Artistic Gymnastics

[AuntieDiane6]

1 hour ago, chitowngirl said:

Why is there music playing when none of the mens’ rotations use music? Just to keep the energy up?

Actually, the Russians, master of choreography, have lobbied for the men's routines to be set to music, but the Chinese and Japanese resisted.  I think they use music now because we all have short attention spans!  

[Salacious Kitty]

37 minutes ago, Girl in a Cardigan said:

To be clear, while Skinner was an Olympian in 2020 and did earn the silver medal in vault, she did NOT make the team. She was given the individual spot the US earned in the AA World Cup series for those games.

So her ridiculous comments are extra ridiculous because she NEVER made a US Olympic team in gymnastics.

We stan our petty queen, Simone! 👑

Simone's latest tweet: 

Oops, I'm blocked. 👀

😂

[Is Everyone Gone]

53 minutes ago, Girl in a Cardigan said:

To be clear, while Skinner was an Olympian in 2020 and did earn the silver medal in vault, she did NOT make the team. She was given the individual spot the US earned in the AA World Cup series for those games.

So her ridiculous comments are extra ridiculous because she NEVER made a US Olympic team in gymnastics.

We stan our petty queen, Simone! 👑

No that was Jade Carey. Skinner went in the "specialist" spot which they only had for that quad.

[Conotocarious]

Not to keep harping on this, but I’m so annoyed that there are only snippets online of the womens’ press conference yesterday. I cannot believe in this day and age that the whole thing isn’t anywhere to be found. Come on!!

[Notabug]

1 hour ago, Girl in a Cardigan said:

To be clear, while Skinner was an Olympian in 2020 and did earn the silver medal in vault, she did NOT make the team. She was given the individual spot the US earned in the AA World Cup series for those games.

So her ridiculous comments are extra ridiculous because she NEVER made a US Olympic team in gymnastics.

We stan our petty queen, Simone! 👑

Skinner has been an idiot for a long, long time.  She was an alternate on the 2016 Olympic team and had the nerve to paste her photo over Gabby Douglas' face in the team photo and tweet it.

She supposedly has a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Utah but clearly didn't learn anything.

During this Olympic cycle, she has also given multiple interviews where she mispronounced Hezley Rivera's name despite being repeatedly given the proper pronunciation.  Her fellow gymnasts had already spoken about about that well prior to the Games.

[CeeBeeGee]

34 minutes ago, Is Everyone Gone said:

No that was Jade Carey. Skinner went in the "specialist" spot which they only had for that quad.

Both Jade and MyKayla were specialists--we had two in Tokyo. Which is why we had only three left over (Suni, Jade and Grace) to compete after Simone dropped out.

[Girl in a Cardigan]

2 hours ago, Is Everyone Gone said:

No that was Jade Carey. Skinner went in the "specialist" spot which they only had for that quad.

Jade had a NOMINATIVE spot (i.e. she earned it for herself alone through the apparatus World Cup process). The US earned an individual AA spot through the All-Around World Cup process to which they could name an additional gymnast beyond the four-member team, and that spot went to Skinner. Regardless, though she competed under the US flag, she was NOT part of the US Team in Tokyo.

1 hour ago, CeeBeeGee said:

Both Jade and MyKayla were specialists--we had two in Tokyo. Which is why we had only three left over (Suni, Jade and Grace) to compete after Simone dropped out.

Exactly. The FIG used this process exactly once - realized it was convoluted and didn't boost the World Cups the way they wanted and abandoned it just as quickly. 😂

[roamyn]

Oka from JPN was mesmerizing on pretty much everything. He had some hops on the floor, but made the fewest mistakes and his lines wer beautiful.   Congrats to the young man.   I so wanted either Ilia or Frazier to medal, but c'est la vie.  Joe Frazier has a great smile, too.

[Girl in a Cardigan]

I loved that there was some drama for the podium in the men's AA final!

Paul Juda was stellar - he doesn't have the difficulty to contend for a medal, but he was rolling all morning!

Sad that Fred Richard fell on his first event, but I'll always love his high bar and floor.

