Recent content by Ms Motts

I agree, it puts a traumatised young person into the position of having to publicly defend their attacker without the safeguards that could be in place if this was an official investigation rather than a trial-by-social-media. On the other hand, it sounds like the person who filmed it did...

And there were other adults in that gym who knew exactly what was going on. And someone who knew it was wrong and tried to sneakily film it (you can tell the filmer was being covert). But they obviously sat on the footage for a long time - perhaps they were a scared child too.

You can see Sabrina physically whole-body cowering away from Camilla after missing a skill as if she’s afraid of getting hit, and then Camilla chases her and pinches her and screams at her as she cries. It’s pretty harrowing. And honestly, this is what I have expected all along watching...

The flailing to maintain a stick is deductible. You could take 0.1 for extra arm swings, or 0.1/0.3 for loss of balance. I'm OK with a small step not being deducted more than a flail - I think flailing to maintain a stick demonstrates less control than a small step backwards (as recognised by...

I really enjoyed watching Dulcy - there’s something very fluid about her gymnastics that is very appealing, and if she stays on her current trajectory of improvement, she’ll remain in the mix as exactly the sort of strong all-rounder that team selectors need to consider.

Rewatching some routines this morning - Sabrina Voinea could probably claw back the couple of tenths she needs to break the 4th place curse without even changing anthing about her own performance just through better music selection. Her current music is basically background music, and it was...

It's not about artistry, but from a reinforcement point of view, I'd say Roberson's medal is actually an argument for prioritising execution. Her decision to do the mustafina instead of the Cheng was really, really smart. It cost her 0.4 in difficulty but she almost certainly made up at least...

That's a Eurovision gymnastics coverage staple - they always pan away from injuries as fast as they can.

Well that's quite a fun podium really. And, Ok, the actual medalists are all very exciting, but even though we didn't see it, I just want to mention that Breanna Scott just quietly got the second highest beam score of the night.

She gave it away with those OOBs.

There were a fair few gymnasts in qualification with facial expressions that made them look like over caffienated theatre kids. I hate it. These elite athletes should not have to think that hard about their faces. The men don't.

Dulcy has the highest scoring floor of the night so far. (Kaylia's score not in yet as I type this).

That was possibly the most two handed Cheng I've seen Leanne do.

Dulcy's floor is nice to watch.

That's 1.333 above the next closest beam score!