And I want to clarify that I call Margzetta Frazier, the ugly step-sister not because she’s ugly but because her name reminds me of Cinderella’s ugly stepsisters, Drizella and coincidentally, Anastasia. Oh Nastia, the gift that keeps giving. 🙂 I got an e-mail with someone up in arms but my sarcasm (which has been explained in the past) just doesn’t cut it with the libtard Generation Z. Oops, my bad, I’ll be waiting for my next E-Mail. 🙂 And seriously, why would her mother do that to her?
There are some meets coming up in the next few days including the comeback of the one and only Gabby Douglas. (The 27th)
Senior: [Results] (Videos are in the comment section)
Gabby’s beam score was more than enough proof to me that these judges will reward her if she hits. She nearly fell and nearly put her hands down on her dismount, she missed two connections and cheated two jumps/Leaps. Jade also had a really big bobble. I left this meet still feeling like the fix will be in if she hits. The first screencap is 100% cheated but is she trying to do a different leap because there is no way that leap is out. She clearly has her legs in front of her.
In the comments, it said she won gold. I was fully against this being an Olympic sport but if gets Shang Chunsong the damn medal she deserves I’M IN 🙂
Dave Lease removed his old blog, Aunt Joyce Ice creamstand where he once made fun of Shannon Miller for shaving her head when she had cancer. He also made fun of others.
Sam Peszek needs to be fired. Be mad but if you’re going to like tweets criticizing the hiring of other gymnasts because you weren’t hired, you look like a douchebag.
The second tweet was Magzetta Frazier whining about the scoring, indirectly, then playing the victim saying people put words in her mouth. We all know what you meant when you said the first tweet. Your career is over, biatch, go the fuck away and take your racist shit to the real world where someone will shut you up the next time you try the BS bullying you tried at UCLA. And the last screencap is just for fun:)
Sat 3AM (Juniors ) 7 am (Seniors) Sunday 8 AM (Event finals)
College Nationals : Blah. Leanne took second in the AA and won bars. Jade was overscored , ugly form, and it couldn’t have been more fixed. Oklahoma is out so I am out. 🙂 (Future reference, they counted 3 falls. 2024 is a sucky year) Leanne’s 4 routines. She was robbed of the AA title. Her floor score was like 9.9125 and she nailed everything perfectly. Qualifications [Day session] [Night session] Finnegan on [Floor] Haleigh Bryant [AA] (Overscored, steps on vt,ub, messy floor, stepped out of first pass. This was just ridiculous scoring for her. Jade Carey (Christmas, HUGE step on vault, gets a 9.9, usual shitty form, and step on bars, cheated leaps, no flow beam, and literal bent knees on her first pass on floor. This was just blatant cheating)
VT and Bars (Look Levi Ruivivar go. She is now an Olympian. ) Beam then floor. Emma doesn’t make the Olympics on floor thanks to a bizarre scoring system. If she wants she can go to Asian Championship and try winning the AA.
Qualifications:
Vault and Bars
Beam and Floor: Emma is out of finals.
Pac Rims: (April 27th)
Suni article. Written by hafl of the triple Twist twins who now works for NBC. Okay
Article on annoying, Jade and Leanne. Listen to Jade’s ego and then Leanne’s and deny my sixth sense about gymnasts isn’t 1000% accurate 🙂
The truth is Jade thought she would coast to the World team like she always had. There was no room to downgrade floor or vault and still make the team because Joscelyn existed and she proved she belonged there. If Jordan has a Cheng as clean as her otehr events, Jade, begone.
Jade knew she wasn’t going to Worlds (Sure Jade) the article quote “She wasn’t surprised when she wasn’t selected for the world championship team “
“I knew that the Olympics was still my end goal and maybe that last year was just something I had to go through,” Carey said. “I would rather it be last year than this year.” ~Jade Carey
The 23-year-old admitted she didn’t feel “fully prepared” while competing as an elite last summer.
Who is she trying to convince? Herself? Alicia? the entire Gymternet?
