I don’t make predictions. They just don’t work for me but I would love to know what your predictions are.
There are some things I want to happen like Kohei Uchimura winning the AA and Beth Tweddle winning bars but I have no predictions:)
Other things I want to see happen, Gabby Douglas being scored fairly. China winning the team Gold medal, Kyla Ross winning beam and Aly Raisman winning a floor medal. (want doesn’t mean I think it will happen)
When it comes to the womens AA I don’t really care who takes gold (as long as it isn’t Gabby) but it would be nice for Jordyn to win. I actually want Jiang Yuyuan to win the AA but that can’t happen since she is the alternate. I don’t want to wish an injury on anyone but I still want her on this team.
that reminds me, I hope He Kexin wins a bar medal (sinister wink:)
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Podium Training report. The US seems to be hitting like crazy. I don’t know about you but that scares me. Getting out the kinks is important. We will see.
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July 26, 2012 at 1:52 AM |
Hrm. If the US is hitting like crazy, let’s hope that it stays that way. I’m going to predict Team Finals right now and leave it at that…I’ll come back later to think about AA and the events.
Gold – my dark side is saying Russia. I hope it’s wrong. I’m going with Team USA.
Silver – Russia. And they’ll probably be all pissy about it and rip their medals off their necks.
Bronze – Romania. Go Ponor!
July 26, 2012 at 1:53 AM |
I don’t have any predictions for the men. I hope they win team gold or silver. I hope Danell and John qualify for the AA and take silver and bronze. I would also like to see Jake and Sam medal in some individual events (as well as Danell and John).
For the women, I predict Jordyn will medal in the AA but I am not convinced it will be gold. I think both she and Aly will qualify for floor and beam final, but I think only Aly will medal on floor. I think Gabby might qualify for the uneven bars final, but I don’t see her medaling. If McKayla is not injured, I see her winning vault final. Bottom line…the US will not win as many medals as in Beijing.
I predict the women will win team gold or silver. I still think that is a toss up. They have been hitting like crazy in practice, but so has Russia. Someone is bound to make a mistake in finals…it is just a matter of who.
July 26, 2012 at 1:56 AM |
Yeah I think you’re dead on when you say this team won’t win as many medals as they did in Beijing. Kind of too bad really. If they only come home with Team Silver I really hope Marta is fired for once. That’s the only reason I would wish bad on them, for the sake of the future gymnasts and USAG.
July 26, 2012 at 4:02 AM |
I’m really want all the US girls to medal except Gabby,
It could happen, unlikely that kyla will,
but Mckayla will in vault
Aly got a chance on floor,
Jordyn in AA (maybe beam and floor)
Gabby doesnt look likely because there are so many amazing bar workers (Komova, Mustafina, Kexin, Tweedle, Yao Jinnan)
July 26, 2012 at 2:00 AM |
It’ll definitely be between Komova and Wieber, they are my strongest predictions for AA gold, they are by far the biggest contenders. Silver and bronze could be very interesting, it could come down to Jinnan, Douglas (if she hits), Lu, and mustafina. It might come down to a mustafina/Douglas showdown if gabby’s on top of it, BUT I bet she’ll be very inconsistent.
Beam: Sui Lu, no doubt, LOVE HER to pieces. Great lines, and has difficulty, so does yao jinnan Jordyn and Aly are contenders as well.
Vault: definitely mckayla, if she gets that toe in check. If not, chusovitina, ha thanh, izbasa, and many more are contenders.
Bars: komova definitely, she’s beautiful and consistent. Of course there are other contenders like Douglas, Nabevia, mustafina, He kexin, and quishuang.
Floor: of course wieber and raisman are strong, but izbasa is currently the queen, she could come off strong, then we have sui Lu, and ksenia A
July 26, 2012 at 5:06 PM |
Interesting Iordache doesn’t factor into any of your predictions… She def has a shot at medals in AA, beam & floor IMO.
July 26, 2012 at 5:21 PM
Iordache is out of the AA now. Hopefully she’ll have a shot on beam and floor still.
July 26, 2012 at 5:56 PM |
Ohhh no one on here say that was confirmed… I see on Examiner it says that it is confirmed but you never know. I wonder what events will she do in pre-lims other than bars?
July 26, 2012 at 2:01 AM |
Even though I want to see McKayla’s floor used in finals I don’t know if it will be used at all from what it sounds like I think they will use Kyla in prelims and use Gabby in finals I think Marta may have made a big mistake not having Kyla upgrade although I would love if they did they showed up to TF and Kyla shows up with the rumored floor upgrades and McKayla shows up with a TTY lol wishful thinking 🙂
July 26, 2012 at 2:17 AM |
Mckayla, Jordyn, Aly and even Gabby have a chance to win an individual medal. I hope against hope that Kyla will be able to sneak in somewhere…..anywhere!!! If bars final goes to shit she could grab the bronze, same with a few wobbles here and there during beam
I wont type any of my predictions because I’m a superstitious little bitch, I just hope team USA gymnastics men and women hit the shit out of all of their routines
July 26, 2012 at 3:30 AM |
Oh, crap. I posted the following in the “Shut Up Shannon” entry but I’ll c+p it here.
I only want the US to win team gold just to see some Mag 7′s heads explode. Mainly, Moceanu. Anyone wanna bet she’s got voodoo dolls of the US girls and sticking pins in them in hopes injury or headcaseyness gets the better of them?
Now that I said it watch Russia or Romania waltz away with it.
Teach me to read this blog oldest entry to newest. *shakes head*
July 26, 2012 at 3:35 AM |
Moceanu will just change the transcript to,” We were the first to win gold” lol
When you want to read an old entry you go to the bottom of the front page ( gymtruthteller.wordpress.com ) and click on older entry
July 26, 2012 at 4:08 AM
What happened was I scrolled down to read the older stuff (Iwas only 3 entries behind) and bypassed this. Reading comprehension fail on my part. 🙂
July 26, 2012 at 7:50 AM
At least unlike Mary Lou she can say “we won gold first AND EVERYONE COMPETED.”
Meh.
July 26, 2012 at 4:42 AM |
Just sent you an email!
