Ragan Smith was an alternate on the olympic team, had an amazing 2017 with the culmination of getting to worlds as the favorite for the aa gold only to break her ankle seconds before competing. I've never gotten over it. So Spencer that is my why Ragan deserves all the things and the beam title. Its amazing to see her thriving in college and i want her to win everything

@karyon1007

2 ай бұрын

I remember being heartbroken for her!

Audrey Davis for bars! And I’m picking Reagan on beam-love her routine and her post-elite happiness!

I think simone could get her amanar and cheng to old form if she actually trains them. We know she didn’t train them last year and that’s why her cheng wasn’t as strong. I wouldn’t count simone out at all if it came to down to who has the best Cheng/Amanar combo.

@TommyWiseauu

2 ай бұрын

She’s probably training her amanar because her double pike is very risky. We probably won’t see her double pike until the Olympics. Also if she feels uneasy with the double pike at the Olympics she can just go for an amanar. My question is…isn’t the amanar the vault she had issues with in Tokyo? What’s her reason for training it if what I said above is not correct?

@vscoting

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@TommyWiseauushe did flub her amanar in team finals, but i was under the impression that any twisting skill was the issue (since she kept “getting lost” in the air)

@GymFan-ts4pq

2 ай бұрын

@@TommyWiseauu yeah, it’s not like the vault gave her problems per say. She’s been competing it at a legendary level since 2012. Now there may be some mental blocks due to that being the skill that was actually competed and led to the withdrawing. But , it’s all mental and sounds like she’s working through it pretty well.

@TommyWiseauu

2 ай бұрын

@@vscoting I wonder what the difference between twisting and flipping has on someone biologically. Like I would think that if you get lost in the air twisting, then flipping would also do that to you. Or not ? I’m just very curious on that.

@queenshipwomen8039

2 ай бұрын

I definitely think it will come down to consistency. May the best vaulter in the day win!!! I love them both!

Thanks for the quick update on Gabby. Took the edge off a bit. Hope she’s thriving and doing well personally and in her comeback!

First of all, love your podcast! Did you giys see Rebeca is training a full twisting double pike beam dismount drill?!! Our gymnastics federation posted a video of her doing it🫣🎉🎉

I'm glad Simine is training orher vaults in addition to the YDP - and tbh i dont think she would take the risk doing the YDP if she's not feeling its working on the day, even if she "just" comes second. Paraplegia / other serious injury just isn't worth it. It's very wise having back up vaults, given what happened at Tokyo.. far less pressure on her, to have other vaults to choose from as needed

JUST AN FYI: Simone has 2 vaults named after her. The Yurchenko double pike is the Biles 2. A Cheng with an extra 1/2 twist is Biles 1. I think people are confusing the YDP as Biles 1.

Please update us whenever you get the scoop on Gabby!

Thank you for your thoughtful and humorous analysis. I enjoy watching you both❤❤❤❤❤

@GymCastic

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

USAG wants to do a tour and Simone told them the only way she would do their tour is if she could run it. So look out because USAG still may do a tour.

As much as I love the Yurchenko Double Pike, I would be completely okay with her not competing it. I do hope she would bring back the Biles 1 if she isn't gonna do the YDP. I don't understand why she stopped doing it in the first place. Also side note, I love that Iowa State has had a good season with Ashley Miles at head coach! She really has made an impact for my Cyclones!

@GymnasticsEliteFan

2 ай бұрын

She actually said on Twitter last week that she can't do the Biles 1 vault anymore. Crazy, makes it real how hard her skills are.

Another link btw gymnastics and MLMs, Doterra sponsors the beam at Utah which is widely considered to be an MLM (apparently MLMs are quite rampant in Utah).

@margaretkinnaman8585

2 ай бұрын

MLMs are part of the Mormon culture like Temple Garments and husbands having to pull their wives into heaven because women can't get their own their own.

