My team since March has been JWiebs, Dougie, Aly, Kyla and Finnegan.
But now I’m starting to think JWiebs, Dougie, Aly, Nastia and Maroney.
If Nastia hits bars, of course.
Justification? Kyla is essentially a bars/beam specialist. Her floor is…not good. Her vault is a non-issue with Jordyn,…
That’s my dream team too after Classics!
The problem is it doesn’t leave much room for mistakes or injuries, because with this team you’ll need Jordyn, Aly or Mckayla to do bars in TF and you have a gymnasts that would be useless on two events and another who can do AA but her scores are not that high (Nastia on FX and VT and Mckayla on BB UB) but that’s mainly a problem of the 5 person team, so there’s not much you can do about it except hope everyone stays healthy and hits. Unless you make a team with 5 AAers, but even then not everyone is strong on every event.
So yeah, after Classics I’ve started to think about this team and I really like it, so if/when it doesn’t happen I’ll be very sad…
(I just realized that half of the sentences in this post probably don’t make sense, I shouldn’t write in English while I’m still half asleep)
If you have anything you want answered, let me know! Can be anything - I’m trying to go beyond the typical “What’s your goal here?” “I want to go four for four!” stuff you see in every interview. Thanks!
One thing that I’m always curious about is what young gymnasts think about older gymnasts (like Chuso, or even ASac or Anna Li), because you always hear about how Olympics are a “once in a lifetime” opportunity and you don’t really hear these girls say they want to keep competing until they’re 30, and it’s understandable because gymnastics is a very demanding sport and that’s nothing wrong with wanting to do other things in life (also, not a lot of 16 year olds know what they want to do when they’re 30), also there’s always the risk of getting injuried etc but I wonder if these kids see them as an inspiration and role models or if they think they’re just crazy LOL
In short my question would be: “Since there are more and more gymnasts, both in the US and in the other countries, that keep competing long after they’ve turned 18-20, and with good results too, does it make you want to do it, too? Could you see yourself still competing at high levels in 10-15 years?”
Sorry for the long post, I was thinking about this the other day.
myinnermonoblog reblogged your video: mckaylamaroney: Catching up with McKayla Maroney…
I never said it out loud because I never knew how to pronounce it!! Then when I stayed with Blythe of Gym Examiner in…
I never say out loud many foreign names because I have no idea how to pronounce them, not that I have many occasions to say them anyway…
With the Russian names I basically learned that if I feel like saying it in one way it’s the wrong one, so I just have to use the pronounciation that sounds weirder to me :P
The most difficult for me are the Dutch names (also because most of the Dutch gymnasts are not originally from there) and from Eastern European countries, like Hungary, Bulgaria, etc I’m pretty sure I can’t say Chinese names properly either but at least they’re short LOL
I don’t know how you do it, when I watch gymnastics competition on american Tv I want to throw my computer agaist the wall after the third commercial break in 30 minutes!!! And I thought italian tv was…
I never watch TV because there’s nothing intersting but also because I hate commercials, but after watching american Tv a couple of times I find italian TV much more bearable, this morning I was watching an episode of Letterman on italian TV and every five minutes they were like “we’ll be right back” which of course means a 5 minutes commercial is coming, italian tv didn’t have a commercial break and continued with the show, I would never watch it with commercials.
I was so shocked when I watched the last episode of Sherlock on the BBC (in streaming) it was 1h 30 without any commercials!!! It was amazing, except for the fact that the streaming died 15 minutes before the end xD
No, I’m not going to Jesolo, it’s pretty far from where I live and if I remember correctly, I checked a few years ago, it’ not really well connected to the train station and transportation would be difficult because Jesolo is not a big city so I would probably have to change trains and if the competition ends “late” at night (after 8pm) I probably wouldn’t have a train to get home until the next morning at 5-6 am.
Also the next day the kids I coach have a competition and I have to go with them from 7am to who knows when…
yes, please interview him :P I studied German for five years and still can’t speak/understand it, why is it so hard?! Maybe it’s a bit better if your first lanuage is english?Probably! Everyone says the grammar isn’t…
I don’t really know about grammar, I almost never had problems with english grammar, maybe because I studied it for a long time and have more chances of using it (unfortunately I never have a chance to speak english), but I always found German grammar difficult, maybe it’s not that difficult per se but it’s really hard for me to put it in practice, sometimes it looks easy because you have very fixed rules: the verb is always in the second place, if it’s a subordinate clause the verb goes at the end, with this verb you use this case etc but then you have practically no idea of knowing how to make a plural or if a noun is masculine or feminine (except for a few exceptions) so I usually go with “what sounds better” especially when it comes to articles/prepositions.
