EliteAthlete10 wrote:
EXCELLENT vault, but not a 10.0. I haven't seen Guti's vault from that night, yet, but I imagine it was probably closer to perfection than Diandra's. Yes, she has lots of amplitude and for anyone that's been following Diandra over the last year knows she can do that vault with better form. The judges should have just given her a 9.95. If the Bama online commentators notice a problem, then you KNOW it's not a ten. They call nearly everything much better than it was, anyway. 

If we're going to argue over vaults that deserved a 10, then Katherine Grable should have gotten a 10 at Florida for this vault: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBIX7KiWZwM

P.S. Hilary Mauro was a great gymnast, but she never did a flawless vault in competition and her Yurchenko 1 1/2 certainly never made one think of amplitude. And I absolutely loved Tiffany Tolnay, but she always had a large separation in her legs during pre-flight. Even more so when she was having the mental issue her Junior or Senior year.
It's obvious that the Yfull should be devalued again (as it had been previously), but the coaches have made it clear on numerous occasions that they do NOT want this to happen, so it won't. The only way to give harder vaults their due in scoring is to limit the number Yfulls done per team. As it would be strange to curtail only one particular vault, the easiest thing to do would be to limit the repetition of any type of vault to one time per team lineup; i.e. two layout Yfulls, two tuck Yfulls, two Y1.5's, two Omelianchiks, etc. This would force all teams, especially the top teams, to vary their vault lineup, and solve the dilemma of one team doing 5 stuck Yfullls and then one imperfect but stuck Y1.5 that the judges then feel they need to overscore in order to delineate. Greg, you love to bring new ideas to all of these admin. meetings - try out this one. and give me credit....