US National Championships, June 3-6, 2021

[makam]

Even then, I wouldn’t have her do it unless she was really looking like an AA ef was possible. Otherwise, hold her til last and have her scratch if no one has a disaster.

 

[Passion]

Suni is trying to make the Olympic team. If Tom had come out and said he was taking specialists only for the +1, she would still be attempting AA because she wants to be on the actual team. It’s a guaranteed Olympic gold medal.

He can’t come out and say oh Suni you just do two events and I’ll put you on the team over someone else who could contribute more events to a team score, they can just sit in the +1 spot instead of you. If she goes just UB/BB then she isn’t being put on the team. It wouldn’t be fair to jump through hoops protecting her foot to get her a team medal just for her bars, when she still has a chance at UB finals as the +1. The team doesn’t need her UB, it needs four healthy athletes.

Not only would if be unfair to the person put in the +1 spot in her place, it would put extra pressure on her competing teammates. I’m sure Marta would tell her to specialize, and I’m sure Marta would turn around and decide to leave her sitting at home specifically for not doing AA, because Marta literally did that more than once. The Karolyis never liked taking injured people anywhere.

It’s would be ridiculous for Team USA to take an injured specialist on a four person team, when the extra +1 is sitting right there. I don’t care that three years ago Tom said once that he would focus on AA for the +1. If we’re keeping him chained to that statement then he’s certainly not putting someone who hasn’t shown an AA set in two years directly onto the team before considering them for the +1 spot.

 

[irichluck21]

No one is saying she shouldn’t do AA to make the team.
However, doing AA now at nationals makes zero sense. Especially considering that several athletes are NOT doing the all around. McCusker is limited to UB, Memmel is not doing FX, and Hurd is not doing UB. Suni should absolutely do just UB and BB and petition to Olympic Trials. Based on her UB medal potential and her Worlds experience should be plenty to get her to Trials.

 

[Passion]

Of course she should go to Trials regardless of what she competes here, but if Suni wants to do AA at Trials to make the 4 person team, and she herself is saying she wants more experience doing all four events, then she pretty much has to do AA here to get that experience as it’s the last meet before Trials. If anything Tom has shown he is willing to take pretty much every petition, so I don’t see how it’s his fault if Suni, an adult, wants and chooses to compete AA here.

 

[MRR]

Chellsie’s dance through:

 

[RedBirdie]

omg, she did the Kate Richardson hop!

 

[Doug1233]

Denn gave 9.2. I had 8.9.

So, totally in line.

 

[Doug1233]

I agree. Tom needs to basically tell Suni that she doesn’t need to do full difficulty on VT FX until the Olympics.

Her bars and beam are too good for her to get injured on a Silivas two months out of Trials.

 

[Doug1233]

Is there any central resource for podium training videos?

 

[Jack]

I can’t imagine an Olympic AA medal isn’t on Suni’s mind. It’s a misguided wish but I can see why she might have the drive to do AA this weekend.

 

[glamafonic]

Not that I’ve seen thanks to Flo.

 

[audie83]

Quadrennial Olympic heartbreak, here I come.

 

[ucrgirl]

We have that heart button below post for likes but I feel that we need a broken heart or sobbing icon below posts to express “I too am heartbroken over that fall/injury” or “I am crying with you.”

We would use them a lot.

 

[audie83]

Agreed! I think we could also use a meltdown emoji too, like they have on FS Universe - Unfortunately, I think we’re going to see some, especially at Trials.

 

[JaJa]

Sylvia Plum. Sylvia Plath Leo’s would be a lot darker.

And stitched together with glue.

 

[Denn]

I read The Bell Jar when I was in college over 25 years ago. I even wrote a long paper on it. Yet, I cannot remember even the most minor thing about that novel. I would say it’s age, but I don’t think I remembered even 10 year after reading. The only thing I remember is that I was trying to draw comparisons between the protagonist’s story and the author’s own life, and to help show that parallel, I referred to the author as Sylvia instead of Plath (which I used elsewhere when speaking of her as the author). I got called out on using a first name anyway, and I thought that was rather restrictive of the lecturer!

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Also one for rioting, I think.

 

[irichluck21]

But there is zero reason for her to do a DTY here or Silivas on FX. A FTY and watered down floor tumbling would be the best way to go.

 

[RedBirdie]

Absolutely agreed. And, it’s not like Suni and her coaches have shied away from competing watered down routines before! So why insist on showing the DTY and a Silivas? Makes little sense.

 

[RedBirdie]

I’ll create a new topic for each day of competition. I’ve already started today’s for men day 1 (juniors and seniors). I’ll do the rest tomorrow. Let’s keep competition discussion to the appropriate topic so everything is neatly in the right place and people don’t have to go searching through multiple topics to find all the posts related to, says, WAG day 1.

Normally I’d create separate ones for junior and senior WAG, but with so few juniors AND the competition only available on Flo (boooooooooooo), I suspect there will be very little discussion about them this year. So, combined we go.