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Chiles, too, back in the day! I'm curious to see what hers looks like now.Amanars are not worth it unless you can get the height and drill it like Maroney and Biles.
Hopefully she's doing both! She's certainly in the group fighting for an outside chance at AA bronze. Maybe she'll just save the Amanar for that phase of the competition and not compromise GB's shot at their own team bronze medal with a possible fall.I’m guessing that the rationale behind Alice training an Amanar is the threat of being 2-per’d for AA finals rather than any potential boost to a team score. But it does seem a waste, given the amount of training time required to achieve it versus the advantage it brings.
A gymnast like Alice who is capable of a decent E score on bars, should be focussing on maxing out her D score. A big UB score is a huge advantage, both individually and team
In 2022 you can actually go through her routines and eliminate a few errors to get her all the way to silver ahead of Jones. Unfair to other athletes of course but you can see how it was possible.Yeah, my first thought on seeing her still working on the Amanar was that she's trying to get that bronze she was so close to in 2022. Trying to squeeze every last tenth out. Whether this is the right way to go about maximizing scores, I dunno, but I see why she and her coaches might think this is the way to do it.
And an un(?)official skill on bars!Kelly Simm has a surprising range of hardware for a gymnast that isn't an automatic first team choice - World bronze, Commonwealth golds and a cheeky AA title at the Summer Universiade!
Bit of everything. Injury crisis years aren't uncommon, 2018 springs to mind, but as well as that there's also the Covid stuff.Cant remember a time when team GB was this thinned out. Have they just been incredibly lucky with injuries or is this far less depth than normal?