Pa rim and Jesolo. CRAZY. Trinity was a mess and finished bottom 2 AA and got an international assignmemt? ONLY USAG.lol
Camp Results. Really low scores but the usual over Woga Hezley beam score. So much for the year of Finnel. (Click on the picture to see it better) I like Evelyn Lowe usually so nice to see she did well, but as much asI like Dulcy for parts of her routines, her form is way too bad to get these scores. Trinity sucked, Reese, who people had as a wild card has zero shot at this point. These are ugly scores. Pease is always overscored but she beat the seniors by a point. I get these are lower level gymnasts but the US is going to be in trouble when the current group retires. only one start value (Pease, bars) is semi competitive. A few 5.8/5.9 bars and beam, but that is 4th AA type of thing, (and look what those start values did for leanne last year. World judges killed her) Tiana scores better outside the US and I saw her floor, awful landings.
9.30 AM for two events and later 2 more. (Link below) #Paywall
SportsCenter did a piece on Leanne Wong (Why do I always want to write, Leanne Rimes?) Here is the link to the video. This is good for her chances because you know USAG peeps love attention. Being Leanne must be exhausting. School, gym, a business, College life. I work and need 2 days to recover 🙂
I was sent this by Anon. I guess Kelli Hill is now a Shannon Miller fan (lol)
I have always been team freaking Leanne on beam and the judges backed me up at Worlds. Leanne received the least amount of deductions on beam when it came to artistry for the US team. At least in prelims. Below are the top pages for Qualifications. They may be out of order because trying to navigate the damn book was annoying AF. It had issues lining up but her artistry deductions were mostly 0.2 or 0.3 and what does this mean? It means LEANNE NEEDS TO UPGRADE because add in the tenths for start value and she is right in the finalists for the Event finals.
Judges for Qualifications. Now we know who to blame 🙂 No US judges except a time judge (Aly’s coach)
Beam artistry deductions for team, USA
Simone: {0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.6 0.2 0.2 } Leanne: {0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 } Shilese: {0.3 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.5 } Skye: {0.4 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.6 } (Skye fell but hers were the worst). The range was divided for everyone but Leanne and while I have always thought her beam flowed really well, standing on her tiptoes, rhythm, etc.. I still think she deserved better scores but being the most consistent for artistry deductions bodes well IF SHE UPGRADES. Simone is always going to get overscored on name for things like this because she is pretty much a consistent robot on beam.
Floor Deductions for Team USA in Qualifications: Technically Leanne had the second best set of artistry from team USA but she was still lowballed in the department. Sorry but her routine had the best artistry on Team USA. She probably needs more choreography) Simone had the biggest range of scores. Joscelyn also had a wide range of scores.
By judge is interesting. Not sure how any judge sees Simone better than Leanne (Looking at you judges 5 & 7) Judge 4 thought Josc was the same as Leanne and better than Simone & Shilese. Judge 2 put Leanne first, Simone & Shilese the same, and Jos one-tenth lower. Judge 7 was the worst. Cheated for Simone put her ahead of Shilese and gave Leanne and Josc the same score. Judge 1 gave Shilese & Leanne the same score, and didn’t like Simone at all, Tied Shilese & Leanne and gave Josc, one-tenth less than Simone.
I am looking but can’t find the team finals Artistry deductions but here are the judges and artistry deductions for the US gymnasts in the All Around (and top 18 on beam and top 8 or so on floor)
Event Finals artistry deductions. 0.4 and 0.5’s off for Simone on floor. One 0.2 from Judge 4 (Looking for judges now) Judge 4 gave Shilese 0.1 in artistry. Will be interesting to see who the judge is. (Ir’s judge number 4 from Japan ) 0.3, 0.2, 0.4 for both on beam in artistry deductions.
Judges for Event finals:
TEAM FINALS Artistry deductions and Judges. Finally (Page 463 it starts)
Judges
Beam Artistry deductions for team. It seems as tho the artistry deductions get worse when someone makes mistakes. It seems lame ass to me to deduct for lack of rhythm when someone falls isn’t that the point of a fall? You lose your balance? Leanne got hammered for her mistakes. (Page 473) Leanne {0.3 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.3} Shilese {0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 } Simone {0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3} Judge 3 is from Slovakia and judge 6 is from Egypt.
Floor Artistry deductions: (Page 475)
Judge 7 on floor gave Leanne 5 tenths in Artistry deductions. So did Judge 2. Simone {0.2 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 } Shilese{0.1 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.2} Leanne {0.2 0.5 0.3 0,3 0.4 0.4 0.5} Judge 2 gave the US the biggest artistry deductions She was from Croatia ( Julija Ljubancic) Judge 7 was from Finland. The lowballed Leanne but gave the other two higher artistry marks.
