Recent content by Aizheng

Sorry and thanks for the correction. She sat out everything but UB in 2006, though, correct? That was the year she had the bad ankle injury, if I’m not mistaken. I remember watching 2007 nationals and they were saying how Nastia had very little training time leading up to it due to her injury...

I mean, he seems to always have cared a lot more about his daughter’s long-term health than anyone else’s. Rebecca Bross doing AA in 2010 while clearly injured, while nastia sat out AA at 2006 worlds and 2007 worlds. It is possible that nastia felt more comfortable sharing her injuries and...

Strong disagree on it being overvalued in CV. It’s .2. Back handspring step out layout step out is clearly much easier and .1. Maybe they should just up the B+E to 0.2 CV so the layout 2- feet gets the same CV? That would make sense to me. I imagine the problem with the layout was that it was...

IS only one random cutout definitive here? Without the weird waste cutout, this would be an acceptable Leo to me, though I could leave the deep V and the second fabric…

I think we have to specify: are we talking current routine construction? If so, most gymnasts are missing at least some composition requirements. On bars, for instance, full turn, same bar release, high-to-low and low-to-high are all CRs, and most college routines I see have two of these (since...

Her contract had apparently been renewed to 2028, but was now terminated “im Einvernehmen” (code for she was given a large sum of money, IMO). The German article stated that the cooperation did not work as expected. Didn’t Helen Kevric move to Italy to train?

I just googled as well and I could not even find anything about the Olympic truce only applying to „new“ conflicts. In theory, all countries should stop fighting even existing wars for that time period. Realistically, the US will not be punished, because the next Summer Olympics are in the US...

So Al and Armine have temporary suspensions (5 and 1 years, respectively). But the letter specifically states that there is no set path to return at this point, so to me, it reads like GAGE will not be accepted again if the people involved stay the same. It seems like the gym will most likely...

I thought it was very interesting and also made total sense that Malea Milton shared that she had been training on a “couple fractures” for three years and is now finally taking the season off to heal and be ready for LSU. Great decision, but I cannot help but think that her coaches should have...

I live in Germany. I would definitely say that German media actually covered her quite a bit and my entire family (not gymnastics fans at all, though they are from the state she’s from in Germany) definitely knows her, especially how proud she is of singing the national anthem, which is seen as...

The same “author” also has a Jordan chiles, max Whitlock and Daria varfolomeev “book”… “Meet Darja Varfolomeev, the brave and talented gymnast who flipped her way into the hearts of millions!” BIg fan of the “flipped” for a rhythmic gymnast here, where flips, to my understanding, are prohibited…

Germany’s system works like this: Most towns/cities above a specific size have a municipal sports club. Like in football, there’s different leagues (usually, first, second and third +regional leagues). At the end of each season, the bottom team from first league drops down to second league...

Is that really what we’re seeing currently? I hope this will be the case, but it seems many US coaches are still stuck in the “as much difficulty as possible” area. DIfficulty has been reduced, but since E has not increased, to my mind, it’s more of the national team not being able to do more...

I completely agree with that. To me, it looks like gyms are still trying to get girls to gain skills as quickly as possible and have not adjusted especially early training. There seems to be an 11-year old in junior elite now. To my mind, that should be forbidden. She needs to survive 5 years of...

Reddit shared the selection documents, and for the world cups, getting a podium finish was mentioned first. There were some lower-level assignments where getting experience for athletes was mentioned first, so I’m guessing they don’t believe it’s worth it to send someone who’s not a podium...