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Zhang had a Rudi last year

Ceplinschi is thankfully not injured, but has decided not to compete this year! It's crazy how much perseverence she has shown since 2022 Excited for Anamaria Mihaescu getting this opportunity though, she seems to be having a breakout year and is training lots of exciting upgrades. She joined...

Just remembered a really funny example of technically legal coaching in the middle of a routine. Steliana wobbles in the middle of her dance series and doesn't do a backup, and on the judges' camera angle you can see the head coach immediately runs to the other coach to discuss. Then he runs...

Alexandra Marinescu's book is genuinely impossible to find anywhere online. When I visited to watch RomGym Trophy in 2023 I saw a rare used bookstore had one copy listed on their website, and the lovely owner spent 15 minutes trying to locate it for me. I still haven't read it, but I did scan...

I think as the floors have gotten springier and more forgiving, we have seen a clear regression of tumbling basics. Mukhina couldn't have been landing a full in on a 1977 floor with the RO+BHS technique of a Sabrina Voinea or Viktoria Listunova. You needed very technically sound technique on...

Wouldn't the 65" length be a mere 8.5 feet longer than the current diagonals? That's not even two extra strides for most of them Everybody would start using the (awkward rectangular) diagonals, it would be much more difficult to choreograph routines to use the entire floor area, and punish...

I think out of bounds will always be an issue no matter how large or small the floor is, because they're going to try to cram in as much difficulty as possible to get a leg up on their competitors

Romania possibly jumping up to 5 NCAA gymnasts with Oprea (far along in the process) and Ceplinschi. They would likely be in the 2026 class

Oprea & Ceplinschi interested in NCAA too.

There was an instagram reel of the team's training in Leipzig and you could see Camelia standing by the vault and Sabrina walking down the runway My theory is once she bombed her two individual events, she no longer cared about the team or the mixed final she wouldn't be making, and didn't...

Logically it's Golgota/Voinea, but I think it would be dumb to not send Oprea for UB/BB to get experience with them. UB was the only reason she didn't make 2023 Worlds over Preda, and now that it's her strongest event (due to many ankle injuries) you'd think if healthy next year that she'd be a...

I've seen a lot of people (even commentators who should be well researched) assume she lived in the US and just went to Romania periodically for verifications and the big meets like other American country hoppers, which would not have flown at all in Romania. She was a full time resident in the...

Lilia is already in the US per MSU's training videos, and I imagine Ana probably just wants to focus on getting settled in to university, a new country & NCAA training without upheaval. I believe I saw something about Ana saying she only intends to return to elite in 2027.

Allegedly FRG only wants to send two WAGs to Worlds. This would not be unusual for them, as the last (and only) time Romania used all 4 spots at a post-Olympic Worlds (since the format changed in 2005) was 2009. Barbosu/Cosman (NCAA) & Ghigoarta (torn ACL & Meniscus) being out is likely the...

She was actually briefly doing this pass with a tucked Rudi at the beginning of 2007, but her SV got ripped apart as they didn't seem to know you can't do the same element in two different passes (front layout full) for CV. Still, 8 C+ rated acro in one routine is nuts. The 2006 music was done...