Mentally I think doing shows is a good thing for her so she doesn’t burn out with training. And the love she gets from Japan is important to her confidence. Getting silver was hard for her and I think the shows may remind her that she is still a success, even if she’s not a gold medalist. I think returning to train immediately with Alina and the other juniors may also be hard mentally without taking some much needed time and space away to process and regroup.
Realistically it’s unreasonable for her to be training nonstop in a non-olympic year. It’s probably the reason she got stress fractures. Even Simone Biles took a year off completely from gymnastics before returning to training for the next Olympic season.
This makes so much sense to me you have no idea.
