Only partway through, but Gymcastic's interview with Aimee and Coop is promising. Still waiting on my book, and the interview is making me feel impatient!
About the same in the US. That's why I'm going to let the library buy it for me--in its lifespan, across the state library loan system, the purchase will be justified. For me, for an almost certainly mediocre book, it really wouldn't be.
With Sullivan surging as an elite, I wonder if she'll still start as a freshman next year, or if she'll go the Jade route with deferments. NCAA and elite simultaneously has had mixed results. The best results have come from athletes who spent extra time in their home gym (Chiles) or had their...
Has Leanne finished her classes? I thought she said something along the lines of "Med school will be there" and took off time to train for Paris. So I can very much see her being a volunteer assistant coach who trains with the team next year
I appreciate Caylor just having a few different elements and approaches in her floor. Wonder if she has a block on front tumbling, though (no shade if she does, it happens)
Good practice for her to get used to a marathon of competing internationally. The mistakes all made sense with what we saw from her prelims, so they know what to be working on the gym. We'll see how she rallies tomorrow
With how much the top athletes compete over the course of the Games, this makes me wince and feel like I'm going to be watching from behind my fingers waiting for the injuries that come when people are just exhausted.
Article about Yesenia Ferrera about how she'd like to return to competing if the finances were there. She's spent the last five years as a circus performer in Germany, keeping in relative gymnastics shape. She'd be interested in switching countries if another country could give her...