I’ve had a good teacher the first year, then a terrible one and then another good one, but with the last one we did a lot of history and literature so at the end of high school I could talk about German art and history and all that but couldn’t say “where’s the bus stop” LOL now I’ve forgotten all of that too…
Having studied Latin, I never had so may problems with remembering the cases, German even looks easy because Latin has 6 of them (then there’s like Hungarian that has 15 or more)…
I don’t think Italian grammar is that easy, especially for a native English speaker, I think English grammar is a lot easier than French or Spanish that are very similar to Italian, just the verbs are a nightmare.
I hope you’re right about learing German by living in Germany, as soon as I can I want to apply for Erasmus (1 or 2 semesters in another european university) and I really want to go to Berlin, but the language kinda scares me, one thing is to go there as a tourist and order a sandwich in German (but everyone speaks English and last time a I was there and they heard me speaking italian, they would ask me where I was from and then started to try and speak to me in Spanish and I would get really confused and didn’t know which language to speak anymore) live and study there looks more difficult…
myinnermonoblog replied to your post: myinnermonoblog replied to your post: What does…
Yeah, you can’t accept ANY money for a win if you’re not a pro because NCAA athletes have to be amateur status. Not a big deal for most sports because they don’t have to go pro until AFTER college mostly, but for gymnasts it’s a tough decision!
Thanks again! It sucks that gymnasts have to make such an important decision even before they actually win anything important (and such at a young age), not that world medals aren’t, but sponsors (and the public and the media) are generally more interested in the Olympics and all that comes with it: promos and interviews before the games, maybe medals, more interviews and commercials after…
Especially giving up on the college scholarship is a very big deal, given how much college costs, if the gymnast is succesful she can go to college without a scholarship without many problems otherwise it’s a missed opportunity…
myinnermonoblog replied to your post: What does going pro mean?
Yeah, Olympics don’t give out monetary prizes…pretty sure Worlds don’t either…just the World Cup series and maybe some other invitationals? They also get the opportunity to get $$ from sponsors like Nike, being on a Wheaties box, etc.
Thanks ;) I’m confused about the Olympics, it’s the national federations (or whatever they’re called) who give the athletes money for olympic medals? I remember that in Italy athletes who won a gold medal got about 100000€ and it was one of the highest prizes (but the athletes complained that they ahd to pay a lot of taxes for it and in the end it was a lot less), how does it work in the US? If you’re pro and you win medals you get money from sponsors and all, if you’re not you don’t get anything?
fyeahgymnastics replied to your post: I know I should probably have my sights set on Harvard or Yale Law if I want to get a job with the UN but I reaaaaaaally just want to go to UDub because Seattle is prettyyyyy!!!
How much does it cost to go to Harvard/yale?i know university in the US…
Wow, that’s crazy! I guess that at least you have the advantage of graduating from one of the world’s best universities and that must mean something, right? My exams are going very good and my parents would have to pay the 1200€ for next year so I felt really bad, I can’t imagine if they had to pay 40 or 50 times that!
I’ve never been to the US and of course growing up in Italy/Europe I might have a different point of view on the subject since here most universities are public so obviously they’re not that expensive, private universities are very few but I think the tuition is about 10.000€ a year top, for public universities (like mine) it depends on your income and it goes from 400-500€ to 1500€ per year, of course we don’t have the same kind of services and opportunities people from other countries have (since the government has cut most of the funding to school, university and research…), for example talking to a couple of friends who study in th UK I was shocked knowing that their school libraries were open 24/7 xD mine is open Monday to Thursday from 8am to 7pm and Friday only in the morning, we have like 20 computers in the mathematics department and so on… With the cuts from the government things are going to get worse, so far academically Italian universities were not bad, but now each time old professors retire they can’t hire new people so some courses will disappear… I can’t wait to apply for an Erasmus scholarship (6-12 months in an university in another european country) and possibly stay there xD Since I want to go to Germany/Northern Europe where universities are practically free and finding a job should be easier…
Thank you for the explaination, just another question, are there public universities in the States? And Community Colleges? What are they exactly?
myinnermonoblog answered your question: What time is the senior competition?
I think it’s tape delayed on Universal Sports…it’s 6:30 pm central time which is 7:30 eastern…so maybe it’s a half hour behind?
dancingdingledodies answered your question: What time is the senior competition?Online it says there’s a pre-show at 7:30 and comp starts at 8 eastern.
Thanks! I hope I find a way to watch it online, cause I don’t think I can follow a competition at 2am with just the scores xD
