Gymnastics #24 - The Road to Paris

[Rukia]

And they worked!!! ?

Or did Suni not need them? ? ?

either way do it again on sunday

 

[museksk8r]

Suni killed that bar routine! Solid!

 

[ilovepaydays]

either way do it again on sunday

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[HeatherC]

Tiana is so good on beam!

 

[Karen-W]

Nice beam from Tiana! That could fill a hole...

 

[her grace]

She got injured at the Olympics though. If she had only done bars at trials/camp I doubt she would have made it.

No, she was injured before then. Memmel even quit her floor exercise routine in the middle during the verification at camp. Pezek was the one who unexpectedly went down with injury during the Olympics.

ETA: only two athletes were named to team after trials. Memmel was named after the injury stop at that final selection camp.

 

[museksk8r]

Memmel made it just for bars with an injured body. Hmm

Chellsie’s injury flared up at the Olympics though. She finished 3rd at the Nationals behind Johnson and Liukin in 2008 and performed very well at trials as well.

 

[Allskate]

Suni's bar routine just got WAY more important (more than it already was....).

I thought she would make the team before today. Now, I think that she's definitely on the team.

Leanne probably has the edge but we'll see what happens from here on

I think they have to assume that international judges would ding her two points on the vault.

 

[skatfan]

No, she was injured before then. Memmel even quit her floor exercise routine in the middle during the verification at camp. Pezek was the one who unexpectedly went down with injury during the Olympics.

The way I heard it she did one last pass at the Olympics practice session (on vault?) that took her out of everything except bars

 

[FiveRinger]

Just curious...is there any way for any of these athletes to petition their way onto this team? I don't think there is, but what do I know?

 

[Theatregirl1122]

that may have been the most important routine of suni's life wow

I would like to remind both you and John that she literally did win AA at the Olympics. So I feel like that floor routine was her most important.

 

[Karen-W]

LOL - NBC production team re-doing their entire "who will we show" plan on the fly and showing us Kaliya's bars!

 

[FiveRinger]

Chellsie’s injury flared up at the Olympics though. She finished 3rd at the Olympic trials behind Johnson and Liukin in 2008.

Didn't Chellsie have a broken foot and could only compete bars?

 

[Rukia]

I would like to remind both you and John that she literally did win AA at the Olympics

yeah but like I feel like there was less pressure because she wasn't necessarily expecting it and everything was so chaotic she didn't have time to think lol

 

[HeatherC]

Stop hyping up Hezly please.....she's great but she's barely out of juniors!

 

[Rukia]

simone needs to roll onto the beam too learn from jade

 

[Karen-W]

Well, Simone didn't fall on the beam mount!

 

[Spikefan]

Nervy but the way Simone can stay on beam is amazing.

 

[Karen-W]

Simone's now channeling a little bit of angry Jordan here on the beam - and I think it's serving her well!

 

[Rukia]

lol simone is mad now which is hilarious to me because lots of other gymnasts would love to do that exact routine

 

[museksk8r]

Yikes! Simone is having an extremely nervy beam routine, but pulling it together now.

 

[HeatherC]

Simone is now gonna do mad beam for the rest of this weekend.....I feel bad for the beam, LOL

 

[Allskate]

yeah but like I feel like there was less pressure because she wasn't necessarily expecting it and everything was so chaotic she didn't have time to think lol

She might not have been expecting the AA gold, but she undoubtedly went in to try to medal.

Also, Suni's routines when Simone got the twisties and was out were really important.

 

[Spikefan]

Simone is now gonna do mad beam for the rest of this weekend.....I feel bad for the beam, LOL

It had it coming.

 

[Rukia]

She might not have been expecting the AA gold, but she undoubtedly went in to try to medal.

Also, Suni's routines when Simone got the twisties and was out were really important.

it was a hyperbolic statement lol i'll change my mind 20 times in the next 2 days

 

[Rob]

Just curious...is there any way for any of these athletes to petition their way onto this team? I don't think there is, but what do I know?

They’ve been saying Kayla can’t since she didn’t compete. Same with Skye but she won’t be healed in a month anyway. I think Shilese can be considered since she did 1 event.

 

[Rukia]

It had it coming.

she's going to have the beam destroyed when this is over to show all the other beams what happens to them when they misbehave

 

[Karen-W]

It had it coming.

The beam has done nothing wrong tonight (yet)!

 

[HeatherC]

The beam has done nothing wrong tonight yet!

The key word there is yet....LMAO

 

[museksk8r]

Didn't Chellsie have a broken foot and could only compete bars?

It was not disclosed until after the Games that she had competed on a broken foot. Scary!