Okay, prediction time, with commentary (actually it’s more my wish list with a side of predictions…)
Team Finals:
1. USA – even if Russia has two Amanars, those aren’t enough to close the gap…
2. Russia – plus, Russia is going to fall off beam at least once
3. Romania – but even that fall isn’t going to be enough to get Romania into silver medal territory
All-Around:
1. Wieber – I think it’s going to be a splatfest – unfortunately – and thus Wieber will hit and win.
2. Komova – even with a fall, her difficulty and high e-scores on other events will get her on the podium and give fuel to the cray-cray Russian fans for another four years, “If Vika hadn’t fallen she would have, blah blah blah”
3. Raisman – Gabby is going to fall in prelims, probably more than once if I had to guess. Aly qualifies and b/c of the splatfest, finally grabs an AA medal.
Vault:
1. Maroney – girlfriend is going to get a cortisone shot and then kick everyone’s ass.
2. Izbasa
3. Chuso – because she’s nearly 40 and even if her vaults are crap, I don’t care, she needs another Olympic medal
Uneven Bars:
1. Mustafina – I feel like if she hits, she wins, 7.0 d-score and she’s one of the few Russians I trust to hit under pressure
2. Tweddle – I hope she wins gold, but I feel like it’s going to go to Mustafina.
3. Komova – 7.0 d-score, but her dismount is hit or miss…could be bronze, could be gold, could be nothing at all
Balance Beam:
1. Sui Lu – she’s just freaking awesome
2. Iordache – with her faciitis acting up, I’m hesitant to have her medal on anything, but if she gets anything, it’ll be beam
3. Kyla FUCKING Ross – because I said so
Floor
1. Raisman – she should have won last year. She’s getting it done this year with that first pass and actual legit leaps out of tumbling passes, unlike SOME people
2. Grishina – I’m not an artistry troll, but I do love her routine, a lot and apparently girlfriend has a double/double now
3. Moors – also, just flat out love her routine and hey, Canada should get a medal…
July 26, 2012 at 9:37 AM |
It is enough, surprisingly. If Russia have 2 amanars they still have an 0.5 difficulty lead on USA.
July 26, 2012 at 12:17 PM
I really can’t see them having 3 amanars and even if they do 2 well, I think they will get killed with execution. Here’s hoping at least!!! I think there is debate over the difficulty scores too. I saw somewhere else that the US had 6 tenths more difficulty even with Russia having 3 amanars.
July 26, 2012 at 3:09 PM
I’ve done the math. Even if Mustafina and Komova score 16 on bars, Komova and Paseka hit their Amanars well, they’d have to score 15+ on all three of their beam routines to match the US hitting 12/12.
July 26, 2012 at 10:05 PM
I think execution can hurt others, not just Musty. Ponor for example, and Aly’s form and leaps. I know that M’s floor and vault will get big deductions but I don’t think it’s enough when you think of their bars advantage. Their beam (if they all stay on of course) has been seriously upgraded..they have 6.4’s and 6.5’s on it. I agree absolutely that they absolutely cannot afford a fall or major error, but I think they can afford a wobble or two. Definitely very close.
July 26, 2012 at 5:45 AM |
I agree with Jen except I don’t think Aly will get an AA medal (of course I hope she does, though…).
Random question, GTT – will the live blogging on your site be during the tape delay or the actual live online broadcast? If it’s the first option ( i vote for that) will anyone have the willpower to NOT look at the results until Tim and Elfie walk us through the play-by-play? Maybe you need two separate threads — those that know the outcome and those that don’t?? It’s not as fun to know the ending beforehand, but, now we’re talking about willpower again…
July 26, 2012 at 7:49 AM |
OK, so my team final was (and this is based on what I “want” it to be, unless if USA getting silver = Marta fired, I’d reverse the top two, sorry!):
1. USA
2. Russia
3. Romania
My dark angel is telling me Russia may win this but I’m hoping he/she/it is wrong.
All Around (what I think it will be):
1. Komova
2. Weiber
3. Iordache (if she has that foot problem then I’ll say Yao Jinnan goes here…maybe Aly if she doesn’t eff up bars)
I REALLY don’t want Komova to even be on this podium. However, I hope that by saying she’ll win gold jinx’s her. It’s a thought.
All Around (what I want it to be):
1. Weiber
2. Musty (I like this girl, helicopter legs and all!)
3. Aly (hate her form on beam and bars, but I like the girl)
Vault:
1. Maroney
2. Isbaza
3. Chuso
Bars:
1. Tweddle/He Kexin – tie! (muahahahahaha Nastia eat your heart out)
2. Komova
3. Musty
(my gut feeling though is that Komova will win bars but I hope not…if Tweddle doesn’t win bars I hope it’s He Kexin)
Beam (what I want it to be):
1. Ponor
2. Ross
3. Iordache or Sui
Beam (what I think it will be):
1. Sui
2. Ponor
3. Iordache (foot problem, substitute Yao or Weiber here)
Floor:
1. Raisman
2. Iordache (if she has that foot problem, then Izbasa)
3. Sui Lu
July 26, 2012 at 12:39 PM |
I also have this feeling in me that almost just knows Russia will win the team. I do not mind them winning, but i want USA to win this bad.
July 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM |
Well whatever the outcome, if Komova is on the podium I hope she is a little more gracious this time around (I personally didn’t enjoy the public pouting at worlds).
I’m not sure about Gabby- there’s def a chance she could hit and end up on the podium in the AA. I’m ready to get this show on the road and see what happens!
Team:
1. USA (I hope I’m not jinxing them)
2. Mutha Russia
3. Romania
AA
1. Weiber
2. Musty (maybe Gabby if she hits)
3. Aly if she hits bars
An unexpected (but not impossible) outcome for the AA could be:
1. Gabby
2. Weiber
3. Musty/Aly if she hits bars
Not to jinx anyone- but I’m hoping to have 2 Americans on the podium regardless 🙂
I don’t know as much about the guys but I’ve started to follow them a lot more since trials. I’m hoping they can pull out a silver. I hope Danell comes home with a few medals (hopefully one gold).
July 26, 2012 at 8:31 AM |
hello, im a new reader from Australia but saw you had limited your comments to your current readers so I dont think my previous comments were approved. enjoy reading your and your commenters thoughts/opinions regardless, so i would love to be a twitter follower! no hate coming from me and you won’t get any nastia or gabby love from me, ha 😉 my twitter name is @iloveframboise.
if not, no harm done I’ll just read your blog from a distance!
cheers!
