Australia’s Angela Donald turned in a lovely beam performance at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games, and for some reason, I just noticed it! I think this girl is just lovely to watch, and could watch this routine over and over. (In fact, I did!) Previously Angela has competed a double twist dismount, which I prefer to the double pike, but if that’s the biggest of my complaints about this routine then I think we’re doing pretty good! Beautiful wolf jump and leaps, and I love her side-somi! Not a wobble in sight. The routine overall is a little bit disjointed, lots of nice skills but it needs some flow, then again she is still young and has time to improve the layout of the routine! I feel certain we’ll see this one in London 2012 if she is age-eligible!

Viktoria Komova finally had an off day during Event Finals at the Youth Olympic Games, showing she is in fact human, but this video of her beam routine from the All Around is very impressive. My favorite part is her acro series, the layout stepouts are so extended and actually laid out, she gets so much air time during them….gorgeous! She is definitely Jordyn Wieber’s biggest competition in the coming years, if we’re pitting the top dogs of Russia and the US against each other!

Ana Sofia Gomez Porras continues to amaze me as I watch videos of her and the others from the Youth Olympic Games. Her vault is a Yurchenko full, and I couldn’t decide if it was tucked or just sloppy. Her bars routine was pretty nice, with a straddled jaeger and a full twisting double tuck dismount, but she will have lost a lot of tenths on missed handstands. 

But the whole reason I posted this video is of course because of her beam routine! She is quite aggressive and makes everything look very easy. What I was NOT expecting was for her to come out with that awesome backhandspring tucked full! Very nice! She reminds me a little bit of Nastia Liukin since she is so long and leggy. Her switch leap-back pike combination looks totally effortless for her, as does her free walkover-back tuck combo. Like I said in my last post….love her!