Skating Worth Watching 1 - Johnny Weir 2004 Nationals LP

gym update

Well, Sam Peszek has officially withdrawn from the worlds selection process. My new prediction/dream team (yes they are the same thing lol) is:

Becca Bross

Bridget Sloan

Chellsie Memmel

Kayla Williams

Alternates:

Jana Beiger

Ivana Hong

Kytra Hunter

If Chellsie's not ready, then Jana will probably be put on the team, and either Cassie Whitcomb or Mackenzie Caquatto will be alternate. Or they could just have 2 alternates, but I don't really think that's going to happen...

Nationals... was a long time ago.

But I can still write about it.

Bridget Sloan won with a 117.550, Ivana Hong was 2nd with a 117.250, and Rebecca Bross was 3rd with a 116.600. If you erased the falls (which are now a full point deduction), then Becca would have won by 0.05. You can watch the entire senior women's meet HERE. Day one has no sound.

OMG Becca is FAST on beam and bars! And the first two tumbling passes...wow.

Sam's beam was AWESOME. Her floor music annoys me a little, but i like the routine. Great tumbling as well.

Ivana's gymnastics is nice... she and Nastia have almost the exact same skills in their beam routine :)

Kayla Williams has some awesome tumbling! She won level 10 nationals a few months ago, and now she might be going to worlds :)

There's also a level 10 national champion on the junior side... Lizzy Leduc! She fell on day one and didn't make the national team, but here's her floor routine :) Right after nationals she switched to WOGA! WOGA's been getting a lot of new gymnasts these days... you can read about it HERE.

Another junior, McKayla Maroney, competed an Amanar! As far as I know, only 4 gymnasts competed that vault in Beijing.

Kyla Ross was the junior national champion.

Their were so many gymnasts injured that only 3 events were competed at a time in the senior women's competition. Inside Gymnastics even made a disabled list a few days before the competition.

Chelsea Davis hurt her back.

Mattie Larson sprained both ankles.

Sam Shapiro needed ankle surgery.

Corrie Lothrop tore her Achilles.

Olivia Courtney broke her ankle.

Jordyn Weiber sprained her hamstring.

Kamerin Moore had a torn Labrum.

Sam Peszek also has a torn Labrum, which she plans to get surgery on after worlds. In the meantime, she's still competing everything but bars.

So who's going to worlds? Only four on the team this year, since there's no team competition.

Nastia isn't going.

My guess is that Bridget and Becca will be the all-arounders. If Sam Peszek went, she could compete floor, beam, and i think she has a second vault. Then maybe Sam Shapiro could go as the bars specialist.  That's my dream team :)

Or Kayla could go as a floor and vault specialist. With maybe Sam Shapiro on beam and bars?

The first world selection camp is coming up soon. The second one will be later this month, and they will name the team then.

I love this video... :)