Recent content by RichardL

I was so confused when I saw you say "second Olympics" until I remembered... she certainly didn't have the Hernandez debut Olympics.

Oh I'm not totally convinced either, but there aren't very many options if she wants to keep a consistent coaching situation throughout the year...

Florida seems like a good choice for her if she really does make a push for LA, working alongside Wong and Blakely.

I always forget about how legitimate Johnson's comeback attempt was. She was the Worlds alternate and won gold with the team at Pan Ams in 2011. The 2012 team was so stacked, but she and Liukin were really right there in theory. Sloan also made it to Trials but injured herself there. Peszek was...

I once had similar qualifications for this role, but I am now 40

I'm sad that that's likely her last competitive floor routine. What a dud.

Conversely, MJDS could have saved us from the whole fiasco by hitting in the final. As could any number of gymnasts, sigh. I said it at the time but the judges were giving Chiles the gold medal with a hit routine. So many competitors in that final seemed so exhausted.

MJDS in Paris was an utter tragedy. She looked so good, in theory.

If I recall correctly, the 1996 book was just a play-by-play of her winning the 1995 National AA title, like literally a long description of each routine lol. But I could be misremembering.

Agreed! Quick no-thinking line-ups: Blakely UB BB Wong VT UB BB FX Caylor VT BB FX Roberson VT Sullivan UB FX

It's a personal book about my childhood gymnastics fandom through the lens of queerness (closeted gay boy watching girls struggle to be perfect, pushing their bodies to the limit while I didn't trust my own) and the sexual abuse scandal, when I learned how much they were enduring that I never...

I have a chapter about that book in my own book that I'm currently writing. So insane

Ashlee Sullivan quietly becoming a bars asset for this team is not something I saw coming, but it went really well for her at selection camp. I hope she sticks around in elite next year and works on cleaning up her floor landings (all those .3 steps back this summer were such a shame).

Uzelac was a huge talent, but only as a junior, unfortunately. She was going to be on the 2002 team for sure but got injured and then never really came back in the same form again.

And everyone but Strug [ETA: and Borden] made a run for Sydney!