Raisman had a difficulty score of 6.5 compared with Mustafina's 5.9.
Then an inquiry from USA's Aly Raisman, contending that one of her moves had not been awarded the correct difficulty score, was upheld, and Ponor was bereft.
A couple of split-second decisions on the bar caused him to play it safe, resulting in a difficulty score two-tenths lower than in qualification.
She scored 14.9, but her difficulty score lagged far behind everyone else's, making her work cut out for her from the start.
In her pink long-sleeved outfit, she looked like a prima ballerina as she performed difficult release moves and hand positions that raised the difficulty score of her routine.
The Gymternet was recently abuzz about Eythora Thorsdottir, of the Netherlands, whose wildly imaginative floor routine would not be out of place at the Bolshoi, but whose tumbling, and thus her difficulty score, is dwarfed by Biles's.
The D (difficulty) score involves adding up the hardest and specific requirements in a routine, while all gymnasts begin with a 10.0 E (execution) score from which points are deducted for flaws such as bent legs, botched landings and falls.
Recognized tricks are given a difficulty score, which cause "damage" to your opponents.
Scores from these subgroups are summed to provide a total difficulty score.
The complexity of cases was graded using Paley's level of difficulty score.
The difficulty score starts at 0.0 and increases with every skill performed.