All in all, there was always one or two judges that lowballed someone way more than the other 5 judges did. I only compared the US gymnasts above but these judges seemed to love Flavia no matter what she did. And they did the same for Andrade to keep her in it even when she made mistakes. If you’re going to crucify a gymnast for a bobble then do it for all.
And I got an e-mail from someone who said the gymternet is blaming it on racism and fat shaming which is bull shit. Artistry and about elongation and form, and, position, and, rhythm, and extension. Simone is short but she has NONE of that. She is not getting artistry deductions based on her skin tone. It’s always the same woke crowd that wants to whine when someone is rightfully deducted for their lack of anything pretty. Look at Shilese. She has most of that and her scores reflect it. Andrade is just plain overscored but she isn’t getting the 06 deductions for artistry either. Presentation is NOT artistry. Simone is an average dancer. I agree she performs her routine well enough but if she is not and has never been artistic. People also like to whine that you can be artistic if you’re not balletic but for the most part that is the case. There is a difference between presentation and artistry. And the Gymternet needs to learn that. The thing I did find interesting is people used to say Jessica Gadirova didn’t get artistry deductions but she did on floor. She only got 0.1 and 0.2’s on the beam which I don’t agree with but in prelims, she received some. 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 on floor. Andrade received .04-0.2-0.3-0.2-0.3-0.3-0.2 Judge 1 was tough on everyone in prelims for artistry (Floor) in team finals Jessica received 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 and Andrade received 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 (floor) The judge that gave Simone 0.6 was standing alone. I think she got 0.5 from another judge that time but the rest of her scores were similar. If anyone gets screwed in artistry deductions it’s the Chinese. The judges are using their bias against them
OMG! Cold Hearted Snake as a floor routine. lol. I just can’t. This isn’t college EMMA but thanks for taking my favorite Paula Abdul song and putting it to music. The whole point thing is annoying but the girl who finished first, Charlize Moerz [Floor] had a 5.8 start value and if you want to make the Olympics you should really put an effort into your start value and Emma didn’t. Reese Espnoda only received a 12,833 [Floor] I consider this a huge lowball. The girl who won had just as many bouncy passes. People are comparing her to Jade but she’s not that bad. Ou Yushun (5.4 D 8.133 E 13.533) was the second [Floor] Kaylia Nemour [Floor] was third.
Baku Qualifications: Floor & Beam. Then Vault and Bars
Videos: Reese (Floor) Emma {Floor} Levi Jung-Ruivivar {Beam} Ou Yushan { Floor} Kaylia Nemour {Beam} The end of Chuso’s {Vault} Olympic career for 2024
I am happy no Suni at Baku. I could see it based on her potential (Happy for Reese getting to go to see how she is scored on floor) but so far Alicia has done the right thing every time when it comes to choosing teams. this bodes well for the Olymic team
Yes, I am gloating. The overscore she was going to get because Liukin was her coach was going to be nauseating. I KNEW the covid excuse was a big fat lie. [Article]
I could see her ending up at Simone’s gym. I actually hope she doesn’t quit (I know I said that out loud) but she showed some true promise, skill, and execution wise and I wanted to see her go for it and be scored fairly for once. And if she left Sunday, the day after the competition she couldn’t have had covid. You need to stay away from people for 5 days. TOLD YOU something was fishy.
I don’t think she’s done (We will never be that lucky) just not sure why she spent a year training to leave her coach. I wonder if Chow will take her back? Let the speculation begin.
Thanks, Hart of Dixie.
P.S.- I am fine if she goes away forever. I am not sure why I typed that and meant it when I said it.lol
Thanks, Lucia. Gabby is not at Simone’s gym as of today
Bridget Sloan has a youtube channel. Oh God, she only has obnoxious guests.lol Emma Malabuyo [Interview]
If you are going to listen to any of Bridget’s podcasts listen to the Jordyn Wieber one. And her husband. She comes across really well? , and maybe sometimes we all (by we all, I mean me:) judge people on their demeanor more than I should. She is so well-spoken. And she sounds so smart. Sadly this video is all about College so no insight into Jordyn’s career, but I enjoyed listening to her. The husband couldn’t sit still in the video which is par for the course where Chris Brooks is concerned but I think I have become a ChiJo fan after this 🙂 JordChi? maybe ? Anyway, it’s nice to see he isn’t as mentally unstable as he has always come across 🙂 The otehrs, I tried listening to it and had to stop. The Kathy one, was just blah. I made it through half the Audrey Davis one but got bored, and I never turned on the Peszek one because no one needs to listen to that girl babble on like an idiot for more than, zero seconds.
