Potential upgrades ahead of Worlds

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[irichluck21]

Wow.

So happy that Shilese has found her stride and living up to her potential.

Stalder-Nabieva would that be the Jones??

 

[RichardL]

The skills are amazing! I just hope she can nail them when it counts. She hit everything at Worlds after several falls at Classics and Nationals last summer, so maybe that’ll give her the confidence she needs. Excited to see her competing against the Olympians for sure.

 

[Denn]

Sheesh! That’s incredible stuff.

 

[Hatsumomo]

Man, imagine a team with Jones, Douglas, and Lee. When was the last time the USA had such a strong UB lineup? 2003?

 

[makam]

Imagine being a junior a few years ago and being like, “there is almost always room on a us olympic team for a great bars worker, imma focus on that! Oh, gabby douglas is back in the gym? Nbd, she’s gotta be past her prime. Oh, Suni is going to quit ncaa and try again? Well, that’s harder but i can still make it. Skye has added upgrades, oh geez. And now Simone is back, well, she won’t want to do ub…what? As good as ever? Damnit!”

 

[ucrgirl]

I’m constantly amazed by Shilese. I remember after Olympic trials she posted a critical opinion about Tom’s management of the athletes and the Trials process. I figured she was burning her bridges before settling into NCAA. Instead she became a World AA medalist and is a contender for 2024.

 

[RedBirdie]

Not to defend Tom in any way shape or form, but maybe she should have been directing her criticism at the coach who so clearly wasted her talent for years. Her transformation since leaving Christian is insane.

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

In addition to the flic-flac + bhs + layout Jones posted recently, she has also posted this:



I don’t think I’ve seen a free cartwheel + loso + loso with more amplitude. She lingers in the air. She also recently posted a punch layout 1/1 step-out on floor. She’s got such insane momentum. I think she’s going to be hard to beat for AA 2 spot

 

[rlayt]

Imagine if Shilese had gone straight to Ascent instead of her stopover with her old coach.

 

[Hatsumomo]

My favorite acro series done so beautifully. You don’t see LOSO with such amplitude and floatiness much anymore. USA is going to potentially be incredibly strong on events they tended to be weaker on.

 

[blake]

Becky showing vault/floor in training. Dbl Arabian + 3/2 to double back and a Yurchenko 3/2.

 

[irichluck21]

FX: ADF, 1/2 in 1/2 out, 1 1/2 to double tuck, triple turn
BB: New mount combination, double pike dismount.

The Shushunova on VT looks decent, not really needed for team, but it provides back up, or as lead off in TQ.

 

[MaryClare]

It’s an interesting strategy. Not being “useful enough” has kept Becky off teams on a few occasions. Being able to do vault and floor in prelims gives her the edge over Fenton

 

[RichardL]

I wonder how many of those vaults and double arabians she severely underrotated before the ones that made it onto the web, but yes, she seems to realize that she needs to close that gap (even for a 5-person team) to give them no excuses not to take her if she’s hitting and getting the scores on bars.

 

[RichardL]

Paris is shaping up to be such an old lady Olympics! Biles, Downie, Douglas, even Andrade, Saraiva, Wevers, Schafer, Seitz, Thorsdottir, Black (and maybe Melnikova, who knows?) all from 2016 and still contending which was very rare in the past… I’m here for it.

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

at this rate, SCS might reappear on major teams. She was recently added to the NT

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

My worry is whether Becky’s lower limbs can take it. I see why she’s trying, because the GB selection process clearly isn’t going to build in any leeway to protect fragile veterans, and it’s not viable to just hope injuries elsewhere hand her a chance. She’s got to take the risk. Just hope it’s not going to be a repeat of 2022.

 

[esta]

Hoping that Scheder also makes her way back onto the Germany A team!

 

[Samxo]

I agree, every lading has me praying for her ankles especially the double pike dismount and vault.

On instagram she hopes she to showcase her floor. I don’t see an instance where BG would put her in the floor line up (even in quals)