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[lobaznyuk]

Natalie Wojcik (9.925), Gabby Wilson (9.975), Sierra Brooks (10.000) and Abby Heiskell (10.000) for Michigan.

[lobaznyuk]

[livmoorez]

Favourite moments of the 2023 NCAA gymnastics season:

Auburn senior Cassie Stevens wins her first all-around title since 2021, scoring a season-best 39.600. She also won the vault title and a share of the beam title.

[viktoriakomova]

[livmoorez]

Favourite moments of the 2023 NCAA gymnastics season:

Denver sets a school record on vault with a score of 49.550, almost a tenth higher than the previous record (49.475). This included a 9.975 for Rosie Casali, who competed her Yurchenko 1.5 for the first time.

[cut-catches]

selena harris is the best thing to happen to ncaa gymnastics ever

[viktoriakomova]

the Olympic season starts in 16 months please stop with this shit

[viktoriakomova]

I simply don’t understand the people who underscore the idea that winning isn’t everything, it’s okay to say “no I’m not up for this” etc (during and after tokyo especially) but then turn around and say about simone “WELL HAVE YOU RULED OUT TRYING FOR PARIS? 😍”

It’s clear, clearer than it ever was before, that for simone gymnastics is something she does/did for a living and not something she lives to do.

Let her be happy. Happy in a way that is completely divorced from gymnastics if that’s what she wants. Give her the opportunity to find happiness outside of this circus with no strings attached.

I understand the mainstream press asking her that question, bc that [the olympics] is all they know and all they actually care about when it comes to gymnastics. But there’s really no excuse for fans. You KNOW how taxing it is to do 30+ hours per week in training, and you know that’s what it takes to get there. You KNOW that in spite of her raw talent if she isn’t back in the gym in a leotard by now she’s realistically not going to make it. Quit entertaining the idea.

To the day, 4 years ago, simone had already won 4 more world championship gold medals (and another 2, one silver and one bronze, medaling in every final) since her post-rio comeback. Before rio, Gabby and Aly were both on the worlds team in 2015, at a much younger age than simone is now, and had been in the gym since at least late 2014. Simone is now 4 years older, her joints and bones and muscles are 4 years older than they were at worlds in 2018. Even if SHE had the enthusiasm and determination that YOU have FOR her, it would be an uphill battle to get in competitive shape in time.

None of this is taking into account the emotional trauma she endured in the lead up to Tokyo and what happened when she was finally at her 2nd Olympics.

If you cared about her well-being as a person and not an athlete as you vehemently claim to, you wouldn’t want her to try for paris. Just give it a rest.

[pitirres]

It is still so wild to me to see people literally type out "she's still working on her mental health" and follow that up immediately "but she hasn't ruled out the Olympics yet". It just really emphasizes that the social media "mental health awareness" has been nothing more than shallow platitudes and none of these people actually know or understand anything about mental health or care about people dealing with serious issues.

[darthmelyanna]

I’m fairly sure nobody in the last 23 years has made a comeback that ended with being on an American Olympic team with less than a full calendar year back competing in elite. We don’t have a ton of data — there’s just not that many people who’ve tried — but the examples we’ve got aren’t encouraging. Simone was 21 when she resumed competing in 2018. When the Paris Olympics roll around, she will be 27. This doesn’t get impossible as you get older but it does get harder. She is exceptional but not invincible.

And I can’t emphasize enough: leading up to the Tokyo Olympics, well before the twisties, she was telling reporters how much physical pain she was in. We make fun of/yell at NBC for spending so much time showing us so much of Simone getting her ankles taped, but… have you thought about what all that ankle tape was for.

[livmoorez]

Favourite moments of the 2023 NCAA gymnastics season:

Utah sophomore Kara Eaker scores a perfect 10.0 on beam for the second time in her collegiate career. It is her first 10.0 of the season and comes on only her ninth collegiate beam routine.

[livmoorez]

Favourite moments of the 2023 NCAA gymnastics season:

Florida sophomore Morgan Hurd makes her collegiate debut on floor, marking her first competitive floor performance since June 2021.

[freifraufischer]

Never forget Skinner's tribute to Scotland.

[lobaznyuk]

[viktoriakomova]

my pre-szn gift to you all xoxo happy holidays folks !

[grozdovas]

2023 Russian national team

Senior main:

Maria Agafonova

Anna Esipova

Elena Gerasimova

Alyona Glotova

Anastasia Ilyankova

Diana Kustova

Viktoria Listunova

Angelina Melnikova

Maria Minaeva

Ulyana Perebinosova

Arina Semukhina

Vladislava Urazova

Elizaveta Us

Yana Vorona

Senior reserve:

Ekaterina Andreeva*

Lilia Akhaimova

Amira Botashyova

Leila Vasileva

Sabina Kaygulova

Anna Kalmykova*

Kristina Shapovalova*

Alina Shklokova

juniors*

Junior main:

Anastasia Bedrina

Viktoria Belikova

Sofia Guz

Maria Kravchenko

Sofia Maznaya

Viktoria Novikova

Zlata Osokina

Diana Parshikova

Alina Pyatiletova

Ludmilla Roshchina

Veranika Semyonova

Anna Smirnova

Anastasia Tolstaya

Junior reserve:

Marina Bondareva

Ksenia Gorshkova

Ulyana Dubrovskaya

Milana Kayumova

Maria Prud

Yulia Svistunova

Sofia Khaylo

Vitalina Shevchuk

Youth:

Aleksandra Anufrieva

Elizaveta Basova

Diana Gaynulina

Polina Dmitrieva

Aleksandra Iskakova

Nadezhda Kusleeva

Milana Levedeva

Ekaterina Polyakova

Yana Spiridonova

Sevda Shukyurova

Daria Belousova, Yulia Biryulya, Irina Komnova, Lyubov Galyuzhina, Sofia Pudova (2007) & Maria Tretyakova were all removed. Surprised to not see Eleonora Afanasyeva and Ksenia Zelyaeva on the list.

[grozdovas]

She's quite a strong AAer with a beatiful DTY, inbars and a textbook double front on floor!

[viktoriakomova]

i want to return to the euphoria i felt on the day of the bars final when Cross Grip Girl finally was credited appropriately and lost

[frontpike]

rebe and haleigh the respective elite and ncaa queens of “oh that’s what that vault is supposed to look like”

[lobaznyuk]

[pitirres]

Hot take but most gymnasts being home schooled contributes a lot to the culture of abuse. How are these kids going to know what's normal when they're only exclusively interacting with people in the same world? It's also just generally super unhealthy imo.

[pitirres]

This is literally dystopian. Who hires the teachers? The gym itself?

[yulmoldauer]

people also tend to forget that interacting with adults outside of the ones abusing/neglecting you is partially the point of going to school/doctors appointments/etc

obviously schools and doctors have other, bigger purposes. but when you take away those outside eyes on your kid, it’s much easier to get away with abuse

[viktoriakomova]

this also brings to mind how certain gyms/coaches/etc had like... Approved™ physicians that they would refer gymnasts to (with the unspoken implication that not taking that referral would be unacceptable).

on the topic of texas dreams, also reminds me of a minor but (in my mind) significant/poignant moment in a BTR episode about bailie key where she said that KZB and her doctor talked about her prognosis together before they discussed her injury with her, the patient (!!!)

the (iirc still a minor [where was her mother/parent?]) teenaged but senior gymnast. about her own damn body. like sorry but what the actual fuck?