Recent content by Denn

Now I need to hear it!

Damn, I am in the "Lisa Was Robbed" big time here. She totally should have beaten at least Amanar with that. BTW, there's two camera angles available. The one above is someone's video from the audience. Here's the broadcast.

You have to post videos! :-)

Disagree. Guys hit their groins on parallel bars and pommels. And those are smaller and not padded. Not to mention, at least with beam, you can train with mats on the side to minimize some risk. I also think that the physical characteristics that people like to cite as differences between men...

At FIG competitions, I think the whole routine is always reviewed. There are lots of cases in WAG where the element that was in question was not the focus of a score change — the WTC reviews the routine and downgrades elements that were both intended and awarded elsewhere in the exercise. I...

Here's the latest update from the men's technical committee. To me, this is completely unethical and an abdication of responsibility. Remember that lame situation at Worlds where Malone got no credit during qualifications for being just a little pikey in his full twisting Jaeger on high bar...

Thank you, @Bob !

I HATE the logo. TOTALLY.

Might as well rip off the bandaid. I actually think the name change is probably good in the long run, and that despite that, there will never be a time that we'll be happy about it because so many of us have so many gripes with FIG. It was inevitable, honestly — they weren't even using the...

On Facebook, there were some strong reactions by Romanians (not sure if they live there still or are expats) to the recent attention about age falsification in Romania. Some of the posters felt that the age falsification was suddenly being dredged up and piled onto the current concerns with the...

No, it's not. If you have a more specific version of the question, please message me directly. Maybe there's another approach (in addition to what @MaryClare said).

This will NEVER happen because FIG couldn't handle the qualification process for shit, but at this point, I'd rather they dump the men's and women's teams entirely... ...and add Trampoline, Double mini tramp, and Tumbling (all 12 men, 12 women, but if you qualify to one, you are allowed to...

What a history of uncareful editorial work by the WTC... Sigh. I actually don't know who the first to do the element is. I remember Dawes did it in 1993, but I feel like others did it that year, too, and maybe even years earlier...

I have to say — I am not excited for this. I never was a fan of Whitlock's pommel horse exercises, and I also didn't like it when he won floor exercise at the Olympics many years. That's nothing against him — he seems like a nice guy. It's just dislike of his gymnastics style. If he did the...

@MaryClare Please don't feel any pressure to respond, but here is how I process the ideas you wrote up. Yep, 100% agree. I do feel like that's essentially a circular argument. Moreover, it doesn't explain why split leaps / jumps should be ignored in MAG as part of that fundamental difference...