Why? you ask... mostly because...
A: Raj Bhavsar is an alternate again!!! FRIGGIN SELECTION COMMITTEE!!!!!! He hit 12 for 12 at Trials. I hate the selection committee. They are dead to me. <---and thats a fate worse than living with chellsie memmel. {don't worry Skylr, i'll save you from that hell hole someday!!}
OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
I hereby state that The Men's Gymnastics Olympic Selection Committee is Dead to Me.
and B: The Stupid Olympic Team needs Chellsie Memmel. I know it sucks right? But it's true. Just for her Bars though.... that is the only routine of hers i do not fast forward through while watching the trials so i should know.
Yeah, so here is what the Girls Olympic team is going to be:
Shawn Johnson
Nastia Liukin
Alicia Sacramone
Chellsie Memmel [gag me]
Jana Bieger
Samantha Peszek
I suuuuuper duper wish Shayla could be on it, but I don't think she is vaulable enough to the team. Kind of like Hollie Vise in 2004. Here's what everyone will compete on in Qualifications and Finals:
Qualifications:
Vault Alicia, Shawn, Sam, Jana, Nastia
Bars Nastia, Chellsie, Jana, Shawn, Sam
Beam Shawn, Nastia, Sam, Alicia, Jana
Floor Shawn, Alicia, Sam, Chellsie, Nastia
Finals:
Vault Alicia, Shawn, Sam
Bars Nastia, Chellsie, Jana
Beam Nastia, Shawn, Sam or Alicia
Floor Alicia, Shawn, Sam
See, this is a team where not all of them might be good on every event, but they can all be CONSISTENT enough to do their job in qualifications.
As it stands now:
Vault Alicia, Shawn added: Sam
Bars Nastia----------------BIG GAP!!!---------------
Beam Nastia, Shawn, Alicia
Floor Shawn, Alicia added: Sam
Now, they need a Vault and Floor Specialist, and a Beam and Bar specialist and a consistent person everywhere. Or someone like Sam, who does Vault, Beam and Floor all super well, so then they just need a person good at bars and another person for decent qualification score. Chellsie decent at Bars and she has the decent qualification scores. Now, we need one more person to fill the gap on bars. It could either Be Jana: a consistent girl who can HIT when they need it. Or i could be Shayla, who is good, and the international judges like her.
The US doesn't need Shayla's bars. But i sure do hope they pick her.
Oh and speaking of international judges, they are gonna score everyone AT LEAST 2 tenths lower on every event then they have been getting in the US right now. And i don't think the judges will like Chellsie because she doesn't point her toes, and can't keep her legs together if her life depended on it.
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Frankly I'm glad Raj is only the alternate. I feel bad for Dave D but those on the team deserve to be. Jonathon H especially. Sean Townsend even more than Raj but he just didn't have it in him. He only hit 12 for 12 at trials, not like Joey Hagerty who almost went perfect from both nationals and trials.
raj should have made it.
chellsie is my least favorite on the team. she came to our gym, 20 minutes late, for a meet and greet, and she was BORING! she eats, sleeps, and breathes gymnastics, and i believe she said she deferred college to train for the olympics. she deserves it because she's in the gym all of the time, but she's just so dull, she has no life. but whatever.
So being dull means that you shouldn't be allowed to go to the olympics? That's ridiculous!
Don't leave Chellsie out on beam. I think that last beam spot will go to either her or Sam. Alicia is far too shaky.
Now that I see it on paper, I agree with your final six, but the only reason Jana Beiger should go to the Olympics is to compete bars. After that, she should just sit her butt right back down.
While Chellsie doesn't possess the kind of gymnastics I prefer (think Mattie Larson, Samantha Shapiro, and Ivana Hong), Team USA needs her not only for her bars, but the fact that she's a friggin' rock. No falls can be afforded in the TF when USA already starts off with the equivalent of two falls behind China.
That's why, if she is indeed teammate #6, I need to warm up to Bieger. She seems to have the same consistency as Chellsie, though her gymnastics is undesirable.
I agree 100% with you chaos_butterfly!
Here's my statement on the men's team: I will forgive the selection committe if and only if the team pulls off the miracle of the century and wins gold. If not, they will be on my list for all eternity. End of story.
I totally agree I would have pulled Joseph Hagerty off the team in a second! For Raj.
Anyway Chellsie isn't a horrible gymnast, we need her on bars i mean. Considering we lost Shayla
=(. Anyway unless Shawn can add some sweet releases then we need her.... (Shawn needs to do releases like He Kexin) get difficulty using power instead of complex pirawetting
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