July 26, 2012 at 9:45 AM |
Iordache always featured heavily in mine, so I’ll carry on as if she’s absolutely fine- which she could be.
AA
Iordache (With full difficulty and health. If not, she’s out and Musty takes bronze)
Komova
Wieber
TF
Russia (Russia can afford to headcase a bit and absorb Musty’s twisting- especially if they have a third amanar)
USA (they are behind on difficulty..)
Romania
BARS
Kexin (Looks very solid in all training. If she headcases, Musty takes bronze)
Komova
Tweddle
BEAM
Iordache (If she doesn’t have full difficulty and health, then bronze goes to Wieber/Raisman)
Ponor
Lu
FLOOR
Iordache (If she’s not able, then Ponor takes bronze in her place)
Raisman
Moors
VAULT
Maroney
Steingruber
Pena (monster low landing stops her chances of gold BUT she doesn’t crash and she has a dty so that’s a lot of difficulty..)
July 26, 2012 at 1:06 PM |
agh! In mine I totally forgot about Moors on floor! I would looooooove to see her on that podium, that floor is so stunning.
July 26, 2012 at 12:37 PM |
Womens Gymnastics Predictions:
Team:
Russia
Usa
Romania
AA:
Komova
Wieber
Iordache
Floor:
Raisman
Iordache
Grishina
Beam:
Iordache
Lu
Ross
UB:
Mustafina(I REALLY want her to get an individual gold)
Tweddle
Komova
Vault:
Maroney
Izbasa
Chusovitina or Pena
July 26, 2012 at 1:04 PM |
Here are my predictions and wants:
Team Prediction: USA (gold…I really think they have a shot), Russia, Romania
Team Want: For a wild card team to win the bronze, such as the Aussies or GB. I think that would be SO awesome…but it wont happen unless there is a major tanking on someone’s part.
AA prediction: Jordyn, Komova, Mustafina…I’ve always felt that if Jordyn hits, she will win this.
AA want: Jordyn and Aly to be the ones that compete for the US…I just could not deal if Gabby was competing and Aly was in the stands. Girl deserves a shot.
For the individual events, I just want to see Aly get a floor medal, Maroney win vault, Chuso to medal on vault, Tweddle to win any color medal on bars – just get her on the podium!
The one thing I cant decide on is if I would rather see Izbasa defend her Olympic floor title OR see Ponor win floor, since she was my favorite in Athens and it would be so cool to see her come back and win. hmmm….I love them both so I can’t decide. Beam I dont care about because the routines I always love never win!
July 26, 2012 at 1:22 PM |
Womens Gymnastics Predictions:
Team:
Russia
USA
Romania
NB. It’ll be close, but even with 2 amanars, Russia has shown surprising upgrades on both BB and FX which were deemed weaknesses prior to London.
AA:
Komova
Iordache
Mustafina
NB. As much as I would love Wieber to win, I don’t think she has the difficulty to match with those three. Yes, she is Miss Consistent, however I really do believe judges will deduct with her form on UB and everyone else has upgraded to cushion any execution mars.
Floor:
Grishina
Iordache
Afanasyeva
I would absolutely love Grishina to win a gold! I love her gymnastics!
Beam:
Iordache
Lu
Komova
If once of the above three headcases, Ponor ends with a medal.
UB:
Komova
Mustafina
Tweddle
Tweddle – sentimental favourite!
Vault:
Maroney
Izbasa
Chusovitina
This is really Maroney’s to loose!
July 26, 2012 at 2:16 PM |
Live link to podium training: http://www.nbcolympics.com/liveextra/video-watch.html?video=gymnastics-podium-training-u-s-women
My boss is going to hate me.
July 26, 2012 at 2:28 PM |
UB order: Aly, Jordyn, Kyla, Gabby
BB order: Kyla, Gabby, Jordyn, Aly
Didn’t catch the vault order, Gabby sat one down so it’ll be interesting in TF between her and Gabby, apparently McKayla vaulted well despite injury.
July 26, 2012 at 3:08 PM |
My mother just texted me and said Aly R has a nasty cut on her foot.
July 26, 2012 at 3:35 PM |
Looked solid from Podium training from what I read, although Gabby sat an amanar and fell on beam…I just can’t see her handling the pressure in BOTH the TF and AA, she’s bound to miss on one of the nights. The question is…which?
My gut says: Gold – USA Silver – Russia Bronze – Romania
I think Wieber sneaks in for an AA gold because Komova misses the amanar/wobbles on beam. Other than that, gold for Maroney on vault, maybe a bronze each for Wieber & Raisman on floor/beam. Nothing else seems likely. I always lol when I see people saying Gabby has a medal contending UB routine…maybe IF Beth, Komova, Musty and He all fall/explode!
July 26, 2012 at 3:57 PM |
Did you guys see that Iordache is out of the AA?
Sh*t.
What a disappointment for her. This sucks. I wanted it to be a really good competition with everyone able to participate. Argghhh…
http://www.thecouchgymnast.com/?p=7018
Damn this sport!
July 26, 2012 at 4:16 PM |
Fuck, poor Iordache. At least she’ll still get to do some routines. Anna Li is out. tore something in her neck. Thank God it wasn’t more serious
I’m halfway through podium training, the girls look good. I hope no one bitches about their #hotpink leos. It’s podium training let them get it out of their system
July 26, 2012 at 4:45 PM |
I thought the leos kind of looked cheaply made. McKayla’s is all snagged. Aly’s vaults looked a tad better. Might need to use her over Gabby.
July 26, 2012 at 4:16 PM |
I don’t like to do predictions either. It’s not a quad where I’m confident enough on the current scoring and routines, outside of the US and some int’l faves. But here are my hopes, tres basic…
Team USA – gold
Team Russia – gold
AA – I’ll need to be in the moment to see whether or not I think Jordyn deserves it over the other top contenders. Prefer Jordyn over Gabby on the US front
Vault – Maroney, obv my fave
Bars – Tweddle
Also, while I respect the US team, they haven’t totally captured me as yet as one of my favourite US teams. I don’t have a super keen interest in anyone beyond Maroney. But they’re so hard working and most so jacked on difficulty, I would be happy to see random medals of any colour won for them. Even Aly Raisins!!
