It seemed to me that she was a little timid as she approached both back handsprings and did not get a solid takeoff for the layout.
Of course the gymnast has 10 seconds to remount on the balance beam after a fall and they lose a half of a point.
There's a really tough move, that's a side somersault, a front side somersault.
Okay, she's worked her way back down to the end of the beam and she's going to do her dismount.
There we go, round off tuck double back, really high, she just opened up a little bit too early.
She's disappointed, you can tell, but just a 10th grader at Pius the 10th High School.
She has had such a terrific weekend here, performing well in the all around and of course in the first two event finals.
It's unfortunate she fell here, but you can see as she's setting up for her dismount.
There's the fall and obviously you can see that her feet were on the beam but her hips and the center of gravity was off the top of the support so she couldn't stay with it.
Here's the round off to the tuck double back and this is high, I mean she's up out of frame, she just opened up a little early and of course that would be a mind reduction for the steps.
Her score a 9.10, a total 18.80.
Now Joyce Wilborn with a real opportunity here Bart, everyone anticipates a goal for her in the floor exercise coming up a bit later.
This is a golden opportunity, pardon the pun, but if she scores the gold medal here she could win three of the four individual titles.
I think of all the events, if Joyce were surprised at her performance, I think she would have been surprised at her 9.7 in the all around competition here on the balance beam.
You can always count on her for floor and vaulting, but she really did nail her beam routine here.
There's a leap series.
Okay now it's important that she doesn't set up too long for this tumbling run, flip flop, flip flop, lay out and she nailed it.
That's the same tumbling pass that Robin Richter just used, but she did it perfectly.
I really do think Joyce has improved a great deal.
She's always been very explosive and she can do the acrobatic elements, but she's moving a little smoother.
She seems more confident.
Okay here we go, kick over front.
This is one of the best routines I've ever seen her do on the beam.
So far it's very clean.
Alright she works her way back out to the end. She's going to set up for her dismount.
It'll take a 9.80.
Round off tuck double back.
Nice landing.
Best routine of her life on the balance beam.
Could it be?
Could it be the trifecta for Joyce Wilborn?
She's looking for the second step and the crowd loved it.
This will be an interesting score part.
It will and Joyce has generally been kind of hot and cold.
She's fallen off the beam quite often in competition, but she really looked comfortable up there today.
Here she sets up for her tumbling run.
Back handspring, back handspring to a lay out.
This is the same pass that Robin Richter fell on, but Joyce pulls it around and lands perfectly.
Here's the double back. She's going to do a round off to a tuck double back.
Joyce is so explosive.
She gets up and over the top.
Good form in the air.
One small hop on the landing, but she really lands high.
Her score, good enough to tie Dana Lister for the top spot.
We still have two more competitors on the balance beam.
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Boris Becker and Tim Mayotte are still resting in between sets.
They're not yet back on the court. When they do go back courtside, we will take you there back in Hartford.
In the meantime, we're going back to the balance beam with Bart Conner and with Tim Brando to find out who gets the gold on the balance beam.
Here is Dana Dabrowski.
A member of the Akronauts Gym team, age 15, from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
She qualified fourth with a 9.65.
Oh, that's a difficult kind of a round off to her back flip on the beam.
She had a minor bobble there, but that is one of the most difficult mounts being done currently.
Two flip flops to a layout. She's a little bit off, but she handles it.
She has a little bit different style than we've seen from some of the other girls. She moves very quickly.
Her arm movements are crisp and sharp. She's very aggressive in her style, which is nice to see.
This is more typical of the Soviet and the Romanian gymnasts that move with that precise, quick movement that can be very impressive when the gymnast is right on, because they look so confident.
They just blast through the exercise.
Split leap.
Oh, there's a nice combination into a swing through layout. She almost lost it.
You can see it on her face, a little bit of a relief that she's still on the beam.
She's really blasting through this routine. It's unfortunate she had a couple of bobbles. Nice, clean, full hold dismount.
Not the most difficult dismount, but pretty tough exercise to perform in competition, let me tell you.
The beam almost became a tightwire there. You see the lean-to she gave some of her fellow combatants.
Dana Lister and Joyce Wilburn are leading. There she is again.
Hey, hey, I hung in there. I stayed on the beam.
And she really tried a tough routine. Here's the roundup onto the board. She's going to do a tuck backflip onto the beam.
That is tough stuff. And look at that. She shows tremendous grit here as she stays with it.
Here's the swing through layout. She loses a little bit, but once again, she's showing a tremendous amount of fight, which is so important.
She should get a few extra points for persistence. She just wouldn't come off that beam. 9.30.
And Juliette Bangerter now, qualified fourth, but again, 9.65, only five one-hundredths of a point away from the top competitor.
And Juliette is one to watch here.
Yeah, she has terrific potential, and she's going to show us something, I believe. I've seen her working on it in warm-up.
I think she's going to do a triple turn in this routine. I don't know. I've never seen it in competition before. You rarely see double turns.
Wow. Okay, a nice tucked front right on top of it.
We believe that this triple turn has never been attempted in competition, and it'll be interesting to see if she can pull it off here today.
We saw on her floor exercise work, she really knows how to spin.
Here she goes, back handspring, layout, a little short. She was a little tentative on that takeoff for the layout, possibly because she was a little bit crooked, but she did manage to pick it up and do a beautiful leap there.
Once again, back handspring, with a half turn to an aerial-curial half turn. That's a great combination, one that I've never seen before.
It'll take a 9.85. Here we go. One, two, three. Oh! I tell you, that is so tough. In fact, not only did she do three, I think she did three and a half, over-rotated it.
And a double twist for Julia. It's nice to see she went for the triple turn.
Stormy Eden said you just couldn't stop spinning. I think it was the half of the three that got her off the beam.
It was really great to see that when she did go for the move, she gave it a heck of an effort. She really cranked that twist. It wasn't like she came up short. She really got after it.
And this is tough. You can see right here, she goes, pulls that leg in, there's one, two, she's spotting the end of the beam, and you can see she's starting to lose it right there. And there isn't a lot you can do when you're outside there.
Nice attempt, though. It's great to see the young gymnasts trying moves that will really get them some attention worldwide, because even the Soviet girls don't attempt triple turns on the beam. It's a very risky element.
It was the inadvertent fourth that got her off the beam.
This, of course, is the tumbling run here, where she sets up with back handspring, half turn, and watch this, aerial cartwheel, and as soon as she lands, boom, half turn. Really nice combination. She'll get originality points for that.
She just turned 13. Juliet Bangerter, a name to remember. But another name to remember is that of Joyce Wilborn. She does have her second gold medal in the individual.
She ties with Dana Lester, son Jeanette will get the bronze, and we've got the floor exercise coming up. Another great exercise for Miss Perfection, Joyce Wilborn, today.
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