Brazil and France: Comparing their Gymnastics

So, I will be comparing these countries, and their events. As you know, if you watched the qualifiers at the beginning of the gymnastics competition, both of these teams were ousted from the team all around. As I will be evaluating their events, at the end, I will tell you why they got ousted

The Vault

Brazil-  This is a good event for Brazil, they are fairly strong on this event, especially in the London Games because they had a lot of power athletes, who could throw the 1 1/2 twist, or even the double twisting Yurchenko. I liked watching the Brazilian Gymnasts vault, and I hope to see them get some gymnasts in the finals on their home turf in Rio.


France- France was a more artistic team at the London Games, so vault wasn't one of their events. Almost all of the gymnasts did a single twist, which is only a 5.00 difficulty (Which means they can score a max of 15.00) You can't get more weaker in vaulting than that (Unless you do a Yurchenko half, but even level 5's are learning that, imagine if an Olympian did it?) I can blab for paragraphs how weak the vault is that France is performing, but for the sake of your eyes, I'll just stop now.

The Uneven Bars

Brazil- Like I said in the vault section, Brazil was a power squad in London. If you know everything there is to know about gymnastics, you know that uneven bars is not a power apparatus. Like the USA, they often have issues with transitions and handstands, but no problem with releases. But we all know that handstands and transitions are the most important things in a bar routine, aka, the utmost thing that the judges are looking for in a great bars routine. And the Brazilians often don't have that.

France- The French Gymnasts are good on this event, they often execute their handstands well and their transitions are great. But, they don't have the best difficulty like you see from the Russian Gymnasts, or the Chinese Gymnasts. But what they do, they do well, like transitions and handstands

The Beam

Brazil- Brazil is great on the tumbling passes on this event, and since thats pretty much what beam is all about nowadays, they are great on this event, their beam routines average about a 5.8-5.9 in D value (Difficulty) They are pretty good on this event, not phenomenal, but good, maybe even great.  But with the rare amount of artistry thats in there, like spins, they sometimes struggle

France- This is one of those power events for France. Which means, its not artistic. They have low difficulty stunts, so they are depending on something the Gymnastics World calls execution. They execute all their tumbling well, perfect stuck together legs on passes, pointed toes during the pass, and they stay on the beam, most of the time that is. But they are really great on this event. Not with difficulty, but when France does a beam routine, they always get really close to the top execution score, to a near perfect 10 in execution.


Floor Exercise

Brazil- Brazil is great on the tumbling part of floor, getting high air, with the exception of Danielle Matias Hypolito, who fell on her double twist punch layout. But if Brazil struggles with anything on floor, its with dance.


France-  The French Team is great on the dance part of the floor routine, but have low difficulty tumbling passes, with the exception of Sophia Seseri, however, they are excellent at the dance element of the floor routine.



WHAT X-ed them out of the Team Final

Brazil- Hypolito had only one solid routine, and even that wasn't amazing. The rest of Brazil did good, but with Hypolito's damaged routines, plus other huge errors on bars and beam, Brazil missed out on the prized team final.


France- Well, low scores x-ed the French Gymnasts out of the competition, having no other huge scores, they missed the team final.



Well, now you know what x-ed these two teams out, as well how they performed, and I compared their gymnastics, I think this is a great way to say tata to this article, don't you think? Read my other articles!