Assume this means Ana Paduraiu is going for Worlds?! And Janelle McDonald will be coaching her!
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She’s on the canadian championship roster as “demo.”
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I’ve seen speculation that she’s demo-ing because she’s switching nationalities to Romania, no idea how true that is
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She could do her NCAA bars routine and that alone would be enough for Romania. They could use someone with her talent on bars.
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Where were you able to find roster? And do you know if there will be live results?
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As a Canadian I don’t know how to feel about this. 
My heart is in denial but my brain can understand the logic.
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Is the Canadian team so strong right now that Ana couldn’t make the team?
Given the stuff that’s come out about what’s going on within the Romanian team, it seems a pretty crazy thing to do. But Canada are already qualified, maybe she feels she can make a real difference to Romania’s chances
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Has she switched to Romania? Time is running out.
It’s just rumours. I think it was based off someone reporting that one of the UCLA gymnasts was going to make an elite comeback for a new nation. At the time everyone thought Emma Malabuyo for the Philippines and then it switched to Ana for Romania. I don’t even know how legitimate the original comment was, but the rumours increased once it was confirmed she was demo-ing.
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I’m happy to see her do whatever she decides to do, and think it would be interesting to see how a genuinely NCAAish routine does in elite. Padurariu hasn’t really looked like she could crank out elite difficulty, but who knows? She’s certainly still gorgeous; the more we see of her, the better.
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It’s just a stationing cam stream of the entire gym…but it’s something! There’s a cam of the men’s side too.
Live results:
http://www.sportzsoft.com/meet/meetWeb.dll/MeetResults?MeetId=CE3552976A77700DC3BD3C47B9A12BF1
Streaming:
Not sure what happened, but Padurariu didn’t end up demoing any events at Nationals.
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Also, 2000 Olympian Crystal Gilmore competed in the Level 10 16+ division and finished 17th. She is 40. years old!
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Someone on Twitter said they were watching on the first day and that she did beam. Ana also put a story of Emma Spence hugging her and Ana was wearing a long-sleeved leo so it would definitely seem she did. We don’t seem to have scores though.
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That’s great. Wonder why no score though? The other demo gymnast received scores.
I think because she isn’t associated with a gym/province which is part of how the scores are divided
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This thread might need to be renamed to unexpected UCLA elite comebacks :). Emma Malabuyo is on the nominative roster for Asian Champs!! Aleah is back too, as well as Kylee Kvamme from Metropolitan in Washington who has a Y1.5 and is committed to Alabama. All for the Philippines.
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That definitely sounds like she isn’t planning on representing Canada