American Cup redux

Blythe Lawrence LIVE blogged American Cup. Here’s here follow-up post:

… The real story is that the 2012 American Cup couldn’t have gone better for Martha Karolyi and the U.S. women’s program. That they managed to introduce Douglas as a legitimate Olympic medal prospect without taking away from the prestige of 2011 World champion Jordyn Wieber was a brilliant, brilliant strategic maneuver …

Not to mention that Douglas, whose fifth place all-around finish at the 2011 World championships was also unofficial (and, to be fair, she did it in prelims and not all-around finals), puts her in the same place as Olympic champions Nastia Liukin (fifth at the 2007 World Championships), Andreea Raducan (fifth at the 1999 Worlds) and Tatiana Gutsu (fifth at the 1991 Worlds) for Worlds finishes the year before the Olympic Games. …

Examiner – American Cup redux: USA Gymnastics’s big win-win situation

Kyle Shewfelt likes Gabby’s “star power”.