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Blame injuries in the growth years. Kids who damage shoulders stop working pommel, rings, high bar and often parallel bar until the are done growing and can rehab properly. Those who damage knees stop doing vault and floor for the same reason. With lack of support for men’s gym, only the rich and healthy survive.
(Totally random but our hotel was so close to Kentucky Kingdom, an amusement park in Louisville, that we could have thrown a rock and hit like two or three of the roller coasters. It was seriously RIGHT there by our hotel! I guess I know where to stay if i ever decide to visit that amusement park in the future, LOL 
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Shane Wiskus and Asher Hong also looked pretty good overall, and Fred Richard on FX and Curran Phillips on PB stood out as being really good on those events. It wasn't the cleanest event at all (even Stephen N. wasn't totally solid on PH although he got through his routine here) but it was enjoyable to see the guys and they all seemed in good spirits. There were some huge vaults going on and I also saw some insane tumbling too. BTW-It was kind of fun to see Sam Mikulik coaching and we also saw Sasha Artimev coaching too! They've got some great gymnasts coming up from their respective gyms and they definitely brought the energy and ethusiasm with them to Louisville.
) and we had no clue why anyone was told it was GA when we'd had seat numbers for this event for a while. It was so random and why would we go sit in someone else's seats when we had tickets for our own (very good) seats?! That bothered both of us for a while since we couldn't figure that out (more on this later). The other moment we had in this event was that we sat by Jordyn Weiber for a while. She had a meet in Arkansas the night before but was in town for the women's events this weekend. I spoke to her briefly after it was over laughing about how we had just watched the replay of Arkansas' meet that morning before the Winter Cup ladies event and wished her and her team lots of luck for the rest of the season. She was very sweet so that was fun to see her. Anyway, the Winter Cup for the senior women was definitely a messier event overall but with it being so early in the season, I was expecting that from these girls. There were some good moments (we saw a lot of great UB routines along with some that were trying hard stuff and not quite getting it done) and I loved being so close to the beam because we could see everything good and bad (i.e. we knew when they were coming off the beam and we could tell when something was rock solid). Skye Blakely looked pretty good overall but only did bars and beam. Lexi Zeiss (the eventual winner) looked solid overall on all her events and I really enjoyed Ashley Sullivan too (she came in second). Zoe Miller was awesome on beam and I really liked Nola Matthews overall too. Joscelyn Roberson was outstanding on vault and FX but needs work on bars and beam (although she's got the difficulty on beam). There's a great pipeline coming up for the next Olympics so I'm encouraged by what all I saw in Louisville. We saw Konner McClain after the event was over and she seemed in good spirits (she's still recovering from a back injury). Mom and I are hoping to go to the US Classic in August, especially to see the other US ladies that weren't at this event, but we'll see if that works out or not. Anyway, the junior ladies event was messy at some points but REALLY good in others. We saw some outstanding bars and beam routines along with creative and fun FX routines. There was one little girl, Simone Rose, who impressed me on all of her events and could be a star in the making if things go right for her. She had a ton of personality! It was actually a close competition the entire way through and even the final results were pretty closes within the top 5-7 girls. The girl that won, Hezly Rivera, was SO good on beam and floor and also solid on the other two events (she had difficulty and elegance) and the girl in second, Jayla Hang, probably could have challenged harder for gold had she not fallen off beam (a few of the other top girls had mistakes in that last rotation which threw results out of whack). It was a very impressive competition overall though and some other names that I think are ones to watch are Kieryn Finnell, Zoey Malomo, Gabrielle Hardie, Ella Kate Parker, and Izzy Stassi. We also saw Jordyn Weiber again as she sat in our area to watch the junior ladies event but I didn't talk to her this time. It was a rather messy competition overall but there were some really good moments too. The junior guys were all fun to watch and the rings guy whose family we had met the previous day ended up winning the rings title! His parents came over to say hi to us after the competition was over too which was super sweet of them (they also introduced us to their son who is a nice guy). Curran P on PB was OUTSTANDING and had my jaw dropping with his difficulty (he did a slightly harder routine on Sunday than he did on Friday). Kameron Nelson from tOSU was insanely good on FX and did two outstanding vaults as well which helped him make the national team for the first time in his career. Ian Skirkey was SO GOOD on PH on day two and ended up being the champion overall. Shane Wiskus wasn't quite as good on day two as he'd been on day one but did end up third on a couple of events. Yul didn't end up competing at all on day two (neither did Asher Hong) but they definitely brought the energy and were cheering on all of the guys the entire competition.
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Other than Simone, Gabby and Suni, there aren’t any other active “Olympic all-around champions” at this point. Simone seems totally focused on her wedding and I’m glad for her. I really doubt she’ll try to compete for more than one or two events and probably not that.
Looks like Simone got married today!
That's great. Did she register anywhere, maybe I can buy her a small gift of some kind?
I don’t see one. It seems they had a courthouse wedding for legal reasons in advance of a destination wedding in May.
I wonder if she's getting married again in Belize, her family's home country?
I would guess so (although not a legal marriage since she’s done that here in the US).
The article I saw said Cabo.
That surprised me
That tiered wedding gown is gorgeous on her.
Honestly, I thought it was a terrible look, lol. She's so petite and it draws attention to it in all the wrong ways, especially since the skirt isn't fully lined and the lowest tier is sheer.
Cant believe I missed Euros altogether!Apparently Euros happened! Jessica Gadirova had herself a meet.
European Gymnastics Championships 2023: Jessica Gadirova wins third floor title
Jessica Gadirova wins her third gold medal at the European Gymnastics Championships with victory in the women's floor final.www.bbc.com
Jessica Gadirova wins all-around gold at European gymnastics championship
Great Britain’s Jessica Gadirova has won the women’s all-around gold at the European Championships in Antalya, Turkeywww.theguardian.com
Kovacs fought so hard in the AA, it was a great comp.Cant believe I missed Euros altogether!
Gosh, I thought the bottom tiers perfectly balanced her larger (still tiny) top half, and the sheer bottom tier was just a bit of skin showing through in a nice way. JMO.