Was also rooting for Jesse Moore - doesn't have the difficulty, but he didn't finish last, which is excellent!

Did anyone catch Karimi's pommel horse? I was watching a different box, but he got like a 8 or 9 score? Is his difficulty that low or did he fall like 4 times?

[Is Everyone Gone]

Pommel Horse this games has been like Sea Smoke monster. Watch out or you will be burned.

[ProudMary]

Here's some interesting info from Shawn Johnson on the differences between European and US gymnastics' equipment. It also makes me wonder where Asian equipment falls on this continuum, my assumption being that they would use equipment manufactured in Asia.

 

[AuntieDiane6]

2 hours ago, roamyn said:

Joe Frazier

LOL!  You spell it like the famous boxer!  It's Joe Fraser.  He probably gets the boxing spelling all the time!

[WhitneyWhit]

On the subject of Skinhead..I mean Skinner, she also retweeted a lot of tweets that used a monkey emoji when referencing Gabby. That alone should have gotten her suspended from the national team for at least a year. 

[Chaser]

37 minutes ago, ProudMary said:

Here's some interesting info from Shawn Johnson on the differences between European and US gymnastics' equipment. It also makes me wonder where Asian equipment falls on this continuum, my assumption being that they would use equipment manufactured in Asia.

 

I don’t know how that’s not dangerous? You would think equipment would have to be standard.

[Chaser]

Skinner thought her and Simone would be besties and she would be the breakout star of the Olympics. In reality, no one cared. She failed upward to get that Silver. She’s lucky Jade tripped (which was talked about more than her).

[Is Everyone Gone]

1 hour ago, Chaser said:

Skinner thought her and Simone would be besties and she would be the breakout star of the Olympics. In reality, no one cared. She failed upward to get that Silver. She’s lucky Jade tripped (which was talked about more than her).

She and Simone at one point really were besties. Simone was screaming her head off for Skinner at the Olympics in the vault finals. You could hear Simone screaming the whole time.

Which makes what MyKayla said so much shittier. Simone was nothing but loving and supportive for Skinner.

[CeeBeeGee]

9 minutes ago, Is Everyone Gone said:

She and Simone at one point really were besties. Simone was screaming her head off for Skinner at the Olympics in the vault finals. You could hear Simone screaming the whole time.

Which makes what MyKayla said so much shittier. Simone was nothing but loving and supportive for Skinner.

Yeah, they were both on the team for Worlds in 2015 and after the 2016 Games, whenever they were on a team, they were usually the two oldest and bonded. 

[Conotocarious]

The thing about Skinner is that she might be one of the dumbest people alive in terms of just lack of curiousity. She is just dumb, sounds dumb when she talks, says dumb things etc. I cannot believe she ever thought she would going into broadcasting, there is just no way. 

[Demian]

I must admit that I am one of those once-every-four-years gymnastics followers, but I have to applaud all of the salty tea in this thread.  It's thrilling to read.  Bravissima!

[NUguy514]

Simone's post...

As @Conotocarious posted, Skinner is a complete idiot.  She's an extremely sheltered, incurious Mormon who embodies the worst stereotypes people have of Mormons and then some.  A well-deserved smackdown.

As far as the men's all-around, I actually had my eye on Oka as the gold medalist after qualifying.  I don't know why, it was just a feeling.  He just had an aura about him that seemed to be the right combination of hungry and composed.

I mean, I expected Zhang to win IF he could avoid the yips that seem to be affecting all the Chinese gymnasts because his difficulty across all the apparatuses was so high...but he yipped.  It's a testament to how great he is that he damn near won gold even with that big fuck-up on floor.  I know he must be incredibly disappointed not to win gold, but that was a great comeback for silver.

Really, though, Oka's consistency earned him that gold.  He was wonderful across all six apparatuses, and I was rooting for him.  He just had It.

Xiao did amazingly as well and really was incredibly consistent; he just didn't have the overall difficulty of Zhang or the form of Oka.

