#jordyn wieber

[gymfanconfessions]

“Genuinely curious is jordyn doing welll as a coach or not?”

#gymnastics #confession #Jordyn wieber #gymnastics coaching #gfc question #ncaa gymnastics

[dyingroses]

Throwback to when I made the Fierce Five on dolldivine/azaleadolls Tudor Scene Maker

#artistic gymnastics #gymnastics #gymternet #mckayla maroney #aly raisman #jordyn wieber #kyla ross #gabby douglas #throwback #adhd things #gen z things #stuff #random #fashion

[lgspears]

#Jordyn Wieber #WCE #Summer Olympics #Gymnastics

[triple-to-stag]

Happy 2012 Team Final Anniversary to those who celebrate

#Jordyn wieber posting fr #but also Aliya mustafina posting #inside you there are two wolves #(USA stan when it’s only 2012 and goated 2012 rusgym team)

[freifraufischer]

Ah yes.  I remember how Jordyn Wieber’s performance in London boosted Gabby to the rafters.  Team mates totally help in the AA.

[tutyayilmazz]

seems like laura pausini has been doing jordyn wieber's arm workout

#eurovision #gymternet

[samkerrworshipper]

the amount i sobbed after jordyn wieber didn’t make the all around finals is probably embarrassing if i wasn’t 10 at the time but she was my favourite at the time

yessssssssssssss

[diarylk]

Olympians Jordyn Wieber & Nastia Liukin Open Up About Pressure to Stay Thin After Gymnastics Careers

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[tokyoraisman]

i've always been so uptight about form when watching gymnastics. jordyn wieber was never my favorite because there was something about her form i didn't love. shawn johnson is my all-time fave because her form enhances her gymnastics. i always felt jordyn was too rigid and choppy for me and her feet were too often flexed and i just couldn't enjoy her gymnastics, but at the same time i'm obsessed with aly raisman. i think the difference is that aly is SO SURE of herself in her gymnastics, and that makes her so precise and put together. she is solid every time. this is why i cringed every time nastia did her post-2007 dismount on ub.

the thing for me about nastia was that i loved watching her on ub and was neutral about watching her on every other event. i never cared for her floor routine because it just felt like twist after twist and i never saw anything more diverse, except for her double front and that was horrendous to watch.

#gymternet #gymnastics

[lower-haight-holler]

[gymfanconfessions]

“FX doesn't have to be 'balletic' to be artistic - look at Jordyn Wieber, Rebeca Andrade, Laurie Hernandez, Vanessa Atler, Caitlin Rooskrantz, the Gadirova twins, etc - but it does require engaging with the music and choreography instead of just waving your arms about!”

#gymnastics #confession #floor exercise #floor choreography #Jordyn wieber #rebeca andrade #laurie hernandez #Vanessa atler #Caitlin rooskrantz #Jessica gadirova #Jennifer gadirova

[gymnasticscoaching]

Vault - highest E-scores  (2006-2022)

Vault – highest E-scores (2006-2022)

McKayla Maroney, Simone Biles, Cheng Fei, Rebeca Andrade, Aly Raisman, Shawn Johnson, Gabby Douglas, Jade Barbosa, Jordyn Wieber, Elizabeth Price, Maria Paseka, Jade Carey, MyKayla Skinner, Kyla Ross, Anna Pavlova, Jordan Chiles, Alicia Sacramone, Aliya Mustafina, Oksana Chusovitina, Giulia Steingruber. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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#Youtube

[a-melnikova]

Is anyone else growing increasingly concerned about Jordyn Wieber’s health/weight? Her arms make her look quite sickly..

#Jordyn Weiber #idk it’s giving ana arms #gymternet

[triple-to-stag]

Jade needs someone to choreograph her floor to the millisecond so she has clean transitions planned immediately before and after skills

That way she’d have no time to pause/lose any convincing artistic momentum

#I think it would go a long way because her pauses are so distracting #us nats 23 #a jordyn wieber 2012 fx would go a long way with her

[freifraufischer]

Let’s talk about the Scamerican Cup... 

Or more broadly let’s talk about the history of this competition and where it fits into the wider history of the sport.  The American Cup started in 1976 as a kind of competition known as a International Invitational.  International Invitationals were meets organized by a national federation in which they invited gymnasts based on world rankings from whatever the most recent World Championship.  There were many many international invitationals, for instance Champions All in Great Britain, the Chinuchi Cup in Japan, as well as the American Cup are some of the now defunct examples.  It was understood that an international invitational may put a thumb on the scale for a local gymnasts but since your own federation is likely running the same thing next month there wasn’t a lot of complaining in the 1970s and 1980s.  

