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Petty Okino

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1 month

I feel like this AA podium accurately reflects the 3 greatest gymnasts of the past two Olympic cycles, and I truly love that ❤️

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3 years

God. Poor Anna Shcherbakova sitting by herself because her entire team is melting down, and there’s no one to even pretend to care for her. Kamila and a Sasha in ruins. Nothing good here. Nothing, nothing, nothing.

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3 years

Wakaba Higuchi, an un doped skater, did the same elements as Valieva better, Valieva had 2 major mistakes, and Valieva's still 10 points ahead. Eject this fucking sport from the Olympics.

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3 years

Evgenia Medvedeva is fucking brave for posting this.

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3 years

From Zhenya's IG stories | "I hope this all ends as soon as possible, like a bad dream.”

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3 years

I have tears in my eyes. The gymnasts themselves are so damn good and caring. Look at this genuine happiness and sportsmanship. All I want is a sport that cares for them, that is as fair as possible, and that treats them like the gold they are.

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3 years

Gold medal in facial reactions! #SimoneBiles

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@PettyOkino

3 years

Hello? ISU judges? My daughters, Wakabotchka Higuchievna & Kaorinka Sakamotova are brand new Sambo 70 students. Yes, effective immediately! They’ll need their PCS & GOE adjustments in time for that free skate. Maybe even a little extra to make up for the short!

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@PettyOkino

3 years

Would love to see an undoped, liberated, adult Kamila Valieva have redemption in Milan 2026.

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3 years

My delightful Russian speaking friend is presently translating Trusova for me, and apparently she called Eteri a "sterva" which is somewhere in the realm of c*nt!!!!

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3 years

Ashikawa Urara truly has what may be the wildest beam save I’ve ever seen! And is currently qualifying in 3rd with a 13.533!!!

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@PettyOkino

3 years

Whoah! Nia Dennis & a marching band opening the Met Gala was not what I was expecting this afternoon!

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@PettyOkino

3 years

Keeping it simple: A) Mental health is VALID B) In many sports if you’re having an off day, you’re not at risk of death or paralysis. Gymnastics is not one of those sports. C) Simone Biles does the hardest tumbling in the world, meaning she’s most at risk on a bad day

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3 years

I just think the we should be spending as much time as possible in awe that Sunisa Lee is one of the greatest athletes of our time

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3 years

Thoughts from the sober light of morning: I have a soft spot for Kami, but letting Russia, Eteri, Dudakov, etc send a doped up 15 year old to win 2 Olympic golds would be the absolute end of any illusion of Olympic integrity.

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@PettyOkino

3 years

Very nice for me to rewatch Suni Lee in PrimeTime broadcast while I’m not actively experiencing cardiac arrest.

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@PettyOkino

3 years

Honestly good for Trusova for having a real fucking reaction

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@PettyOkino

4 years

Honestly, sometimes I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call football a sport

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1 month

Ugh. At this moment I’m just overcome with sadness that Becky Downie and Georgia Mae Fenton were robbed of an Olympic team bronze medal that they truly earned and deserved.

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4 years

Shawn Johnson unequivocally has the most beautiful 2 foot layout on beam ever performed by a non-Chinese gymnast, IMO

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3 years

The fact that Suni Lee and Rebeca Andrade are Olympic All Around 🥇 & 🥈, and they both have some of the highest difficulty in the field AND some of the most beautiful gymnastics makes me feel hopeful for gymnastics! 🥲

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3 years

This LUDICROUS save meant that Ashikawa Urara made the balance beam final, where she was perfect, and is now WORLD CHAMPION. This is why you always fight for it! If she had fallen off, she wouldn’t’ve even been a finalist!

Petty Okino

@PettyOkino

3 years

Ashikawa Urara truly has what may be the wildest beam save I’ve ever seen! And is currently qualifying in 3rd with a 13.533!!!

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3 years

I hope Shilese Jones is having the time of her life on tour, *and* I could cry about the fact that she won’t be at Worlds

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3 years

UPDATE: She clarified that it might better be understood as an extreme version of b*tch and asked fellow Russian speakers to weigh in.