Firstly congratulations for the channel, I love your work and you are incredible. What do you think about making an assessment of the potential gymnasts who will be left out of Paris, due to fig once again preferring teams and AAs, in fact it is clear over the years of Olympic classification how much fig prioritizes AA. I'm against it because in most cases, the best series come from experts gymnasts (specialists) and are world and Olympic level series. some potential for gold and others for top 8 or podium. On the Floor we have potential series that could be left out such as Eddie Penev, Aurel Benovic, Dmitry Patanin, Yahor Sharamkou and Eamon Montgomery. On the Pommel horse we have Narimam Kurbanov, Ahmad Abu Al-Soud forwarding their places, but at the same time Matvey Petrov and Gagik Khachikyan could be left out. In Rings, Nikita Simonov, Samir Ait Said, Artur Avetisyan, Vahagn Davtyan, Vinzenz Hoeck, Mahdi Kohani. In the vault, Mahdi Olfati, Andrey Medvedev, Shek Wai Hung, etc. In Parallel Bars, Rasuljon, Jossimar and Barajas. And on the High Bar, Ilias Georgiou, Angel Barajas, Ahmed Elmaraghy, Robert Tvorogal, Artur Nory, Marios Gergiou, etc. Many may say that, oh, they failed at the Worlds, they are not doing well in the cups, but these are great series, some at Olympic level and they will be left out. For me, unfair. I think the most damaging devices are the pommel horse and rings, which in the cup finals we see, are the best in the world in finals. Floor comes soon after with big series being eliminated. Parallels and High Bar kind of complement each other because if someone can't do it on one device they can still have a chance on the other. Of course, if Taipei and South Korea had managed to get a place for a team, the scenario would be different with places now but it would still be insufficient. there are cases like lee chih kai and omar mohamed who can still get an Olympic place via the continentals. But I always wonder why there are so few vacancies in Africa, Oceania, the Americas and even Asia? Added to this, gymnasts from South Korea, Taipei, and North Korea on the ring, who are standing out in the cups, and advancing their classification, with only 1 more spot remaining. In the Tokyo cycle, the Worlds gave up to 3 places in the apparatus final, and 1 more in the cups. this time the worlds gave 1 place, and 2 in the cups, that is, a spot was lost. If we look at AA at the Worlds, it was fair because it managed to give places to athletes from countries without a team, and taking the best AAs at the time without a team. It is known that there is a limit on places imposed by the IOC, and I really cannot calculate a way to include more places for individual devices. Unless out of 12 teams, only 10 or 9 went to the Olympics, but these 2 or 3 teams would enter the AA and Apparatus competition. The high mag level in the cups is clear, with strong series of high D and good E, unlike the wag which rarely has any strong series. Many of these male athletes that I mentioned had a great Olympic cycle, standing out in the cups, winning titles, etc. Of course, some have dropped in performance and don't show their full potential now, whether in the qualifying cups now or in the last worlds, but they had a good cycle which made me keep an eye on them, believing in potential vacancies for them. We saw many of them in the Tokyo cycle, which evolved and arrived stronger in the Paris cycle, but they are still at risk and certainly great series were left out. Anyway, what do you think my friends? Sorry for the long text, but I think it's something cool to discuss.

Coverage on Arkansas!!!!!!! They are on the rise! Scoring TWO program records this season AT AWAY MEETS!!!! Something ins brewing in Fayetteville

Where can I watch the English championships or even just parts of it? I can't find it anywhere.... 😢 I want to see Becky's bars

Everyone forgets that Simone is back training the biles 1! Which will replace the cheng! She's probably going to do Biles 1 and an Amanar!!

Did anyone see KJC's Instagram announcement last week - Leap Day - alluding to retirement? If our Mother of Perpetual Gymnastics Perfection hangs up her grips and mic, can NCAA National Championships culminate with a massive thank you celebration for/with Kathy? Kind of a (really: huge) big deal.

Wait wait wait wait…. What guy(s) from the USA men’s gymnastics was the issue in the last GOAT tour???? Now’s not the time to be coy guys!

U 2 are halaurious 😂😂💀

You guys could tall about an ant on the horizon, and I'd still ROFL- you both have such infectious laughter, it always cheers me up.😁

Simone training the amanar makes sense and at the same time confuses me. So it makes sense cause if she feels uneasy about her double pike, she can substitute it for the amanar. That (if I’m correct makes sense) but isn’t the amanar the vault she had issues with in Tokyo? That’s where I’m confused. I don’t think she’ll compete the double pike till Paris. It doesn’t make sense for her to throw such a dangerous/difficult vault during competitions she can easily win. We didn’t see it at Championships. We did see it at worlds but we also saw her hit it and miss it. That tells me this vault of hers isn’t quite consistent just yet.

Still waiting for synchronized gymnastics.

