Post qualifications WAG musings

[ArnoldRimmer]

That still leaves us with the question of why experience for some reason didn’t matter this time, and why Amelie was there given that she’ll be mid NCAA career in 2024.

 

[Doug1233]

I’ve just seen #switchMyk on Instagram.

People saying Mykayla wuz Robbed. The judges were too harsh on her beam. And that she beat Grace in the AA so Tom needs to switch her into the team spot before TF….

 

[JDB]

I do like that the judges are prioritising execution over difficulty - Simone is now being penalised for the huge jumps she is taking on landings - luckily for her and Team USA her difficulty levels are keeping her scores relatively high. She is no longer giving USA the cushion they once had though.

And it only took 15 freaking years for the category one judges to start caring about execution.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Currently busy trying to get my head around China. They’ve basically sent yet another team of 48 potential beam and/or bars contenders who have nowhere near the D scores they need to be competitive on the other two events, no? You’d think they would’ve learned by now. Oh to be a fly on Qi Qi’s wall.

Also, I really hope the Gina issue hasn’t affected Jordan’s performance at all. That would just be so shit.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

Somehow, I didn’t even think of that, but now I wonder.

 

[Dex]

Idiots…lalalalalalalalaaaa

 

[Hatsumomo]

The delusion. I would hope this would require a chat with USAG about having more realistic judging for domestic competitions than inflated scoring and then gymnasts getting a nasty surprise in international competitions. Especially with a gymnast that hasn’t been marked with an international pen for seven years. So the less gymucated don’t realize that MyKayla got scored exactly how she should have been.

I feel like Skinner’s fate was written the moment Marta put Baumann on the 2015 World team over Skinner. Six years later, Skinner finally makes it onto a major team, in a way, but doesn’t get the Raisman judging pen.

 

[Hatsumomo]

China is perplexing. Like they gave up on having FX/VT specialists after Cheng Fei spectacularly fell apart in Beijing EFs. I doubt with the talent pool they have access to that they haven’t been able to find power gymnasts.

 

[irichluck21]

Skinner only was ahead of McCallum by a little more than .2
That is with McCallum stepping OOB and missing connection on BB.

Delusions.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

The US is a mess. Tom cannot lead, even if he has made some good calls such as putting Grace on the team. If you want to have an inflated home scoring system, fine- China and Russia do. But they know they do, they don’t kid themselves that they’re going to get the same sort of scores internationally.

An excellent point. Today is not the first time a US gymnast has had a nasty surprise in major competition after a domestic panel were kind to be cruel, and if no changes are made then it won’t be the last. Russia and China also benefit from competing internationally quite a lot. Obviously in Skinner’s specific case I can see how getting her in front of more international panels would’ve been difficult. But it’s ironic that in an ideal world for the US, if anyone were going to qualify a nominative spot she’d probably have been the best one strategically.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

You know, I always thought this quad was supposed to be for the pretty US gymnasts, like Maile O’Keefe, but then they got too broken for elite early on in the quad or they didn’t make it through the trials process (Riley, Morgan). Suni is the only one who did.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

And basically everyone from China in the late 00s had a serviceable DTY. We never think of He Kexin as a great vaulter, but she’d have walked onto every single Chinese vault lineup this quad.

 

[Hatsumomo]

Hell, they had Jiang Yuyuan doing an Amanar though a late elbow injury made it so she couldn’t compete it in Beijing.

 

[Doug1233]

The look on Skinner’s face when she hit a lights out beam and got a 7.133 E said everything.

USAG did that to her. That’s their fault.

We were all so frustrated on the Gymnaverse panel when we see Suni getting the same E score as Skinner by some judges.

It has to stop.

 

[Sanzhirovka]

I suspect BG thought that the experience they had this time was too little to matter in terms of medals, and they (in their minds) were sacrificing the “very small chance Becky could medal” for the “hopefully better medal chances of a girl we do choose in 2021 and whom we will promote in 2024 when we use the same experience argument to put her on the team”.

 

[irichluck21]

Oh lord!
The Skinner stans are in full effect.

If Skinner was on the main team, they would be ahead of Russia. Now she is not going to win any medals because she should be on the team instead of McCallum but also because of 2 per country she won’t get a medal on vault.

I cannot.

 

[Doug1233]

The mismanagement of Grace’s dance CR back- up plan means we get salty Myk fans all week.

 

[irichluck21]

The mismanagement of Grace’s dance CR back- up plan means we get salty Myk fans for the next three years.

Fixed it for you

 

[arabiandoublefront]

I’m scared for the post-women’s qualifications Gymcastic because they push the Skinner should have been on the team narrative/agenda. Are there any better gymnastics podcasts out there that aren’t so biased?

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Stupid as they are, that’s just a lot more benefit of the doubt than I’m willing to give them bearing in mind the secrecy, conflicts of interest and problems with athlete welfare that are endemic in the programme.