Jessica Gadirova says she is mostly likely out of the process of making the Olympic team but then hints she is still going to try. you could kind of tell by looking at her that she isn’t in shape but don’t count her out just yet. It doesn’t sound like she wants to retire.
Suni liked this tweet on Twitter 🙂 LOL And the person who sent it to me tried to get her bio and the tweet in the same screencap but it wouldn’t work so in ten years people will say there was no proof and this is my reply. Thanks ANON
Splat fest. The only thing this meet taught me is the new kids have no shot. Reese Espnda the triple tuck girl didn’t compete that here but she was lowballed with 13.300 . Even Suni who fell on both events wasn’t given the benefit she usually gets. You might say that is a good thing but for me it makes me feel like the fix is in. Kayla Dicello looks ready but it’s way too early to be this consistent That being said they kept setting her up for the 3rd AAer role, consistent. Hezley was overscored with mistakes as usual so my thought process watching this meet is, if Gabby and Suni don’t show up with amazing AA sets the third 3rd AAer will be the gymnast will be picked the same way it was for Worlds last year. The third-best AA. It will be between Leanne, Hezley, Kayla, Skye, and maybe Joscelyn and they will go the route of bars/beam VT/FL and that will fit someone like Suni or Gabby and Jade and or Joscelyn. I really can’t see them taking Josc with her bars. OH AND YES, The announcers who suck, Sam and John said they talked with the third guy deciding the team and he wants 3 Chengs in the Team final.I should know his name but I don’t but John and Sam love to babble and this was a tid-bit they probably shouldn’t have put out there. AND THEY interviewed Li Li who brought up Gabby 2 TIMES! Why is SHE BRINGING UP NAMES OF GYMNASTS NOT EVEN HERE? the fix is in. Hezley on floor vs Reese is proof.
Leanne, you better bring the D scores because everyone has a 6 bars and beam this year.
I was looking at old blogs because someone else did (Checking IPs again) and I found this comment by me. AM I CLARVOIANT OR WHAT? (Not you troll) I can tell the future, YA’ ALL. It’s late she’s already gone from NBC but I saw the future:) Taking a bow. And I got out of bed on a Saturday before 3 PM. This gymnastics better be worth it.
Leanne Wong gets a 10! I LOVE this floor music. I hope she adds in some Choreography because anyone calling this unartistic is an idiot. [Article] She now has a 10 on all 4 events #Grandslam. The article has the reaction.
Start Lists : [Juniors] : [Seniors] Suni is last up on bars in the third rotation, and second up on the beam in, the second half of the last rotation but let’s pretend these lineups aren’t fixed lol. Last rotation, Last up. I will be here for the Juniors tonight unless my nieces show up which they like to do sometimes. Little Harlow Buddendeck is competing. She’s the little girl who fell like 6 times last year at a meet but has such potential on beam that I am waiting for her to live up to.
Juniors: [Live Results] [Results] with D & E scores.
When the scoring stats work I will post the results. The Woga girl received her Christmas presents late or earlier depending on what year you wanna be in. The winners were blah but I wanna know how Lavi Crain can be so watchable on floor and unwatchable on beam? Harlow would have been in third if she hadn’t fallen off bars but she hit beam and floor and was non-Wogaette dimmed for not being from Woga. The floor routine was beautiful. Too many of the floor music’s were dramatic and didn’t have the danceability to pull it off but some good floor routines were just scored unfairly in a comparative way for this meet. There was that girl Charleigh something who fell like ten times last year at a meet and hit all 4 events here. I was like a proud mother. And there was a girl who fell off beam 3 times who also would have been third if she had hit beam. She fell off beam getting up after falling and looked lost. She was looking around like she didn’t know if she should finish. She had a good floor routine after. And I think it was Daisy Lesperance whose floor I also liked but I forget. There was so much lowballing of the non-name gymnasts during juniors it was glaring. Pease is so sloppy on every event and they just didn’t care (judges)
I hate to be hard to get along with (no I don’t 🙂 but if that Full-twisting Jaeger is supposed to be laid out. It isn’t. There are also some really iffy form issues in the GNow video. i thought her beam looked better than her bars tho I read she fell
Read all the tech rules. Some fun stuff. No cell phones on podiums. This is my favorite.lol
(Love that one) They will have a mixed zone for media. Athletes don’t have to talk to them. Don’t show up for the awards you lose the medal. No water used on beam. That’s a FIG rule. No talking to judges on the floor. Makes me wonder if this has happened before.
