00:09Ladies and gentlemen, good evening, let's begin this chronicle recorded from the Caracalle term
00:15confirming the news that was given to you a little while ago during the video summary of the day.
00:22Japan won the team classification, thus taking the gold medal for the
00:29Men's artistic gymnastics with 575 points and 20 hundredths. Second place went to
00:37the Soviet Union with 572.70. Third place has not yet been decided, they are in a runoff
00:45Czechoslovakia and Italy. After three exercises, as you know, there are six gymnastic apparatuses.
00:53men, Czechoslovakia was third and ahead of Italy by only 5 hundredths of a second.
00:59second. Right now you can observe the Italian athletes who have started the
01:07so-called warm-up. In fact, the warm-up is over, the announcer said
01:13that this period is over, the six teams will now have to face with their six members
01:22the assigned equipment. This is France which has the vault on horse, the vault on horse
01:28horse. Bulgaria on parallel bars, Czechoslovakia on horizontal bar, Yugoslavia on floor exercise,
01:35Great Britain won the pommel horse and Italy the rings. They won the team classification.
01:45The Japanese confirmed their predictions after Melbourne and showed up here in Rome
01:51with some sensational innovations, especially on the horizontal bar and in the floor exercise. The Italian athlete
02:02The one you see playing is Polmonari. He's one of the oldest athletes on the Italian team.
02:19and he's from Ferrara, he's 26 years old. Some uncertainty in this vertical of strength. This is the so-called
02:45Cross, cross with square, a very difficult exercise. The Russian Shacklin manages to stay more than 10
02:55seconds. The exit was somewhat uncertain, however the Italian, who is performing well,
03:02on all the tests he will certainly get a score higher than 9 points. Meanwhile,
03:10communicate at this moment that Italy at the end of the 6 exercises has conquered the
03:17silver medal, sorry, the bronze medal with points 559 and 05. Let's repeat the
03:29The gold medal for the team classification was won by Japan, in second place
03:33place went to the Soviet Union, third place went to Italy which thus won the medal
03:38bronze and overtook Cicoslovakia who after three exercises preceded her by 5 hundredths
03:43second. This is the French Caimaris who jumped the horse, vaulting on the horse
03:53with a run-up. The gymnast tries to hit as far as possible, bringing the legs horizontal
03:59and finish perfectly with legs together. Now let's see a gymnast, it's the Igoslavian
04:07Petrovic engaged in floor exercises. Great progress has been made in this field over the last 20 years.
04:16specialties and I was telling you that today the Japanese have presented some new products
04:21sensational. However, the judges were a little low in their scores because they always go
04:28with leaden feet. On the parallel bars, however, he's a Bulgarian.
04:43Brief hesitation, he bent his arms. This is an excellent backflip. The jump wasn't very effective.
04:59final mortal and then the exit. Very important in these exercises, the entry and exit. It is about
05:05free exercises in which the gymnast presents his own repertoire. The other day they performed
05:12The mandatory exercises, therefore, have a fixed theme. Here, the athlete can let his or her imagination run wild and do whatever he or she wants.
05:19In this floor exercise, women have musical accompaniment that men don't.
05:3020 years ago gymnasts performed very simple exercises, just to demonstrate the possibility
05:38of ease and harmony in the movements of the human body. Now they perform real acrobatics
05:59and the judges must take into account in their score which goes from 0 to 10 the difficulty that the gymnasts
06:08performs, of the technical value, seen from a gymnastic side, by the coordination of these movements
06:16one in relation to the other and the execution. The score, I repeat, goes from 0 to 10. 10 however is not
06:26is never given.
06:28Depending on the errors, the jurors, who are 4, take away tenths of a point or half a point.
