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He's been in Italy for a while, and I think he won before, too, but I had not heard that he changed nations. Do you have a source for that? 2025 Italian Championships Results Nothing exceptional except maybe his vault and PBars, and he just narrowly beat Yumin Abbadini. It looks like Casali...

And frankly, it's her best shot at a World AA medal probably. It makes sense from a personal point of view...

WHOA, I had no idea that the payout was THAT big. Well, that certainly provides some incentive, eh?

The bars score seems fair — maybe even slightly tough. Vault and beam feel maybe 0.1 or 0.2 high, but reasonable Floor.... LOL, no. Maybe 0.4 too high? So maybe knock the total down 0.6 or 0.7?

So is Leanne Wong the favorite for vault world champion? (A sentence I never thought I'd type.)

Yes, dear. Yes you are. LOL. All kidding aside, yeah, 93 Worlds and 97 Worlds were good meets. So were 2005 and 2013 Worlds — strong fields. I even think that 2001 was good despite the fact that gymnasts were trying to figure out the biggest shift in the COP ever made along with a new...

This is her point of greatest contact. I feel like it's enough to avoid the penalty, but... It's weird that someone (other than Skinner) would want to vault this way, and she's not getting the repulsion she should be able to get were she pushing and setting here. (The way, for example, that...

Yes, but more specifically, the alignment of D and E scoring to each other. I was part of a small group that tried building an app to do this, and I know others tried as well. (And did it differently.) Entering specific elements in a timely way is super difficult because there are so many...

I feel heard. ;) 🤣

I actually feel like she could Amanar that DTY better than Cheng that laidout Pod.

@Aeris This has been tried and it doesn't work. It's not figure skating where there are SUBSTANTIAL gaps of time between elements. In gymnastics, particularly UB, SR, PH, PB, and HB, the elements keep coming and trying to sync this live — or even after the fact — is too hard. @makam Maybe you...

I think it would be cool if the World Championships after Worlds had a difficulty cap of 5.0 on every apparatus. 4.8 E-score, with a 0.2 bonus for creativity. It would allow athletes to water down — and save their bodies a bit — but still reward the very best gymnasts. Team, AA, even apparatus...

The flower idea and the shape are cool. The smiley face is tasteless and tacky. What's it made out of? It looks like plastic.

This really made me think. I am inclined to agree it, but I also think that post-Olympics worlds have had depleted fields before. Is it really just exhaustion of the returning athletes? Or is it (also, in addition to exhaustion) a lack of benefit of competing? Maybe that's okay — and, like...

Leanne Wong... I actually don't see her being as high a contender as some of you do. :vt: The new Cheng could help but I think it's a big wildcard — she hit it at US Nationals, but it was a couple inches from being a fall. It lacks height. :ub: Has she ever broken 14 internationally? (She got...