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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...

I’m aware of the reasoning, but I have always thought payment was wild. Especially if judges are expected to make calls so they can be inquired against.

I can’t really believe that after all this, the fact that inquiries are not free hasn’t really hit the news.

Justice delayed is justice denied, or something. I’d be pleased about the speed if this made any sense whatsoever. I do think Jordan and others get some degree of benefit from NCAA now that NIL exists. While it isn’t at the scale of the Olympics, there is now an actual season to follow. Being...

Yeeeeep.

Good god. Wrong score for Barbosu, no notification about the actual changed score, no updated placements for other athletes. D minus. ETA I misread; they do have Chiles’ score, but not her placement. So D plus, I guess.

I hope all three athletes receive a bronzed letter of apology from all the judges on the floor and the entire FIG.