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.

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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.

report on Tom Farden

Farden will stay on with Utah. But has been warned and will be monitored moving forward.

This is not to say that the complainants were wrong. I fully respect the courage they showed sharing negative experiences. But the report deemed that Farden’s conduct did not exceed the threshold to recommend dismissal.

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

USA Nationals – day 1

Spencer:

1. Biles – 59.300
2. Jones – 56.550
3. Blakely – 55.700
4. Wong – 55.350
5. Chiles – 54.600
6. Lincoln – 54.000
7. Disidore – 53.050
8. Roberson – 52.950
9. Jong – 52.900
10. Johnson – 52.850

Biles, Jones, Blakely, and Wong the winners of the day. …

The highest-scoring team after today is Biles, Jones, Blakely, Lincoln’s floor, and Sumanasekera’s beam …

Balance Beam Situation – day 1

Max Whitlock is BACK

The greatest British gymnast of all time had every reason to stay retired.

I have to admit — Max is better than ever on Pommels. This routine is beast.