Recent content by RichardL

Yeah, I was going to say that she looks to be in incredible shape. She's probably one of the top US AAers right now and should definitely go for some 2026 hardware.

She is a dual major in drama and creative writing, interestingly. I didn't know that when we were talking about her memoir, but of course that was published long before she ever stepped foot in a college classroom. Re: the casting, my guess is that she actually has developed some raw theatrical...

She is still a student but is not taking coursework this semester.

As long as the world is giving her something to do besides commentate gymnastics meets, I'm all for it!

I wish the skull emoji was a reaction option here lol

Hernandez does this too. They think the job is talking. The job is not talking.

new COP about to drop!

Wrong face, wrong voice, everything is a deduction

So funny that Humphrey ended up almost winning the Olympic title on bars. The weirdest quad ever IMO. Thank god they started open-ended scoring after that nonsense.

Also a bit surprised about Ke Qinqin as a reserve, but I guess this event is kind of event specialist friendly? Or maybe I don't understand the format. Anyway such a strong Chinese team.

I trained my gymnasts to do the tucked version (this was 2002 so no one was doing the layout; the tuck was a hit at L9 states in Missouri lol) by doing a forward momentum back dive onto the end of the tumble track and rotating against the physics of that, ie training their torso to pull back...

I agree with Denn: I'm sure this matters exponentially to the parties involved, but it all seems so silly at the same time...

9.8/9.7 SV wouldn't have necessarily challenged for a medal, but she was usually very clean so who knows. She used the Tsuk full in 1997/2001 VT EFs at Worlds so she was clearly trying to give herself the best chance she could. Easily would've made finals with a hit DTY.

Dropping this here for anyone who didn't know that Bhardwaj threw a beautiful RO-1/2 on-front layout as her second vault to try to make Athens EF. Too bad about the landing on the DTY.

@KathySantoni I love you but oh my god this question will be giving me nightmares shortly