Here is Jackie’s SP blog. I’ll update when I have time. Watch the videos with no commentating while they are up. SKATING should be like this all the time.
And that is your College gymnastics week 2 update. Judges are stupid. They cheat. Or they are just plain inept. Her coach chanting for a ten and Jade acting like she deserved a 10 says it all.
I have to blog about something so here we go. This will not be a weekly thing but unless someone has a blog idea, This is what we get. Pretty much just focusing on the Elite gymnasts. If you have a highlight for anyone else, add it in the comment section.
Apparently, a bunch of so-called young men showed up at the LSU meet and behaved like idiots. (Why does 31-year-old, Sam Peszek have a Tik Tok?) They didn’t behave much better during the meet. Livvy asked them to calm down on Twitter or Instagram (I don’t have a link. Just read about it) Moral of the story, you attract the way you act.
Suni got a ten on beam. She looked great on bars too. Her feet form looked amazing. Less difficulty helps with that but if she did this during her elite performances she would be close to the Chinese on bars (she doesn’t) [Floor] [Vault]
Oklahoma easily beat, UCLA, Michigan, and Auburn. Morgan Hurd went the way of Riley McCusker during her freshman year of College and looked like crap. She fell on bars after having a really bad warm up. She also looked like crap on beam ( Nerves galore and completely overscored )
Jordan Chiles is trying to go “viral” with her hip hop floor routine but all I could do was laugh because the song Poison (And this is coming from a huge Bell, Biv, Devoe fan) is not exactly lyric-friendly floor music. Good thing College doesn’t allow lyrics. Hell, even BBD, doesn’t sing the bad parts when performing the song anymore (At least on TV)
I just realized it’s been a month since I blogged. It’s been a busy month at work. Anyway, Merry Christmas. Hanny Hanukkah, Happy New Year, etc… oh and, FUCK THE NFL REFS, You cheating bastards. His foot was over the line you blind, mother fuckers! (For future reference, The Patriots were cheated out of a win by the refs. December 18th, 2022)
What a little performer and that flexibility is to die for. And the Romanian gymnast (Sabrina Voinea?) in the background seems to be enjoying it too 🙂 Hwang Seo-Hyeon (She’s almost as adorable on beam as she is on floor) She fell but still. Keep this kid bubble wrapped.
(Videos are from Live From Paris’s youtube channel)
It’s very seldom that the Junior gymnasts hitting in 2022 will become the stars of 2026, so when watching videos of the juniors, I try and always look for a diamond in the rough. (Think Jaycie Phelps finishing in like 17th place in 1993 and making the Olympic team in 1996) Giulia Perotti didn’t have her best floor routine but all of these juniors from this meet look way far ahead of the US juniors we have coming up. Even when they have a hard time. Caly Chayani had the first up-tempo routine I saw at this meet. I liked some of her Chorography (It was different) and she too had potential if she would slow down.
And it looks like, Sabrina Voinea is coming into her own (At least on Floor) Her form even looked a little better here (On Floor) I think she really enjoyed winning that Vault Gold medal at Junior Europeans. She took second at this meet on floor (5.7- 7.700) Prelims: 11,233 (4.6 D – 6.633 E) [Bars] 13,066 (5.1 – 7.966) [beam] Finals [Vault] [Beam] Oh Romania. Bars dude. Bars. Sabria so badly wants to be a good gymnast but unless she gets a real coach that wants to teach her about details, she is going to be stuck.
The other Romanians: Valentina Miruna BOTEZ {Floor} [Beam] Bianca VISOVAN [Beam] [Floor] Alexia VANOAGA [Beam] Alexandra Florea [Floor]
I was going to just leave the team finals blog to serve as the All-Around blog, but it is too long right now. [All Info]
Live scoring [Official Site] [FIG] Neither of these worked very well during team finals but it’s what we have. I’ll add the BBS link to his commentary tomorrow.
