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Many kudos to these young women for not backing down. I cannot imagine what it is like to listen to your country argue that your coaches should have the right to abuse you. I naively thought the “sending everyone home” option was just inept leadership, but after understanding the real...

I would assume the intent here would be to avoid situations in which the gymnast is subjected to a “no dismount” score destruction because of a downgrade causing a repeated element? I can’t find the actual text.

I’m not sure you need to be rejected on the basis of scores if you are violating the FIG code of conduct by threatening to beat the crap out of your teammate.

I really enjoyed Tim and John. Part of it is just a Pavlovian association between Tim’s voice and a big meet. But really, while I do think the broadcast would be improved if their scoring-related commentary was more technically correct, I just loved listening to two guys who really love MAG get...

Nemour dancing so close to the boundaries in that routine is stressful. I like Melnikova but I’m not on board with her winning with a fall.

What a performance for Leanne. I would be surprised to not see Nemour and Melnikova not improve on their prelims floors.

Cmon Bows

Rotation 2 is coming for everyone.

This radioactive bars mat situation is killing me

For the other confused folks who can't figure out what a good execution score is this quad, here are some stats from prelims for our AA qualifiers. I'm using "execution score" to mean "E score minus neutral deductions" since... that's really what matters. Stat | VT | UB | BB...

I loved Urazova and decline to accept any criticism. My point with Jesolo isn’t that the meet doesn’t exist, it’s that Jesolo isn’t the “spring team meet with the very best Americans” opportunity that it used to be.

If Jones and Rivera were healthy enough to compete, or if Wong had switched her vault order yesterday and qualified in medal positions in AA and VT, plus retaining the US’ prime hope for a gold in that VT final, everything would be normal. Same if Blakely wasn’t still on her way back from the...

I don’t really understand why the NT leadership can’t tell an athlete competing on an international assignment that they can’t compete an unsafe skill. Frankly that’s never made sense to me.

Hang might be inconsistent but I have a really hard time holding that against her when we just had two days of Worlds qualifications produce, what, two hit AA programs? One being done by a post-NCAA athlete who didn’t really attempt elite routines? Who is consistent? Is that a thing in the...

Am I wrong that Sugihara is the only AAer in the top 24 to hit four routines so far?