honestly im most impressed by how simone was able to keep her training a secret for that long considering how many people she trains with, like that’s a lot of people who had to keep their mouths shut for what has been probably at least a year
the fact that the ucla coaches didn’t care about sekai’s mental health at all but made a huge deal out of alexis’s shows that they don’t really care about that issue either. they only ‘cared’ about it when it got them out of addressing the racism and bullying situation.
jade does get screwed by domestic judging in the sense that others outscore her by virtue of getting insane dance elements credited which never would be in real life, whereas jade does easier but better executed dance elements, but there’s no reward for that here in comparison
guys i have a great idea to help increase the popularity of women’s college gymnastics! let’s move the most popular team to one of the conferences with the least accessible broadcasting!
whether people like it or not aside, this is definitely scary for her acl. iirc this is the same type of movement that resulted in greaves’s tear at swiss cup. i really hope she just goes back to the yfull while continuing to train this either on soft mats or pit instead
i cannot believe simone Just came back to the sport after working through severe trauma, part of which was due to the insanely high expectations put on her, and y’all are already saying she should be going for 2028 AND DO IT WITH A CHILD?? do y’all even hear yourselves 😭😭
if the usa wants more depth, then you know, maybe they shouldn’t be telling their athletes that they don’t matter, but i guess it’s too hard to treat gymnasts like human beings if they aren’t bringing you medals!
or we could treat elite gymnastics like a real sport and take deductions when things aren’t 100% perfect, you know, like the sport defines. we’ve seen how ignoring deductions (hello ncaa) ruins the legitimacy of the sport.
Thanks to everyone who helped point out the “deductions” on this vault and why it didn’t score a perfect 10 for execution. I think the scoring of this vault represents two deeply rooted issues in gymnastics that need to be addressed. A 🧵:
jordan had an amazing performance today after being called for aa at the last second and i hope she is still so so proud of herself because she absolutely should be
it is seriously so refreshing hearing john and laurie talk about how deductions are taken and how the scores aren’t actually as subjective as they seem, that there are tangible requirements. as opposed to tim and nastia always just saying “i don’t know where the deduction is” -
“people don’t wanna watch the athletes warm up” then how come when there was a live broadcast just of us nationals warm ups, lots of people watched it hm?
no one is saying simone hasn’t experienced racism by the fig but for her to say that they are targeting her and ONLY HER because she’s too good is completely false and discredits every single other gymnast who has had a skill undervalued or has also experienced racism by the fig
one thing about kim and kara’s statements that really stands out to me is that they also talk about the things they accomplished in their careers. despite the fact that for years they were constantly degraded and made to believe they were worthless, they are able to still look
brian carey thinking about how he won’t have to deal with al fongs vlogs in tokyo: 😄😄
brian carey realizing he’ll have to deal with skinners vlogs instead: 😳😶
it just makes me so angry that injury management in gymnastics never seems to get any better. after all these years of seeing so many gymnasts end up with lifelong injuries, we still place more value on competing in the moment and pushing through the pain. we still act like its
usag could probably make just as much money by streaming meets and uploading individual routines on youtube with ad revenue considering 30x more people would watch but noooo let’s gatekeep everything Just Because We Can
florida already has too much depth like i get gymnasts want to transfer to a team that can win but we’re literally never going to see anyone in lineups. missing out on so much good gymnastics.
unfortunately i can no longer think of ella kate parker as anything but Leo Eater. like i’ll see a gorgeous picture of her on bars and my mind does not care and just immediately says oh look it’s leo eater
i don’t want this petition thing to turn into “but they deserved it because they went through so much” because that’s not why we’re mad. morgan specifically deserved it because she has been a rock for the us all of THIS QUAD and is currently recovering from injury. it’s not
there are two wolves inside you, one of them wants emma to go to ucla asap to get away from texas nightmares, the other desperately wants her to go to worlds so she can finally show her gymnastics on a major international stage