06:38In the meantime, you saw the Italian Pasquale Carminucci who finished the exercise with a somersault
06:46on the rings. There are four judges, and the maximum and minimum scores are subtracted. The two scores
06:56intermediate values ​​are added together and divided by two. This is a laborious task that requires
07:02a long time to compile the rankings. For women, there are 5 judges. They are
07:13in greater numbers because there were often arguments between the gymnasts who evidently
07:20Women have more demands and are more fussy than men. 5 gymnasts for women and 4 for men.
07:26men.
07:26For women too, the highest and lowest scores are eliminated and the average is calculated.
07:33of the three intermediate points. Marzolla is now in the ring, Gianfranco Marzolla who is from Donada in the province
07:45from Rovigo and is 23 years old. These guys are all very young. This elevation of strength is excellent,
07:54a vertical of strength. Another vertical of strength. Shaqlin does three or four without the minimum
08:08moving the rings. This one was very nice. This team too. The tip of the toes
08:21must always be projected forward. And the judges take this particular aspect into great consideration.
08:26which to a layman might seem insignificant. Here, the exit was perfect with the somersault.
08:34The athlete placed his feet on the mat and didn't move at all. That gentleman...
08:41in the tracksuit you saw accompanying the athletes to the apparatus is the federal coach. This is
08:46of the Swiss from Zurich, Jack Gunther, who has led the Italian team since the end of 1958.
08:54It must be said that the Italian team has made enormous progress. The bronze medal
09:00It wasn't really in the budget. In the meantime, you can see the showgirls who exhibit to the public
09:08and the score to the head of the jury. Then this gentleman has already averaged the two points.
09:14intermediate. 9.50 is the score deserved by Martolla. A very high score, if you consider
09:26that the top class, had 9.70 and 9.80 today.
09:49Another member of the Italian team. There are 6 members in each team and for the purposes of the
09:55team ranking, the five best scores are taken. Observe this cross with
10:01team, which is one of the most difficult exercises.
10:07Meanwhile you see that at the same time an Englishman is doing vaults on the pommel horse,
10:14where our famous Braglia, you have certainly read about him in some sports magazine,
10:19I even performed this exercise without handles, leaning on the horse with force
10:25of the fingers. This Englishman's exit was truly disastrous. In truth, in Great Britain
10:32Gymnastics doesn't have any great champions. Too bad, you saw that the exit wasn't
10:37perfect. After touching the ground, he took a step forward. However, the exercise contained
10:46quite a few difficulties and the execution was quite good.
11:17Of course the public never shares the opinion of the judges and these judges, as
11:25for other sports that require a score, I don't know, figure skating, diving, they become
11:32real robots and they have to transform this performance into numbers and they have to be real because
11:39starting from the maximum they always have to take away points.
12:00this is the great Italian hope, it is Franco Menichelli.
12:08look at this gymnast's class, here is this vertical elevation of strength, you have
12:14since he brought the shot up, look at this cross, it's a very difficult exercise.
12:23his exit was perfect and Gunther complimented our young exponent for whom the technicians
12:31they foresee a future, great promises, they even said that he is the new Braglia of
12:41Italian gymnastics.
12:58Franco Menichelli received a score of 9.75, a truly high score. The emotion was overcome.
13:08of the first exercises, Menichelli, is ranking in the top positions and at 19 years old, having made his debut
13:21in front of his audience, because he is Roman, even at an Olympics, his behavior
13:26It is truly commendable.
13:32This is a Czechoslovakian athlete. Czechoslovakians are currently working on the horizontal bar.
13:46I told you that there are six teams working at the same time, because there are six equipment.
13:53of men's artistic gymnastics. The entrance was quite simple and bent the
14:00legs in the passage under the arms, so they will take away tenths of a point. This is the
14:09great time and should be made by forming a single piece with the legs and the trunk.
14:15the head must always be upright and we observe the tip of the feet which must be
14:21Always projected forward. She missed her footing on the bar, and you see her regain momentum.
14:28This performance is really poor. Imagine, this athlete must have trained for 4-5 hours.