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2 months

Champion mentality from Suni Lee vaulting immediately after her best friend went down

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3 years

In this 16 second video, Riley McCusker demonstrates more choreography than all 6 American routines in Tokyo put together

Dr. Sam, PhD

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3 years

So excited to see Riley compete this. She deserves the world and this routine already looks beautiful. 🦋

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3 years

Maggie Haney & her allies are doing more work than any SafeSport hearing ever could to show the depths of their sadistic, abusive mindset. The sniping at Riley, the PUBLIC celebration of her mistakes, etc? Unhinged. Sociopathic. Riley was a CHILD when she worked with Maggie.

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Petty Okino

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3 years

Sunisa Lee is America’s STAR. Unexpectedly launched into the position of the top American athlete in the team final and hit decisively! Beyond proud. 💜💜💜💜

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3 years

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an athlete so excellent get so consistently screwed and disrespected by her own federation, and here she is INSISTING that she’s gonna go to the Olympics no matter what.

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@rockerskating

3 years

Wakaba Higuchi 樋口新葉 3A(step), 3Lz3T, 3S, 2A, 3Lz3T(ur,2ft?), 3Lo2T2Lo, 3F(e?) TES 75.71, PCS 71.41, FS 147.12, TOTAL 221.78 into 1st #全日本フィギュア

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3 years

@sorjuanaines23 I don’t think we can say any child suffering for years of abuse is going to be fine

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2 months

At this point I’m concerned that the only people left standing for the team and gonna be Simone Biles, Dulcy Caylor, Simone Rose, Chellsie Memmel, and Alicia Sacramone

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3 years

I get mad thinking about Emily Lee out there working 2 jobs to support her own training, putting in excellent beam work & tumbling and getting virtually ignored by @USAGym & @NBCOlympics . If USAG wanted Emily Lee to be happening, Emily Lee would be happening.

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4 years

Literally fuck off. She placed second at Nationals immediately after her dad’s accident, backed it up at selection camp, and won two individual medals at Worlds. Making that generalization is intellectually lazy & offensive.

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@sk8ingymfan

4 years

Suni Lee cannot be trusted in high pressure situations. She faltered on the big events at Worlds— breaking a no fall streak for American women in team finals and a streak of top4 AA finishes for both American WAG at Olympics/Worlds (2017 being an * year).

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2 years

Shilese has officially hit 12/12 at her first world championships! The inconsistency allegations are Six. Feet. Under!

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3 years

I’m not kidding, I am actually weeping. Suni Fucking Lee. Olympic gold medalist. Titan under pressure. First Hmong gold medalist. Amazing human being.

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3 years

This is the hardest and best element performed at the Olympics by an athlete whose performance isn’t under the shadow of probable doping. If there’s any justice (lol), Wakaba Higuchi will be an Olympic silver medalist and a legend for learning the triple axel as an adult

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3 years

wakaba higuchi’s triple axel in the free skate at the 2022 beijing olympics

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3 years

The fact that Simone Biles came home from the stress of Tokyo guns blazing for the forces of good! We don’t deserve her. 😭

Simone Biles

@Simone_Biles

3 years

DO NOT misconstrue my words. That is not at all what I implied. I did NOT say I support to abort rather than to put them through the foster care system. What I did imply is that you should not control someone elses body/decision. Let’s be real what you care about is control…

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4 years

Before there was McKayla Maroney, there was Yang Bo, original queen of being unimpressed.

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3 years

And Olympics, don’t you dare try to get this taken down. It’s absolutely educational.

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3 years

I wouldn’t wish being invested in both figure skating *and* gymnastics on my worst enemy.

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3 years

Let me be honest. I've spent the past couple of years worrying that Suni's legacy and greatestness would get lost in the background of Simone's GOATness. Now Suni's unequivocally among the all time greats. Fought for every tenth. Unreal under pressure. A Queen.

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3 years

Imagine how this quad might've looked like if USAG regularly sent full teams of gymansts to World Cup events. The amount of intl experience Jordan could've had before the Olympics. The accurate data about how certain athletes would score internationally, not just domestically

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3 years

The best possible plot twist of #CheerNetflix season 2 would be the surprise addition of @Simone_Biles to the team

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3 years

I just had a shit ton of coffee

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3 years

What if we had a GB team that was Ellie, Becky, Amelie, and then Jen & Jess Gadirova switching out Parent Trap style so all 5 of them could get that team medal?

