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Do the gymnasts have immediate access to their artistry scores? Because I think it's wild that WTC would introduce this extremely consequential set of new deductions and then basically hide that result from the athletes who would stand to learn and improve from their scores? Even if the answer...

Thank you for compiling that youwannacranson. Very useful to see what the artistry rules are rewarding and penalizing on floor and beam. I will say that on Floor, the gymnasts do look more or less correctly ordered in terms of average deduction, and it feels fairly reasonable that Simone...

I think the artistry results are more than a bit concerning. A 5-6 tenth spread between judges working at the highest calibre of Olympic competition does not do much to reinforce the idea that these standards are in fact standard. It really creates a big black box without much...

A Junior National title these days amounts to: who has high enough D scores at age 15? And not much else. It's almost a negative indication of who might survive until the next olympic cycle for eligiblity. It was interesting to hear (via Gymcastic) that Lavi Crain's coaches at GAGE apparently...

There's so much to pick from with passes she's already shown. She has a remarkable diversity of tumbling elements, and she's done them all pretty dang well with maybe the exception of the 3.5 which has caused her some trouble a few times: Silivas Double layout Arabian Double Pike + stag 2.5...

Would love to see Leanne do 1) Silivas 2) 2.5 punch front full 3) triple twist as her passes. That'd be a 5.8 d score.

Maroney actually went from a full twisting yurchenko to an Amanar. I do sort of agree with your overall point about the Cheng... I think in recent years we have seen judges being overly strict on downgrading the Lopez (I think this happened very unfairly to Blakely at a recent Worlds maybe?) At...

Yeah, so this is the thing, as a gymnast I preferred double pikes to double tucks because doing a double tuck without cowboying is actually sorta terrifying -- your knees are just all up in your face. So, if you decide to cowboy, then there's the built in deduction. I think for most of these...

Laurie misinterpreting how a neutral deduction affects Hezly's score :/

Tiana on beam is a revelation within this group...

I can see Gabrielle Hardie as a ncaa star, maybe at oklahoma

I shouldnt focus on the negative though, her series with the onodi is really frickin nice

Isnt that kind or rushed salute what earned simone a neutral deduction at the olympics

Omg claire what was that at the end

Thank you! I forgot about B+D getting special bonus when it's forward acro. I also misunderstood the news about 'split jumps' getting downgraded from B to A. I guess it's only the split leap, not the jump that got the downgrade? Sort of random because the split leap isn't all that popular --...