2024 US Nationals MAG Discussion

[Caligym]

I did not have Donnell Whittenberg being in serious contention for an Olympic team in the year 2024 on my bingo card…I think he my blow my men’s usa team will be younger than the women’s team prediction out of the water

 

[rlayt]

Donnell vs Asher. Surprise!

 

[tempest]

I would love if Donnell made an Olympic team on what his 3rd time?

 

[tempest]

I laughed when they said Brody and Khoi would have beat Daiki Hashimoto... that's not realistic is it?

 

[Aeris]

The only thing Asher brings to the team is a small boost on Rings over Fred or Yul, unless he totally nails all 3 of his next RSG vaults, which is highly unlikely.

Stephen, Curran, Paul all show better scoring potential. Stephen is also the only real Gold medal chance USA has, aside from Brody's HB.

UPDATE: Asher's RSG only scored .1 higher than Brody's vault. I don't think he will even be an alternate at this point. 10th in the AA and Donnell edged him out Rings+Vault too.

5th spot for the team is wide open. My money is on Stephen, he will likely be on the highest scoring team by over .5 if he averages 15.0+ on Pommel again at trials. Curran and Paul will need to do their 100% best to match or beat that.

Donnell and Asher will need all 3 of those other guys to do poorly if they want to have a chance, they don't add enough to the team on their events.

 

[cftmoonlight79]

Can any Russian individuals participate?

 

[Caligym]

So the USA gym ap has Yul in 4th Shane in 5th. The NBC coverage just showed the opposite!?

 

[makam]

I laughed when they said Brody and Khoi would have beat Daiki Hashimoto... that's not realistic is it?

Well, sure, when you combine their daily scores, that is like 170. Daiki can't beat that!

 

[cftmoonlight79]

So the USA gym ap has Yul in 4th Shane in 5th. The NBC coverage just showed the opposite!?

Is that a 2 day total or just today?

 

[RedBirdie]

Can any Russian individuals participate?

Nope

 

[makam]

Is that a 2 day total or just today?

They have a 2day tie. Not sure what the tiebreaker is for that.

 

[Caligym]

UPDATE: Asher's RSG only scored .1 higher than Brody's vault. I don't think he will even be an alternate at this point. 10th in the AA and Donnell edged him out Rings+Vault too.

5th spot for the team is wide open. My money is on Stephen, he will likely be on the highest scoring team by over .5 if he averages 15.0+ on Pommel again at trials. Curran and Paul will need to do their 100% best to match or beat that.

Donnell and Asher will need all 3 of those other guys to do poorly if they want to have a chance, they don't add enough to the team on their events.

The top 4 AA are so good they can afford to bring a one eventer. But I think Stephen has to go 15+ both days of trials. That day two 14.6 ain’t gonna cut it.

 

[Caligym]

They have a 2day tie. Not sure what the tiebreaker is for that.

It would make sense that the higher single day of Yuls breaks the tie. What doesn’t make sense is the NBC coverage showing a different ranking.

 

[Denn]

Brody, Fred, Khoi, Yul, and DonDon.

That's my team after 2 nights, with regrets to Stephen Nedoroscik especially.

 

[Aeris]

The top 4 AA are so good they can afford to bring a one eventer. But I think Stephen has to go 15+ both days of trials. That day two 14.6 ain’t gonna cut it.

Stephen doesn't need to go 15+ both days at trials, they look at the average of the top 3 scores, he will average 15.1 if he repeats his Nationals performance at Trials. That will increase the team score by 1.4 and be very difficult for others to match. He just needs to not bomb one of his routines at Trials, because that would make him look too risky as a 1-eventer.

 

[makam]

Wow, only 2 guys went for vault medals. shocking to me.

 

[barefoot]

My team is Khoi, Frederick, Yul, Donnell, and Stephen. (I'm perfectly okay with my Brody erasure.) You've got 4 who can do all-around, and each of them is competitive for an individual medal.

 

[rlayt]

Khoi’s PH score today was higher than the one that he won silver at Worlds with.

 

[rlayt]

I’m going to go with Brody, Frederick, Khoi, Yul and Donnell. Alternates Shane, Asher, Stephen.

 

[OnoNoKomachi]

Brody, Fred, Khoi, Yul, and DonDon.

That's my team after 2 nights, with regrets to Stephen Nedoroscik especially.

That makes sense.
Brody, Fred, Khoi I believe are the most probable.
Yul needs to keep it up.
It will come down to Don Don v Asher. So whoever out of those two gets lucky.
Coming into this I wasn't sure about Donnell as it wasn't known if he would get his Ri Se Gwang back. He did.

The untold story of the meet is Tate Costa making the Sr Development team. All you had to do is compete a 32 D score one day, so he did that. He didn't do it well, but he did it. With this, he earned a trip to Olympic Trials.

Day 2 he competed a total of 29.6 D score and improved his AA score by 9.9 points.

Thems the rules. There was never a minimum overall score stipulated.