re: Remove

I think we are past the point of no return when it comes to her dismount. I personally think Alyona's routine tonight was outstanding, some of her best work but I think the routine would be much cleaner with the pirouette to a double tuck. Tonight showcases the risk moving forward with Alyona's current construction. They can't always bank on her getting credited for a DLO, one judge clearly did not. She isn't the only one either, a meet last weekend (can't think at the top of my head) but they downgraded one gymnasts skills on bars because it wasn't in adequate enough form. It was actually a topic of discussion this offseason for judges so it'll be interesting to see how things transpire moving forward.


I see many clamoring online wanting Ballard moved behind Alyona on floor. Ballard has been a nice surprise this year, she looks better than ever.

With no Kiya moving forward (at the minimum in the short term). I think you have to look into Tatum doing vault, Cowan doing bars, etc. It is what it is at this point and the routines that are there to potentially better the team in the long run have to develop.

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can someone explain to me why the judges at this meet had multiple delays?

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Idk about every delay but they stopped the competition at one point because of some type of flash photography or flash of light coming from the crowd. Its obviously not allowed at these meets during the competition due to safety reasons.


One of them thinking back I think there was a disagreement about start value. I don't know what the original splits were but if they are that far off the judges are required to discuss it and address the discrepancy. No doubt that is what occurred with Alyona's bar routine

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It generally has to with a scoring discrepancy (usually related to start value) or in the case of Brice - they were likely having to take a while to actually figure out what skills to credit/how to credit them (eg they didn’t credit her dismount I don’t believe becuas your feet have to touch first). In alyons case on bars I think it was due to a score split issue (judges split if their scores are x tenths apart to come to a closer agreement) related to how both judges credited her dismount (one gave her credit and one did t).

TLDR - usually the delays are caused because the judges are revisiting start values, for one reason or another.

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thank you. never seen so many in one meet.

Scott Rabalais’ article is saying Kiya is likely done for the year.

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What is up with Tori? Is she hurt or Jay just not putting her out there yet? And more Alyona?? It’s scary if she’s our best option.

Before the injuries last night, I was hoping Jay would pull Alyona out of some rotations going forward. She’s not precise or graceful. Now I doubt if that will happen.

I’d rather go Jeffrey for beam instead of Alyona. Personally that’s just my opinion and she’s cleaner

Wow the Wasatch Classic scores are crazy. A level above SEC over scoring. Jade Carey with two tens on routines with clear errors.

Idk how this works with gymnastics, but since kiya is likely done would she get granted another year since she got injured since she is a senior

What if Kiya, Kai and Cammy all came back next year and were all healthy!?!?????!! ! Probably unlikely but a girl can dream.

We can only hope. The only positive in this difficult situation is that it happened the second meet of the season. She definitely has a redshirt year if she wants to take it. Just imagine if this happened right before the championship part of the season. Isn’t she in grad school ? How does eligibility work if your done with school?