Recent content by phoenix7

Before the third pass especially

She does a pretty good job with it, but that choreography is not what I had expected from WCC under Kiens and Jones. Has she had the routine for long? AA is still an amazing achievement and she has a whole quad to work through. Very happy for her but not mad about her fx.

Wasn't there also a massive drama about two competing tours after the 1996 Olympics - one with Kerri on bigger money, one with everyone else?

Thank you for those results and videos. It does frustrate me to see gymnasts in these mostly empty arenas at events that aren't widely broadcast. I wish we had a cheap international streaming option. All the work and injury risk for these gymnasts, and you'd swear nobody wanted to see them.

If she weren't endangering the ankles, I'd say Voinea of all gymnasts would benefit from more practice at vaults in competition. They've failed her a couple of times when the stakes were high.

It was easy to miss because I haven't seen any footage and she didn't make finals, but she actually vaulted twice in Paris this month. DTY and something valued at 4.4.

I Galievaed a taxi this morning, with satisfactory results

Same language reported from her to the kids as from Bela to her - watermelon stomachs. Man hands on misery to man, indeed

Oh, that's a shame. Medical grounds. This and Paris were part of Romania worlds qualifiers, so I suppose the team will now be Golgota, Mihai, Oprea, Voinea, so long as nobody has a disaster at Szombathely. Quite neat if they can have Golgota and Mihai AA, Voinea VT, BB, FX, Oprea UB.

I'm happy to see Maria Ceplinschi back for Romania - thanks for the roster

She was fourth AA in European Championships top - I wonder if there's been an injury?

Same here - I was hoping she would do AA. I really like her gymnastics style and her demeanour on the podium.

Thanks very much for the list. There is also Antinana Mizu, Parallel Life, a biography of Laura Cutina (Romania 1983-5 including LA Olympics)

And ... a competitive FX with no wolf turn. Surely that deserves a little credit.

Georgieva is really suffering for not getting that .2 bonus - she would have been first instead of fourth if the three ahead of her hadn't got it.