Elise Ray Appreciation

Nola Matthews went to the Eythora Thoradottir school of incredible choreo at the expense of endurance

watching us classic and I need to get the message to claire pease that she needs to get the fuck away from valeri liukin girl I see your potential so run now somewhere else

well that was fun, glad to have a couple people to be invested in this quad

Laurie has said this thing about shaky ankles for awhile now and I have literally never seen a gymnast with shaky ankles.

are the shaky ankles in the room with us right now?

I'm not watching NBC so I don't have context, but does she mean unstable ankles? It's easy to 'tip' off a high releve, or not hold releve, without enough ankle strength

Girl these are American gymnasts they don’t know what releve is

any Simone Rose-heads out here?

not yet, but if she lands like that on more events I could be convinced

I'm getting there for sure

I don't know if she'll make any major teams, but I'll enjoy every performance she puts out there regardless

I personally love her and already have her on my 2028 team!

Laurie has said this thing about shaky ankles for awhile now and I have literally never seen a gymnast with shaky ankles.

are the shaky ankles in the room with us right now?

alright it's been like 20 years, we know the perfect 10 is gone, no need to keep bringing it up

none of the people competing were born when the perfect ten was an elite thing. They've got to give it up already

it’s so crazy that the state of 2010s nbc gymnastics coverage was such that tim dagget was calling 16/17 year old aliya mustafina a diva on national broadcasts on the regular lmao like they really could just say anything

If you're ever wondering if I'm thinking about Morgan Hurd and feeling sad about what could have been, the answer is always yes

"you don't owe anyone anything" You are a tar pit. Speak for yourself. I personally owe the cafe employees my dishes put away and my friends a listening ear and small scared insects a cup and a gentle trip outside. Hyperindividualism is a rancid infection borne of capitalism and willfully misinterpreted therapyspeak and I will defy it by continuing to be kind regardless of whether or not it benefits me personally