Category: Gymnastics

Team USA to Worlds Antwerp 2023

Read Spencer’s LIVE blog on day 2 of the Worlds Selection Camp.

He’s not convinced the highest scoring team was selected.

Personally, with Simone any team is near guaranteed to win. Therefore, I’d select the team with the best medal potential AA and Apparatus.

USA PanAms team 2023

Very strong!

2023 Worlds links

U.S. World Team trials

It did not go well.

Scores were down from Nationals.

Some felt the Vault table was slippery.

Judges made some mistakes even though there are few competitors and they should have all those routines memorized.

Team will be named after day 2.

Gymnasts can show 1-3 apparatus of their choice.

GymCastic feels Shilese, and Skye are near locks at this point.

… Is it a good idea to have 4 competitions on hard mats so close together. And so close to Worlds?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Simone’s YDP = 6.4 difficulty

FIG WTC has been hilariously bad at rating new skills in the past.

But they got Simone’s Vault difficulty correctly rated at 6.4.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Simone returns to Antwerp Worlds

I was there for Simone Biles in 2013 Antwerp. Fantastic.

Can’t believe that 10 years have past. And she’s returning still on top of the sport.

Abby Heiskell – Vault

Jordan Bowers – Vault

USA Nationals – day 2

Spencer:

1. Biles – 118.450
2. Jones – 114.550
3. Wong – 111.100
4. Blakely – 110.750
5. Chiles – 107.750
6. Jong – 106.150
7. Roberson 106.100
8. Sumanasekera – 105.900
8. DiCello – 105.900
10. Disidore – 105.550

Top 10 automatically make national team. I’d imagine we’ll see Lee, Lincoln, Miller, and Carey receive additional invitations to the selection camp, but will there be others? …

So, for highest-scoring team, using both average and highest of the two days, we have Biles, Jones, Blakely, Lincoln, and Roberson.

Basically, Biles, Jones, and Blakely cover almost everything except a third spot on floor.

Lincoln provides the best score there, and then Roberson’s slightly higher-scoring Cheng adds a little more on vault.

In reality, I’d imagine if this meet were repeated at selection camp, we would see Wong in there because of nearly scoring just as high on everything and her AA result …

Balance Beam Situation