Does the program have the power to stop her if it wanted to?
The part about her travelling and competing without her personal coaches doesn't seem overly mad to me, given her age and experience. Is that naive of me?
No, but there is a difference when the event consists of only two skills vs. eight.
I don't see an issue with rewarding the variety, but to borrow a term from video games, I feel the 0.2 is overpowered. As Spencer has pointed out, adding 0.2 after averaging is equivalent to adding 0.4 to a...
I don't think anyone is forgetting that, Denn. But I don't see how awarding someone 0.2 (after averaging) for replacing one of those vaults with a Tsuk or Yurchenko improves the event.
From my perspective as a fan, I don't care for it as I don't see it adding any excitement or meaningful variety to the event. Like, Yurchenko + handspring entry is not inherently more interesting than Yurchenko + Tsuk. I also feel like it disproportionately affects the results. (And no, this is...
I heard that they had three different sources, but did these sources hear the information directly from Camelia? Or are they inferring based on circumstantial evidence? I'd like to know more about what the allegations are based on.
Though I agree that the video Denn posted (I'd never seen it...
Just read on Reddit that Gymcastic (BTS) is reporting that Voinea messed up her vault deliberately at 2023 Worlds "so that she would be the only Olympic qualifier". I'd like to hear more before believing it, but absolutely jaw-dropping if true.
I genuinely assumed that "expired cases" was a translation of "washed up". As in, she's saying the gymnasts are only complaining because they're failures.