Gymnastics #24 - The Road to Paris

[Karen-W]

Also, my team "messy buns" would come home with gold too - Simone, Suni, Skye, Kayla and Joscelyn.

 

[Spikefan]

What was with that camera angle for Jordan on beam?

 

[Rukia]

I feel like DiCello may be really doing herself a solid with that floor score. I know Jade says she'll upgrade, but still would be good to have another good floor score in the line-up (and she's higher than Wong on everything else so far).

 

[Karen-W]

Josc is off the beam - shame as she's been doing much better today than at Classic.

 

[ilovesalchows]

I just like diCello’s lines. She hits all her leaps too. I thought most of Chile’s’ on beam looked iffy.
Plus, she was an alternate last time, right? That would be a bummer again. I think that is where Wong is headed, sadly.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

I feel like we could make two teams here. Shi and Simone are still locks (Shi would have competed here if it was olympics or trials. She just feels she shouldn't push it and be too injured for later.

But for the rest of the team, you're looking at Kayla, Skye, Jordan, Leanne, Jade, Suni all in with a chance. Joscelyn is not looking like a big contender to me unless things change a lot.

If Suni can hit bars, this would work:
Beam: Suni, Kayla, Simone (Shi)
Vault: Shilese, Simone, Jade (Suni)
Bars: Shilese, Suni, Simone (Kayla)
Floor: Simone, Shilese, Kayla (Jade)

But I think you could make a credible team with1-2 of Skye, Jordan, or Leanne as well

 

[Karen-W]

I feel like we could make two teams here. Shi and Simone are still locks (Shi would have competed here if it was olympics or trials. She just feels she shouldn't push it and be too injured for later.

But for the rest of the team, you're looking at Kayla, Skye, Jordan, Leanne, Jade, Suni all in with a chance. Joscelyn is not looking like a big contender to me unless things change a lot.

If Suni can hit bars, this would work:
Beam: Suni, Kayla, Simone (Shi)
Vault: Shilese, Simone, Jade (Suni)
Bars: Shilese, Suni, Simone (Kayla)
Floor: Simone, Shilese, Kayla (Jade)

But I think you could make a credible team with1-2 of Skye, Jordan, or Leanne as well

Are the women in parentheses the ones you'd put up in Qualifying as the 4th? Qualifying it's 4 up/3 count, Final is 3 up/3 count.

 

[ilovesalchows]

I am not in the know overall. Barring some sort of freakish occurrence ala Tokyo, is Brazil anywhere near pressuring the US?

 

[ilovepaydays]

YASSSS!!! Suni on bars!!! ?

 

[ilovesalchows]

Blakely just threw a monster vault.

 

[Karen-W]

Big vault from Skye!

 

[Rukia]

Oh yo Skye Blakely on vault that complicates things a lot

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Are the women in parentheses the ones you'd put up in Qualifying as the 4th? Qualifying it's 4 up/3 count, Final is 3 up/3 count.

Yes.

Honestly, you can essentially fill every spot with Shilese, Simone, and Kayla and then from there the question is who gains you points.

On vault, Kayla is not great, so another 14+ would be good there. Jade would be the biggest improvement, but Leanne, Jordan, and Suni all come in higher than Kayla.

On bars, it's honestly quite hard to improve on Simone, Shilese, and Kayla unless Suni can.

On beam, only Suni or Skye would have something to add.

On floor, there's not much improvement to be had over Simone, Shilese, and Kayla, except Kaylia Lincoln by just a little.

 

[Karen-W]

Yes.

Honestly, you can essentially fill every spot with Shilese, Simone, and Kayla and then from there the question is who gains you points.

On vault, Kayla is not great, so another 14+ would be good there. Jade would be the biggest improvement, but Leanne, Jordan, and Suni all come in higher than Kayla.

On bars, it's honestly quite hard to improve on Simone, Shilese, and Kayla unless Suni can.

On beam, only Suni or Skye would have something to add.

