Event 2025 US Nationals Men Day 1 (Thursday, August

[cftmoonlight79]

Great vault for Kam Nelson

 

[rlayt]

Brody improved PH but HB used to be his best event. After that awful injury I wouldn’t concentrate on it either.

 

[Passion]

Beautiful HB from Hong

 

[rlayt]

Exciting work tonight.

 

[cftmoonlight79]

So far, any pleasant surprises? I don't know enough about men to know who is a surprise.

 

[Passion]

Nedoroscik stays on but didn’t make the full difficulty he was attempting. He was trying for 6.2 and only got 5.1

14.200 he’s in 4th so far. Hoopes hasn’t gone yet.

 

[rlayt]

Nice work from the newer guys like Fuzzy Benas, Taylor Bernhardt, Kameron Nelson. Brody isn’t hitting HB like he used to but he did great on pommel horse. Nedorosick didn’t hit his goal tonight but he apparently has only been back training three months.

 

[Passion]

Hong is having a great night. 14.808 on FX

Burkhart has pulled ahead of Hong in the AA after 4 rotations but he's not doing PH.

 

[Passion]

Top 4 AA right now are all from Stanford.

1. Taylor Burkhart
2. Asher Hong
3. Jun Iwai
4. Colt Walker

 

[Passion]

Hoopes nails PH!! 15.775!!!!!!!!

This is all with the US men's bonus system.

 

[rlayt]

Hoopes!

 

[Passion]

PH is now

1. Patty Hoopes 15.775
2. Brandon Dang 15.468

and then a point drop off to Preston Ngai in 3rd with a 14.558

 

[Passion]

If Richard doesn't nail this HB routine.. there's not really anything to send him to Worlds for.

He's only just barely broken 14 on VT so far. 12.750 on PB.

 

[Passion]

Richard had a great HB routine going until the dismount. Attempts a triple back but landed it super low and runs out of it.

13.450 for 8th, his highest individual event finish.

 

[Matilda23]

Reminded me of Komova

 

[BB12]

Different from Winter Cup, now he has color-coordinated matching tights.

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It looks like he's wearing a full length leotard with shorts over it.

That looks so funny. Like he was running late from bball practice and forgot to take off his shorts.

I get he has good intentions but I just dont think it's doing what he wants it to do.

 

[Passion]

Donnell Whittenburg SR, Kameron Nelson FX, and Asher Hong VT were all credited with D scores tonight that could auto-lock them onto the Worlds team if they win those events after Day 2.

They do not have to repeat the D-scores, just doing them one of the days is enough. They just have to do good enough Day 2 to win the event.

Asher Hong is leading the AA by 4.48 points.

 

[Passion]

I think the rotation with Stanford won the squad thing, they just gave them a bunch of Mardi Gras accessories and sent them up on the floor.

 

[Big_rock_show]

Overall I felt like there are some new guys coming up that are pretty exciting to watch, like Benas, Burkhardt and Hoopes. Pleasantly surprised Asher looked as good as he did coming off an Olympic year.
I was nervous for Brody every time he got up on any event— he seems under-conditioned and I was waiting for another injury to happen.

 

[Rich]

What would Hoopes score be without the bonus?
Nice to see Walker get the highest score on parallel bars