July 26, 2012 at 4:16 PM |
Duh, Russia – silver.
July 26, 2012 at 4:34 PM |
I just saw on NBC that McKayla apparently broke her toe back in May and then she aggravated it during training so that’s what’s is wrong with her foot
July 26, 2012 at 5:03 PM |
Wow, she has been persevering through a lot these past couple of months. I am crossing every finger and toe for this kid as the start of competition draws ever closer…
And GTT, I think your new page has crashed Twitter! Have been trying to check it out since I got up this morning.
July 26, 2012 at 5:05 PM
What new page?
July 26, 2012 at 5:07 PM
Oops just read her update. My bad. Duh.
July 26, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Ugh…at least it’s not more serious. Broken toes hurt but they’re not going to stop someone from competing at the Olympics
I was really really hoping for Mckayla to do floor. Oh well
July 26, 2012 at 5:16 PM
Well I guess I should make a twitter, then!
July 26, 2012 at 5:21 PM
I requested to be allowed to the Twitter account. 🙂 My name is Sandy, I don’t care if y’all know that!
July 26, 2012 at 5:23 PM
It looks like my prediction was right; Marta is internally shooting herself for not allowing Kyla to upgrade floor. Oh well, she deserves it.
Janet Evans competed at one of her Olympics (the one where she got all those medals I think) with a broken toe. I know, I know…SOOOO much different than gymnastics.
July 26, 2012 at 5:21 PM |
Paseka apparently didn’t land a single amanar. If she crashes in Quals I still say they’re going to have her chuck it in TF.
July 26, 2012 at 6:37 PM |
amanar or BUST!
July 26, 2012 at 5:49 PM |
My predictions
Team Finals:
1st-Usa
2nd-Russia
3rd-China
AA
1st-Jordyn Wieber
2nd-Komova(It’s going to be very close though with Jordyn)
3rd-Aliyah Mustafina
BB
1st- Sui Lu
2nd-Aly Raisman
3rd-Jordyn Wieber
FX
1st-Aly Raisman
2nd-Ksenia Afan
3rd-Victoria Moors(wishful thinking maybe….)
UB
1st-Komova
2nd-Mustafina
3rd-Tweddle
(Kexin will headcase)
VT
1st-Maroney(By a large large margin)
2nd-Chuso
3rd-Izbasa
July 26, 2012 at 5:52 PM |
OMG, how amazing/hilarious would it be if He Kexin won uneven bars and Nastia had to interview her for NBC??
July 26, 2012 at 5:52 PM |
Why even have a vault final? Just hand Maroney the gold!
July 26, 2012 at 6:30 PM |
That’s silly. What if that Pena girl sticks her first vault landing? That’s like saying just hand Cheng the gold four years ago and we all saw how that went down.
July 26, 2012 at 10:14 PM
In a sense, Maroney is unbeatable. Pena’s best efforts are standing it in total squat- from what Blythe said it took some figuring out if her arse or feet landed first. It also has form issues. Her DTY is fine, but still not as high scoring or as difficult actually as Maroney’s second vault. She could medal, but not gold.
July 27, 2012 at 2:23 AM
I agree Maroney is unbeatable unless she does what Fei did in Beijing (sit one of her vaults). I don’t see that happening, but you never know…
July 26, 2012 at 5:59 PM |
Tweddle will win bars, Im so sad about Larissa… 😦
July 26, 2012 at 6:02 PM |
July 26, 2012 at 6:29 PM |
Wonder if Anna will hold out for another Worlds. Marta won’t take her anyways. Marta was never planning on using Anna as a replacement. Even if Gabby were to be injured – or Kyla – she probably would have put in Finnegan for her beam and floor.
July 26, 2012 at 6:25 PM |
Will Graves @WillGravesAP
And while I maybe playup the Jordyn/Gabby thing, when Gabby was showing her OLY pins, Jordyn grabbed Gabby’s credential and said “so cool”
OMG JORDYN TRIED TO STRANGLE GABBY!!!!!1
July 26, 2012 at 7:21 PM |
Dear fucking God, I can’t with people I really CAN’T. This is what some dumb-ass wrote on USAG facebook under the pic of them with Ryan Seacrest
“I never see Gabby and Jordyn standing next to each other in team photos. Is this just coincidence or is the rivalry too severe?”
July 27, 2012 at 1:52 PM
Well, at least Gabby was in the photo or it would have been true proof that Jordyn strangled her with her credential! Glad to know she is safe and that the severe rivalry can live to see another day!
July 26, 2012 at 7:23 PM |
So now Marta has broken EBee, Anna Li and McKayla at least partly…… 3 out of 8 gymnasts broken…. we still have 5… maybe ASac should have kept training, and if she’s going to keep breaking people…we are now one injury away from Aly Raisman on bars in TF and Sarah Finnegan being named to the team. Although knowing Marta she would go with 4 athletes and have them all perform AA for prelims over naming a 5th.Rumor has it Kyla is going first on beam to “set up” the other scores pushing for higher scores for Gabby Jo and Aly… I’m not buying it
July 26, 2012 at 7:49 PM |
I completely disagree with having Kyla go up on beam first. Did Marta not learn her lesson four years ago? She’s trusting a newbie to set up this team on the one apparatus that will likely give them trouble.
I think Aly should go first – she’s the perfect table setter – then Kyla, then Gabby, then Jordyn. Or even Aly, Gabby, Kyla, Jordyn. Marta is just out to screw over Kyla but she’s doing it at the mercy of this team gold.
P.S. I thought Jordyn would get rid of those beam connections with the full back. I now predict she won’t medal on beam in finals. Kyla has a better shot of medaling on beam but Marta won’t allow it to happen.
Hate!
July 26, 2012 at 8:09 PM
Beam would have been Kyla’s best chance for an individual medal but Marta is trying to make sure she scores lower so she won’t make finals!
July 26, 2012 at 8:37 PM
I swear I read an article in IG or somewhere that said Martha is retiring? And that was like two years ago? They were asking her who she thinks would make a good replacement and she said “Valeri would be a good person but certainly I’m not naming my successor.” SUCCESSOR? So doesn’t that mean she should be gone by now? WHY IS SHE STILL HERE!?
