Gabby – what went wrong

At Pacific Rim Gabby was inconsistent training her Amanar Vault.

Photo via Examiner on Facebook.

Here’s another from Grace:

Note that Gabby still got credit for Amanar – 6.5 start. (PDF)

Martha suggested that Gabrielle Douglas’s poor performance was due to her trying a bit too much of her difficulty all at one time. She was “overpressured” Martha said, first by having done so well in New York two weeks ago and then being expected to do it all again here, and Douglas is a gymnast who needs to feel “absolutely secure” in her routines to do them very well.

Martha suggests that dramatic changes (apparently Liang Chow wanted to introduce even more difficulty into her bar routine, giving her a 6.9 D-score, but that was seen as a little too much, so some of the difficulty was taken out at the last minute) suddenly don’t work with Douglas, and that Chow may still be getting to know his athlete and what works for her.

Examiner – Pac Rims: The Martha Karolyi perspective

George reminds that Gabby trained about 10yrs at Excalibur, only about a year at Chows.

She’s a super talent that both clubs have done a terrific job in developing.