Slowly a lot over the old invitationals were folded into FIG competition series and gained more legitimacy for example the France International, the DTB Cup (originally the West German invitational), the Cottbus Cup (originally the East German invitational).  But some places resisted giving the FIG control.  Perhaps you preferred the be able to set a different format (like the Swiss Cup) or you wanted to invite more (or fewer) gymnasts.  Maybe you want to be able to mix juniors and seniors.  Or maybe you want to control the judging.

The US Gymnastics Federation (and later USAG) wasn’t the only federation to resist turning their competitions over to the FIG but there were two things that made the American Cup different.  It was more widely televised and because it was televised in the United States more video of those competitions have survived.  We can see the sketchy results in the American cup that we can’t in say the Hungarian invitational where video didn’t survive.  The American Cup for a long part of it’s history was scamy but it was no more or less scamy than it’s counter parts all over the world.

In the 1990s the American Cup had attractions and drawbacks.  It was a meet with one of the largest prize purses available in the sport, it was on television (and after 1996 on podium and very few competitions were on podium at the time).  My sense of watching all the American Cups was that as it lasted longer and the other competitions like it faded or transformed into FIG meets the quality of it’s international field shrank (if your national federation no longer has a sketchy invitational there is no you scratch my back I scratch yours benefit of sending your gymnasts overseas to lose), and USAG continued to see it as their private promotional tool but you can also feel Marta Karolyi’s finger prints as well.  In the 1980s and the 1990s the Americans respected a 2 per country limit after qualifying, but suddenly in the 2000s you would get 4 American gymnasts competing in a field with a handful of foreign gymnasts.  In 2009, one of the last non FIG sponsored American Cups the US entered Jordyn Wieber, a junior that wouldn’t even be eligible to compete senior for 2 years.  She won, should she have?  You can debate the gymnastics there but you can’t debate that field wasn’t amazing and hyping that victory looks deeply silly.  FIG grew increasingly embarrassed by the shady antics of one of the sports most televised meets and pressured USAG to finally fold the American Cup into the world cup series.

Ironically the year that the American Cup is most remembered for being scammy is actually after it became a FIG World Cup event.  In 2011 World Champion Aliya Mustafina of Russia was invited and when she arrived she found that USAG wanted her to share a hotel room with a random gymnast from a country she didn’t even share a language with.  The Russian delegation also said that the quality of hotel for the American gymnasts was much better than for everyone else (and the 2011 American Cup was held in Jacksonville, Florida a city I know not to have amazing hotels so I can only imagine what they were given).  After an injury to a British gymnast the Americans substituted in Weiber, who had just turned senior but shouldn’t have been eligable for the competition because the FIG AA World Cup Series was based on World Championship results from the previous year.  And then there was the scoring.  Which was interesting.

As a result of the Russian complaints they avoided the competition for much of the rest of it’s existence and many fans know the 2011 American Cup as THE Scamerican Cup.  It’s last event was in 2020 as part of the FIG AA World Cup Series but with USAG in bankruptcy it’s generally believed that the meet was seen as too expensive and was quietly discontinued.  It’s worth saying that AA World Cups weren’t particularly popular with many federations.  The meets were expensive to put on and had a very small field of athletes while apparatus events have fields that are an order of magnitude bigger.

I thought I’d post some of my favorite examples of the scamiest moments of the American Cup outside of the 2011 example.

1983 (start the video at 13.28).  Natalia Yurchenko was the winner of the 1982 World Cup AA (pre 1990s The World Cup was a single competition and roughly equivalent in status to the World Championships).  There was something fishy with the uneven bars.  She was hitting her butt on the low bar (as you could do in pre 1985 bars) and had requested to raise the bars which the American organizers denied.  It resulted in this ... 

Yurchenko didn’t have this problem anywhere else that season and would win the World Championship that year.  The 1983 American Cup would go on to be won by Mary Lou Retton.  She and Bela Karolyi would use this competition to claim that that she had beaten Yurchenko before the 1984 Olympic boycott.

1987 (start at 22.20 for Phillips, 27.28 for Strazheva).  Soviet gymnast Olga Strazheva, often considered one of the greatest floor workers of all time lost the American Cup to Kristie Phillips by .025 of a point.  Strazheva recieved a 9.7 for her floor.  Phillips a 9.775.

2002 (start at 1.03.36 for Schwikert, 1.09.05 for Kupets).  Sometimes the person robbed wasn’t even a foreign gymnast.  In 2002 Tasha Schwikert was a star of American gymnastics, the reigning national champion and an Olympian.  Courtney Kupets was a brand new senior who would lose the American Cup to Schwikert by .094  Schwikert had a disastrous floor routine scoring an 8.775.  Mysteriously Kupets who was up right after her needed 9.307 to win.  She got a 9.212.

But I tend to think of one of the American Cups greatest crimes having nothing to do with scoring.  It was whoever decided to spell Oksana Chusovitina’s name like this in 1996

Choucovitina

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[mad-quixotic-tales]

so was jordyn wieber playing gta iv or was she actually watching eurovision in 2004

#ruslana