Blythe called 2010 the Year of the Comeback in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics.
But 2011 could be much bigger in the USA:
• Shawn Johnson
• Nastia Liukin
• Chelsea Memmel
• Anna Li
• Casey Jo Magee
Ivana Hong is back too, though she never has retired.
It’s a long shot for all of these gymnasts. But the prize – Olympics – is big. And they sense that they have a chance to make the team if they can get in good shape and be uninjured.
Casey Jo’s blog is refreshingly honest:
… Beam has needed one adjustment after the other. Once I got the triple turn consistently I added it to the routine in addition to my double connected that I started connecting with a single full turn. I also was having some consistency issues with the side somi out of the aerial, so I went back to doing that by itself, and put the aerial step through with the switch leap tourjete like I competed at the qualifiers this past summer. They have since improved quite a bit. We rearranged and added in some different dance…and then I was over time! So, we had to take out a bit of dance, and now it looks like every other elite routine –> skill, pose, skill, pose, skill, pose…not what I was hoping for. …
(via Split Leap)
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