Jordan's bars consistently score .5 to .7 above Jade's and may well be in team finals over Simone's bars. If Jordan does bars instead of Jade, she'll likely also do beam where for a hit set they score similarly. Jordan's consistency on beam doesn't matter as much in prelims, but allowing her to do beam over Jade means the US will have a backup AA score should they need it. And past years have definitely shown that's a good idea.
Yes. Same in qualification too.
Yeah, I just read a different tweet that says she's all good now.
In TF it was mainly just Cecile and Laurent but the whole delegation was more evenly balanced. 3 male (Laurent, Brian, Jess) and 3 female (Cecile, Sarah, Lisa) which made the coaching representation during prelims much more flexible
Sweet baby Jesus - no! I would hate to see Simone's feet anywhere near the UB podium!
Jocelyn seems to suffer from Raisman syndrome: perfectly nice person with not very aesthetically appealing gymnastics.
Will she and Kevric be the only first year seniors at the games? That is wild.
Hezly is going to get a lot of added attention, but I get the impression that the other 4 will really look out for her. I also think it will be great for her to spend some time where she is treated like an adult as her parents do seem very helicopter and Valeri is known as a coach who micro manages everything.
Agreed. The four veterans all strike me as ladies who will take Hezly under their wings in their own ways. Hezly is in an enviable position as a 16-year-old first-year senior at her first Olympics.
That's wild, I thought there might be a 15-year-old or younger in something like skateboarding. I suppose Quincy Wilson must be the next youngest who was selected as an option for the 4x400 meter relay. He was born in January 2008.
Guessing you weren’t here in 07/08? The Shawn hate was much worse.The Roberson hate here is getting really old, grow the F up! She is a sweet person and works her ass of as well.. She is who she is, her gymnastics is what it is. You can like it or not but all the comments here are so freaking personal it is disgusting
