Gabby Douglas Comeback Thread (New goal: LA 2028)

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I honestly haven’t even thought up a team or any locks besides Simone. Some people like to make predictions. Who cares what their predictions are? There are other gymnasts making comebacks that we haven’t seen and haven’t trained for 9 months like Gabby. She’s a two-time Olympian, it’s not out of this world to predict she’ll make the team.
 
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I read reports of extensive online bullying while she was at the 2016 Olympics. (People went crazy when she didn’t smile, or stood respectfully–but w/o her hand over her heart–during the national anthem, when she didn’t seem to cheer enough for Simone, when she fell in bars final . . .) That’s all a bit hearsay but it didn’t sound like a good time despite a third gold medal.
 
ah… I was thinking during the actual comp
There was an article at the time that said post UB finals, after all the press was finished with, she went to a corner by herself and just cried.
 
I read reports of extensive online bullying while she was at the 2016 Olympics. (People went crazy when she didn’t smile, or stood respectfully–but w/o her hand over her heart–during the national anthem, when she didn’t seem to cheer enough for Simone, when she fell in bars final . . .) That’s all a bit hearsay but it didn’t sound like a good time despite a third gold medal.
I found the article basically summing it all up. It was an absolute nightmare for her.

Gabby Douglas calls social media critics ‘hurtful’ after ending Olympic career - ESPN
 
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This jerk has been trashing Gabby on his Twitter page.
 
True.

Unless you count the recent national team training camp my Olympic team is 60% athletes who haven’t competed elite in 2+ years. It’s just more interesting to me to dream about Gabby getting an Olympic UB medal.
 
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Who is he? Google turns up an unrelated baseball player with the same name and an NFL player from the 90s but nothing about this old turnip. I don’t have Twitter, so can’t search his profile. Given the ratio of views to interactions, it sounds like he’s just shouting into the void.

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