Dominique Moceanu: An American Champion

[CameliasFingerpaint]

I really appreciate that you are summarizing both books side by side. It’s really quite unnerving and depressing to see the way she was forced into glorifying her abusers in public. I cannot even begin to imagine how that complicates the trauma even further.

 

[QuietColours]

I do think it's important to note with this one that it is "as told to Steve Woodward." I have wondered on many occasions as I was reading what that interview was like (and who else was interviewed), and exactly how much of any of this is Moceanu's own words and how much is a ghost writer having the outline of her career and filling in the blanks with the expected tone. It's entirely possible she never even read the book prior to its publication, much less that she had any editorial authority over it.

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

I do think it's important to note with this one that it is "as told to Steve Woodward." I have wondered on many occasions as I was reading what that interview was like (and who else was interviewed), and exactly how much of any of this is Moceanu's own words and how much is a ghost writer having the outline of her career and filling in the blanks with the expected tone. It's entirely possible she never even read the book prior to its publication, much less that she had any editorial authority over it.

One can only hope. Reading some of the way she describes events is really bizarre. Like, no 10 year old actually thinks like that.

 

[tempest]

what sill did she think would get named after her?

 

[QuietColours]

I think it was the back dive to handstand-half turn that starts at 30:34 in the video

 

[RichardL]

She could've submitted the switch side! I can't believe that one went to Shawn Johnson...

 

[tempest]

I think it was the back dive to handstand-half turn that starts at 30:34 in the video

wasn't that a "miller"

 

[Puffin]

wasn't that a "miller"

Dominique's element had a 1/4 turn but I think the Miller was supposed to have a 3/4 turn - but I don't think Miller always performed it that way

 

[irichluck21]

No Moceanu posted on Twitter/X over the summer that she never got her mount, the variation of the Silivas named after her. She wanted to know if she could submit the skill retroactively.

 

[MaryClare]

No Moceanu posted on Twitter/X over the summer that she never got her mount, the variation of the Silivas named after her. She wanted to know if she could submit the skill retroactively.

Who does she think she is, Nelli Kim?!

 

[Concorde]

She could've submitted the switch side! I can't believe that one went to Shawn Johnson...

The side switch leap on balance beam has an odd history with regards to naming, and is incorrectly credited to Kathy Johnson.

- Following the 1993 World Championships, the element enters the COP, but is not named after anyone.

- Beginning with the 2006 - 2008 COP, the name Johnson listed in the element box. Perhaps the WTC thought Johnson because of the side switch leap being named after Brandy Johnson on floor exercise.

- Beginning with the 2009 - 2012 COP, a list of named elements appears. The name is shown as Johnson (Name TBC), with the country of U.S.A.

- Beginning with the 2013 - 2016 COP, the element is credited to Kathy Johnson.

 

[Denn]

What a history of uncareful editorial work by the WTC... Sigh.

I actually don't know who the first to do the element is. I remember Dawes did it in 1993, but I feel like others did it that year, too, and maybe even years earlier...