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guidomerkinsrules said:
You’re saying she needs Tom Brady’s elixir?
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That makes me think of the Goldie Hawn-Meryl Streep movie "Death Becomes Her". Yeah, they're not dead but end up with body parts falling off of them.

I haven't seen any footage of Gabby (I didn't know about the American Classic). I'll see what I can find on U Tube. But in gymnastics, I doubt 28 is the new 16.
 
Her beam routine is pretty good.

 
Jade's beam:

 
Super excited to see the Opening Ceremony and see how it looks next to Beijing. (That’s what I compare all openings to.)
 
HARTFORD, Conn. — For years, the brightest spotlight in gymnastics has followed Simone Biles everywhere.

This weekend, the gargantuan expectations traveled with Biles here to XL Center, and under the immense pressure of an Olympic year, she delivered a spectacular performance.


As she so often does, Biles began her season with an all-around title Saturday evening at the U.S. Classic, and she secured the victory by a massive margin. Biles’s final score of 59.500 was nearly two points ahead of runner-up Shilese Jones, who tallied a 57.650 after an excellent outing.

Jones, like every other top gymnast in the world, doesn’t quite have difficult enough routines to keep pace with Biles. So when Biles avoids major errors, as she did Saturday, she is unstoppable.


Shrieking fans, mesmerized by Biles’s every move, filled the venue, and Biles’s name was all over the arena via posters made by hand in the arena concourse.

With 37 world and Olympic medals, her fame extends beyond gymnastics and beyond sports. The attention is inescapable, and it intensifies in an Olympic year. But here, Biles was at her best, a positive sign as she heads toward the Paris Games.


Biles soared through the air as she performed the Yurchenko double pike, the most difficult vault in women’s gymnastics that now bears Biles’s name. Unlike last year, Biles did so without her coach standing on the mat for safety, which led to a half-point deduction.

On an element that requires so much height, Biles remarkably had too much power and took a couple of large steps backward. She stayed on her feet to earn a 15.600, the highest mark of the evening.
Biles had secure routines on beam (14.550 for second place) and floor (14.800 for first).

Finishing the meet on bars, her weakest event, Biles made it through smoothly without any errors for a 14.550. After she took off her grips, she waved to the crowd. Many excitedly waved back……

 
Optimus Prime said:
HARTFORD, Conn. — For years, the brightest spotlight in gymnastics has followed Simone Biles everywhere.

This weekend, the gargantuan expectations traveled with Biles here to XL Center, and under the immense pressure of an Olympic year, she delivered a spectacular performance.


As she so often does, Biles began her season with an all-around title Saturday evening at the U.S. Classic, and she secured the victory by a massive margin. Biles’s final score of 59.500 was nearly two points ahead of runner-up Shilese Jones, who tallied a 57.650 after an excellent outing.

Jones, like every other top gymnast in the world, doesn’t quite have difficult enough routines to keep pace with Biles. So when Biles avoids major errors, as she did Saturday, she is unstoppable.


Shrieking fans, mesmerized by Biles’s every move, filled the venue, and Biles’s name was all over the arena via posters made by hand in the arena concourse.

With 37 world and Olympic medals, her fame extends beyond gymnastics and beyond sports. The attention is inescapable, and it intensifies in an Olympic year. But here, Biles was at her best, a positive sign as she heads toward the Paris Games.


Biles soared through the air as she performed the Yurchenko double pike, the most difficult vault in women’s gymnastics that now bears Biles’s name. Unlike last year, Biles did so without her coach standing on the mat for safety, which led to a half-point deduction.

On an element that requires so much height, Biles remarkably had too much power and took a couple of large steps backward. She stayed on her feet to earn a 15.600, the highest mark of the evening.
Biles had secure routines on beam (14.550 for second place) and floor (14.800 for first).

Finishing the meet on bars, her weakest event, Biles made it through smoothly without any errors for a 14.550. After she took off her grips, she waved to the crowd. Many excitedly waved back……

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I watched this. She moves so much quicker from trick to trick than anyone else. However, sadly LSU's rising star Konnor McClain suffered an ACL in this competition not only ending her Olympic bid but possibly affecting her sophomore year in defending the NCAA championship the Tigers just won.
 
Madmarsha said:
I watched this. She moves so much quicker from trick to trick than anyone else. However, sadly LSU's rising star Konnor McClain suffered an ACL in this competition not only ending her Olympic bid but possibly affecting her sophomore year in defending the NCAA championship the Tigers just won.
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Watched too

Gabby really struggled on the uneven bars
 
Optimus Prime said:
Watched too

Gabby really struggled on the uneven bars
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She did but then after her, a couple of the other ladies did, too, so I'm not sure what to make of her withdrawal. And Suni Lee is going through a big health issue. There's really only one thing to take from this competition ....

.... Simone Biles is not human.
 
Madmarsha said:
She did but then after her, a couple of the other ladies did, too, so I'm not sure what to make of her withdrawal. And Suni Lee is going through a big health issue. There's really only one thing to take from this competition ....

.... Simone Biles is not human.
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True, everyone (other than Simone, and that’s not one of her top events) had some trouble on the bars

Also watched some of the speed climbing which apparently quite popular in Indonesia

It’s amazing how fast they can get up that wall, less than 5 seconds. Sometimes it takes me longer than that to get off the couch

Saw someone lose by one one thousandth of a second

That’s less than an eye blink
 

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