Extremely Premature Olympic Team Predictions and Speculation

[GymBeauty]

GAGE has been relatively good at producing gymnasts who can do beautiful gymnastics. Unfortunately, beautiful gymnastics does not mean “the best competitive routines for a gymnast.”

 

[Doug1233]

Simone’s bars composition is going to be very interesting.

 

[tempest]

could she do weiler, weiler 1/2, maloney to reverse hecht, toe on full to pak, shap 1/2 and dismount?
What would that be?

 

[GymBeauty]

That would be 6.1 D if she is still doing the double double dismount. Hopefully she is going to put the Shang in though and get 6.5

 

[tempest]

thanks… is there evidence that she is learning a shang or just wishful thing?

 

[GymBeauty]

She trained it in the past, not sure about right now. It’s a move that wasn’t really worth putting into her routine last code though, whereas now there’s a big incentive to do it.

 

[ucrgirl]

Think of all the Monday-morning “quarterbacking” we have ahead of us.

 

[Denn]

What happened to the piked tkatchev + Pak combo?

 

[tempest]

she can’t do the straddle tkatchev out of the maloney and a piked version anymore. If she didn’t do the straddle version, what would she do after the maloney then? I do look forward to what she comes up with though!

 

[GymBeauty]

If she didn’t do the straddle version, what would she do after the maloney then?

If the Toe 1/1 is still giving her problems, doing Giant 1/1 out of the Maloney could be good.

The code devalued the Pike Tkatchev + Pak though, so it’s still in her best interest to train a Shang either way.

 

[Denn]

Thank you!

 

[Doug1233]

toe on full to pak

I was always under the impression that she could only pak directly from a tkatchev, and not from handstand. But your routine is the obvious choice, if that weren’t the case.

 

[gymfan]

Toe full to pak connection is more likely than having F release ready in competition.

Or a quasi-Andrade-style routine:
Wieber 1/2 + Maloney + Toe full + Tkachev + Pak
Van Leeuwen
Jaeger (she trained that skill before)
Double double

That should be 6.2D.

 

[Denn]

Maloney + Toe-full is super hard. Is there a reason to think she can do that?

 

[gymfan]

It’s easier than Pak to Van Leeuwen, or F to D connection for Biles. Another 6.2D routine will also serve well for her:

Wieber 1/2 + Maloney + Tkachev + Pak
Toe full + Van Leeuwen
Jaeger
Double double

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

if she’s got the Weiler 1/2, there’s no need to do a 1/2 turn into Jaeger, KCH with 1/2 turn into dismount. At that point, just do a hip circle C

 

[gymfan]

Lee said she hasn’t been able to get back fully when she was asked whether she would be planning to do AA this quad. I think she will become a bars and beam specialist at least.

 

[rlayt]

Suni: Bars and Beam
Simon: Floor, Vault and Beam
Shilese: AA

Jade: Floor, Vault and Beam

OR With a little work:
Reese Esponda Beam, Floor.

 

[Denn]

Reese Esponda Beam, Floor.

Listen, there’s a year before trials. New talent can develop and be named to teams — it happens pretty often!

 

[rlayt]

She had the top floor score of the juniors. There’s always one young one who comes on strong the year of the Olympics and it could be her.