Recent content by Hatsumomo

Should have happened 30 years ago but today works.

I prefer the slow burn vs the burnout

And we technically have two gymnasts falling under this narrative, if you want to count Skye being age-eligible for Tokyo due to the postponement (though she's a particularly unlucky case, getting injured out at Trials both times).

Standard abuser tactic. Sure I was abusive, but nobody stepped in to stop me from being abusive so how was I supposed to know that sitting on a child and slapping her was not okay?

A short news segment on Yamaguchi Sara's comeback after tearing her left ACL twice:

I hope we get a full tell-all about the Ranch and the Karolyis, not just snippets that are background to another tale.

Portugal and Hungary

Tabitha Yim is Stanford Gymnastics' director

I don't follow NCAA closely and don't know the rules, but with the Oklahoma Regents' massive overhaul on Oklahoma college degrees, making a lot of them functionally invalid, could/would OU's new recruits back out?

I wonder how much of whatever money she made was sent to support her family. It's not uncommon for the successful person to be held to strong expectations to financially support immediate and extended family members.

Jumping the gun, maybe? Hope Spivey was the only other Parkette to make an Olympic team at the time (the next/last would be Kristen Maloney in 2000), IIRC. Remembering an interview with Shannon Miller from a long time ago, it seemed like the Parkette gym commanded a certain respect but didn't...

Aside from 2012 and 2016, Kelli Hill had a gymnast either on the Olympic team or an alternate since 1992 and would have had DiCello in Hezly Rivera's place had her Achilles' held out. Not a bad track record, especially when her talent pool is almost entirely MD-based. I don't think I've heard of...

This is a little hyperbolic.

That's what I suspected. I really appreciate you laying it out like that; thank you.

Kim Kelly is one of those odd examples that would fit either narrative. Was them doing a closed-door second Trials and removing her from the Olympic team after she earned her spot at the first Trials messed up? Yes. But when you consider her overall track record of being able to (kinda sorta)...