSU falls to Kentucky, drops last 3 meets

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Do we know if Elena is working a 1.5 on vault? She definitely has the height and technique. If her full continues looking as tremendous as it did tonight then it doesn't really matter, but just curious because she has an excellent block and amplitude on that vault.

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I think they are sticking with the full this year. 1.5 will be something to work on this offseason. This year I think they really focused on cleaning up her body line and position on vault, she is no longer piking it down and it is allowing her to land these vaults better. I bet they work on it this coming offseason. Watch her vault at 101 and now. Bob honestly has done an outstanding job. He really has developed some great vaulting this season, the improvement Alyona and Arenas have made are tremendous.

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And it's beating a dead horse, but I would much rather put her in bars and have her fall then go with Dean or Brock. Seriously.

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I'm in the same boat. Give her a shot on bars, if she falls, she falls.... in the end LSU needs to try to put their best foot forward, even if that means taking some lumps I am okay with it. Trotting out routines with major form issues every week isn't gonna fix anything either. I would rather go down at least trying. If it fails, I can't say we tried.

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Also, not over the fact that one judge gave Magnelli and Bryant the same score for their handspring pike 1/2s...that to me was the craziest scoring discrepancy of the entire meet. For the exact same vaults, there is no conceivable way you could ever call those two vaults equal. Haleigh's was bigger, with perfect form, and literally a smaller landing adjustment. Crazy.

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That was home cooking there is no way that would fly in post season.