Gymnast Social Media Megathread

[RAFIKI]

Well she may not have had the career she should have had - but Memmel was World AA champion in 2005 with that 0.001 win over Nastia

Yep, she also had a WC final UB win in 2004. Bet there aren’t many world champions who were never a national champion.

 

[tempest]

Nastia and Shawn supposedly didn’t like each other according to rumor but now they say they are friends.

According to Shawn They are BEST friends

 

[MaryClare]

According to Shawn They are BEST friends

No one like Shawn back then. She was an annoying kid. Who was very good.

 

[RedBirdie]

Only in the high school sense of being teenagers with different interests, fashions, friendship groups etc. That quad was very "mean girls". Chellsie, Jana, Ashley Priess were one group and Nastia, Alicia, Shayla and Sam were another. Normal teenage stuff, but with the add on of a hyper competitive, totally toxic training environment

If you'd told them back in 05 that they'd be colleagues...

Definitely not helped by some of the adults around them. There's toxic, and then there's the things that were said to the faces of some of those gymnasts that were just, wow.

 

[brg09]

No one like Shawn back then. She was an annoying kid. Who was very good.

To be fair most people are annoying at that age. I look back at myself at age 15, 16 and just think... yikes.

 

[brg09]

Kyla Ross got married.

Why is Aly wearing a beach sarong?

 

[Hatsumomo]

Definitely not helped by some of the adults around them. There's toxic, and then there's the things that were said to the faces of some of those gymnasts that were just, wow.

Such as? I think I missed all that.

 

[KathySantoni]

Alicia Sacramone was a bully on the National Team and a toxic team mate and intimidator to other girls. Let’s not forget she silenced girls that tried to speak up about Nassars abuse.

 

[KristyJ]

Do we have proof of all of this, or is it just conjecture?

 

[MaryClare]

Do we have proof of all of this, or is it just conjecture?

Yes. But it got lost with the old board

 

[KorbutFan]

No one like Shawn back then. She was an annoying kid. Who was very good.

I actually didn’t start finding Shawn annoying until she retired.

 

[MaryClare]

I actually didn’t start finding Shawn annoying until she retired.

I meant her team mates. They all found her super annoying in a little sister sort of way, especially in 2007. I think by 2008 she had matured a bit.

 

[brg09]

I think it would be really great if we could not bring personal politics here.

 

[JaJa]

I think it would be really great if we could not bring personal politics here.

I agree strongly with this

 

[rlayt]

MODERATOR NOTE
We don’t talk politics. Let’s talk gymnastics.

Okay since people kept it going I’m deleting parts of posts and entire posts.

 

[ucrgirl]

I do remember that at 2011 worlds maroney and Alicia and a coach (and maybe others). Mahoney said “last night Dr. Nassau did (I’m not going to say it. You all know the stuff he did).” Alicia responded in shock “don’t say things like that about Dr Nassar.

I have a hard time believing that she would be in this position if she hasn’t acknowledged that her reaction was wrong and that this is absolutely NOT how accusations would be handled today.

Alicia was an adult at the time but barely.

There may have been other incidents but I do not remember.

@rlayt please delete if this is taking the thread off topic.

 

[Laura722]

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

Dear god

 

[ucrgirl]

Wow. I could barely make it through half. Don’t post everything you think, Mykayla.

 

[Hatsumomo]

For somebody who nearly ended up jobless and medal-less at the only Olympics she made, she's very talkative.