I really wanted Illia Kovtun to medal.  He's such a beautiful, powerful gymnast, and it would've been so great for Ukraine.  However, it was going to be too high a mountain to climb with his rings routine.  He'd have needed big mistakes from Xiao, Hashimoto, and Oka and a few big mistakes from Zhang for to get a medal.  Hashimoto (who really was just off tonight) complied, but the other three didn't.

NBC's primetime broadcast opened by hyping Richard and Juda as potential medalists, and just...like, I get why NBC did that because rah-rah-USA-rah, but neither of them ever had any chance of medaling.  It was ridiculous, and of course the primetime broadcast showed maybe seven total routines in the competition since both Americans fucked up five seconds into their first routines and were immediately out of contention.

Really, though, the most important thing is that that racist, homophobic asshole fucked around and found out.🔥

[SnideAsides]

Is there no gala this time around? It's usually one of the more fun things during the Olympics but I can't see it on the schedule anywhere?

[CrazyInAlabama]

7 hours ago, NUguy514 said:

Simone's post...

As @Conotocarious posted, Skinner is a complete idiot.  She's an extremely sheltered, incurious Mormon who embodies the worst stereotypes people have of Mormons and then some.  A well-deserved smackdown.

As far as the men's all-around, I actually had my eye on Oka as the gold medalist after qualifying.  I don't know why, it was just a feeling.  He just had an aura about him that seemed to be the right combination of hungry and composed.

I mean, I expected Zhang to win IF he could avoid the yips that seem to be affecting all the Chinese gymnasts because his difficulty across all the apparatuses was so high...but he yipped.  It's a testament to how great he is that he damn near won gold even with that big fuck-up on floor.  I know he must be incredibly disappointed not to win gold, but that was a great comeback for silver.

Really, though, Oka's consistency earned him that gold.  He was wonderful across all six apparatuses, and I was rooting for him.  He just had It.

Xiao did amazingly as well and really was incredibly consistent; he just didn't have the overall difficulty of Zhang or the form of Oka.

I really wanted Illia Kovtun to medal.  He's such a beautiful, powerful gymnast, and it would've been so great for Ukraine.  However, it was going to be too high a mountain to climb with his rings routine.  He'd have needed big mistakes from Xiao, Hashimoto, and Oka and a few big mistakes from Zhang for to get a medal.  Hashimoto (who really was just off tonight) complied, but the other three didn't.

NBC's primetime broadcast opened by hyping Richard and Juda as potential medalists, and just...like, I get why NBC did that because rah-rah-USA-rah, but neither of them ever had any chance of medaling.  It was ridiculous, and of course the primetime broadcast showed maybe seven total routines in the competition since both Americans fucked up five seconds into their first routines and were immediately out of contention.

Really, though, the most important thing is that that racist, homophobic asshole fucked around and found out.🔥

I absolutely agree with you about Skinner.   Not very smart to try to dis the GOAT of your sport, especially one who is well liked. 

I've found that the E! and USA coverage is far superior to the chopped up mess the NBC primetime runs.   Some of NBC's daytime coverage is decent.  However, anything that runs on E! in the morning, and reruns on USA later is so much better than the NBC primetime stuff.     

Women's individual all around is running on NBC today 11:15 to 1:30 pm central time.  

Edited August 1 by CrazyInAlabama

[Makai]

3 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

I absolutely agree with you about Skinner.   Not very smart to try to dis the GOAT of your sport, especially one who is well liked. 

She probably thought she was safe because she specifically excluded Simone from the statement. I’m not surprised she thought she could get away with it since she has been saying and doing offensive shit for years and it never stuck. 

She’s too stupid to realize Simone is a loyal friend and that Simone’s parents own the gym where many of the top competitors train, including Jordan and Joscelyn (Olympic alternate for the team). 

Edited August 1 by Makai

[Chaser]

Wow. Gorgeous vault from Rebecca. Love the yellow too. 

[NUguy514]

5 minutes ago, Chaser said:

Wow. Gorgeous vault from Rebecca. Love the yellow too. 

I have been living for the Brazilian leos.  Gooooooorgeous.

Excellent vault by Rebeca, and I was hoping Simone would risk the Yurchenko double pike (it's the AA: go big or go home) and am thrilled she landed it!

