Kayla DiCello 🥇 All Around Winter Cup 2024 

but then Jordan failed at Tokyo

​@alannabrown4 I'm going to disagree with the statement that she failed. Jordan fell on floor exercise, which is an unfortunate mistake. However, she hit bars and beam, despite not being expected to be on those events that day, which shows great mental toughness.

not the senoh bars at the 2021 trials costing Kayla an Olympic spot 😭😭😭

@@Plaspos 🤣🤣its totally what happened, she was awesome on bars at Classic! Which had AAI bars

@@2FLIPS3.5TWISTS I don't think they were going to let her take a set of AAI bars to Tokyo 🤣

It's the only choice. NCAA gymnastics just encourages mediocrity and watered-down routines.

@@khorkina2010 I mean... they have a maximum training time of 20h/week

@@khorkina2010 It actually encourages safety and injury prevention, Karen. The vast majority of women in their late teens and early 20s who are trying to juggle academics and somewhat of a social/personal life should not and cannot do G and H level skills week after week in competition.

I remember she used to have a double layout on floor n afullin

Absolutely. I still can't get over how she was not included in the last Olympics.

She should’ve replaced grace grace was horrible

She can medal on floor with the current field given the absence of Gadirova.

Her floor is pretty dang strong. And her gymnastics is more enjoyable to watch than Grace's IMO!

Her beam score was pretty strong too!

@@arthurfernandes4824 beam was pretty overscored at this event, they were giving out execution scores (8.300+) that only the very cleanest routines got at Worlds last year (Simone, Rebeca, Melanie, Sanne). And Kayla, Skye, and Hezly's routines were not nearly that clean. Not to mention Suni geting 7.9 E-score with a fall. The floor scores were much closer to international scoring though. Kayla and Kaliya got similar E-scores at Pan Ams last year.

@@Plaspos thanks, I didn't notice the other scores... I agree that internationally it wouldn't score that well. Anyway, she really improved her difficulty and has room for improvement

At first I thought she was preparing a Shang + Pak for the 0.2 CV but now with the Hindorff it’s not an option

Pak + Van Leeuwen has less deduction, but it's much more difficult than Church + Pak.

Exactly my first thought. Jordan maintained that high level the whole season. Kayla in the same boat, somebody coming into this year with just a slight chance. She did it right - make a big early statement with upgrades and better SVs. The conversation has now changed and others gotta step up. She has a chance.

Kayla and Leanne will not both be on the Olympic team. Neither is gauaranteed a spot, but Kayla's chances are much higher than Leanne's right now. But they are essentially competing for the same spot on the team (3rd AA + consistent backup), so they won't both be picked.

Yeah at Pan Am Games

She was always getting a low chest dismount on the double tuck and the double pike would be even lower. 2.5 dismount avoids this but she needs to twist faster on it

@@Plaspos her leg form negates the benefits though. Crossed legs and knee bend. She may as dismount with the double pike still

@@Gymtumbler24 idk I think her leg form on twisting looks a lot better in live time than in replay. I wouldn't be surprised if she's not getting much deductions from it, it's not as obvious as Mustafina or Ponor

@@Plaspos i guess i feel like the extra tenth on the dismount can help her score a bit too. Especially since the 2.5 is hard to stick. If you’re gonna step, may as well step on the double like and start .1 higher

Her double tuck / double pike on beam often looks dangerous and she has low landing.

she’s already gone 14.1 on vault, 13.9 on bars, 13.8 on beam, and 13.7 on floor internationally. That was before her upgrades she put in on UB/BB/FX here. 14+ is definitely possible on UB, and maybe on FX. BB is less likely though

@@Plaspos I meant on her specific routines from today. She caught two releases on bars very close and some other questionable form errors. If she did the same exact performances today in an international meet no way would they have been 14+

Her scores won’t hold up internationally based on this performance. That won’t be more than a 14 bars. That wouldn’t be more than a 14 floor either.

Yeah those knees and flexed feet would get hammered!

I’ll say 55 mid-55.8 internationally

I mean yeah but Kayla’s biggest quality/ the thing that’s keeping her in the conversation is her consistency, which is a major thing that team USA is looking for. We’ll just see if Kayla can keep the momentum up because she’s looking really really good and it’s so early in the season!

I mean honestly, Skye was the only person at the meet who could have realistically beat her. And if you erase Skye's two major errors (fall on bars on Van Leeuwen, messed up her double wolf turn on floor and probably lost credit + big deduction), I still don't think she would have beat Kayla with yesterday's performances, though she would have come pretty close.

The wolf turn will stay because of the high value

i dont think so. The judges are much less judicious in national competitions. She'd be close to 56, but not that high

lol never compare national vs international scores

@@poufchka1 hahaha that’s true

Olympic score, she would reach 53.400 with this level. Remembering that Rebeca, Shiles, Simone are at higher levels, and will present updates to their routines for the Paris games, scoring 58/59.