Ellie Black only had a 5 start the value on the floor. it was 6 tenths behind Alice Kinsella. An entire point behind Jessica. 5 tenths behind Shilese and 1.1 behind Rebeca. Her execution isn’t to write home about in general so can we please stop with the “Ellie was robbed” It’s just not the case. Start value doesn’t decide things but it makes a difference when everyone has execution issues and those like Jade with real execution issues are not scored like it. if anyone had a case for being robbed it’s Alice Kinsella.
I guess I am supposed to be happy Jade didn’t win a medal, but I am not. The medal isn’t the issue, it’s the execution benefit she gets on every event. Take a look at the beam execution. If you can watch Jade on beam and then watch Ou and agree their execution scores should be within two tenths of each other with a straight face then you are in fact a biased US Gymnastics fan. You can take this opinion and add it to bars where they were within nearly the same amount. Even with mistakes, you cannot call this fair judging.
CHILES Jordan USA KINSELLA Alice GBR JONES Shilese USA GADIROVA Jessica GBR CAREY Jade USA ACHAMPONG Ondine
(Bars)
GADIROVA Jessica GBR CHILES Jordan USA KINSELLA Alice GBR WONG Leanne USA FENTON Georgia-Mae GBR JONES Shilese USA
(Beam)
CAREY Jade USA ACHAMPONG Ondine GBR CHILES Jordan USA FENTON Georgia-Mae GBR BLAKELY Skye USA KINSELLA Alice GBR
(Floor)
GADIROVA Jennifer GBR JONES Shilese USA KINSELLA Alice GBR CAREY Jade USA GADIROVA Jessica GBR CHILES Jordan
I feel like this is worth repeating. Chellsie Memmel’s father showing support for Jade Carey on his Instagram when his daughter is in charge at worlds is a conflict of interest.
1. United States – 167.263 2. Great Britain – 164.029 3. Brazil – 163.563 4. Italy – 162.798 5. Japan – 162.564 6. China – 162.064 7. France – 161.428 8. Canada – 159.661
They finally added Leanne to the National team. USAG being Manny.
Podium Training
The BBS Quick Hits [Day 1] [Day 2] Looks like Leanne isn’t doing the AA so enjoy worlds. This will most likely be the one blog for all of it. (Podium training Leo’s are hideous)
If you can deal with this idiot, Heath Thorpe has some videos up too on twitter.
Gymcastic : [Team China’s warmup] Ana Bărbosu [Floor] Andreea Preda [Floor] They have closer videos of the US but I am not linking them all. Leanne [Beam] [Floor] [Bars] Nina Derwael [Bars] Lexi Zeiss [Floor] Chellsie Memmel [interview] team USA [Interview] Jade [Floor] You can really see her form issues in this video. Skye Blakely [Beam]
Conflict of Interest much?
Chellsie Memmel’s father is posting things like this on Twitter when his daughter is in charge of the World Championship team, and USA-Gymnastics. I call this a conflict of interest. He didn’t post about anyone but Jade Carey. He didn’t post about the team. just about Jade.
Leanne’s lost her consistency (Last year was nice)The judges have lost their minds (Jade missed two connections and won beam at camp) and I’ve lost interest. USAG NEVER changes.
Yep, that Gabby. I was going to shut this place down. This sport, I THOUGHT, couldn’t get any worse but then Gabby Douglas decided to go back to training, AT WOGA (Rumor) So much for USA-Gymnastics turning over a new leaf. The last person they cheated to put on an Olympic team is now back at the gym, training at Woga, when Alicia Sacramone”Puppet ” for Liukin” Quinn is in charge of picking the team. Nope.Nothing to see here. I don’t have a problem with her coming back if they pick the team fairly but what is the chance of that happening?
Camp for the World Team selection starts tomorrow. Behind a paywall. We will get scores.
Shilese Jones, Katelyn Jong, Skye Blakely, Nola Matthews, Jordan Chiles and Addison Fatta will start on vault, while Jade Carey, Amelia Disidore, Marissa Neal, Lexi Zeiss and Leanne Wong