I wouldn't believe it til I see it, as it's quite common at British domestic things for gymnasts to be on the starting lists but not ultimately compete.
She's going though, doing a signing session. And here is some recent training footage. Includes her acro series on beam. I could believe...
I adored that pass. It was such a throwback to all the stylistic tweaks on front tumbling in the mid 90s when everyone was trying to make theirs look a bit different.
Has Chusovitina said what she's planning to do about worlds, do we know? With the results she's been getting, she's in the mix, and it doesn't clash with Asian Games this time.
Keeps happening. It was the same for Italy at Euros. Teams taking their time to work this out. I hope we get more practice events of this before the Olympics, give everyone time to shake the cobwebs out.
And she could've won it, which couldn't be said for Urazova. Her best scores from the first two rounds were better than anyone other than Simone got in prelims, which they'd have known at the time. And also better than Suni eventually got to win the AA, which they wouldn't. I thought it was...
There were a loooooot of threads about that on multiple forums in the run up!
My guess is Chellsie would probably have still fallen slightly short even with a clean AA round herself. She would likely have needed the 06 standard DTY back, and we've no evidence that was in place before she got...
Did we know GMF was rehabbing a back injury? She's posted about it here, some videos also.
That would explain why she didn't compete this weekend, though she was on the start list.
I had always presumed the injury to be hampering Produnova on vault in Sydney, but it's not like she ever scored particularly well that quad. Eyesore penalty, I think.
Is this just for people who were 2 or 3 per'd out? If not, I think Memmel as a recent world AA champion in Beijing deserves a mention.
Do we know why Koshel wasn't in the final in 76?
It is, although in my roughly 6 seconds of googling I couldn't see anything written down anywhere about what constitutes 'new'. So not sure whether either the initial attacks by the US and Israel or the Iranian attacks on various Arab countries would be considered such or not. I've a cousin in...