What happened in Team Finals

[Doug1233]

Suni is playing with fire by having two different UB routines

I think she has one routine (the 6.8) and then she has a back up plan if she misses the connection.

That’s waaay different than having two completely separate Yurchenko vaults.

 

[MaryClare]

Is this a thing though ? Lots of men have trained twisting yurchenkos alongside double back yurchenkos

 

[anon65539698]

Is this a thing though ? Lots of men have trained twisting yurchenkos alongside double back yurchenkos

I don’t know. I was just wondering. Maybe air confusion due to training different vaults would affect people more who rely on muscle memory, that is, who do their best when they don’t think, than people who think or visualize during execution. Not that it’s always black and white whether people do one or the other, there’s probably a blend of both to varying degrees.

 

[QuietColours]

Lauren in a Gymternet post says she was able to do double layouts but not her full in, which suggests the problem was beyond just the amanar and vault. Although where it started and if it spread (as these can) hasn’t been mentioned anywhere that I’ve seen

 

[Puffin]

I think it was pretty clear she was having problems in qualifying when she almost flew of the podium on fx and mistimed her bb dismount

 

[shirai]

Just seeing this angle and can’t get over how completely lost she was. USA were very close to counting a 0

 

[Doug1233]

USA were very close to counting a 0

And wheeling her out on a stretcher.

 

[glamafonic]

 

[mnesiptolema]

Oh, Simone.

What a rough way to learn the lesson, but I’m so glad she feels this way now.

 

[Sasha]

Oh gawd, here come the waterworks again!!

 

[lovegymnasts]

Heath Thorpe
@thorpeheath

Aug 11
Replying to
@youwannacranson
The worst case of twisties that I’ve seen (and in person), was Emily Little at 2015 Aus Champs. Got lost on FDL, broke her neck and never competed again. So heartbreaking.

 

[Doug1233]

She’s ok now though right?

 

[Hatsumomo]

https://www.instagram.com/emilylittle_94/?hl=en

Looks to be okay, thankfully.

 

[MaryClare]

She was still competing in 2017

 

[RedBirdie]

Emily Little broke her neck in 2017. Heath Thorpe was wrong about the year.

 

[onodian]

did lepennec do a 1.5 out? it looks kind of the way she did her ub dismount, cranking all the twists so late, I wonder if that messed with her head.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

It was supposed to be full in. I found another video of her floor routine from the 2002 Junior Europeans.

 

[onodian]

Interesting, cause she does indeed do a1.5 twist, and she’s clearly doing it as a full out not a full in. I guess the ub dismount messed with her head? I don’t really now how these things work

 

[Doug1233]

I thought she was trying a Silivas!!

If that’s a full in then yeah that’s definitely twisties.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

I lied, she did a full out.