Can you say choke? Because that is pretty much what happened out there tonight. I'm not really sure what happened to Alicia. I certainly did not expect to see her faulter. Clearly going in as World Champions and having all those expectations did not work in our favor.
There are something our gymnasts really need to work on. One being the difficulty level, especially on bars. Our girls should be able to score higher on that event. For whatever reason we will just never be strong on vault. That's just a given. Our beam routines seem pretty strong but, there is probably a little room for improvement there too. The floor routines really need some work. We have to step it up. A lot of those passes are just boring and don't seem USA caliber. Quite honestly watching the lower level of the bar and floor routines I am trying to figure out how we managed to win Worlds.
Sometimes things just don't go your way. However, since the Chinese team had a 2 point advantage in degree of difficulty and that is basically how much they one by it is glaringly obvious we must step up the difficulty. Those mistakes may not have mattered with a little more difficulty.
There is no shame in a silver medal. They do have a lot to be proud of.
And for the record I am in the group that believes a couple of the Chinese gymnasts are not old enough for Olympic competition. In the end though old enough or not they had harder routines and performed them better.
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First off I am so happy Chelsea hit her bar routine. That is the single biggest thing I wanted from the night...And Alicia has had some mental problems on and off throughout her career. That fall on floor was just tragic...I have little doubt a healthy Chelsea would have not made those mistakes...Shawn's bars are blah as is her floor. Her music is super boring...I wish NBC had shown more of Romania...I do think that the USA should stop winning World's the year before the olympics. It hasn't worked out that last two times.
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