Recent content by semillon27

I think even a lot of American gymnastics fans are happy for Melnikova! She’s a wonderful gymnast. Maybe I’m not a typical American but I really like seeing all athletes do their best, regardless of nationality. Seeing her progression from 2016 to now has been amazing. I’m sure Valentina would...

This Twitter account has a number of videos for the top finishers, including all four events for the three medalists. https://twitter.com/rookiegymstan

Yeah I hear you. I’d have liked to have seen them maximize numbers on each event, but this year is just weird. In the end I think McClain has medal potential on beam if she hits - SO GOOD - but the “if she hits” is a huge question mark. Good to get her the experience. Fingers crossed. (But...

Greaves has the highest bars D score of the six who competed and she had the second highest overall bars score. The team of four they are taking has both Frazier and McClain, neither of which is worth putting up on bars in prelims. (Unless Frazier ends up doing AA… which she shouldn’t over Wong...

On the one hand, I'm rolling my eyes into the ceiling that TF went with AA rank order for an individual worlds. On the other hand, there aren't really many other options. Though I do think I'd have put Greaves on the team for bars.

U.S. Worlds Trials All-Around Results: 1. Kayla DiCello 55.350 2. eMjae Frazier 54.050 3. Leanne Wong 53.400 4. Konnor McClain 52.000 5. Olivia Greaves 51.850 6. Ciena Alipio 51.450 DiCello was apparently very solid in the all-around and gets the automatic spot for the team. Frazier went...

Apparently she's injured.

Emily Lee posted on IG that she did suffer a ruptured Achilles and is having surgery tomorrow. Wishing her as smooth a recovery as possible and can’t wait to watch her at UCLA.

Maybe they've just decided to stay as safe as possible and avoid international travel for the time being? Though I suppose that doesn't explain why they wouldn't be at Skate America at least.

Add to your list of conspiracies that this was a "make-up" for how Maggie Nichols was treated in 2016 - Grace McCallum is from the same gym and same coach. But in reality this is how Tom Forster has done things since he took over. It's how you perform at the final competition, and that's it. He...

I haven't been following for a while but after their withdrawal from worlds and now this ... do we have any knowledge that they are still even together?

Swimming has 14 events for men and 14 for women and then three relays for each. Gymnastics has four events for women and six for men. That’s why swimming gets more people. It’s still two per country per event and, like gymnastics, it ends up that amazing swimmers miss out. Like Regan Smith...

Wong was inconsistent all year. If she'd come in to trials and hit 8-for-8 I'd have agreed with you, but she didn't. With her track record this year, I don't think you can say that she "should have" the 4th spot. I said earlier that she'd have been my #1 choice coming in to the meet, but she...

Once you've decided to take the top four AA as the team though, who do you pick as your +1? The best options to make an event final are MyKayla (second at trials on vault and 2014 world vault medalist), Kara (second at trials on beam and 2018 and 2019 worlds event finalist), and Riley (fourth at...

She probably snapped her Achilles on the take-off, which is why she couldn't get the skill around and landed on her face. It reminded me so much of what happened to Vanessa Ferrari in floor finals at 2017 Worlds. So sad for her. Just one routine and she could finish off and head to UCLA. Now...