I think it’s borderline. Another way to get to 6.3 is if she does an L turn and then FF + loso + loso for .2. Or a switch leap mount (D) and then a B leap (stag ring jump) out of the front pike. But I’m inclined to think she’ll be trying the switch ring, especially since she’s at WOGA now
I was jr elite in trampoline and had to quit at 13. I came back to coach at 23 while in grad school and I got back all of my skills. The muscle memory was there for sure but also my brain was much calmer: I could see the skills and had much more patience and control in the air. If I had actually been in physical shape it would’ve been a whole different experience lol.
If I recall correctly, in her Time interview she felt that she could have given more effort in 2016 or she could have been better.
Well, she had a lot of media and commercial demands on her time and the whole coaching situation that to this day, i don’t really understand what went on. Add in the start of fallout from he-who-will-not-be-named and weren’t several of her family members pretty financially dependent on her? She had a lot pulling her attention. Though, 3rd in the world and a possible bronze if not for 2-per, isn’t exactly bad. And she wasn’t going to make up Aly’s vault and FX advantages on bars with the generous way Aly was judged.
I still thank jebus for Simone Biles or we would have had Aly Raisman, OLYMPIC AA CHAMP
She looked depressed AF, too, IIRC. It’s hard to be at your best when all the joy has gone out of it.
Total guesswork on my part, but I always had the impression we’d have seen a more competitive Gabby in 2016 if Simone hadn’t been around.
Douglas was doing the Amanar in PT at 2015 Worlds, and would’ve needed to be able to land it consistently to beat Raisman in the AA unfortunately. She was at her max on the other events IMO. We will forever puzzle over Raisman’s E-scores, but they were consistent.
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Between her being completely miserable and unmotivated, her knee fracture at the end of 2015 and Kittia and Christian being subpar coaches, I don’t think we ever saw her max from that period. I remember she kept on coyly saying in 2015 and 2016 that she was preparing upgrades (presumably the amanar and a new FX pass at minimum) for the Olympics but they just never surfaced.
Was her only FX upgrade the full-in to back tuck?
Yep.
I really don’t think that’s an assumption we can make. Even on the basis that she’d maxed out bars by Rio, there was so much room left to have improved beam and floor. Aly’s prelims and AA totals were both beatable even in the context of Gabby having had poor coaching and some motivation issues.
I guess I’m trying to say that Gabby did great, but the fix was in for Raisman. If she’d been scored properly on bars, of course, then it wouldn’t have mattered.
