Chusovitina will attempt to qualify to Los Angeles 2028!!, would be her 9th Olympics!

[Passion]

She’s done the Nemov show every year since it started.

 

[tempest]

Chuso said she wants a new vault for 2024. What could that be?

I was wondering the same thing…

 

[MaryClare]

Yes. But the theme of this one is different shall we say. In how many other sports right now will there be athletes from other countries wearing Russia T shirts for promotional purposes?!

 

[Kittentoes]

I’m sorry, I need a moment to recover from the Photoshop.

 

[RAFIKI]

It looked like she was doing Roche preps a while back….a Dragulescu?

 

[tempest]

I was thinking maybe the Yeo?

 

[RAFIKI]

Yeah that’s more realistic. Has she been competing rudis or fulls lately?

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

That is godawful.

 

[Doug1233]

She did a full at that recent world cup and it did not look rudi-able. let alone a double.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

There was footage a few months ago of her working an Omelianchik entry. I wonder if she’s hoping to do a vault from that family?

 

[MaryClare]

The craziest thing about that is not Chuso backflipping onto a vault but that she actually competed with Omelianchik

 

[irichluck21]

Maybe a Mustafina or Cheng?

 

[Denn]

A video was posted today of her working on timers for Roundoff + Half on. It didn’t look good (yet).

 

[irichluck21]

Maybe it is a roundoff half on, Produnova vault? Atler was training these around 2001 IIRC (per her diary entry).

 

[Denn]

She’s not going to get anywhere near that far. I think the vault will be new for her, not new in general.

 

[irichluck21]

Chusovitina: Why shoud I retire if I don’t really want to?

This season, Oksana Chusovitina once again proved that we should never beleive her retirement announcements. She started training a few months after the Olympics in order to compete at the Asian ga…

eng.gymnovosti.com

Regretted retiring shortly after official announcement. Only retired because people were telling her to retire. Won’t give up gymnastics while she still has energy.

Will not attend Worlds this year, she plans on instead training Masha Paseka’s vault (Cheng).
So her final competition in 2022 will be the Islamic Games.

If she DOES have to attend Worlds (per Uzbekistan gymnastics) she will do her old vaults.

Stopped training AA because bars scares her as she has to use grips now and she can’t grasp the bar with grips.

Doesn’t know when she truly will retire.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

So obviously we all know not to believe her when she says she’s retiring. How to react when she claims she isn’t going to worlds is a new one.

Also, do we know what element she’s referring to on bars? My initial thought was that she meant the jam, since she did that in 93, but the way it’s written sounds like a release?

 

[RAFIKI]

I also interpreted it as a jam. Perhaps she did it with a regrasp/hop in handstand?

It would be gutting not to see her in Liverpool, we’ll see what actually happens though.

 

[tempest]

Also, do we know what element she’s referring to on bars? My initial thought was that she meant the jam, since she did that in 93, but the way it’s written sounds like a release?

I think it’s the jam, she said Chelsie Memmel also did the skill

 

[tempest]

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