2025 Gymnastics Social Media bits

[makam]

A little early, but I couldn't find the previous catchall thread.

Just when you forget how short a gymnast is...

 

[RedBirdie]

Yes, but.......Rockettes have to be at least 5'5" in bare feet. So even the shortest Rockettes is going to be taller than most gymnasts. Throw in the ones in the video are all wearing heels (2.5 or 3 inches, hard to tell), and Jordan is in socks, and they end up with a massive height disparity. Plus Jordan is, frankly, unusually short even for a gymnast. She's not even 5 foot and she's 23 years old.

FWIW, the average height of American women in 5'4". Rockettes have always skewed tall, the height minimum was 5'6" until a couple years ago.

 

[JaJa]

Jordan is 4'11". Which gives her 3 inches over Simone

 

[Sasha]

My brain automatically adjusts the gymnast to average height, and assumes that everyone else is just unusually tall. Those girls are pushing 6'!

 

[JaJa]

My brain automatically adjusts the gymnast to average height, and assumes that everyone else is just unusually tall. Those girls are pushing 6'!

That is exactly right!

 

[Hatsumomo]

Jordan is 4'11". Which gives her 3 inches over Simone

I was 4'11" when I was 9.

This conversation had me looking up to see who the shortest gymnast was and supposedly Bai Chunyue was 4'3"??? You see how tiny Simone and Flavia are and somebody was five inches shorter?

 

[OnlyBeansOnToast]

My brain automatically adjusts the gymnast to average height, and assumes that everyone else is just unusually tall. Those girls are pushing 6'!

I recently saw someone described as "tall for a gymnast". This sport requires a whole different frame of reference...

 

[MaryClare]

I was 4'11" when I was 9.

This conversation had me looking up to see who the shortest gymnast was and supposedly Bai Chunyue was 4'3"??? You see how tiny Simone and Flavia are and somebody was five inches shorter?

Simone and Flavia are adults though. What age do we think Bai Chunyue actually was….

 

[KorbutFan]

What age do we think Bai Chunyue actually was….

To be fair she didn’t look much different when she reappeared in 2001. Although it is hard to believe she was four months away from turning 17 at the Tianjin Worlds.

 

[RedBirdie]

She was probably 14. Adding 2 years was the standard operating procedure at the time. Although possibly she was only 13. But either way, she was so tiny even for a young teenager.