Recent content by Puffin

No, no no, no no It would actually be better back to front

Yikes - 195.725 for Utah!

Unless you fall out of a handstand, forcing you to tuck in your legs but you still hit the mat with your feet - then it's "only" a 9.825 :rolleyes:

Is it a Frasier homage?

😊 sorry

I think the situation in the US made it harder to achieve longevity - whether to make money with post-Olympic commercial ventures that, until recently, ruled out college scholarships and actually having the educational opportunities from NCAA as an alternative, but that wasn't encouraged during...

I was not a fan of Gogean's gymnastics - like a lot of Romanian's her senior routines were cookie cutter However that horrific beam fall in 1994 (which the coaches ignored) gave me a sneaky admiration for her

The scores really flew into outer orbit at OU tonight

I should probably slink off to a corner ...... .... but I miss GGMB's animated vomiting emoji 🤮

It seems like people competing in the mid-late 20s and even medalling has been around for a decade at least, in Europe, although perhaps not in the US. Tweddle, Wevers, Ferrari, Ponor etc Although I agree that Chuso is unique

It's like reporters haven't moved on from gymnasts being 14-year olds ... like all of that stuff about Simone being "old" in 2024

Isn't Gina one of the "old guard" coaches in Romania these days? I thought she dramatically quit in protest against Patrick Kiens and bringing foreigners into Romanian gymnastics https://www.patreon.com/posts/gina-gogean-and-82360671 Although IIRC she went back to being Deva (or should that be...

:ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: Doubtful! I think it was a one of his first competitions as team coach (possibly junior worlds) where he was whining about not realizing that dance elements were important. Will it be back to selecting teams in AA order? He also had no clues about the rules...

Tom Forster? Has he even read the latest COP?

.... and if Schönmaier had made contact with her second hand