and he started on still Rings. He won rings on night 1. So
the best on night one on this event
and he is
absolutely monster strong.
Not only did he do some of the most challenging
difficult strength Parts, but he did them so. Well, look at
that that is perfectly flat
and great separation from that first skill, which is The
Maltese up to a plan jh.
Look at it. Also opens up his hands to show the judges that
he is not on the wrist of his hand at all, which makes it
much easier.
Danelle has
for a long, long time, been a tremendous athlete but I really
thought he looked different ever since he got here to Tampa
looked a little bit more refined
a little bit more polished
and certainly in a zone that he needs to stay in really focused
big Dismount right here. Double-Double laid out
small little hop gonna be a huge number
17.3 48, there we go. On both.
And this is a very big one for Donnell. If you can do it, two
nights in a row,
He'll be top three on two different events, if he lands
this fault.
Big push looks good.
You know,
it was better
than night. One had a little bit more power.
Didn't have his body bent over quite as much on the landing.
Just crushed that table and he just keeps going up.
Just his feet are a little bit too far Underneath Him.
I said this the other night to you Terry, but honestly, if
anyone when I was competing hit said, someday they're going to
be doing this kind of a vault, I would have said, well, you
either don't understand gymnastics at all or physics
because it's impossible.
He actually has scaled it back down
because in gymnastics it's always risk reward. You do
the big skill, you get the extra tents but it's really easy to
incur deductions that make it useless.
Or sometimes even fall on.
That's pretty big error right from the start. He had a rhythm
deduction bent, his elbows.
Firework not allowed to move your hands at all. Once you put
them down, you can't make an adjustment.
He's had. I think three of them
thus far.
Still a hard routine but
capable of more and capable of sticking that Dismount
like a lot of the time but there's not a big margin for
error in that race for the second spot. Absolutely.
And you got to remember, he's here on parallel bars and
Asher. Hong is going to be going to Vault. So, watch this
right here. He's a little bit low on this, has to bend his
elbows. He also bends in his hips
on the swing do a handstand
and that's a deduction as well.
Let's see if he has any extra hand movements here. We're not
allowed to move them at all after they come down
one right there.
A lot of the guys just do a double front which is a little
bit of a blind. Landing Danelle
adds an extra half turn which used to give you more
difficulty not anymore. So he can see the poor so much
earlier
but he still has to take that half back and
it's more than one foot, so it'll be 3 tenths off for that.
Now while we wait there, over the high bar Donnell Wittenberg
underway. So this is one he needs to survive.
Doesn't have the highest level
of elements
that got to be clean and got to go to handstands. That was
pretty good,
one more right here, right? To the handstand.
Excellent.
His first release little bit
clunky. Had to bend his elbows, can't bend your knees in
gymnastics, can't bend your elbows.
I won't let you do anything.
Little bit off on that one arm Giant.
Let's see if he can get a stick. He hasn't had sticky
feet
so far at the Championships. Yep, pretty good. But
And remember what after Hong did on vault in that race for
the second spot. So they need to be a high number will see
over the floor
and call them Don Don and he can be great on this event,
but he was not day one fell on that tumbling pass.
Gorgeous.
Really nice landing position on that double twisting, double
layout.
Very good.
Double twist into a double Pike. You get extra bonus
points for connecting those two elements
and, you know, Donnell has always kind of hopped around
a little bit on floor, but
when he got to Tampa and I was watching him in training,
I thought looks a lot more composed more ready for
each Landing.
That didn't pan out in day one but it's Lee is here.
Double twisting double somersault. And this is where
he had his second mistake night. One, you're exhausted
after doing all of this tumbling
this is the full twisting double back
money.
Just a small little hot but big-time gymnastic from Donnell
Wittenberg he knows it too. So does the crowd
not done yet tonight or overall?
This was tremendous. Like I said, put his hands down on
this in day, one. Look at the height spot on the ground right
now
and let's look that's not a foot. That's only a tenth
judges, don't you dare take three. Now
don't know Wittenberg and third going into the funnel rotation
and he will go on pommel horse.
And he's a big guy,
very muscular, big, huge shoulders, lats and it makes it very
challenging to get your arms behind your back. When you're
doing these
one pommel skills
come up right here,
but he's a little better on this than you would ever think.
If you saw him and you said, how is this guy going to be on
horse?
I've always marveled at how he's been able to deal with it.
Not exactly Square on this. It's called a skewing it
deduction and he'll get it
but wow, what a great routine,
11, .05
0.36
to, that's how close he came so he does not get it done. Tim
Daggett, but he does Donna wooden bird second place.
What a showing For him and Tampa,
following the Wind by Brody Malone. But that race for
second place was something else. Donnell Wittenberg, who
gets the second spot and the second spot on the world
championship. So exciting, so happy for that,
young man. What a great comeback in his career to still
be going and to get to go with the big prize once again. Asher
honk fantastic. But you know, you can't make big mistakes
at that, you open the door
and then L stepped right through
and Zoras with the top two, right?
Right now, I've got Brody Malone with me and Donnell
Wittenberg. Brody, we'll start with you. Another us
Championship on your resume. What did it take to get it done
this weekend?
You know, a lot of a lot of hard work, a lot of numbers in
the gym leading up to this,
you know, it wasn't all perfect. But I mean, I was
happy with my performance - had a little bit of a hiccup on
high bar, but, you know, that's, that's gymnastics.
That's how it goes. But overall, I'm pretty
happy with how it went.
Both of you are going to world's I'll give in your
journey and your longevity in this sport. What does it mean
to be able to represent your country again?
I mean, it just it just means a lot because like I've had my
highs and I've definitely had my lows and at this point it
just it just feels so great to, you know,
be back. I feel like at my at my Peak
I came to say that I have a feel like I can do more, you
know. Like I feel like it's it's just I'm still just
climbing back into it. But you know, I just wanted to come
here. Just trying to have
a very consistent. Asian, because that's, that's been my
downfall in the past is I have been consistent. So, as long as
I can keep doing that, like we can see much more better things
in the future, congrats to you both.
We'll see you in Worlds, Terry back to you.