On floor, there's not much improvement to be had over Simone, Shilese, and Kayla, except Kaylia Lincoln by just a little.

You might have to replace Kayla with Skye there, lol.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Skye making a big play for Jade's spot, TBH.

 

[ilovepaydays]

YASSSS!!! Suni on bars!!! ?

WAIT. What was that score?! 14.300?! Behind Simone and Jordan?

 

[Rukia]

Skye making a big play for Jade's spot, TBH.

Hard agree with this. I mean her floor wasn't as high but she had a big bounce out and we wouldn't really need that score anyway.

 

[her grace]

Blakely! Wow!

There’s a vault/beam specialist! So do we really need Carey then??

 

[Karen-W]

Under-rotation on the landing of her last pass for Jordan - too bad. She was on fire until then.

 

[beckab81]

WAIT. What was that score?! 14.300?! Behind Simone and Jordyn?

She did her "easy" routine, so only a 5.8 D - her E score was 8.5, same as Jordyn & Skye. When she brings her fully difficulty out, the score will be a monster.

 

[Karen-W]

She did her "easy" routine, so only a 5.8 D - her E score was 8.5, same as Jordyn & Skye. When she brings her fully difficulty out, the score will be a monster.

Yeah, per Peacock this was only like half her routine. She could score much better at Trials.

 

[Rukia]

now I'm wondering if Kayla will be the only non-S name on the team....

 

[beckab81]

Totally outside the olympic team discussion, but I wonder what happened to Reese Esponda on beam... 4.3 E score!!!!

 

[ilovepaydays]

She did her "easy" routine, so only a 5.8 D - her E score was 8.5, same as Jordyn & Skye. When she brings her fully difficulty out, the score will be a monster.

Yeah, per Peacock this was only like half her routine. She could score much better at Trials.

But trials are three weeks away…..can these gymnasts really get that many improvements in by then?

BTW, oops about misspelling Jordan’s name. I’ve corrected it.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

You might have to replace Kayla with Skye there, lol.

Beam: Suni, Kayla, Simone (Shi)
Vault: Kayla, Simone, Skye (Shi)
Bars: Shilese, Skye, Simone (Suni)
Floor: Simone, Shilese, Kayla (Skye)

Or:
Beam: Suni, Shi, Simone (Skye)
Vault: Skye, Simone, Jade (Suni)
Bars: Shilese, Suni, Simone (Skye)
Floor: Simone, Shilese, Jade (Skye)

Or:
Beam: Skye, Kayla, Simone (Shi)
Vault: Skye, Simone, Jade (Shi)
Bars: Shilese, Kayla, Simone (Skye)
Floor: Simone, Shilese, Kayla (Jade)

I would say putting Skye in for Jade works best, especially with Kayla vaulting great as well.

 

[Karen-W]

But trials are three weeks away…..can these gymnasts really get that many improvements in by then?

BTW, oops about initially misspelling Jordan’s name. I’ve corrected it.

4 weeks actually - they're June 27-30th.

 

[Karen-W]

Okay, USA Gymnastics and NBC need to get their act together and give us a little indicator on the screen when the gymnast goes OOB on floor. That's all. Simone had at least two OOB passes, I think, but I'm not positive.

ETA - well, one of them she managed to not go OOB but still...

 

[ilovepaydays]

4 weeks actually - they're June 27-30th.

Is that realistically enough time?

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don’t care for Simone’s floor. How is her choreography always this MEH?

 

[Rukia]

Is that realistically enough time?

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don’t care for Simone’s floor. How is her choreography always this MEH?

genuinely who cares about her choreography lol

but also she starts with taylor swift so I enjoy that hahahaha

 

[Karen-W]

Is that realistically enough time?

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don’t care for Simone’s floor. How is her choreography always this MEH?

For seasoned competitors like Suni and Jade, yes. Jade already upgraded her floor from Classic, IIRC (I don't think it was reflected in the score though) but the commentators mentioned the first pass was higher difficulty.