I'm not sure that these US team members will feature at Worlds unless as the odd event specialist - possibly Bullock. They only hung on to TF gold by 0.133 thanks to Colas making 3 errors on FX.
Depth seems to be an issue for the US - obviously they will be OK if Hezley, Shilese, Claire, Leanne...
Enjoyed watching the British champs. Great for Alice getting her skills back only 6 months post partum and Becky did really well qualifying for EFs in the 3 events she did.
I would also say that there were some really nice leos after the horrible "half-naked" NCAA trend this year. Seems to be a...
Yes pretty sure it was 1976 - the Soviet Team had all 6 of their gymnasts in the top 9 after prelims but only Kim, Tourischeva and Korbut competed in AA
In 1972 the Soviet team had all 6 team members in AA - Tourischeva, Lazakovich, Burda, Korbut, Saadi finished top 9 - but perhaps they want to...
Yes - that struck me as well. It's like they got the Olympic rings in their eyes and all rational thoughts about abuse and training on injuries went right out of the window