I think Simone will compete bilesl and amanar cause after days of comp she will eventually be tired and fall like at worlds an do a wonky cheng

@MostHated33

2 ай бұрын

Damn she said on Twitter she can no longer do the Biles 1.. so I’m guessing it’s Cheng/Amanar, YDP as backup

Wait could she not win with the Biles 1 vault?

@freddycooks

2 ай бұрын

She definitely COULD

@MzKaylcC

2 ай бұрын

that would be my route

@GymFan-ts4pq

2 ай бұрын

i wonder why she doesn’t go for it at all anymore. wish someone would ask

@susanelliott8577

2 ай бұрын

@@GymFan-ts4pqshe’s not 16 anymore. My guess is the massive double pike is majorly rough on her ankles and body in general. plus the obnoxious coach deduction

@GymFan-ts4pq

2 ай бұрын

@@susanelliott8577 this is about the Biles 1, not 2. And she competed that when she was 22 not 16.

Simone is super powerful on her YDP so i imagine she tries to switch the 2 vaults the cheng first and then the YDP

@TommyWiseauu

2 ай бұрын

If she competes in the vault finals she has to do the Cheng. She can choose between the amanar and YPD for her other vault. Unless she trains a new vault where she is going forward onto the board (a different entry from a yurchenko) she has no choice but to use the Cheng in vault EF.

@DoreenBwalya-uc8ve

2 ай бұрын

@@TommyWiseauu what am saying is she should try the Cheng first and for the second vault the YDP just because she's mostly over rotating the YDP

@TommyWiseauu

2 ай бұрын

@@DoreenBwalya-uc8ve idk how that would make anything different.

@DoreenBwalya-uc8ve

2 ай бұрын

@@TommyWiseauu the reason she over rotates the YDP is because she has so much power, so if the does the Cheng vault first it might take away some of the energy going into the second vault which is the YDP, which might make landing it more consistent, that's the difference,, just like they did with Skinner she used to do the Amanar and the Cheng but she used to over rotate the first vault and under rotate the second vault, when they switched her vaults she started landing them much better, that's why I feel it might work for Simone as well

@TommyWiseauu

2 ай бұрын

@@DoreenBwalya-uc8ve that makes sense!

If Simone could just lose the neutral deduction by having Laurent not spot her, she could absolutely fall and beat Andrade; without that deduction she would have won during their last meeting with her fall.

@TommyWiseauu

2 ай бұрын

Tbh I don’t think Simone wants to risk falling at all. With Laurent there, she at least has a safety precaution. If Laurent isn’t there and she falls, it can be very drastic. Vault is the most dangerous event esp in women’s gymnastics so tbh I don’t blame Simone for wanting Laurent there. To me, it seems like her YDP isn’t consistent to where she can perform it most of the time safely and successfully. Perhaps more is going on during practice where we can’t witness anything. Thats why I believe she’s training the amanar again.

@MostHated33

2 ай бұрын

Simone was competing the YDP without Laurent in 2021. That’s what I expect this year.

@marsbars2889

2 ай бұрын

@@MostHated33well I think ppl also forget that she hasn’t been back for insanely long

@anovemberstar

2 ай бұрын

I hope she doesn't do the YDP without him spotting her - she could litetally die ( feom a beiken neck) if slightly off. I'm terrified watching it as it is

@TommyWiseauu

2 ай бұрын

@@anovemberstar any vault is dangerous enough to die from

How desperate is Valeri Liukin that he would allow Gabby back at Woga after leaving multiple times?

@TheTimo5494

2 ай бұрын

It's probably his fault she left to begin with

What "sport" to get rid of so you can have swinging rings? Get rid of Yachting..... That's so rich kids sport only to begin with and no one watches except a few old rich people sipping champagne cocktails and flashing their diamonds....booooorrrrriiiiiinnnnnggggg

And the fake tanner! UGH

*2024 OLYMPIC VAULT CHAMPION REBEKAH ANDRADE!!!*

@MostHated33

2 ай бұрын

@@SonOfAGun1814 Hoping we get a great battle that’s all👍🏽

The c. Huck n. Orris "funny"? The manosphere has now invaded the gymternet. That joke was kinda funny when it first came out, but it got annoying real fast. Especially when girlfriends used it to sound cool with the guys I played ball with. Maile O'Keefe way cooler than that.