14:33per day, but he made a great exit with a wide flight and finished very far away
14:41from the equipment. We have seen that these athletes from beyond the Iron Curtain, Czechoslovakians, Bulgarians, Poles
14:48They know how to get out of the box very well, but they lack a bit of imagination and are a bit stiff
14:54in movements. The Russians are an exception, they have some really strong athletes and as
15:01I said Shacklin really impressed, but those who impressed the most
15:04Today it was the Japanese, who after three exercises were leading with a lead of
15:102.75 cents, but in the end they only had a difference of 2.50 cents.
15:23Another Frenchman on the horse jump, an excellent execution. I was telling you that the Japanese have...
15:33saw their lead reduced because they lost a few fractions of a point in the horse
15:40with a handle. The Japanese are all small and therefore, having short legs, they are not very successful.
15:47good at giving some emphasis to vaults, scissors and counter scissors.
15:57A Yugoslavian athlete in the freestyle. Note that he must give a certain harmony to his movements,
16:05to perform difficulties, to assume balancing positions, to do somersaults
16:12which are called flip-flak and it was Braglia who invented them. However, those
16:21times were not yet appreciated. This was even a yoga position. Even
16:30The Americans, the North Americans have made enormous progress. Too bad, you saw that in the exit,
16:38he had, in the exit, in the conclusion of the exercise, he had an uncertainty.
16:45I was saying that the Americans have made enormous progress and have performed well
16:50medium. In Melbourne they had very few members, but here they showed up with a team
16:56in full force and it is likely that in Tokyo they will give the Japanese a hard time
17:02than the Russians. The Czechoslovakian, Pazdera, is now on the bar. He concluded the exercise with a good
17:12exit, but you saw that he had some uncertainty.
17:28For those who are just looking, we repeat that the team classification has seen
17:35in first place, and therefore gold medal, Japan, in second place the Soviet Union,
17:40silver medal, Italy third place, bronze medal. Individual rankings
17:46they are not yet complete.
18:00we are talking, we repeat, about the free exercises in which the gymnast can do what
18:10wants, and naturally whoever makes the greatest difficulties and carries out the most imaginative complications, more
18:19difficult, has an advantage over those who perform an easy repertoire. Italians have
18:26He covered some excellent topics, and Gunther's excellent guidance was evident in this.
18:38The jury gathers every morning at the myth of the evidence, and the jurors all together observe
18:45an exercise, and they give a grade, and they agree to give the subsequent grades accordingly
18:58the judgment they expressed on this development. And this is to have a certain agreement, however.
19:08If there is a large disparity in scores, the head of the jury may ask for the reasons
19:16and the explanations of the score assigned by one referee or another. See the scoreboard
19:26leaning against the thousand-year-old gray bricks of the Baths of Caracalla. This kind of gymnasium
19:37It was actually created in a large hall of the Baths of Caracalla. Now we will see at the bar
19:47Another Czechoslovakian. This is Danis. This one is a literature professor.
20:04and he is 26 years old.
20:16a short concentration
20:21and keep the entrance
20:27That is, the movement with which the athlete makes contact with the object. These great times are quite good.
20:40but he didn't go perfectly vertical when he did the backflip.
20:50He bent his legs now.
20:58even now I bent my legs but you saw that the exit was excellent, very wide, with a nice flight
21:05and a perfect ending.
21:11With this exercise, the rotation in which the Italians, as you have seen, perform exercises on the rings concluded.
21:22There is a change of gear and, you see, the pianist accompanies the movement of the squalls with a now ritual march.
21:33and the audience rhythmically claps their hands and underlines the movement which is done with perfect order and discipline
21:41with an intense flag.
21:43Italy has finished the round, leaves the platform and enters Spain while the other teams take turns at the
21:57'next tool.
21:59With these images, ladies and gentlemen, we conclude our live broadcast recorded from the Baths of Caracalla.
22:09for the final evening of the men's artistic gymnastics tournament.
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22:31Thank you all.
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