London 2012 Olympics Women's AA: Live Blog by @CattyComments!

Kittens, it's time! Catty Comments here, and we've already had 30 ballerinas on the fx acting out dancing Black Swan Swan Lake, and we're ready for the AA! Will Vika Komova capture the major AA title Mama Kolesnikova never did? Will Musty go Barbaro attempting an Amanar? Will Dougie be confident or extra confident? Will Ferrari wear a lawnmower leo? Will Clubfoot the Raisman point a toe? STAY TUNED!



Fashion update - Ferrari's shoulders have survived the lawnmower attack, but her bust did not survive the bedazzler. Condolences Ferrari.

The Ruskies (Vika & Bitchface) are in deep blue, and the 'Mericans are in Toxic Disco Rasberry.

Gabby (USA) vt - small hop forward & left, step on red sideline. Should be a 15.872349857. Judges give her 15.966.

Clubfoot (USA) vt - large hop forward & right, looks like step on right red sideline. Lovely Tuckamar. 15.9. If Maroney were competing, she should receive a 17 out of a possible 16.5. NBC will have red, green, yellow, and PINK! GIVE IT AN 11!

Vika/Flicka (RUS) vt - steps forward & off to left side, ending off the mats. 15.466

Lawnmower (ITA) vt - dty, tucked, hop then steps back. I give her 15.2765984. Looks like 14.6 something.

DLL (CHN) vt - dty, tuckish, .3 step back & to the right. Best leo in top flight - purple with thin pink & orange sherbet stripes & bedazzling where her bust would be. Because she's 16 20. 14.9.

Mustafina Musty Bitchface (RUS) vt - dty, cleanish post-flight, tiny step at end. She should go 15 for that - it's so much  better than DLL & Ferrari.

Ferrolito (ITA) beam - holy hell, I can't pay attention to the routine because of that leo. Because one-sleeve illusion fabric, deep blue leo with an asplosion of rainbow neon accents & bedazzling. AND NEON HAIRPINS TO MATCH - because, echo that shite. Can someone in Milan kidnap her & dress her better?

Izbasa (ROM) bars - meh. Muscled Romanian bars looks much better on the little ones. The leo is odd - reddish body and brownish sleeves.

Bitchface was given 15.2 for her vault - huge signal to Vika who was only awarded 15.466 for the sloppy Amanar.

Tanaka (JPN) fx - in the Japanese kamikaze rising sun leos - I'm actually okay with these. They're Japanese with a punk attitude. The Bond theme is cool, the arrangement (heavy on the celeste) is odd.

Pihan (POL) fx - nice attitude if not dance, semi-clean tumbling. What you need to know about Pihan Punk Cornrows is that the cornrows will always be dyed to match her leo. Her leo today is red, gold, white and black. So, yeah.

Seitz (GER) bars - giant Def with bent legs you could drive a truck through. Excellent rest of the routine, 15.166.

Your 1st rotation scores:

Rank	Athlete	Score	+
1	DOUGLAS Gabrielle	15.966	+
2	RAISMAN Alexandra	15.900	+
3	KOMOVA Victoria	15.466	+
4	MUSTAFINA Aliya	15.233	+
5	SEITZ Elisabeth	15.166	+
6	HUANG Qiushuang	15.133	+
7	DENG Linlin	14.900	+
8	FERLITO Carlotta	14.766	+
9	FERRARI Vanessa	14.600	+
10	TERAMOTO Asuka	14.300	+
11	PIHAN-KULESZA Marta	14.266	+
12	IORDACHE Larisa Andreea	14.233	+
13	BRENNAN Ashleigh	14.166	+
14	van GERNER Celine	14.133	+
=15	IZBASA Sandra Raluca	13.900	+
=15	LOPEZ Jessica	13.900	+
17	WHELAN Hannah	13.700	+
18	LITTLE Emily	13.300	+
=19	TANAKA Rie	13.266	+
=19	STEINGRUBER Giulia	13.266	+
21	PEGG Dominique	13.166	+
=22	TUNNEY Rebecca	13.133	+
=22	GOMEZ PORRAS Ana Sofia	13.133	+
24	MALAUSSENA Aurelie	11.500

Iordache went 14.233 on by far her worst event, bars. If she chucks an Amanar in the final rotation (which I doubt with her foot issues, but still), she could be in the hunt.

