She looks so good here! Devastated we don't get to see her at Nationals and try for Paris. No matter what path she takes from here, she'll always be one of my favs! Such an elegant, graceful gymnast with so much talent!
Those handstands were excellent. I just think the nerves really shook her this time and she got in her head. Hopefully now that she'd gotten that initial shock out of the way she can be more relaxed at the next event.
This makes me so frustrated for her with how differently it went in the competition. She's an excellent gymnast and I can't imagine the pressure these athletes are under. I feel like with the bars it would be hardest to get past it!
I will say....... as much as I don't want to...... she is being over spotted. SO IMPRESSED with how she has adapted to the new style, but maybe too late
She clearly let the pressure get the best of her because her warm up was fine then the competition she just was thinking about it too much I think. She is capable of so much more and I hope that she can rebound but quickly. The clock is ticking. I'm praying for you gabby.
This sport is soooo tough!! In what other sport is it difficult for athletes to complete what they trained to do??? I can’t think of another…she looks like she is in incredible condition and so so strong!!
@@c.james1that’s not true she’s competing 3 out of the 4 events at Nationals if she can hit her bars set including vault and beam both days of competition it’s possible for her to get an invite to trials The only event she won’t be competing on is floor and it’s not as if floor would be an event she’d compete on if she were to make it to the Olympics.
@@c.james1Which is why I said if she hit she can get those required scores. Especially on vault which looks amanarble and that’s not even what I’m concerned about .. it’s mainly been her bars that has been given her issues. Either way we will see what goes down at nationals .. a lot of what we saw from Gabby was nerves.. all of her skills are there. This meet everyone made mistakes as well and didn’t look ready so it’s not just Gabby that needs to prove consistency. Excluding Simone and Shilese who are obvious locks for the team.
Other than one scare on coming close to the bar on the second release, everything looked great. Unfortunately she didn’t get to do it like this in the competition.
Just watched a bunch of old Valeria gymnast videos. He was bump spotting in podium training Katlyn Ohashi at 2013 American cup (which she won). More incredibly, there is a video of Nastia being bump spotted on bars in podium training AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES, where she won AA gold. I think people are looking too deeply into this spotting as somehow specific to Gabbys current physical state. This could very easily be more a Brenna Dowell type bars mental block and not so much physical. No one really knows at this point.
Obviously there is some extra push from Valeri, but generally this is a pretty excellent bar routine all things considered. The delayed flight, in front of a stadium crowd for the first time in 8 years etc. Also, the US is weak on bars. Suni didnt even show a set. Gabbys form on her skills is pretty impeccable and this is high difficulty. Considering she has come this far and is cabable of this magnitude of gymnastics, and doesnt really appear to be injured anywhere, you would expect she would aim to compete at nationals and give it one more shot. She has nothing to lose and if she can get in the right headspace, why wouldnt she go for it? What she did in competition, was it because she didnt have valeris push to get that second pirouette around? Or was it nerves? Considering that at the end of this warm up routine she got her double layout completely around, and with the extra kip before the pak, it doesnt look like an endurance thing.
Valeri shouldn't have to be bumping her at this stage in the game. I'm not sure if he was even bumping Nastia back in 2012 and Gabby looks like she has more endurance than Nastia did. With that said, I don't think she's quite ready. 2025 might be the more viable option for her. Also Suni didn't show bars, so she could have the option to petition at Nationals/Trials to do the AA. Gabby having already done the AA at American Classics, no longer has that option. I think Suni and her coach made the smartest choice.
