Learning to fly

i hope she does a gogean and outscores jordan each time

I miss NCAA era Kyla Ross so bad

We talk a lot about the golden age of television — the Kyla Ross era was the golden age of modern NCAA WGYM.

In this final year of covid 5th year eligibility, reflecting on the policy’s effects and impacts, looking at examples from across the top teams in the ncaa, it seems clear to me that it primarily just made programs build around core stars who got to stick around for an extra year. To the detriment of developing underclassmen to fill those stars’ shoes. It really interrupted the flow of some teams and how they tended to set the future up for themselves imho.

need a polite way to say "im not engaging in a discussion on this topic with you because the conclusions you have reached are based on so many interwoven layers of misconceptions it would be easier to just like, hard reset your whole brain, just start over as a baby and try again"

The entire world trying to talk about gymnastics last week

so gymc*stic has apparently decided already that 1) usag's evidence is absolutely unquestionably conclusive (despite, i believe, not actually seeing the video? could be wrong about that but they don't mention seeing it), 2) that 24 hours' notice was insane and unfair for this hearing (even though the ad-hoc hearings are literally designed to be exactly that fast), and 3) that no one actually cares about the 1 minute time limit (???).

I’ve been avoiding their episode because I figured it would just piss me off. This is somehow exactly what I expected but also disappointing.

Ok I need to step back. Rebeca Andrade won gold and no amount of stupid discourse about bronze can change that.

also this whole floor fiasco is a good example of why we need better score differentiation in general lol

I’ve always been pretty neutral when it comes to rooting for American gymnasts because they’re mostly, um, meh to watch but the American exceptionalism on display this week and the absurd misinformation even gym fans who’ve followed this sport for over a decade were willing to believe just to continue to pretend USA is held to a different standard/was somehow victimized here has really put the nail in the coffin for me lol

Imagine society if they never raised Jordan’s score in the first place