Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams

[MaryClare]

She just comes across as very jealous. Her “flex” is that she’s so over gymnastics when in reality she is really isn’t. Only the most very talented gymnasts are able to even partially execute a comeback so many years later

 

[IratePanda]

Yes. She's probably also angry and bitter because she was never good to begin with.

I did feel a twinge of sympathy after her win at '86 Nationals. She couldn't fully enjoy her victory because she knew it would be downhill from there. But just a twinge. Glass half-empty people will never be happy, unless they're making other people miserable.

 

[JDB]

Jen Sey wrote blog posts for the now defunct Mommy Track'd in 2008. One blog post was about Chusovitina competing at the 2008 Olympics. She wrote about how unprecedented a 32 year-old competing in Olympic gymnastics was. Sports media at the time portrayed Olympic gymnastics as a sport for teenage girls. When Athlete A came out 12 years later, Sey had different views on why so many elite gymnasts were young.

She wrote another post that year about how difficult it would be for Shawn Johnson to compete at the 2012 Olympics. Again, it reflected the media's view of gymnastics at he time.

 

[RichardL]

Jen Sey wrote blog posts for the now defunct Mommy Track'd in 2008. One blog post was about Chusovitina competing at the 2008 Olympics. She wrote about how unprecedented a 32 year-old competing in Olympic gymnastics was. Sports media at the time portrayed Olympic gymnastics as a sport for teenage girls. When Athlete A came out 12 years later, Sey had different views on why so many elite gymnasts were young.

She wrote another post that year about how difficult it would be for Shawn Johnson to compete at the 2012 Olympics. Again, it reflected the media's view of gymnastics at he time.

I always forget about how legitimate Johnson's comeback attempt was. She was the Worlds alternate and won gold with the team at Pan Ams in 2011. The 2012 team was so stacked, but she and Liukin were really right there in theory. Sloan also made it to Trials but injured herself there. Peszek was the only one from the 2008 team to not compete elite again after 2009.