July 26, 2012 at 8:38 PM
How can she know this when she doesn’t even know if these Olympians will even return? I am hoping some will.
Ugh. She disgusts me. I want her fired.
I hope she kind of sets herself up for failure this quad and gets freakin fired. I don’t see how putting Kyla up first on beam will do her well. She was probably planning on having Gabby and Aly as the last two spots and then Geddert stepped in.
This is how I think the line up should go:
vault: Aly, Gabby, Weiber, Maroney
**it’s too bad Kyla’s DTY scores lower than Aly’s craptastic vault; she is beautiful in the air and basically sticks it.
bars: Aly, Weiber, Douglas, Ross
**Ross beat Weibe night 1 of Trials, and we all know that was no fluke. Marta put a stop to this happening again, but Kyla deserves a shot at those UB finals.
beam: Aly, Kyla/Gabby, Kyla/Gabby, Weiber
**Aly is trustworthy. We need to avoid another ASac moment from Beijing. I only trust Aly to go first here; I am not sure Kyla is a good choice. I can see disaster potentially happening, sorry – and we all know how much I love Kyla.
floor: Kyla/Maroney, Gabby, Weiber, Aly
**if stupid Marta had made Kyla upgrade, we wouldn’t have to worry about Maroney’s foot. As it stands it doesn’t seem like a good idea to put Maroney on floor if her toe is broken.
July 26, 2012 at 10:17 PM |
UGH! The where’s gabby crew need to be put down. The photo of the other four behind the nbc today desk got a lot of it. McKayla instagrammed it and had to have ‘Gabby was getting her makeup done’ in the caption and still got trolled. GTFO
July 26, 2012 at 10:33 PM |
Ugh, she tweeted a pic of four of them tanning or something and tacked on that Kyla was next to her but didn’t want her picture taken
The fact that they now feel the need to point where everybody is if they’re not in the picture is disgusting. THEY DON’T HATE GABBY, everybody needs to sit down
July 26, 2012 at 10:35 PM
So obviously they are aware of the “haters” – people are so stupid I swear!
July 26, 2012 at 10:52 PM |
I just saw that, came here to write lol. It is really frustrating, and it shows that they see the moaning people have been doing. I wish one of them would write “Gabby was in the bathroom” at some point lol.
July 26, 2012 at 10:56 PM |
Oh, btw did you guys read Shawn’s first blog for Today? I liked how she said retiring is awful, and that she didn’t know what to do with herself. Comes off as so much more honest and open than Nastia’s blog post, an ode to herself. http://todayinlondonblog.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/26/12906971-shawn-johnson-going-to-london-is-bittersweet
July 26, 2012 at 11:09 PM |
Booooo I’d rather focus on the actual gymnasts rather than the former ones. This tumblr sums up my feelings perfectly
July 26, 2012 at 11:16 PM
I’m a Shawn fan. That being said, this is the MOST awesome post, ever. Totally sums up what I’ve been thinking, too!
July 27, 2012 at 12:22 AM
HAHAHA I love that! Brilliant! 🙂 I’m not a Shawn fan after all the “oooh I am excited to show upgrades” bull.
July 27, 2012 at 12:35 AM
Wow. All the work that went into that one was worth it!
Though I have to say, Khorkina was a sore loser in my books and had one of the most inflated egos ever. But I appreciated everything else in the post!
July 27, 2012 at 12:23 PM
But I would rather want Shawn get more public attention during the London Olympics such that no body would remember a certain Russian.
July 27, 2012 at 1:58 PM
ahahaha The whole comment about having a powerful body working against her made me crazy. I love that the tumblr pointed out that it’s not easy-peesy to be a non-powerful gymnast…learning stuff that requires lots of power is a bitch if you dont have that body type.Pretty leaps and jumps only get you so far.
July 27, 2012 at 2:56 PM
ummm so I am on that tumblr you posted, Nero, and I am literally sitting at work sobbing from laughter. Oh my god. So good.
July 26, 2012 at 11:05 PM |
Yao Jinnan seems to be injured too. What is this, a last leotard standing competition? I’m kind of disappointed. I really wanted it to be an all-out battle, and with Romania and China potentially losing their best All Arounder (or having their best All Arounder not “be” at their best), it’s almost like a give-away. Except when it comes to Russia and the US of course but I would have hoped maybe Romania could have snuck in for a surprise attack. Now it’ll be them trying their best just to make do and keep up with everyone else.
So now we have Maroney with a foot injury and she can only do vault (which she was probably only going to do anyways since Gabby is the pet, but her floor is definitely more exquisite than Gabby’s). I don’t see Kyla doing the 3 up 3 count because her score is too low.
Iordache is injured but will hopefully compete at Team Finals; who knows. She was a favorite for the AA and for beam/floor gold.
Jinnan also injured and not her best. She could have snuck in for the AA podium or even gold.
Sigh.
July 26, 2012 at 11:23 PM |
Hope has emerged on the Iordache front..even though Bitang wrote her off for the AA in an article she said it’s about 50/50 she will do the AA and that the final decision has to be down to her. Maybe they are waiting for permission for cortisone or something and are hoping she can rest up for Sunday and improve. Judging by the fact that she knocked out full beam and bars routines and did some light tumbling on floor and an FTY, she is absolutely gunning for this- if she can, she will. It wouldn’t be the first time somebody competes through extreme pain.
Gutted for Iordache if she can’t do the AA, gutted Maroney can’t do floor, devastated Jinnan is injured too. Adrian Gomes of Brazil broke down in an interview- she injured her back and is out for Brazil. Koko Tsurumi and Rebecca Tunney both had near misses in PT- Koko landed on her head! But both competed after. I was so sure about Iordache I even put money on her. How devastating to face what she’s facing now.
Not really appropriate but laughed at last leotard standing. Just picturing..and the winner is, Cata’s skanky ho leo!
July 27, 2012 at 2:00 PM
oh that is scary about KoKo, I’ve always thought she was adorable! Tunney is a surprise to me. I cant wait to see what she does in competition.
July 26, 2012 at 11:20 PM |
TF
Russia
USA
China
AA
Komova
Grishina
Wieber
VT
Maroney
Chuso
Izbasa
UB
Tweddle
Komova
Grishina
BB
Yao
Iordache
Wieber
FX
Wieber
Afanasyeva
Moors
July 27, 2012 at 12:10 AM |
Oh and I am Beautiful Gymnastics @Gymnasticsbeaut (damn you character limit!!) on twitter.