I have to be at work by 11:00am today (I'm in LA), so I will probably only have time to watch the first two rotations live (maybe three if they're moving things along).  I...have feelings about this.

[Chaser]

I was looking at the numbers posted by Simone and Rebecca during the Team Final. I don’t think Simone can play it safe to win. She had to hit that crazy difficult vault. 

[WhitneyWhit]

The AA race is going to be close. I would love for Simone to be a two time AA champ but I also love Andrade and would love to see her take it as well. 

[Chaser]

I wonder if Simone will do that new skill 

[WhitneyWhit]

6 minutes ago, Chaser said:

I was looking at the numbers posted by Simone and Rebecca during the Team Final. I don’t think Simone can play it safe to win. She had to hit that crazy difficult vault. 

She really can’t. Andrade is a true all arounder. Simone is going to have to be very careful with the tenths that come with those hops. Outside of vault, their D scores are not that far a part. 

Edited August 1 by WhitneyWhit

[Chaser]

I feel like Suni likes to fall in bar warm ups. 

[kittykat]

 

I'm all in for Simone and Rebecca going head to head here. I love my US ladies but would be ecstatic if Andrade claimed victory too since Simone and Suni have already claimed the title once.

Damn damn damn the beam claims Ellie Black.

Edited August 1 by kittykat

[WhitneyWhit]

Oof, a big error from Simone on bars. Legs almost touched the mats 

[Chaser]

Big fight from Simone there. That cushion may be gone.

[WhitneyWhit]

Simone had a cushion but I agree with Laurie, she used most if not all of it there. She’s gonna have to be near perfect the rest of the meet. 

[NUguy514]

Just now, WhitneyWhit said:

Simone had a cushion but I agree with Laurie, she used most if not all of it there. She’s gonna have to be near perfect the rest of the meet. 

Yep, she has more difficulty than Rebeca on both beam and floor, but I think Rebeca will win if she avoids a major mistake.

[kittykat]

Yeah Simone had a rough bars but I'm all for keeping it interesting. Hopefully she crushes it on beam and floor. 

Oof Manila also down on bars.  

ETA: Now THAT was a bars routine! Awesome job Kaylia Nemour.

 

Edited August 1 by kittykat

[WhitneyWhit]

I wonder if France kicks themselves knowing if they had just treated Neymour with a little respect thar bar score would be on their team right now?

[Is Everyone Gone]

Uh oh, big mistake from Simone on bars, and now she's in third. She needs to hit beam and floor now. Cushion is gone.

[Chaser]

Nice beam from Simone! Slight balance check but solid.

[kittykat]

I'm starting to feel bad for the Chinese.  You can tell their routines are gorgeous but they just can't hit two clean ones in a row these games.

Major balance check from Nemour.  The beam is not letting up.

[Chaser]

I really enjoy the Brazilian team. Unfortunate splat on the floor.

Come on Suni!

[Daisy]

Balance Beam: Do not test me girls. I own you. 

[WhitneyWhit]

6 minutes ago, Daisy said:

Balance Beam: Do not test me girls. I own you. 

Every time they have a wobble I like to imagine it’s the balance beam saying “I could if I  wanted to” 

[twoods]

Wow this is so close. Good luck to them on the floor routine! I hope everyone nails it.

[Chaser]

This is not good for my blood pressure. 

[kittykat]

Seriously.  Andrade, Biles, Lee, Nemour and D'Mato are all in this still.

Black finishes strong on vault.  If she hadn't fallen on beam she'd be up there too.

Edited August 1 by kittykat

[Jaded]

9 minutes ago, Chaser said:

This is not good for my blood pressure. 

I'm the same way with gymnastics and figure skating (splat splat splat).

[WhitneyWhit]

Suni is fantastic but no male commentator, she did not put SEC gymnastics on the map. Florida, Georgia, LSU, and Alabama would like a word. 

[Daisy]

if this Kaylia girl wins a medal. 
I will laugh like i never laughed before.

[WhitneyWhit]

It’s wild to hear commentators saying “She’s just 17, she has a lot of time left” when 10 years ago they would say it’s a miracle she’s not broken a hip out there.