I know the chances of her going to Paris are pretty slim now but I really, really hope she does manage to make it there. I'd love to see her competing at another Olympics.
i'm nostalgic because these were the same two vaults i competed in level 10... so she is at 48 years old now regressed to being the level I was at 16. (which is a credit to her, not me LOL).
I wish they would just give her the host country spot! (France, as the host country, is automatically given one spot, but since France qualified a team, that spot will be reallocated to someone else. But I think it just goes to the list of individual AA finalists at last year's worlds).
That said, she's such a competitor, I don't know if she'd accept something she didn't feel she'd earned, though I think the rest of us would feel she'd earned it through the last 35 years of gymnastics!
I believe her only option to qualify is by winning the AA in Baku later this year which is a challenge given Chusa specialises in VT and hasn't completed AA for a few years now
Insane that someone competing as long as her doesn't grasp that a step isn't the end of the world. She could've lost 0.3 just for balance trying to save the stick on her second vault for no reason. Then, instead of just taking one small step, she takes two steps in addition to the balance deduction. I feel like every gymnast should know that, especially one that's competed for more than 30 years
The old-school mentality of sick at all cost is probably too ingrained at this point, but in any case whether she was 1st or 2nd here would have made no difference to her Paris qualification prospects.
