2020 Women's Artistic Team Final (Tuesday, July 27, 2021)

[RedBirdie]

My personal favorite from the playoffs one year: “he has a body injury.”

 

[arabiandoublefront]

You know what I hate about prime time coverage this time around. It’s more like a documentary, than a sporting event. They don’t even bother with not spoiling audiences or anything.

 

[Caledi]

I think it’s inherent in US social media culture. People are ridiculous all over social media (especially Twitter and Reddit) but then totally normal in real life.

(Personally, I remember being mortified as a teenager when I found out that my dad – a very mild-mannered guy – was literally a troll on anonymous social media!)

 

[cats]

The news orgs have been totally obnoxious about spoilers. I would be furious if I was working this week and had to wait.

I greatly appreciate that there are three live options.

 

[cats]

To be fair, playing in a playoff hockey injury sounds like an excellent way to acquire a body injury.

I appreciate this term and plan to use it for… um, my daily existence as a creaky-ass 38 year old.

 

[Caledi]

ITA! After Euros I much preferred Urazova for Listunova and was happy that Urazova qualified to the all around. But Listunova really looked great today!

 

[PeakePups]

I’m finding the commentary extra annoying on the broadcast because I know they record it after the competition. Like seriously Tim, how often do you commentate on warmaps? He pointed out that Simone messed up her vault warmup.

 

[dweiss324]

NBC showing all of Simone’s major errors back to back was I thought weird and unnecessary and insulting. Lol I’m sure Simone loved that

 

[PeakePups]

Also Tim keeps pointing out what events everyone is slotted for. This way it can be even more dramatic when Jordan has to go on bars (and beam).

 

[kimbee]

I was just coming to post something similar. We know they add their commentary after the meet.
The pressure talk is ridiculous.

 

[PeakePups]

Yep, that was also weird. Not sure why I’m watching this, I’m just gonna bitch the whole time.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

Yeah, I’m not sure why warm-ups need to be covered. They’ve never done that in the Olympics before to my understanding, well except in Sydney during the AA, iirc. The whole vault fiasco.

 

[PeakePups]

They are just setting everything up because they know what happens. I feel like it’s more obvious and annoying than usual though.

 

[makam]

So rewatching, was Simone up high enough to actually get the second twist in?

 

[kimbee]

I believe so, if she had started twisting right away. It looked like she paused right off the table before she started twisting.

 

[JoseM]

I hope Biles recovers, and then I hope she can do a nice AA or something like that. My best wishes to Biles, and to all Team USA. I congratulate Team USA for winning Team Silver, and for being beat only by the Russians.

José M.

 

[cats]

I think so. It was a gorgeous vault up until she hit pause on the twist.

 

[Caledi]

I wish they used Laurie instead of Tim. It’s always irrationally bugged me that they usually have 2 men and 1 woman commentating, when women’s gymnastics is so much popular than men’s!

 

[gtu07]

I have already decided that I will not watch it because I don’t want to hear what NBC has to say about Simone or any of the other errors. “This is not what the US was expecting from Simone. This is a big disappointment for the US. ETC ETC.” (Sigh) Plus, I wonder if they will even show all of the routines. I already watched the Main Feed for the stream live this morning but I didn’t see that much of the UK.

 

[gtu07]

It did also look like she came in a bit high on the table, but she likely could have still pulled it around if she knew where she was in the air