2012 OLYMPIC TEAM MEMBERS?: USA EDITION

The test event is out of the way and every elite international gymnast should now know whether they are going to the Olympics. I've devised a list of some gymnasts that are likely to be chosen by the country.


This is the team USA edition;


Alexandra Raisman 
This gymnast from Massachusetts, coached by Mihai Brestyan, has been on the Senior international scene since 2010. Her senior debut was at the American Cup in Worcester,Mass (on home soil!) Later that year she went to Covergirl Classic and Visa Championships. After, she was on the world championship team. In qualifications, she qualified for the all-around final in group 1 and also the floor final (her specialist piece.) Unfortunately, she mucked up her bars but gained valuable experience during the competition. In floor final, she came around 5th-6th place. In 2011, she went to the AT&T American Cup. She won the Covergirl Classic but had many big mistakes! At Visa's, she qualified for the Worlds again. At worlds, she qualified for the all-around again and the floor final, mirroring her 2010 effort. In the all-around, she mirrored her bars and had big mistakes and lots of excess swings. In the floor final, she came 3rd, winning a second medal after Team USA won the Team competition. She brings a lot of experience and talent to the table for USA.


Mattie Larson
Mattie has been around in the senior ranks since 2008. Her senior debut was at the Olympic Trials in Philadelphia. She may have been a bit too unprepared for the competition but she managed to put down 15+ scores on floor on both nights. Unfortunately, Marta didn't see an Olympian within her and she was out of the Olympics. Since 2008, she has done a lot. Starting with 2009, it was quite a quiet year for her but she competed in the USA vs. Germany competition and she also competed at Gymnix. 2010 was a much more successful year for Mattie, she competed in the Covergirl classic and at the end of the year, in Visas. Marta saw an international athlete within her and chose her to be on the 2010 worlds TEAM USA squad.
In Rotterdam, she helped the team qualify to the team final in 2nd but she didn't make any finals. Team USA used her once on floor but she fell and lost .5 for loosing a requirement. 
The American team were pretty distraught with her and a lot of people discussed on youtube commenting 'she lost if for USA' and 'I hope she's happy she made USA come second'. But let's be honest, Youtubers that write stuff like that are fat bitches that eat kentucky 3 times a week and suckers for coke, what can they do? She was dropped from the team in 2011 worlds but she is joining the UCLA.


Kyla Ross
Ross is as talented as the juniors come. She is a first year senior and will be old enough to compete in London. Along with Ohashi, she had some big junior level skills. She is a very powerful yet elegant gymnast! It may be hard for her to get on the team unless she competes very well in a big competition. The reason being she is a first year and like Mattie Larson's story, your unlikely to get picked as you don't have bags of experience like 2nd or 3rd year seniors or even Nastia with 7 years. Overall, she doesn't have major experience but  has the talent to be on the Olympic team


Bridgette Caquatto
2011 was Caquatto's second year as a senior and she did pretty well. One of her first meets of the year was the Jesolo competition where Team USA came in first place. She was relatively quiet after that until the Covergirl classic. She comes from Legacy, and the legacy girls can swing. Anna Li, who's mum and dad own Legacy and her sister Mackenzie are both other great bar workers. She scored 14.9 on bars but had a dodgy pass on floor when she fell on the double pike (12,3). Bridgette didn't get into the 2011 worlds team but made the Pan American Games team. In the team final, Bridgette helped team USA to a first place finish. On that night, she qualified for all-around finals and bars final. In the all-around final, she actually won the competition! This was a great achievement for her and Legacy Elite Gymnastics Club as they haven't had much success but they did get Macko to worlds, moving to this story, she only did a FTY but that was still enough for gold. Her golden luck didn't stop there as she was golden in the bars final aswell. So, a quick recap, she medalled 3 times, 3 of those medals were gold. We could say she did pretty well!


Shawn Johnson
Well, this girl has some experience. and some leotards. and some bad-ass gymnastics. I can say that she literally represents Gymnastics. Whenever anyway one talks about gymnastics they always think about Liukin or Johnso! Aside, she has been around since 2007. Tyson American cup was her first REAL senior appearance. She scored mainly 15s, showing she is a first year with some scores! Later that year, she was appointed by Marta to go to Stuttgart, for some competition called World Gymnastics Championships (whatever that is?). This competition would test Shawn's nerves especially as it was the Olympic team qualifier. She had a great qualification round and made all-around, beam and floor finals. Making the AA is an achievement, AA's make a man of you! Ferrari got away lightly with her slip up but not JJ! Well, she had a pretty damn flawless competition with no mistakes and that landed her to her first gold at worlds(yeeha!). After her golden performance, she now headed to her event finals. Starting with beam, it was a bit of disaster. You could see that a day after her golden performance, it really rubs off! She fell twice but lets not go there! Skipping worlds, and moving to Olympic trials. Marta makes a man of you but, she said YES to Shawn. Beijing bitch, oh Beijing! Qualifications in the birds nest went well for little shawnie! All-around final, beam and floor finals but before that it's the team final. Yes, kentucky youtubers blame it on ALICIA, fat pigs! USA wouldn't have ever been able to catch up with China's great (apart from He) performance. Anyway, she got her first medal of the games (silver.) In the all-around final, you could see that Shawn was freaking WELL JELL of damn Nastia! ''as it were''! In the event finals, she rocked out the beam and said 'Haha Li, better luck next time, stoopid Chineeese!'<--wtf?!, an olympic gold was placed round her neck! Floor?
Her comeback was pretty ace. She went to Guadalajara!<---yeah, i;m boredd?