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4 years

I used to believe that a leg separation/cowboy was an inevitable, necessary evil part of an Arabian double front, and then Alicia Sacramone spoiled me:

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4 years

Condolences to Suni & her entire family — losing an aunt and uncle to COVID on top of everything else

Her Olympic Dream on Hold, Teen Gymnast Faces Other Trials (Published 2020)

Sunisa Lee had been ecstatic to return to her gym at the start of June. Then came tumult in Minnesota and the death of two close relatives. “I just want this year to be over. I’m so ready for 2021.”

www.nytimes.com

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8 months

We all deserve someone love us with Lynn Raisman level protectiveness

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3 years

Gabby Douglas is a 3 Michelin star restaurant, and you, a local McDonald’s franchise, should immediately stop embarrassing yourself by taking shots at her.

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3 years

@ashuneras Honestly, THAT is Sasha's gold medal performance.

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3 years

Give Grace McCallum a gold medal for mental toughness

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3 years

Credit where credit is due: Nastia handling this with integrity, IMO.

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3 years

I'd like to take a moment to point out that if Tom and Lori Forster had been able to impose their asinine rank order on the entire team process, OLYMPIC CHAMPION JADE CAREY might have been left at home. Reason # 457 to send him packing!

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3 years

Gymnastics is looking so ... pedestrian in comparison to figure skating right now. So sane. So hinged, if you will. Honestly, a little surreal.

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3 years

The others you ask? Tragically, Kami, Anna, and Sasha have defected. Mid Olympics! To Azerbaijan. They were even seen eating solid food yesterday. Complete travesty. Their marks must reflect this. Put them behind Karen & Mariah to teach them a lesson!

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3 years

OH MY SHE DID IT I AM SHAKING AND SOBBING, AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN PROUDER OF ANYONE IN THE WORLD THAN I AM OF SUNISA LEE OLYMPIC CHAMPION.

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4 years

Riley McCusker: Proof that one can be incredibly muscular/strong AND have oversplits.

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3 years

Thoughts on Tom & Lori Forster and their struggle 25 years later holding onto the pain of Theresa Kulikowski not making the 96 Olympic team: "Hurt people hurt people" feels very relevant. Their pain is valid, and understandable, and I *also* see that it's blinding Tom as NTC

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3 years

Whichever actress plays Sasha Trusova is the one getting the Oscar.

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4 years

Khorkina v. Reality

pommel whore 🐓

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4 years

y'all what are some of gymnastics biggest rivalries?

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Petty Okino

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3 years

If you can understand why an NFL coach who needed a new quarterback should not draft a linebacker instead simply because the linebacker was a higher seed in the NFL draft, you can understand why picking the US Olympic gymnastics team on rank order is incredibly stupid.

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Petty Okino

@PettyOkino

3 years

Thinking about people’s critiques all year, and … It’s almost like she was being paced to peak at the Olympics the whole time!

Gymnastea

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Sunisa Lee (USA) UB training

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3 years

Why even have a national team coordinator??? A well programmed Excel spreadsheet could do a better job extending Trials invites than Tom Forster did.

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3 years

Gymnastics is a sport where the top athletes are often children living hyper controlled lives, not having access to regular education & socialization, at the whim of coaches & parents, yet people are outraged when they “can’t think for themselves.” We can’t have it both ways. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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3 years

A general thought: Listen to what Suni herself says that she wants & what her values are. Offer thoughtful advice if you have some, but don't speak from a place of knowing better if you don't know her, her family, her situation. The older & whiter you are, the more this applies

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3 years

She. Did. It. Hmong people have been through so damn much, and I hope that the whole damn world knows how special this is. 😍😭Elated, Elated, Elated 😭😍

Petty Okino

@PettyOkino

3 years

“It would be the greatest accomplishment of any Hmong person in the U.S. ever,” he [her dad] says. “It will go down in history.” 😭 I cannot tell you how much I want Suni Lee to be an Olympic gold medalist.

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3 years

Akhaimova coming for Khorkina is sending me 😂💀😂 “Personally, I’ve never seen hate or dirty looks in women’s gymnastics. I guess it happened before in Svetlana Khorkina’s times.”

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4 years

Tell me with a straight face that you’d rather see a janky DTY than Yang Yun’s sublime handspring front layout

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3 years

Because Suni already has an Olympic gold medal, I will only be having 3 heart attacks during her bars EF routine as opposed to 7. Love this for me & my cardiac well being.