Iordache (ROM) beam - gorgeous back full but gets distracted and wobbles a storm after. Lovely electric blue/aqua torso leo with black tiger stripes & black mesh sleeves. Amazing triple full dismount. She & the leo are full of win.

Clubfoot (USA) bars - I suffer for you, kittens. She is in USA toxic disco rasberry, with bust & sleeve bedazzling. Bail was clean, pause on the stalder full with hiddy feet. Best routine she's ever done in an intl AA final. Now they're slo-moing her release moves - hiddy, hiddy feet. HOW DID SHE RECEIVE A 14.333?!! HOW??!! I need vodka.

Vika (RUS) bars - gorgeous form, light swing, amazing inside stalders, small hop back on tucked double-double dismount. Love the deep blue leo, ADORE this routine. If Raisman goes 14.333, give Vika a 17. She's money on this event. 15.966 - still deserved the 17.

Can we just all celebrate right now that Germany doesn't attempt to match their leos with anything?

Lawnmower (ITA) bars - good, basic, clean routine with sudden eggbeater legs on the tucked full-in dismount.

Just watching the Michael Phelps online add. How is Ryan Lochte so hot in a swimsuit and we look at Phelps and go, yeah, he has his shirt off. So?

DLL (CHN) bars - correction on bust flames - hot & light pink, no orange sherbet in sight. Nice el-grip work including Endos, nice Jaeger, legs apart on Pak, decent shoot to high, .1 step on her full-twisting layout double dismount. Nice work! She is the Romania of China.

Izbasa (ROM) beam - nice kickover pike front, but why the wobble after the layout? I'm worried Belu isn't starving them enough. Still can't figure out the colors on that leo - a pinkish brick red? A blackish brown mesh sleeve? WHAT IS THAT? Where is Christian Siriano to help me?

Bitchface (RUS) bars - amazing Pak to Khorkina, almost stuck the Musty dismount. Where Vika's routine has lightness and perfect form, Musty has good form but power. Can we just bottle the diva and feed it to USA alternate Finnegan? 16.100 - how is that higher than Komova?

HQS (CHN) bars - no, I can't spell her name under pressure. All you need to know is HQS, and her black leo with neon rave swirls is 10,000x better than the fugly that was her Tokyo leo. Thank you fashion gods.

Dougie (USA) bars - giant piked Tkachev, giant Tkachev-Pak, small hop on the double layout dismount. I think she'll go 15.4375429. I hope she'll continue regardless of what happens today, and I hope they'll add more difficulty to this routine - it's 6.5 now, and she could easily go to 6.8 without blinking an eye.

I now see a fashion offense. Dougie, remember what Mama Catty tells you - No. White. Bras. EVAH!!!

There now, I feel better.

Whelan (GBR) fx - nice deep blue shiny leo, funky pattern to the crystals. Can I re-choreograph the GBR routines? Head jives and choo-choo moves? No kittens. It's called ballet turns and jazz hands.

Steingruber (SUI) vt - handspring rudi with cray-cray side steps. Like the shiny teal leo - it looks lovely with her dusky blonde coloring.

Your standings half-way are:

Rank	Athlete	Score	+
1	DOUGLAS Gabrielle	31.699	+
2	KOMOVA Victoria	31.432	+
3	MUSTAFINA Aliya	31.333	+
4	RAISMAN Alexandra	30.233	+
5	HUANG Qiushuang	29.266	+
6	IORDACHE Larisa Andreea	29.199	+
7	DENG Linlin	29.166	+
8	SEITZ Elisabeth	28.966	+
9	FERRARI Vanessa	28.633	+
10	TERAMOTO Asuka	28.600	+
11	STEINGRUBER Giulia	28.382	+
12	IZBASA Sandra Raluca	28.300	+
13	PIHAN-KULESZA Marta	28.199	+
14	LITTLE Emily	28.166	+
15	van GERNER Celine	28.133	+
16	WHELAN Hannah	27.833	+
17	FERLITO Carlotta	27.499	+
18	TANAKA Rie	27.432	+
19	BRENNAN Ashleigh	27.399	+
20	PEGG Dominique	27.199	+
21	TUNNEY Rebecca	27.066	+
22	LOPEZ Jessica	26.900	+
23	GOMEZ PORRAS Ana Sofia	26.533	+
24	MALAUSSENA Aurelie	25.300

My feed froze, and suddenly Komova is dismounting beam. GAH! One step back on the dismount, a wobble on another move, but looks like she hit. You go blue swan gf! 15.441. Wow.