I'm pretty hacking tired but Mikayla Maroney, J Wiebs and ASac are also 3 other bad-ass gymnasts to look out for!


@TWGtheworldgym is the place to be if you want off-blog info!<3

OFFICIAL OLYMPICS ROSTER

the FIG have released the official roster for the Olympics;

Individuals

Thi Ha Phan Thanh

Giulia Steingruber or Nadia Muelhaser

Ana Sofia Gomez Porras

Elsa Garcia or Ana Estefania Lago

Jessica Lopez or Ivet Rojas

Valeriia Maksyuta

Vasiliki Millousi or Paschalina Mitrakou

Dorina Boczogo or Laura Gombas

Marta Pihan-Kulesza

Christina Palesova

Barbara Gasser

Jessica Gil Ortiz

Angelina Kislya or Natalia Kononenko

Johnna Adlerteg

Tina Erceg

Valeria Pereyra

Daria Elizarova or Luisa Galiulina

Sasa Golob or Adela Sajn

Goksu Uctas

Simona Castro Lazo

Lara Svilpaite

Ralitsa Mileva

Angel Hiu Ying Wong

Annika Urvikko

Lorena Moreno Quinones

Maria Homolova

Lim Heem Wei

Molder Azimbay

Natassia Marachkouskaya

Zoi Maflada de Lima

Yamilet Pena Abreu

Reserves:

R1: Jordan Rae

R2: Thi Ngan Thoung Do

R3: Houry Gebeshian

Teams with two gymnasts, the NOC will decide which one will go through but only one gymnast can go through!

DAY 2 RESULTS!

Yesterday, I streamed the coverage live on twitter(updates and scores and routines) so whether you caught that I'm not sure. It's still up (@TWGtheworldgym) but here is what happened;


Beam:


Sui Lu did an AWFUL routine. She first fell on her first element,front pike. Then, she went back with tuck .5 (good landing) but she fell onto the beam on her back pike.(still 1.0 deduc.)
I can't remember the other skill she fell on. Then, she dismounted and landed heavy on her head on the double pike. 10.366


Marine Brevet was next, she had a nice tuck back, good connection series and nice leaps. But, she overcooked her double pike and had to sit it down. 13.366


Maksyuta- great save on first skill. she had a wobble on one of her leaps, didn't catch much of the routine but it was wobbly from what I saw. 14.3


DeAgostini- wobbly but nice jumps. she had some good connections but again quite wobbly. Double pike and then she was crying off the podium. When she was off, she was heavily crying and was ice-ing her foot. She may have picked up an injury. 14.133


Gardiner- great double cosak turn, wobble on leap, onodi(good), free walkover into connection series(wobble), controlled side somi, step on double pike. 14.266


Ferlito- back somi to sheep. connection series(check) big wobble on spin. bit leggy on 2.5 twist dismount. 14.5


Jinnan- check on back tuck, triple connection series(falls), lovely leaps, free walkover, front somi then double pike 13,5 


Millousi- great mount (khorki,2003). free cartwheel, back somi, sheep. beautiful 'on beam' work. deep(ish) landing on double pike. 14.5

1. Vasiliki Millousi
2. (1st) Carlotta Ferlito (tied with Millousi)
3. Valeriia Maksyuta
4. Maddie Gardiner
5. Francesca DeAgostini
6. Yao Jinnan
7. Marine Brevet
8. Sui Lu

Floor

Julie Croket(BEL) resigned from the competition meaning Ana Lago did get to compete in the final. 

Lu-whip triple(good), 2.5 but not front somi connection, beautiful triff spin, 1.5 into 1.1 front, lost control on memmel turn, strong double pike. 13.833

Hypolito-Saw music. 2.5 into front somi(strong), 1.5 into 1/1 (big step), double tuck, stag leap(excellent) and great double pike. 13.733

Brevet- huge double layout opener(great), 1.5 through to double tuck, good jumps, free walkover, clean double twist, memmel(good), great double pike 14.066

Dos Santos-crowd onside in first few seconds, double layout 1/1 (holy macaroni), pike front into double arabian tuck. great leap, double layout(okay), controlled double pike finish, 14.066

Ferlito-1.5 leap(good), triple twist(leggy), loose legged double tuck, leap series(pause), whip,double, free walkover, double pike, 13.966

Ferrrari-Silivas(little low), full in back out(tuck,good), 1.5 leap('ish'y) 1.5 into 1/1 front, nice double pike finish, 14.4 (but you can see her whole bra under the leotard, mmm?)

