Recent content by barbara_dewey

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...

Dudnick, for sure. Her glorious DTY alone puts her on my list. Chen Cutting should have had a brace of World and Olympic medals, including some golds...but she didn't. Cathy Rigby, of course, could have had numerous medals in '72, but she is American, so it wasn't allowed. NFro has always...

USAG tries to avoid any mention of MAG.

He's a strong NCAAthlete whose career has been hampered by injuries. He's a nice kid. I hope this will be a good year for him.