Artistic Gymnastics 2021 Discussion Thread

thepharoah · June 3, 2021

1st 2 events qualifications' results of World Challenge Cup in Egypt

thiago_simoes · June 3, 2021

On 6/3/2021 at 12:41 PM, thepharoah said:

1st 2 events qualifications' results of World Challenge Cup in Egypt

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Welp. These scores are awful, except for Iordache's uneven bars score. The other girls who also qualified for the Olympics, like Ibrahim, Mohamed, Daries, Varinska, Castro and Holbura, all had terrible scores. Very disappointing so far.

mpjmcevoy · June 3, 2021

On 5/13/2021 at 8:16 PM, thiago_simoes said:

Apparently, Ellie Downie chose not to go to Tokyo. She was a contender for a vault medal and the current World bronze medalist on the apparatus. Her brother passed away last week. He was only 24. Becky Downie will still participate at the British trials in June.

Poor girls. They are so strong, each in her own way.

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Ellie was apparently particularly close to him, it's utterly tragic. Not that she cares, or should care at the moment, but the next cycle is super short, with three worlds, a home commonwealths and a Paris Games in less than three years. If she is minded to continue, it's doable.

Beckie, on the other hand, has made the opposite choice for really good reasons too - unlike Ellie, there is no realistic chance of Beckie making Paris, so given the chance to do a late trial, this makes all sorts of sense.

apparently, more generally, GBR trials were not good, falls all over the place - lots of countries will have noticed this pattern - but right now it's looking like Gadirova, Gadirova, Morgan and either Kinsella or Beckie.