July 27, 2012 at 12:32 AM |
My predictions are based on the most current reports that Musty is not competing all around. Otherwise, I’d have her in the mix on beam and AA
TF
1. US- I think the US is too solid to not win. I think John Geddert is a good “balance” (as in not an insane dictator) to Marta to help them with nerves
2.. Russia- I just see this being where Komova falls on beam
3. Romania- with or without Iordache, I see them on the podium
AA- this will be a nailbiter. it may even be so close that there could be a tie. If Gabby makes AA finals, I predict this is where she falls
1. Wieber
2. Komova
3. Grishina- Iordache if competing
Vault
1. Maroney
2. Izsbasa
3. Chuso- she can fall on her head and she will get the medal/Lifetime achievement award like Fei in Beijing
UB
1. Komova
2. Tweddle- her medal is a done deal unless she falls a few times
3. Musty
BB
1. Sui Lu- Iordache is she competes night 1
2. Ponor
3. Wieber
FX
1. Grishina
2. Raisman- Could win floor with her difficulty but the intl judges will kill her enough on execution and she comes in second. Like Johnson in Beijing
3. Afan
The medals will be more evenly distributed by country than in Beijing
July 27, 2012 at 1:55 AM |
Where did you hear that Musty is not competing all around?
July 27, 2012 at 12:38 AM |
GTT- would it be best to use Twitter while the events are going on? I don’t have Twitter but would open up a private one then delete after its all done! I don’t want to miss a second of the fun with all of you! (I’m assuming I could join in lol)
July 27, 2012 at 12:44 AM |
My predictions aren’t really predictions as much as hopes and fears!
I hope the US and Russia can battle it out fairly, and that there won’t forever be an asterisk attached to whichever team wins.
I like the Russian team a lot, but I REALLY want USA to win this one.
1. USA (hope) Russia (fear)
2. USA (only good thing about this is that it will be another silver, and not a gold, attached to Martas name haha.)
3. Romania/China.
Individual wants:
AA:
1. Wieber
2. Komova
3. Raisman
BB:
1. Ponor
2. Wieber
3. Ross
FX:
1. Raisman (I’d love it if she medalled!)
2. Izbasa
3. Sui Lu
UB:
1. Tweddle (I would cry of joy)
2. Komova
3. Douglas
VT:
1. Maroney for the win!
2. Izbasa
3. Chuso – needs to medal cause she rocks.
July 27, 2012 at 1:23 AM |
How did the US look in podium training in 2008??? Just curious since they had so many issues in qualifications….
July 27, 2012 at 2:01 PM |
I dont even remember reading a single dang thing about podium training in Beijing. Would be interesting to look and try to find something.
July 27, 2012 at 1:51 AM |
I think if Iordache got a shot she may be well enough to compete all around
I think b+b won’t show their hand until they have to in qualification
July 27, 2012 at 2:01 AM |
What a day! From everything I read, the US looked good in podium training. Some issues with Gabby sitting her vault (when does she not sit her vault?!), Gabby and Kyla falling off beam, and Aly having some problems with her opening floor pass. But…all in all it sounded promising and I think it’s encouraging the girls weren’t perfect today. Save perfection for the finals!!! Based on podium training, I feel better about the US. The Russians sounded pretty bad on vault and floor and without Iordache, I worry about Romania. I think, at this point, Romania and China will battle it out for bronze (based on the injuries). I can’t see Iordache risking competing AA…sounds like it would be difficult for her to do 4 events in preliminaries, compete team finals (even if it is just 2 events), and then turn around and do AA.
July 27, 2012 at 2:24 AM |
I didn’t see anything about Musty not being in the AA. Did you mean Iordache Terri? I’m upset about Iordache’s injury, only because it sucks that it won’t be as great of a competition as it could be.
July 27, 2012 at 3:05 AM |
I read it on the IG FB page earlier todays part of their summary of podium training. I just went back and it was gone. Maybe IG spoke out of turn and got their hands slapped.
July 27, 2012 at 3:07 AM |
Anyone want to tweet to Marta lol!
Apparently Gabby is rooming by herself
July 27, 2012 at 11:33 PM |
I would not be surprised at all if Gabby was the one separating herself from the girls. She already thinks she is better than she is.
July 27, 2012 at 4:06 AM |
I’m pretty sure everyone already guessed Aly would be team captain now it’s official lol I’m sure Marta is thrilled since she hates the whole team captain thing
July 27, 2012 at 6:16 AM |
They have to vote a captain, I’m pretty sure it’s a USOC formality or something. It’s not like soccer though, where the two captains go talk to the ref about a bad call.
I can see it now; Afan, Aly and Ponor huddled around the judges arguing if Paseka got her amanar all the way around
July 27, 2012 at 6:39 AM |
Dang why did they wait so long? I forgot about that actually. Now she can have the same “bragging rights” ASac has.
By the way, did anyone see how she made the prediction of the next “golden girl” to be Gabby? She admitted that last time around it was Shawn Johnson. Just kind of a weird interview. I don’t know why she’s doing them. Probably for money. It’s too bad HER sponsors didn’t fly her to London…
July 27, 2012 at 1:26 PM
It must be a tradition to name the oldest member team captain. Is that right?
July 27, 2012 at 2:03 PM
I dont know, but maybe they all vote for the oldest because they think she is the most mature? I knew Aly would get it. I love how the turds on facebook were like “Why couldnt it have been someone else?” and trying to conspire that there was a “fix” that only Brestyan gymnasts can be captains. LOL. Like ASac and Aly are the only two captains in US Olympic team history.
July 27, 2012 at 2:37 PM
I remember that Amanda Borden was the 96 team captain and thought she might have been the oldest, but I just checked and it turns out both Shannon MIller and Dominique Dawes were slightly older. Miller and Dawes were the two big “names” though. I am sure if they had voted Miller over Dawes there would have been hostility from Dawes. Voting for Amanda (supposedly because she had a very outgoing personality) avoided the conflict. I’m guessing Shannon deferred for that that very reason. She was always a great team player IMO.
