Cachoo
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So much drama! Congrats to all. Proud of the Americans and Brits and the ROC team rocked! Great stuff. Now show me the Chinese women on the p-bars. 
2020 OG Gymnastics Thread: The Takedown In Tokyo
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Frau Muller
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Yup. What do you expect...the US commentator said it all "We're out of here!"
BittyBug
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Which is why I said "if the rest of her events went the way her vault did." There's clearly something off with Biles.
Theatregirl1122
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Okay?
I responded to a post, somewhat bitter, about ROC would never win if Biles was healthy.
You know I don't follow gymnastics or care enough about any of these athletes for you to be reading something into what I said. So I am certainly not pretending anything
Why would I pay that much attention to how much you follow gymnastics? There are thousands of people on this board. I responded to a comment that Russia was the better team today, when actually, after all the comments that USA would basically be terrible and lose by 100 points if Simone weren't there, the US team did great even without her.
The Russian fourth gymnast only competed one event. Like Simone. The Russian team was always about those three gymnasts
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Honestly, I'll be surprised if Simone competes in any of the EFs. She might grit it out for FX but she isn't a serious contender for UB gold, so I can't see her putting herself at further risk of injury doing that. BB - maybe? VT - I think she'll pull out and give Mykayla a shot at some hardware.
Theatregirl1122
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Using Simone on vault technically hurt the USA since Suni's prelims score was quite a bit higher. Obviously no one knew that would happen, but having Simone on vault didn't help the US literally at all. And considering that Simone was not supposed to be used on one event, that's not a great comparison. But still, suddenly losing an all arounder is a lot different than choosing to use someone only on vault and having that be your plan.
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I hope so...MYKAYLA!!! Don't get on a plane back to the USA just yet!!!
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I'm sure they'll be vocal but fact of the matter is this is why I would've picked this team. It might not be why Tom picked it but that's a different conversation. In the event of injury with a 4 person team, you've gotta have a built in back-up plan and flexibility. Having Grace there and able to do AA in TF's knowing that she's clean and reliable was huge. I mean we would've had to put Skinner up on UB/BB in TF...
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Gymnasts are injured all the time, so maybe? Maybe not? Would Simone Biles be Simone Biles if she hadn't pushed the technical so far? Would Simone have ever reached her full potential without pushing so far?
She could have held back and gotten an injury this morning anyway. Would that be better?
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Yes, and if that fourth gymnast had needed to cover vault as well they most likely would have still been just fine. Today, ROC was the better team, which doesn't mean we're not all sad for Simone and her struggles - whether physical or mental or both.
And Sunisa Lee performed amazingly. She will be a contender for AA gold and I love her gymnastics.
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I agree with this. The Russians are very overrated as dancers but everyone else at the top apart from the Dutch (but even they twirl and pirouette too much now) are really fug with their dance and have no artistry to speak of, so it makes the Russians look better. Kind of like the way Mustafina would be lauded for being fluid and artistic when all she did was pose without any dance ability but with pointed toes and good carriage…and with some of the worst twisting form from a top gymnast of her era.
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So...possible Gold medals for Italy's Ferrari in FloorEx...or for Brazil's Rebeca Andrade in All-around or an apparatus final???
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Dick nose on one of the Russian gymnast. Disqualify them now. 
skategal
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Yes and ROC was the better team in the preliminaries as well when USA had all their athletes competing so I’m going to give this Olympics to them.
No disrespect to Team USA. They are all awesome but this is the way sport goes sometimes, right?
Congrats to ROC, USA and GBR!!
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*Rebeca Andrade.
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What's a dick nose when they all run around hugging and high-fiving each other anywayDick nose on one of the Russian gymnast. Disqualify them now.
It's like they don't realise they still have more competing to do.
The fourth gymnast can do the AA but no where near their other but may have scored better than floor.
A team final
They would have been fine without that fourth gymnast’a vault. Viktoria has a perfectly good DTY.
The Russian coaches announced the top 3 earily made two other girls Duke it out for fourth spot (it might have been mistake not to take the Beamer)
The Russian team essential was 3 girls lol Any team with those 3 would be formidable.
I wasn't speaking to the quality/difference of their gymnastics. Your original post just said basically "Russia had 4, USA only 3" which wasn't necessarily the case. That's all I'm saying.
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This. The other three earned their spots on Team USA by working hard, practicing all year long especially with the Olympics being delayed for one year. They're nothing to "spit" at.
I like everyone else watched the team the other night. All of them were brilliant, and I was totally impressed with Jade! She was awesome! I was also proud of MyKayla and Suni. I was proud of all of them. They pulled their own weight and did an impeccable job. Of course, that's just my opinion.
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50 more pages of “if Biles had been healthy”. Yay.
Theatregirl1122
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I wasn't speaking to the quality/difference of their gymnastics. Your original post just said basically "Russia had 4, USA only 3" which wasn't necessarily the case. That's all I'm saying.
I mean, they quite literally had 4. How they chose to use them was their decision.
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I think for the rest of the team it was the best thing that happened to them that Simone pulled out. If they had won Silver with Simone after being lauded as the absolute Gold favorite with a four fall cushion and then they lost - the media would have been brutal (we saw it after prelims).
But now the narrative can be that the team rallied and fought even without their strongest member so that Grace, Jordan and Sunisa can be proud of themselves instead of feeling like letting everyone down.
I only wish, Jordan hadn't fallen - that sucks and did not make a difference in the end anyway.
BUt like this I hope the media will be supportive instead of brutal.
But now the narrative can be that the team rallied and fought even without their strongest member so that Grace, Jordan and Sunisa can be proud of themselves instead of feeling like letting everyone down.
I only wish, Jordan hadn't fallen - that sucks and did not make a difference in the end anyway.
BUt like this I hope the media will be supportive instead of brutal.
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Ummmm this is Skinner's husband right? Oooffff
(I don't know why this popped up on my twitter feed but yeah0
(I don't know why this popped up on my twitter feed but yeah0
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LOL - we still have the AA and EFs to get through. 50 pages might be an under-estimation.50 more pages of “if Biles had been healthy”. Yay.
Theatregirl1122
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Behold my lack of shock.
Also I love how she and her minions like to pretend that the team that gave the US the best chance of gold actually had her on it. Technically it had Jade.
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figures.
I never bought into the narrative that Skinner has changed. She is very sour grabes with the team selection this time and last time and I hope sooo soooo much that Simone will compete on vault
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Don't confuse them with facts!!
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Looks like TSL screenshot his IG and then tweeted it?
But, uhm, the best team was always going to have Simone (and Sunisa) on it, so he's just stupid if he thinks that gold was within the USA's grasp with any other combination of Simone/Sunisa + two other gymnasts once Simone went down. And the same would have been true had Suni been the one injured.
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And this from Simone's sister complaining that people are all about mental health until it not longer benefits them.: https://twitter.com/adria_biles/status/1420005035866525744
She's not wrong. In the end, Simone owes no one anything, especially not USAG.
She's not wrong. In the end, Simone owes no one anything, especially not USAG.
