re: Remove

I’m thinking possibly bars too if both Haleigh and Sami are out

Any word on those injuries? I was hoping that our unexpected off week last week may have gotten them back in shape (or haleigh at least to do bars). I just worry because I think we might see waves of canceled meets and we dont want to have to worry too much about our RQS (which will suffer if we have fewer meets and have to do too many without our best lineups available).

A good article on injuries and going forward.

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Any way to get this back to stickied ?

I mean Dana Duckworth still has a job. People conveniently forgot about the accusations toward her last year when she seemed to turn the program back to winning. The gymnastics community is a cesspool or hypocrisy.

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There’s more stuff on fb about the AJ situation. Whew, I guess the truth is still out there, but I hope she doesn’t end up at LSU. Talk about negative publicity, which we don’t need. Has there been anything from the team or any of the girls on whether she’s coming here? I think they need to say something publicly. This is turning into a firestorm.

Seems that UCLA is taking the most heat for the situation right now, but I think that’ll turn to LSU if she does come here.

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Has anyone else actually said anything except for a mom on another team? It would be nice to get some clarification from someone actually close or within the program instead of hearsay from someone not associated with the program. I am not saying the stuff she is saying isn't untrue but it be nice to get the facts before people go around scolding others for something that may or may not have happened.

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Is this what you are talking about? I hadn’t seen that until just now

It’s weird hearing them say she was throwing a bunch of asian racial slurs. I can’t imagine how that could have gone on at GAGE with Finnegan, Wong and Eaker there… There is no way those families would tolerate stuff like that…

The entire situation is bizarre.

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However this influencer states that Waller told the girls to be more welcoming to her? Also, it was states she made Asian slurs - but she and Aleah I think are demonstrably good friends from GAGE and Aleah is Asian (not to mention Leanne, Kara, and Al Fong). Like it literally makes no sense?

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Would also like to point out that her mother, like Aleah’s is Filipina. Until someone at UCLA directly speaks on the issue, I am trying not to form an opinion on the matter since at this point it’s just a “he said, she said” hearsay situation. I too have no idea who Amanda Seales is and I’m pretty deep into gymternet social media.

With that said, there is a Louisiana based LSU fan/former longtime judge who has heard that there’s more to the story than just what has been said. She has also expressed that what has been shared is not entirely true (racism being the reason why she transferred that is). Knowing our girls, I’m sure that if what we do know is actually the truth, despite AJ’s ties to Aleah, our gymnasts of color would not be too happy or accepting of someone with a history of racism at their former program coming to LSU and would speak up against it. Even as a woman of color, until we hear publicly and directly from coaches and gymnasts at UCLA as well as AJ as to what happened, I want to refrain from passing judgement on anyone and jumping to conclusions on anything related to the situation. I honestly don’t think it’s fair that the gymternet has chosen to throw LSU, Jay and AJ into the dumpster fire when all anyone knows at this point still remains to solely be accusations against AJ which is merely heresay and no confirmation of anything else.

Would also like to say that individuals at 18 and 19 are nowhere near the same people that they are at 25 and 26 when their brain finally becomes fully developed and they’ve matured greatly due to their education in college that has allowed them to develop critical thinking skills, as well as a new sense of mental and emotional maturity. Deciding to cancel someone who is still freshly a legal adult and has not gone through college yet, due to allegations against them with no proof, is in my opinion incredibly immature. Yes she may have made a mistake and done something to seriously hurt others at UCLA, but still within that, as humans, we’re not perfect or expected to be perfect. There should be grace and forgiveness for her and anyone for that matter and it’s our job to educate someone when they’ve misspoken or offended us so that they know what they did wrong and can be better. If we jump straight to canceling them, they’ll never learn or grow. I think we can all agree that is at 18 is nowhere near the same person as we are now and AJ deserves to have that same level of basic human empathy to allow her to learn and grow, despite whatever she may or may not have done, rather than immediately cancelling her and people saying she shouldn’t be allowed to be on any collegiate gymnastics team.

Not sure if the rest of y’all agree with me or not but that’s where I stand on this issue: don’t assume anything until we know for certain and don’t conclude anything or formulate an opinion on the matter until we have confirmation from the people directly involved

Exactly.

If people want the shorthand response for how us as people/LSU fans should feel about the situation/treat the situation, they should read your reply. If not, knock yourself out and read my entire rant if you guys want the long winded answer about it lol