Recent content by RichardL

Doug, I love when you reemerge just to set us right. Long live the .5 low bar pirouette deduction!

Flexed feet on the sheep and the side somi, knees on the Onodi (there are almost always knees on an Onodi), flexed feet on the front toss to scale, crossed legs on dismount and large hop. And that's not accounting for rhythm deductions (the front half of the routine has some stalls). But...

I guess I don't see what GAGE has thus far failed to bring out from her in terms of her best. She's doing great. We all have our feelings about certain coaches but what are the specific complaints about how she is being developed as an elite? I just rewatched her Winter Cup routines to make sure...

She used to do a 1 1/2 - punch front full, which I think is the extent of her front tumbling abilities. I do like the new whip 1/1 pass though so I'm fine losing what had become a compulsory pass in favor of something more interesting (and doing the weird rogue punch front to meet the requirement).

Very scary dismount fall from Alice D'Amato, yikes.

I just played that video and remembered seeing her in 2017 thinking she would be just another Kayla Williams, a post-Olympics post-Level 10 splash that would fizzle and go away. Now she's a two-time Olympian. Insane.

The return of Sumanasekera is the biggest roster news, right? 10 senior athletes from that group getting international assignments will definitely involve some deep digging into the ranks...

I was impressed with Sullivan on floor and beam. I wonder who from NCAA will be going for Worlds this fall, but she, Rose, and Hang have to be considered outside chances at least at this point.

I forgot that Hang also competed in Antalya at Junior Worlds...

She really didn't stand out to me at the time, but as you look back, she was actually quite competitive on her two events. When all was said and done, she was 2-per'ed for FX finals and was top 20 at the Olympics on BB.

Yeah, those are some great PH scores!

I should not have taken that gummy

There was a video from a camp where she did a mind-blowingly perfect 2 1/2 + front layout full to a straddle jump, and she did a running front double full as one of her passes on tour. But that's it!

Not quite Jade Carey vibes re: jumping from L10 and making a huge splash, but the basics and the attention to detail seem to be there. Agree that she's screaming NCAA though.

"She does a straddle back to handstand on bars" is a very damning assessment of her potential contributions to GB