Someone on this team needs some damn personality.
Okay, I KNOW, ” Smiling doesn’t win you gold medals” but that doesn’t mean we can’t find joy in watching this Olympic team as a group, does it?
The only time Simone shows any personality is when she wins all the gold medals. Unless she’s talking to her teammate or Jade Carey she’s off sulking on the sidelines because the team isn’t her personal cheerleader anymore so we need someone to put the personality back on this team so why not, Mykayla Skinner?
: There isn’t the jealousy angle we had 4 years ago because no prima donna’s have shown up expecting to be on the Olympic team with out earning it. The only real competition to Mykayla on this team is Jade Carey and they seem to get along really well. Jade even went to Mykayla’s wedding ( something “BFF” Simone Biles couldn’t even be bothered to do)
: Mykayla is going for it. Watch her instagram. She’s working on the triple double on floor. Upgrades on bars. Putting both hands on her Cheng. She wants this.
: IMO, Tom knows the US is going to win gold and he is going to put someone on this team to be Simone’s little buddy and Mykayla is the best bet for that ” position”
YES, I know this team isn’t being decided on personality so take this blog for what it is, a way for me to get the damn Olympic team I want and that includes Mykayla Skinner.
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January 4, 2020 at 7:08 PM |
I would love to see Makayla in the team! Not my favorite gymnast, but she has grown on me and personality wise, one of the most entertaining of USA’s team. Where do I sign?
January 5, 2020 at 6:05 AM |
I agree.
January 8, 2020 at 5:49 PM |
I agree also. She seems to have grown up quite a bit since 2016, and nobody can argue with her work ethic.
January 9, 2020 at 2:14 PM
Mykayla defending herself 4 years ago was only an issue with people who already hated her. I’m not talking about the racist crap I’m talking about the retweeting the picture with her face over Gabby’s and other stuff implying she should have been on the team. She had every right to defend herself. So did Ashton Kutcher there who actually had a point (She beat Madison on bars every time except day 2 of trials (they tied a few times too I believe)
The funny thing about the people who hated on Skinner they now are friends with her on facebook and like all her posts.
January 10, 2020 at 12:22 AM
I was referring to the racist crap. FWIW. At any rate I agree with you about wanting to see her on the 2020 team.
January 5, 2020 at 7:14 AM |
Gymnovosti published a very interesting article of Brazil’s team and why they didn’t qualify a full team to Tokyo (and I can’t believe that Spain’s did! Still so excited…sorry). I didn’t know a lot of things that this article clarifies and I have now a lot of respect for Leticia because if she pulled out what she did with the little training she had and working at the same time, she deserves a lot of respect.
https://eng.gymnovosti.com/what-led-to-brazilian-wag-not-qualifying-to-tokyo/
January 6, 2020 at 9:52 AM |
https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/1213877293543763969?s=20
January 6, 2020 at 2:22 PM |
So pretty!
January 8, 2020 at 4:14 PM |
January 8, 2020 at 4:39 PM |
I am hoping for Mai.
January 8, 2020 at 5:09 PM
Maybe. Do you think that Japan will try for her to go the especialist route? She could go for floor. Or try by continental championship, but with China there, i don’t know…
January 9, 2020 at 2:15 PM
They need her on that team. I forgot the scam cup was part of the Olympic birth crap.
January 13, 2020 at 8:28 PM
Japan can win a a country spot through the World Cup AA series (any team member can compete and contribute points) or through the continental champs (not a member of 2019 team). In fact, Mai could compete at the world cups and I believe also at the Asian games and net two spots for Japan, and then put her on the team.
January 14, 2020 at 5:13 PM
Maybe this is why they really didn’t want Mai to be part of the team that qualified a spot so they can send her out there to get 2 more?
January 9, 2020 at 5:55 AM |
Monica Rosu said in an interview that Brestyan was still a possibility for Romania’s WAG team, after Raducaan said that they tried, but they weren’t able to reach an understanding. It would be great for Romania, but I don’t know if its in Brestyan best interest to link himself to the madness that is Romanian federation right now, to be honest. But we shall see. Where is Brestyan right now?
https://twitter.com/LubaBaladzhaeva/status/1214904264641974273
January 9, 2020 at 7:57 AM |
Still need a bars coach.
January 9, 2020 at 12:06 PM
I know, but it would be an improvement, as now they need an everything coach. Also, if Brestyan was able to get several Romanian seniors to score on floor and vault roughly the same points than Aly used to get, right now, Romanian Federation would built him a temple for worshipping his memory forever.
In one part of the interview, Rosu says that the Romanian’s women program has one foot on the grave and that they need to make changes fast. At least someone from the Romania acknowledge this! Finally!