It’s like ten days away and we need a new blog. [Registed Athletes]
Suni is doing Bars and beam because she wants to go to the World Cup and have the full-twisting, layout Jaeger named after her.
Suni, the return of Gabby, Skye, Kayla, My girl Myli, and Trinity. I doubt we will see much AA from the big names but Trinity plans on doing it.
****Emma Malabuyo made Floor finals in 7th place but fell on beam. Levi Jung-Ruivivar didn’t make any finals. Emma needs more difficulty to pull this off. Isn’t looking likely with a 12. 4 ish score and only a 4.9 start value. Links at bottom of blog. Chuso didn’t qualify for Vault finals. She’s the first reserve.
I may be mugged and die because Minnesota has dumber politicians than Boston but I did some number crunching and it is only going to cost me $600 more to fly to Minnesota and see the fun in action than it would to go to freaking Connecticut and see one day of competition that most of the gymnasts will probably not even show up to. I am totally regretting it now but I won’t be when I get there. Or will I:) I still may go see Classics but I won’t be staying overnight. I’ll wait for the schedule to come out.
Yea, me neither. I would like to trust Alicia Sacramone and Chellsie Memmel to pick the fair team like they did at Worlds last year but I have some…
The Olympians! With Russia out there is about a 000 1% chance the US lose the Gold medal this time. Even if Simone falls apart again, the overscoring of gymnasts like Jade Carey will prevent what happened 4 years ago from happening again. I am convinced that BFF’s Marta and Nellie Kim colluded to lowball US gymnasts like Grace Mccallum and Jordan Chiles and even though they lost by a lot, it wouldn’t have happened if the form of the Russian girls was as nitpicked as everyone on the US team sans Jade Carey’s was. Jordan Chiles is the only US gymnast without a lot of form issues. Her scores should have represented that, but they didn’t. In the past, the Russians have complained about Nellie Kim favoring the US but that changed in 2021. Guess what I think about that?
So… Will Marta and Nellie do the same thing in 2024? There aren’t any Russians but Brazil has a two-headed monster that could compete with the best US gymnasts if only they had a third. It’s possible just not probable, so….
The real contenders are the Pan Am /World teams and Suni Lee but there is always a dark horse that comes out of nowhere like Reese who is training some crazy stuff on floor. Gabby Douglas is always a contender with the judges ignoring her mistakes and the few things she has shown have looked great but there have been like 3 things and remember that Amanar hit at camp lies from last year? Oh, and Grace McCallum has thrown some stuff lately that makes people think she is coming back.
The first two are pretty much locked bearing injury. Simone and Shilese. So you build from there. That usually means a third AAer. And a Vault/Floor and Bars/Beam specialist.
Don’t count out the juniors. The US judges love Hezley Rivera but she will need to upgrade to be in contention. Reese is throwing triple-backs in training on floor. She only vaulted a 4.2 at Nationals last year but if the AAer had two vaults they may skip a VT/FL specialist and take someone with a super routine like Maroney’s Amanar. Or a super Zoe Miller bar routine.
Does anyone have any ideas? Someone has to have some thoughts?
Since the blog is dead and it’s Christmas time everyone is busy with their real lives I have decided to write a blog to finish off the year. Hope nothing big happens before January 1st, 2024:)
We are less than 3 weeks away from another drama filled Olympic year. Oh boy 🙂 (I wrote this a week ago and didn’t publish)
So welcome to the year of Kieryn Finnell. Kieryn was the silver medalist at the US Junior Nationals in 2023 and should have won the competition outright but suspect judging for the newest “It” Wogaette was in full force as usual and it is what it always is. #fixed
I have no clue what Kieryn Finnell is up to gymnastics, upgrade wise, but someone has to be the surprise of the Olympic year and my vote for for Kieryn Finnell.
She doesn’t really stand out on any event but when she didn’t win last year she looked pissed. Not in a spoiled brat, I can’t handle losing type of way but she was clearly not happy she didn’t accomplish what she had set out to accomplish and that means she wants it. Kyla Ross looked the same way in 2015 and that is why Kieryn is my Kyla Ross pick for 2024.
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