Recent content by RichardL

I really want to see Nemour and Ke fight it out for the world beam title this year. Two absolutely world class routines. in other news I am now in love with Mohamed Afify lol, how did this happen again

Can you show me a video of Jiang that shows similar quality to Ke? All I've seen from her is very junior in terms of skill selection (but great execution).

Nemour and Ke are just exquisite. Ke nearly flew out of the frame on that double back dismount, and that mount sequence from Nemour is so special.

I wonder which one she will fall on during her next event finals!

I work at a university with a lot of Chinese international students, and they usually choose an American name as a moniker rather than use their Chinese name in class and among their peers. One year (post-Frozen) there were 12 girls named Elsa in the same writing class.

But at least it feels like a decision that was made on purpose, and with some thought. I'm hopeful.

I was about to say something like "Kylie Smith, meh" but then I watched her FX from Jesolo and she's looking quite good. Very upgradeable (but not needed yet because junior). I wonder who is constructing the routines at CGA these days.

All very strange and confusing, and uncharted territory honestly... but I do think she finally has a good shot at making an Olympic team if she stays healthy, since the up and comers have sort of stopped coming. The top group is basically uncontested through LA except maybe Lavi Crain.

Esponda has actually been upgrading and I really love the two combination passes in the middle of the routine. The whip double layout is absolutely textbook. Weird about what happened with vault at Jesolo, though, and of course she hasn't progressed on beam the way I'd expected.

Yeah, it's really an aging field and no juniors have handled the move to senior very well at all. We haven't seen Jones in a while so I'm hesitant to include her at all, but it's crazy that the 2nd-AA gymnast at Nationals in 2017 is arguably the top AAer today. And her name isn't Simone Biles.

Opposite of the Olympics actually! If she could've done the same short program she did in Prague at the Olympics, and the same long program she did in Milan at Worlds, she would have won two medals. Instead, nothing at all. Definitely a lowlight and a heartbreak, but there's always heartbreak...

Really sends me back to my own childhood lol

There doesn't seem to be any real desire for an open-ended code from inside the institution or its primary fan base, so it's incredibly unlikely we'll ever see it...

She's a two-time World AA medalist, which is nothing to sneeze at... but yes, what might have been.

Is Euros the big goal here for the top gymnasts?