Moors- Silivas(oob?hop), 1.5 into 3/1 twist, nice choreo, free walkover, 2.5 (step), great double tuck, 14.2

Lago- DL(hop), great leg up spin, double back (hop), 1.5 leap(good), front somi to double twist, double pike, 13.866

1. Vanessa Ferrari
2. Victoria Moors
3. Diane Dos Santos 
4. Marine Brevet(tied 3rd)
5. Carlotta Ferlito
6. Ana Estefania Serna Lago
7. Sui Lu
8. Danielle Hypolito(why last?bitch?)

overall, this was a very good championship. At least, we now know who is going to the Olympics, so it's just going to be work,work,work in preparation for the games. Unfortunately, I can' go to the games due to the bitches that created the ticketing system I will be able to blog from television or if FIG do a live stream. 

See ya soon 02, July, July, here we come!

(follow TWG on twitter to get more updates, @TWGtheworlgym)

DAY 1 RESULTS!

Yesterday, we saw day one of the individual event finals! There was some good routines and some not!


Let's start out with vault.


Masela was 1st out, just made a DTY. 14,533
After her, Grishina went. She fell on her 1.5 yurchenko. Next vault, fall.
Julia Steingruber was third. Hands down on Rudi. only a 1/1 tsuk.
Daniele Hypolito. Just landed 1.5 yurch. fierce salute after. 
Fasana. nice DTY. then fall on handspring lay.
Vale Maksyuta. Strong DTY but stepped out. big step on second but great vaults.
Jade Barbosa. 1st vault goes up into the rafters (14,966) didn't watch until 2nd.

1. Jade Barbosa
2. Valeria Maksyuta
3. Wyomi Masela
4. Daniele Hypolito
5. Giulia Steingruber
6. Erica Fasana
7. Nastia Grishina.

I didn't watch bars final so here are the results;

1. Nastia Grishina
2. Youna Dufournet
3. Yao Jinnan
4. Christina Vaculik
5. Christine Lee
6. Rebecca Tunney
7. Martha Pihan
8. Natalia Kononenko

I will hopefully (89% chance?) cover day 2 tonight. It's likely, let's she the line up;

BB

1. Sui Lu
2. Carlotta Ferlito
3. Vasiliki Millousi
4. Francesca DeAgostini
5. Yao Jinnan
6. Valeria Maksyuta
7. Marine Brevet
8. Madaline Gardiner

Julie Croket is reserved by 0.033

FX

1. Victoria Moors
2. Marine Brevet
3. Vanessa Ferrari (as she didn't do bars ef  she may have pulled out meaning Ana Lago will replace her)
4. Carlotta Ferlito
5. Sui Lu
6. Daiane Dos Santos
7. Julia Crocket
8. Daniele Hypolito

Vanessa Ferrari was down for Bars final but didn't show up so I'm not sure if she will do tonight. If she doesn't, Ana Lago Serna from Mexico will take her place in the event final.

UNOFFICIAL OLYMPIC QUALIFIERS

The test event qualification was on last night! It was a day of fab gymnastics. Italy showed their strength and depth with first years and veterans, winning them the Gold team medal. Canada made the Olympic team qualification and team silver medal. Bronze medalists were France and scrapping in last place Team Brazil! 

Here are the un-official Olympic qualifiers;(indivds)

Julie Croket

Giulia Steingruber

Maria Paula Vargas

Ana Gomez Porras

Elsa Garcia

Heo Seon Mi

Jessica Lopez

Valeriia Maksyuta

Vasiliki Millousi

Lisa Top

Dorina Boczogo

Marta Pihan Kulesza

Christina Palesova

Barbara Gasser

Jessica Gil Ortiz

Nataliya Kononenko

Jonna Adlerteg

Tina Erceg

Valeria Pereyra

Daria Elizyarova

Sasa Golob

Goksu Uctas

Simona Castro

Lara Svilpaite

Ralitca Mileva

Angel Ying Wong

Annika Urvikko

Lorena Quinones

Maria Homolova

Heem Wei Lim

Molder Azimbay

Natassia Marachkouskaya

Zoe Lima

(there is doubt Pena Abreu has qualified)

Ashleigh Heldsinger scratched all her routines! She has spoiled it for herself because she hasn't qualified. She has also spoiled it for Nicole Szabo.

Thi Ngan hasn't qualified nor has Jordan Rae.