Seitz (GER) fx - long, low pike full-in, oob, step back. 1.5 through to 2.5, step. Good movement & dance, dorky choreography. Can Germany trade some Russian choreography in exchange for rebuilding the Russian knees?

Lawnmower (ITA) beam - almost off after her series, .5 wobble. Looks like the rest of the routine was clean. 14.5.

DLL (CHN) beam - how does she look different here than in Beijing? She can now see over the beam since she's now 16 20. Punch front. Amazing 2 bhs, layout, pause, Korbut. Wowsers. Switch ring. Front aerial, piked Chen. Lovely. Big wobble on sheep jump. 2 bhs to low piked double back, one step back. You go sweet 16 20!

Wheelan (GBR) vt - dty to stomach. This is because you don't comb your hair. COMB YOUR HAIR! That is all.

Bitchface (RUS) beam - solid double turn. Off on low standing Arabian - NOOOOOO!!! I am sad. Low switch ring with bobble. Bobble after back tuck. Switch 1/2. She then wobbles for nothing. Low double tuck, .3 step forward. SAD. Bitchface is so much more you than sadface. 13.633.

Dougie (USA) beam - Marta mount. Front aerial, bhs, lso - clean! Clean standing full! Switch leap, standing pike, bobble. Gorgeous sissones. Sissone 1/2, back tuck. Front pike. Full turn. Can she go clean? Switch ring. 2 bhs double pike, step back. Can't believe how strong she is on beam now - wow. 15.5.

Iordache (ROM) fx - pike full-in, hop, oob. Tuck full-in to back tuck - clean but hella ungainly. I like the way she moves, even if it isn't official "dance".

Clubfoot (USA) beam - tuck front. Bhs straddle layout. Sissone. Awkward close-to-beam requirement. Front pike, huge break - bend at waist, touch beam - I think about .8 in this code. Now wobbling on everything. L turn bobble. Patterson dismount - low & .3 step forward. Somewhere, Wieber is stabbing someone in the stands. Disaster. But still gets a 14.2?!! HOW THE HELL MUCH DID STEVE PENNY PAY THESE JUDGES?! I smell Rafalca money here. That routine should've gone 13 - so many wobbles after the near-fall.

Izbasa (ROM) fx - I'm calling the torso color Berry Brick. You're welcome Will Graves. Nice, clean dance & tumbling. 15.200, well-deserved.

Your standings after Rotation 3 are:

Rank	Athlete	Score	+
1	DOUGLAS Gabrielle	47.199	+
2	KOMOVA Victoria	46.873	+
3	MUSTAFINA Aliya	44.966	+
4	DENG Linlin	44.466	+
5	RAISMAN Alexandra	44.433	+
6	IZBASA Sandra Raluca	43.500	+
7	HUANG Qiushuang	43.199	+
8	FERRARI Vanessa	43.133	+
9	IORDACHE Larisa Andreea	43.032	+
10	SEITZ Elisabeth	42.599	+
11	TERAMOTO Asuka	42.566	+
12	PIHAN-KULESZA Marta	42.532	+
13	van GERNER Celine	42.266	+
14	LITTLE Emily	42.099	+
15	STEINGRUBER Giulia	41.982	+
=16	TUNNEY Rebecca	41.932	+
=16	TANAKA Rie	41.932	+
18	PEGG Dominique	41.765	+
19	FERLITO Carlotta	41.665	+
20	GOMEZ PORRAS Ana Sofia	41.166	+
21	BRENNAN Ashleigh	40.932	+
22	LOPEZ Jessica	40.700	+
23	MALAUSSENA Aurelie	38.100	+
24	WHELAN Hannah	27.833

Lawnmower (ITA) fx - Silivas, then eggbeater legs on her tuck full-in. 1.5 front full - step. Not getting this brass & woodwind heavy "Victory!"-type music - why? Clean double pike.

