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i saw this too and was like i thought she retired?? good for her! shes so inspirational.
Women's Artistic Gymnastics
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Yup. I'm not even sure "force of nature" comes close to describing her!!
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I have 2 unrelated questions for my fellow gymnastics fans!
1. Why doesn’t the US send competitors to the FIG World Cup competitions? Other than when Jade and Stephen N were trying to use it as a path for Oly qualifying I’ve rarely seen US gymnasts there. Seems like a loss of competition experience building opportunities.
2. As a newer fan of NCAA gymnastics - WHY oh WHY are fans on social media so downright mean to gymnasts and teams for which they don’t root?? It’s awful.
1. Why doesn’t the US send competitors to the FIG World Cup competitions? Other than when Jade and Stephen N were trying to use it as a path for Oly qualifying I’ve rarely seen US gymnasts there. Seems like a loss of competition experience building opportunities.
2. As a newer fan of NCAA gymnastics - WHY oh WHY are fans on social media so downright mean to gymnasts and teams for which they don’t root?? It’s awful.
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On point 2. It is because they favor their college or where they graduated from oner their competition. It just is based on competition and survival of fitness and being no. 1. Doesn't matter how well competition did ,, they want theirs to beat them.
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I guess I get it, sort of. But, I'm a huge fan of a lot of different sports and it seems that the snark and nastiness of NCAA gym fans is next level.
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Right? That's why I mostly stay away from social media. Snark and bullying aren't new, but the internet has taken it to a horrible new level.
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still no definite word on Simone biles re 2024 olympics? has she been training at all?
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we talked about this a page or two back. from Moonvine:
FWIW the Dream Team (John Roethlisberger (my apologies if I spelled your name wrong, John) and Alicia Sacrimone) were calling a meet and John came out and asked Alicia if Simone were coming back. Alicia hemmed and hawed and said she couldn’t say anything, then said something like “I hear she is back in the gym. Make of that what you will.”
so, there is a chance!
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I just try to stay away from that type of SM.
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I remember one Olympics, rival fan camps of two competitors were so obnoxious, I rooted against both.
I didn't have a particular favorite that year, and I was fine if either, or neither, won the gold. Neither did.
Edit: My point is that groups of nasty fans can work to the detriment of their cause - if they want to bring more fans to their preferred athlete or team.
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Yes, I agree. I find myself looking for news about NCAA gym much less because I find the SM so appalling.
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Well, I watched SECs tonight. Riley McCusket competed twice - I want to say bars and beam but I’ve watched a lot of gymnastics today. Who I haven’t seen AT ALL in the postseason and only a handful of times during regular season is Morgan Hurd.
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I wasn't able to see it - but I've seen the scores, and yes, Riley competed bars and beam. Morgan has rarely been used this season.
I used to be able to see NCAA gym on tv -but for some reason I'm not finding it anymore. We have Youtube TV and I wonder if some of hte channels changed.
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I have YouTube tv. Just set it to record all gymnastics.
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I have. For some reason I thought it had missed the SEC. I was wrong, though! I have it.
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You can also watch them on ESPN app, which I do often if the previous show has run over. If you’re really a glutton for punishment you can watch every routine on each apparatus. They have a vault feed, floor feed, etc. if only figure skating were covered this way!
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For any NCAA gymnastics fans, LSU have unlocked their documentary 'The Climb' (described as 'an in-season glimpse at the rise of LSU Gymnastics') so it can be watched for free, without logging in on LSU Gold (I can see it in the UK, so I'm guessing it's not geoblocked either). I've only just started watching it, but have seen other gymnastics fans saying how good it is across various social media sites. It's only available for a limited time, so thought I would share it now.
Link to the first episode: https://lsu.gold/videos/the-climb-advancing-to-the-climb-s1-ep1
Link to the first episode: https://lsu.gold/videos/the-climb-advancing-to-the-climb-s1-ep1
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I don't get the chance to really follow gymnastics since they don't show it on CBC except for the Olympics, but I used to do both forms when I was younger. I was on the UBC gymnastics team when I was an undergraduate (a team so low-ranked at that time, everyone but the judges used to go out for lunch when it was our turn to do our routines), and later I did recreational rhythmic gymnastics for adult women when my daughter took it up in her early teens. I really wish they hadn't renamed the athletic type "artistic gymnastics" since I found rhythmics to be more artistically, musically, performance oriented. I thought the other kind should have been named "apparatus gymnastics", but the argument against that choice was that the hand-held equipment in rhythmics is also apparatus. I wasn't on any committee involved, these were just opinions expressed among gymnasts. However, I agree with their similarities to skating, seeing them as sort of like the difference between pairs and ice dance.Hopefully there's not a thread on this anywhere already, but figured i'd see who else follows it like i do! i really enjoy women's artistic and rhythmic gymnastics since it has some similarities to skating. I usually watch all the big broadcasts here in the US on NBC and the Olympic Channel.
Who do you love watching?
Who are you excited about being a possibility for making 2020?
What about worlds coming up this October?
is Simone Biles really human? (jk)
I can't comment on today's competitions since I don't see them and don't get a chance to know the athletes involved. Gymnastics is not a big sport in Canada and doesn't get much attention. One thing I'd like to know is how many gymnasts have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which, among other things, gives one unusually flexible joints and stretchy muscles. The percentage among skaters, dancers, and gymnasts has to be higher than among the general population, being activities to which someone with EDS would gravitate. I have EDS myself, and it's a big advantage when you're young and athletic in a sport needing flexibility -- though not so much in old age where I am now, with osteoarthritis in just about every joint I knew I had and some I didn't even think about before, like within the feet, or the jaw!
Edit: NOW I notice that this whole thread is about five years old. 'Scuse.
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Thanks! How do I access the next episode?
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