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@PettyOkino

5 years

Ragan Smith has suddenly rocketed up the charts of my favorite gymnastics personalities

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4 years

A friendly reminder to everyone praising pioneers of Asian American gymnastics representation that Mohini Bhardwaj is Asian, too!

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@PettyOkino

3 years

I love that Jennifer & Jessica Gadirova’s floor choreo is age appropriate but not the demonically happy child choreo of the early - mid 90s 14 year old phenom genre. I can’t wait to see them develop as athletes, artists, and performers!

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3 years

Sunisa Lee has been Un. Fucking. Real. under pressure at these Olympics. Couldn't be prouder!!!

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2 months

Hezly Rivera did a stellar bars routine and is over in a corner by herself MANIFESTING beam 👏🏻

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4 years

Important PSA: McKayla Maroney & MyKayla Skinner spell their names differently and should not, for the love of god, be confused under any circumstance

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@PettyOkino

2 years

Two things can be true. Livvy can deserve to make her money & deserve to be celebrated, and the fact that she's the highest paid female NCAA athlete can be a symptom of a regressive system where female athletes are paid more for being desirable than for athletic excellence.

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5 years

And my girl Riley McCusker said, “You ain’t seen the last of me!” So curious about her working with Brian Carey & what that could do for her floor & vault! Truly an ideal scenario, all things considered

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3 years

The moment in Claire Gagliardi’s floor routine where she pretends to spot a shark, swim away, and twist out of the water is PURE camp, and I’m obsessed.

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6 months

It was 7:02 PM on February 29th when I, the densest man on planet earth, figured out why gymnasts had been posting leap pictures all day 💀

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3 years

SUNISA LEE MENTAL TITAN AND NATIONAL HERO

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2 years

I’d rather watch 19 seconds of Riley McCusker’s sublime practice beam work than most teams’ entire beam lineup

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4 years

Gymnasts 100% win my fandom in the details, and Jessica Castles absolutely wins my fandom finishing her routine with a floor Onodi in her choreo!

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3 years

The happiest eyes in the history of sports! 😭☺️😭

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3 years

The @USAGym Communications Team is doing a fabulous job with no statement about the athlete who tested positive for hours while the international news media is all over it. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

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3 years

Ugh, I’m so proud of Jade Carey for showing UP and proving she’s ready and deserves to be here.

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3 years

I’m assuming Tom Forster is waking up in the St Louis Hilton to flowers from Valentina Rodionenko, Wang Qunce, Nina’s mom, and everybody else standing to benefit from the willful abandonment of a potential UB medal.

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2 years

Skye’s a woman of few words, but she knows how to use a comma, which puts her ahead of 98% of US Elites

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4 years

The fact that ONLY Asian gymnasts have ever been charged with falsification of age & had medals stripped when multiple white/European athletes have also had their age called into question is, simply, racist. The continued casting of suspisicion on Asian gymnasts is also racist.

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3 years

I hope Shilese Jones shows up to Trials at 110%, hits 8 for 8, unveils one of her training updates, and throws everyone’s predictions into chaos. And, frankly, this is more likely than some of the ostensible favorites doing so.

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5 years

Gabby Douglas absolutely doesn’t get enough credit, and I will truly never tire of watching her excellence

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3 years

WE WON

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3 years

Remember when Tom Forster didn’t send eventual Olympic champion Suni Lee to Pan American Games in 2019 because she hadn’t done all around at US Classic? But yeah. Rank order all around results exclusively. The only way to develop a program 🙃

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3 years

If this Florida meet is a 198.250, then the next Michigan meet is a 202.750

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4 years

Hurd Immunity — the belief that if 70 - 90% of the gymternet believes Morgan will make the Olympic team, all possibility of that not happening will be rendered ineffective

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3 years

😂 “I’m going to go eat a pizza — it’s all I’ve been craving the whole time” 😂 Literally the most delightful!

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3 years

Also for those asking where “I hear it when sakamoto takes the ice and you can’t see her but you can still hear her audio! Also maybe a bit earlier when dude in blazer is talking to her??!!”

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3 years

Brian Carey has managed Jade’s career just about perfectly thus far, and she threw an Amanar unequivocally better than any of Skinner’s at Trials. Hold your horses predicting her missing vault finals. I’d put money on her being perfectly paced for Tokyo.

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4 years

Carole Baskin 100% has the energy of an SEC gymnastics coach