With this year’s team you just know there would have been all sorts or hoopla raised by the Gabby crowd if they had made Jordyn the team captain. Jordyn is a real team player too so I am sure she put her ego in check and said Aly should be the captain.
July 27, 2012 at 2:50 PM
List of the men’s judges wonder if/when they are going to put up a list of the women’s lol
July 27, 2012 at 4:22 PM
Dee, in looking back at my previous post, if we had grammar/writing/spelling police on this board, they would have immediately called me out for saying Miller and Dawes “were” slightly older than Borden. When you think of it, they still are slightly older than Borden!
July 27, 2012 at 4:43 PM
WAG Prelims Judges: http://www.fig-docs.com/microsites/london12/results/files/general/wag/wag_judges_qual.pdf
July 27, 2012 at 5:20 PM
Women’s lineups should be out tomorrow about the same time
July 27, 2012 at 5:40 PM
LOL Terri, at least we know what we are saying hahahah
July 27, 2012 at 4:35 AM |
Not a prediction, but christ the US podium training leo is ugly
July 27, 2012 at 2:04 PM |
ahahha that IS a prediction. A prediction that the rest of the leos will be fug, too! My money is on the fact that they will all be awful.
July 27, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Anyone know if this is true?
July 27, 2012 at 11:58 PM
good point! I’m crossing my fingers, their training leos were all pretty nice
July 27, 2012 at 2:33 PM |
Probably true JAS, I spoke to a ex NCAA gymnast friend of mine that had this issue her response was that the treatments take a few days to kick in which explains why Bitang was irritated Larissa hadn’t said something sooner. She may feel fine at this point and its not really a condition that a few more days of olympic competition (which is where we are at this point) will make worse. Shes Romanian. She can rest after the olympics… watch out world B+B are back
July 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM
Blythe has said she will compete too. Word is rest has helped her and she only had one day of bad pain. Also that a shot of cortisone is not on the cards- apparently the heel is not the best place, it could aggravate the injury and they don’t want to risk her whole foot going numb. I will be delirious with happiness if Larisa competes AA- unless they have further information, the last article said she will compete full difficulty on sunday- but didn’t mention AA.
July 27, 2012 at 3:30 PM
My friend didnt have the cortisone shot, she only had a combination of advil and some other pain meds. Anti inflammatory NSAIDs over the counter plus the ultrasound that they can do works wonders.
July 27, 2012 at 3:42 PM
So relieved about Iordache. I hope she’s at full recovery by the time of team finals and the AA. Kind of would love for Romania to win gold…I mean, if US doesn’t win gold I hope it’s Romania!
July 27, 2012 at 8:25 AM |
Watching the podium training on youtube before got taken down,
Looks like Aly really got a shot at AA over Gabby
Aly actually looked pretty good on bars, like not just for Aly but in general.
Beam, Aly way solid like usual, Gabby had a couple obvious balance checks.
i saw Aly and Gabby both do 4 vault Gabby sat 3rd vault.
Floor, Aly had minor problems for first pass, (but confident she will have that fine for competition.) rest was amazing. It didn’t have any sound, so Gabby floor was actually alright.
July 27, 2012 at 2:31 PM |
Funniest thing EVER is team Russia training in Alabama Leo’s yesterday…. I guess GK only makes a certain number of styles every year or the Russians were trying to save $$
July 27, 2012 at 3:04 PM |
That is a riot!. I know money is tight in Russia but that’s ridiculous.
July 27, 2012 at 3:45 PM |
I would not have realized it were it not for Aunt Joyce’s caption of Mustafina “Why did we let Sarah Patterson dress us”
July 27, 2012 at 4:02 PM |
hi but I believe the Russian leo is not from GK but Alfa factor (don’t know why they switched to AF though)
July 27, 2012 at 4:14 PM |
I think AJ just meant they look very similar to Alabama leos. I don’t think she meant they were actual extra Alabama leos that the leo company had in stock, although I wouldn’t put in past to the Russians to do something like that!
July 27, 2012 at 4:06 PM |
PS GTT will you accept me on twitter, my twitter is bexaboo322
July 27, 2012 at 4:07 PM |
I dont know if this was already mentioned, but Gymnastike’s podium training hits mention that Pena stood up the handspring double front yesterday. Her second vault, DTY, was shaky, though.
I will most likely be hiding under the couch when she vaults, if she makes it to event finals. That vault scares the piss out of me.
July 27, 2012 at 4:16 PM |
Marta please please get a twitter I’m sure there are lots of people who have things they’d like to say to you lol
July 27, 2012 at 4:18 PM |
There’s a Marta love out there I do not understand. Yes, I was on USAG’s FB page yesterday and there was a picture of Marta; everyone was like “LOVE her! hearts/stars/etc.”…ugh. I don’t know, I look at her and see evil. I just don’t get it.
July 27, 2012 at 5:43 PM
I guess these are the ones who ONLY listens to USAG for news and info of the team.
July 27, 2012 at 4:59 PM |
While we wait:-)
Here, are two articles you might find interesting if you have not read them yet.
Doping in gymnastics?
China’s experiment with drugs blamed on US and Russia:
http://www.smh.com.au/olympics/news-london-2012/chinas-experiment-with-drugs-blamed-on-us-and-russia-20120727-22zkj.html
Memoirs of a top Chinese gymnast:
http://www.smh.com.au/olympics/off-the-field/memoirs-of-a-top-chinese-gymnast-20120727-22xnt.html
July 27, 2012 at 5:37 PM |
Now I’m irritated. Anyone else feel like Shawn’s media whoring is going to the extreme? I was a big fan of hers but now I’m just like get on with it already. It’s turning out that she’s not as genuine as she originally came off. I thought her plans were “college” and whatever else…now she makes this “big” announcement that she’s back on DWTS All Stars. Hrm, guess her knee can handle THAT…
What’s she going to do when the fame train comes to its last stop? I guess that’s when the “real” depression sets in. She talked about how after retirement she didn’t know what to do with herself (until Bounty called) but really. I guess she’s going to have to hope that she can make it another four years until the NEXT Olympics? Or will she end up going to college after all at age 22?
July 27, 2012 at 5:42 PM |
Completely agree. She’s turned into such a fame-whore. She did seem all sincere, and I remember she wanted to go to med school etc.Yesterday she tweeted “BIG NEWS tomorrow” blabla. A month ago she said her knee was so swollen all the time that she could hardly do anything, but during DWTS she said it was really hard training. Just doesn’t add up.
