DVORA MEYERS on Dead Spin:
One year and three leg surgeries after London, McKayla Maroney has returned to competition on the vault. And from a performance standpoint, not much has changed. She does the two-and-a-half twister that made her famous (before the meme made her even more famous) just as well as she did at the Olympics. She even managed to stick a vault that was better than the one she did in the London team finals …
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I’m quoted:
“Nobody is working towards an Amanar any longer. The value is too low for the difficulty”
Kasamatsu and Handspring twists are the way to go in this cycle.
The only girls left training it are those who were close last cycle. It’s undervalued now.
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