January 9, 2020 at 2:08 PM
Mihai is not a miracle worker.lol Aly trained with him for years. He built her strength and that allowed her to become the gymnast she was . It’s down right weird how he created two such different gymnasts . Alicia was clean and had technique and could be called artistic for the generation she was raised in while as Aly was the exact opposite. Both gymnasts had success because Mihai made them power gymnasts.
I was watching old Alicia bar routines awhile ago and she really wasn’t as bad as people made her out to be and say what you want about Aly but her bar routine was good enough. If Mihai could get Romania back to being ugly consistent bar workers they were in the days of Milo, Gina and Simona and do what he does on the other 3 events the team could fight for top 5
January 9, 2020 at 2:16 PM
This is like year 20 of us saying that.lol
January 9, 2020 at 7:03 PM
Amen. I was watching 1996 Olympics the other day (thank you, YouTube) and the commentators were already saying that Romania needed to be better on bars. They were having already such problems that even when they were winning a lot there were comments on it. And in 2020, not only their bars have gotten worse, but they have contaminated the rest of Romanian events.
I think we all agree that Brestyan is not a miracle worker, but he is a good coach, up to the times and knows the new code, something that Romania desperately needs. But I doubt that Brestyan is going if they don’t give him some serious assurances and a lot of advantages and control. To be honest, at this point, Romania’s Federation is such a mess that they would have to promise him something like, I don’t know, an unicorn, to go to train the women’s team right now. But, who knows? Maybe they are giving him his unicorn.
January 9, 2020 at 4:02 PM |
https://twitter.com/UEGymnastics/status/1215210860269928448?s=20https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/1215345386283569153?s=20
It’s so interesting to see how routines have changed over the years.
January 9, 2020 at 7:19 PM |
Nabs to compete in Italy!
January 11, 2020 at 8:53 PM |
January 11, 2020 at 10:25 PM |
Nothing she has shown me stands out. That was average for today’s gymnasts.. The other day she finally got a double front and stumbled out of it and put it online but it was obviously by the way she was acting she was having trouble getting it. She’s running out of time.
January 11, 2020 at 11:13 PM
Yeah if she wants to have a better shot then the specialist route might be better. It would be easier to train two events than all four.
January 12, 2020 at 5:43 PM
It’s too late for that. I doubt they would send her to the 4 remaining competitions.
January 12, 2020 at 6:47 PM
No way they are going to send somebody to the remaining World Cups. That should be already planned, next one is in less than a month. She could always win the continental competition, although I have to say I am rooting for Andrade in that one.
January 13, 2020 at 8:34 PM
The Americas get two continental spots. So Andrade or Saraiva (but not both) can earn a nominative spot, and an American can earn a NOC spot (country picks the athlete).
But if the US wins through the world cups, the second spot at continental champs is wide open for B team members from Canada, A team from Mexico and other countries
January 15, 2020 at 10:47 PM |
What’s with the porn music in the background?
January 14, 2020 at 6:38 PM |
Aly officially retires.
https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/stories/news/detail/gymnast-aly-raisman-announces-retirement-/
January 15, 2020 at 11:21 AM |
I don’t understand…wasn’t she already retired?
January 15, 2020 at 12:57 PM
She pretty much was. I enjoyed watching her win because she was so happy and looked happier than the gold and silver medalist but it was what it was.
January 15, 2020 at 1:53 PM
I remember her as the kind of gymnast that grew on me over time. I think I saw her for the same time at 2009 World Championships and that I thought that she seemed a little robotic. But I liked her more and more each year. I wish her luck in the future, I haven’t heard of her in at least two years, except for the comments on this blog.
January 15, 2020 at 11:21 AM |
Amy Tinkler retired:
January 15, 2020 at 12:46 PM |
2x Olympian??
https://instagram.com/lauriehernandez?igshid=ptuz8oivlto0
January 15, 2020 at 12:58 PM |
LOL Laurie doesn’t come across as the cocky asshole type so I’ll chalk that up to an error but she should really fix that.
January 15, 2020 at 1:26 PM
Agreed!!!!
January 15, 2020 at 1:30 PM
Why would she do that tho? I mean, why?
January 15, 2020 at 1:53 PM |
WTF?
January 15, 2020 at 9:57 PM
I really hope this isn’t a part of the Gabby put on 2016 team as part of a deal conspiracy theory
January 15, 2020 at 10:19 PM
If she doesn’t make it on the team and is given the extra AA spot that very well could be.
January 15, 2020 at 10:50 PM
She is the only one of the 2016 team who hasn’t come out as a Nassar victim, correct?
January 16, 2020 at 12:03 AM
No clue.