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I can see this. Even setting aside that you pretty much have to say you want to go to the Olympics if you want a single sponsorship dollar… If you are someone who can hit reliably under pressure and can get passably difficult elite routines in place, it’s not crazy to look at 2024 and 2025 and...

The E score itemization is definitely a solvable problem. Judges already have to do the hard part, which is identifying all the deductions. We’re really talking about a data entry issue here, yeah?

Remains to be seen, I guess. I don’t think a selection meet in a gym with no audience or cameras is really the Big Meet environment that competitors thrive in either. I’m elated for Dulcy. I enjoy watching her, and this is such a good example of a sports result actually mattering. I hope she...

To be clear, I’m not trying to insult the younger seniors or diminish Josc or Hezly. I do think that keeping an athlete healthy all the way through the end of Worlds is part of the challenge that coaches and the National Staff have to meet, and it’s strange and notable to me that it hasn’t...

USAG hasn’t gotten a non-Tokyo eligible gymnast to actually compete in a World or Olympic final yet. Roberson and Rivera made teams but didn’t compete in any finals. Kind of shocking.

I don’t think releasing individual scores tied to judges names, or even anonymized J1/J2, would really do much in terms of making the sport more fair. Releasing itemized deduction lists would be far more interesting and much more likely to actually move the performances in line with what the...

I try really hard to like what’s good about NCAA and ignore the rest, but I really can’t with the two pass routines. Aside from the issue of it just not being enough gymnastics, there are very few gymnasts and choreographers who can actually fill that time. It’s boring, and it’s ruining the...

I would absolutely never consider allowing xADA to build a history of my movement via location tracking, or risk a violation because my phone died or broke or got lost. I also imagine that these agencies can’t just have a tester appear at wherever the athlete happens to be, if they can be...

Utah posted that Jaylene Gilstrap will be performing her floor with a live pianist at their event on Friday. Sounds like this music was also composed for her? I didn’t imagine we would ever see floor done to live music again; this is pretty brave of Jaylene to try.

It’s going to be an exciting spring for the US elites. I’m very excited to watch someone have a breakout season.

It is kind of wild that Jordan and Jade have made the same Olympic teams, Jordan’s competed AA in two team finals while Jade has only competed one event (and did not make TF on the event she came in as OC on), but Jade’s the one who has competed in an Olympic AA final. It’s just weird how things...

Adding fun to the mix, when I read through the rules, it looks like you can inquire time and line deductions, but not all neutral deductions. Delightful, since Simone’s salute is a behavior deduction but of course that isn’t actually made visible.

It may even be more impressive that her skills don’t all fit on a shirt!

It is a flex and a half to leave one of your eponymous skills - the hardest vault of its family ever done - off your merch that’s being sold at the celebratory tour you headline and manage.

I’m sure no one at the FIG or anywhere considered an inquiry situation a footrace, but the problem of rules that are written to a level of specificity that cannot be enforced consistently, reliably, and transparently on the floor is a pretty standard problem. This situation seems certain to...