2024 US Olympic Trials WAG Day 2 (6/30)

[jenifer9]

I’m not seeing this Roberson hate anywhere…? Pretty much every comment that criticises her gymnastics comes with caveats about her being perfectly fine in herself (as a person) and the regrettable reality of her training / her coaches.

 

[KristyJ]

What difference does that make?

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.

 

[MaryClare]

I know they each get to bring a coach, but aren’t only 2 coaches allowed on floor for team final, one must be female?

Yes. Same in qualification too.

 

[Laura722]

 

[RedBirdie]

I assume the stress fracture had healed?

 

[arabiandoublefront]

I assume the stress fracture had healed?

Yeah, I just read a different tweet that says she's all good now.

 

[glamafonic]

More info. This was back and March and has since healed.

 

[xcel_Lynn08]

So, after reading everything I've missed and watching everything last night. Here are my thoughts:

I predicted Hezly when I first saw her as a junior. Also, I'm less than 2 months older than her!

I think the team is well chosen, and honestly, it kind of chose itself.

I'm excited for the Olympics this year.

Also my mom said she'll consider Peacock for the Olympics.

 

[irichluck21]

Cecile will be in the floor regardless. In the past it was generally customary for the coach of the gymnast that won Olympic Trials to be the head coach on the floor, IIRC. Maybe all except for 2012 and 1996 I think.

2008, Marta had to be on the floor as assistant coach because there were no female head coaches.

 

[MrSixkiller]

Who was on the floor with Cecille in Tokyo?

 

[MaryClare]

Who was on the floor with Cecille in Tokyo?

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

 

[Angelika]

I am convinced Simone can get an UB medal in Paris on a good day. Fight me.

Sweet baby Jesus - no! I would hate to see Simone's feet anywhere near the UB podium!

 

[brg09]

I’m not seeing this Roberson hate anywhere…? Pretty much every comment that criticises her gymnastics comes with caveats about her being perfectly fine in herself (as a person) and the regrettable reality of her training / her coaches.

Jocelyn seems to suffer from Raisman syndrome: perfectly nice person with not very aesthetically appealing gymnastics.

 

[irichluck21]

Hezly will be the youngest American athlete at these games and is looking to be the youngest gymnast at these games as well.

 

[MrSixkiller]

Hezly will be the youngest American athlete at these games and is looking to be the youngest gymnast at these games as well.

Will she and Kevric be the only first year seniors at the games? That is wild.

 

[MaryClare]

Other than in 2021, which was exceptional for a variety of reasons (covid, teams of 4 + individual qualifiers), the US has picked a first year senior for their ability to do bars/beam, every olympics of the open code era. Sloan, Ross, Hernandez, Rivera.

 

[MaryClare]

Hezly will be the youngest American athlete at these games and is looking to be the youngest gymnast at these games as well.

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.

 

[Hatsumomo]

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.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

Hezly will be the youngest American athlete at these games and is looking to be the youngest gymnast at these games as well.

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.

Teen phenom going to Olympics on 4x400 squad

Teenage phenom Quincy Wilson, 16, is headed to Paris as part of the U.S. men's 4x400 Olympic relay squad, his coach confirmed Monday. He's the youngest American male track athlete to appear at an Olympics.

www.espn.com

 

[Jmanda86]

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

Guessing you weren’t here in 07/08? The Shawn hate was much worse.