She will milk that knee injury for all it’s worth, I bet it will come up in every fluff behind the scenes piece from DWTS once it starts.
July 27, 2012 at 5:54 PM |
LOL “until bounty called”
Shawn is becoming one of the worst fame train offenders. I understand her entire life has been gymnastics and getting to the Olympics, but…the time has passed. It seems like an epidemic: Sooo many people are trying to cash in on things from four years ago. I loved the Beijing Olympics but London is here and why can’t those in the past allow the current athletes to have their time? I never really predicted that she would be riding the fame train so hard…but now she is seriously becoming the worst one of all!
July 27, 2012 at 6:12 PM |
Fame whore means a person try to get the attention which he/she does not deserve. Shawn just return to the Entertainment side like Apolo Ohno does because of the former contestants, but she haven’t stolen the spotlight in gymnastics area like a certain Russian did in the Trials.
July 27, 2012 at 6:24 PM |
ugh ugh ugh GO AWAY SHAWN! It’s getting really annoying. I thought we were done with her whole “My knee just can’t take it anymore” “I want to be able to walk when I’m 30”
Now we’re going to get weeks of her complaining and whining and moaning about her injury. You know who never complained about her injury? Rebecca Fucking Bross. That girl is an inspiration for her toughness and her attitude towards the girls who made the team
I hope she’s one of the first kicked off but we all know that wont happen. I wonder how hard her agent had to pimp the DWTS people to get Shawn on it. And exactly how long has this been in the works? The all star season was known well before Shawn retired and we saw her at the last season’s finale when she was still a ‘gymnast’. The whole “I thought I was just going to go to college” looks even more tacky now.
July 27, 2012 at 7:36 PM
Spanny and some others were reporting that Shawn was a last minute addition due to all the Olympic publicity
July 27, 2012 at 7:55 PM
I wonder who dropped out then? I just looked at the list, I’m no DWTS expert but aren’t there like 4-5 winners? Who wants to watch winners win again? They should have done like all 2nd placers or something
July 27, 2012 at 8:04 PM
I don’t know why that show is still on the air. It’s like half-a$$ dancing (except the pros) performed by wannabe “I need a jumpstart/prolongment to my career” – lame. It’s all (for the most part) F-list celebrities that either had careers awhile back and are seeking another ditch effort to board the fame train or famewhores who want to try and prolong a career that’s in the midst of currently dying (that would be most of the reality TV stars they have on there).
I’m sorry, but after this Olympic mess is over, and a new champion is crowned, Shawn’s “legacy” will be history for the most part. Especially if they crown some “it” girl in the US. Of course, the media is making the “it” girl be Gabby since they find Jordyn’s personality dull and boring, so it’s all so forced it’s outrageous. Yet Jordyn has the most likely chance of winning gold in the AA of the US team. If Jordyn wins gold, it’ll be like Carly Patterson winning gold (hopefully she’ll avoid trying to be a rock star/sub-par singer). If Gabby wins gold though watch out. You know all of us will be running away from our television sets screaming as she performs the Dougie on David Letterman.
I still find it funny how Shawn’s “schtick” is “Olympic gold medalist.” I guarantee if she hadn’t won a single gold in Beijing she never would have quit gymnastics. That gold medal means everything in terms of being able to fame whore after the Olympics. Unless you’re someone like Michelle Kwan, who basically dominates for a decade and wins world championships again and again.
Sorry for the rant. I just wish someone would call her out (to her face, on live TV) her bullshit. I bet her sponsors started calling four to five months prior to the Olympics and she told herself she should just give up for the sake of fame whoring her way through the next 10 months or so and collect every penny she can while she still can. She probably also figured Marta wouldn’t select her for the team and maybe she knew about the Nastia thing. Whatever.
July 28, 2012 at 2:38 AM |
yeah I am no MD but all that twisting and dancing is kinda hard if your knee is swollen and still painful :p we should all blame Cheng Fei for falling off beam in EF and other EF finalists in Beijing LOL 😀
July 28, 2012 at 2:41 AM
LOL actually not 100%sure if Cheng Fei fell on beam (wasnt that vault and FX where she fell?) but yeah totally agree that its getting old …
July 28, 2012 at 2:53 AM
She fell off beam in team finals
July 27, 2012 at 5:50 PM |
Just sent you an email for access to Twitter. I’m @intothe_mystic
Cheesy I know but it’s just for this. and my name is Tracy
Can’t wait!
July 27, 2012 at 7:11 PM |
are you guys watching this pre-ceremony stuff? There are farm animals and fake clouds floating around. This is either going to be really cool or a complete disaster, no in between I think.
July 27, 2012 at 7:34 PM |
My husband (and some other friends of mine) was at the dress rehearsal yesterday. He said it was AMAZING! I could go but I wanted to keep the surprise for tonight 🙂
July 27, 2012 at 7:41 PM
Are you going to be there in person tonight Gymbee?
July 27, 2012 at 8:05 PM
I wish! In front of the TV.
But I still didn’t want the surprise ruined 🙂
July 27, 2012 at 9:23 PM
You are still a luck dog! Just being in London right now admid all the atmosphere has to be so soooo exciting.
July 27, 2012 at 9:38 PM
It is! It is so amazing! I feel so privileged, it’s electrifying! I start working next week as a volunteer, can’t wait.
July 27, 2012 at 10:12 PM
Come back and tell us everything.
July 27, 2012 at 10:40 PM
I will 🙂 I’m hoping some of the gymnasts will want to go watch some athletics (there’s a place for athletes on the stands) and I will hang out there part of the time. Watching the parade now, my god there are a lot of countries haha!
July 27, 2012 at 10:59 PM |
July 27, 2012 at 11:03 PM |
Twitter GT
I have sendt you an email:-) My twitter account is
@H_2012_OL
July 30, 2012 at 2:04 AM |
GTT, would you be so kind as to accept my twitter follow? I’m kat_fish1 🙂 thankyou!
July 30, 2012 at 2:05 AM |
will do. Right now but I have been having trouble today. I will try
July 30, 2012 at 2:45 AM
thanks a ton! it worked, yay ^_^