Recent content by barbara_dewey

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Oh, dear. Well, I hope she is having fun and learning a lot in her classes.

Being a stripper is absolutely not the American Dream.

Nobody has ever believed that the Body Issue" has to do with sports. It has everything to do with sexualizing young women. The women who allow themselves to be exploited in that way have Stockholm Syndrome. And USAG and NCAA and the coaches and parents are complicit.

So, you more or less went right by my house. 😉

Oh, how awful.

Malinin skates to music with some horrible, sadistic lyrics. Why?!?

Why do they even bother to wear a leotard? Yuck. This is why I don't watch WAG anymore.

She's an exhibitionist.

Great points.

Sorry for all the weird typos. How can I edit them back to their senses?

Rigby should have gotten medals in Munich. Team, top 5 AA easily, UB bronze below Janz and Korbut (Zuckold might have beaten her. MAYBE,) at LEAST silver on BB. Seriously, that Ariel was serious business. Even now, almost no one can float an Ariel in the same room as Cathy. She makes it...

One of the things that annoys me most about this meet is that I was living just over an hour from Montreal then, as in '76, but I DIDN'T GO TO EITHER MEET. Argh!!!!

Hang in there! Gymnastics has brought me comfort (and angst) over many, many years. I remember more about the 1976 Olympics than I do about severe floods here in Vermont that happened in 70 and 85 or so.

Man, this is a TOUGH ROOM! And yet nobody is slamming the one I would go after first. But THAT is a rant for another day. Re: split leaps, though: Basically, NObody did >or= 180⁰ split leaps until 1976, when one of the GDR Olympians (and maybe a Hungarian or two) did some nice ones. It MIGHT...