Izbasa (ROM) vt - Mustafina, nice, slight tuck at end, .3 hop forward. Clean, good vault.

16 20 (CHN) fx - whip through to 2.5. Tuck full-in, clean, .1 hop. Low double tuck to low stag jump. Low double pike, 2 steps fwd. YOU GO GF! 13.933.

HQS (CHN) vt - clean dty, .3 hop back. Meh.

Bitchface (RUS) fx - nails as black as her heart. Perfect double Arabian, stag jump. 2.5 to front full. Slightly off on the double Memmel spin. Tucked double back, .1 hop back. Triple full with eggbeater legs, step back. She came in with slightly .5 advantage over Clubfoot - we'll see how much each federation payed FIG. 14.6 - I think Clubfoot has the bronze. We'll see if she chucks the front flips out of the Arabian passes.

Dougie (USA) fx - GAY TECHNO TIME! 1.5 through to TF - nice! Arabian double front, stag jump - barely kept it in but does! Gorgeous tucked full-in, small hop. Tucked double back, split jump, and she goes clean! At least a silver, probably a gold. We'll see what happens. 15.033 - excellent score, but Komova can beat it.

Clubfoot (USA) fx - Hava Nagila - le sigh. 1.5 through to tucked double Arabian, large hop forward, leaves out the front layout. Dos Santos, split jump - leaves out the front tuck. Flops around on her stomach - er, "emotes." Triple full, step. Double pike, split jump. Points at her armpit and she's done! I say bronze b/c judges are on crack. 15.133 - TIES BITCHFACE. BITCHFACE HAS IT.

Vika (RUS) fx - somewhere, AJ is lighting a candle for her. 1.5 through to double Arabian stag jump. Tucked double back, split jump. YOU CODEWHORE YOU AWESOME KID! Huge split full jump. Clean triple full. She's got the energy her she didn't in Tokyo. Absolutely sticks her pike double back - I think she has it. We'll see what the judges smoke. 15.1?!!! Huh? Gabby wins with more fx landing deductions? I'm shocked. Dougie, Vika, Musty, Clubfoot in 4th.

Can't believe that Vika was denied - her execution score should be .5-.7 higher than Dougie. People feeling sorry for Wieber are suddenly crushed for Vika - 2nd again, but she deserved gold.

Your final AA standings:

Rank	Athlete	Score	+
1	DOUGLAS Gabrielle	62.232	+
2	KOMOVA Victoria	61.973	+
3	MUSTAFINA Aliya	59.566	+
4	RAISMAN Alexandra	59.566	+
5	IZBASA Sandra Raluca	58.833	+
6	DENG Linlin	58.399	+
7	HUANG Qiushuang	58.115	+
8	FERRARI Vanessa	57.999	+
9	IORDACHE Larisa Andreea	57.965	+
10	SEITZ Elisabeth	57.365	+
11	TERAMOTO Asuka	57.332	+
12	van GERNER Celine	57.232	+
13	TUNNEY Rebecca	56.932	+
14	STEINGRUBER Giulia	56.148	+
15	LITTLE Emily	55.765	+
16	TANAKA Rie	55.632	+
17	PEGG Dominique	55.565	+
18	LOPEZ Jessica	55.500	+
19	PIHAN-KULESZA Marta	55.465	+
20	BRENNAN Ashleigh	55.332	+
21	FERLITO Carlotta	55.098	+
22	GOMEZ PORRAS Ana Sofia	54.899	+
23	MALAUSSENA Aurelie	50.166	+
24	WHELAN Hannah	41.999

Thanks to the shocking pink Aussie leos - sorry, I'll talk about your seated Y1.5 next time. Thanks to Dougie, Vika, Bitchface & Clubfoot. Thanks to you for reading this and I'll answer comments below. See you for EFs!