Recent content by Aizheng

I can get behind this, though it would probably increase the number of competitors for gymnastics overall, which the IOC apparently does not want. For a world championship, though, would be great to experiment. I would also love having more world cups with different formats like Swiss cup...

I would hate to lose the women-only and men-only team event, so I would be much more in favor of doing this at European championships, where not all events are competed every time (they do team final one year, AA final another year, right), or possibly at worlds, where the quota is not such a...

I would not say that Malinin is different, you yourself identified that we don’t know why he’s that much better than others with the same advantages. Of course, in order to become so physically capable, you need significant advantages. In Biles’ case, it was family money, a supportive coach and...

I mean, I assume there are actually quite a few actors on broadway that did not go through this process. Maybe because they knew someone, someone saw them somewhere, it was a thing through their school alumni etc. The reality is, there are a lot more qualified applicants than positions in...

She’s still listed as strategic lead, so I don’t think so. But she’s no longer on the athlete selection committee (at least as a voting member).

I just read the minutes and also the original Charter. If I understand it correctly, Betty Okino is actually in for ASac, and the charter makes it seem like this is an annual Rotation thing, so next year should be Chellsie (though the Minutes Also refer to this spot as HPLT spot and I’m unsure...

Im Sorry @MaryClare, I did not read the entire thread and was unaware that this had been discussed ad nauseum. My bad! To get back on topic, I actually would be really keen to learn more about Russia’s upcoming cohort. Melnikova obviously shone in Jakarta, but her being the only RUS medalist...

True, but if the FIG and Olympics were serious, Putin using Russian gymnasts for propaganda would be disqualifying for all these gymnasts. It’s not personal against the individual gymnasts, but against the regime. Is it unfair that individual gymnasts suffer? Yes, but it’s also unfair that...

I don’t look at it as an individual “punishment”. There are rules in place. If the rules do not state anything regarding age, it is only correct for her to be excluded and not been given AIN status. It does seem like they are pretty much sticking to the exact letter of the rule, not taking...

I just saw this thread and this question. What struck out to me was that the facial expressions seem to go with her moves instead of the music. So when gearing up for something (the turn in the beginning), it looks like “concentration face”. Then, when she lands successfully, she smiles, despite...

Honestly, I think no one else was making a case for themselves, so choosing Grace was fine. My issue actually is with the rationale. If he had just said “we chose Grace, because on a team of four, having backups is super important and a team with Mykayla (or anyone else) on it is not so much...

To me, this is at least a mischaracterization. In the two world teams, he chose “the team” to be Top 6 AA and publicly stated that the alternates had not been decided. He then apparently used podium training to decide on the alternates, and I have no idea what criteria he used there. It was...

For me, beam and parallel bars are the two events that would be difficult. I know womens uneven bars used to be parallel pars at different heights, so women would definitely find something to do, but the skills that men do dont work because of womens larger hips and less wide shoulders...

To me, this is most likely a message meant to the judges that they’re not doing a good enough job and not judging well enough. It will backfire, though, because everyone and their coach will start enquiring everything, so men’s judging will take as long as women’s beam judging. On that note...

Did she maybe just mix up team final and qualification? The US, I seem to remember, started on floor and ended on beam in 2016. Laurie did the same events on both occasions, so that seems an easy mistake to me.