Sunday, April 11, 2010

French International - Competition Day 2

Despite our efforts in getting behind Emily Little in the vault final that took place not too long ago in Paris, she didn't perform to her absolute best and was awarded 5th place.

From the eyes and ears on the scene, The Gymnastics Examiner:

Emily Little, AUS: Wearing black long sleeves with pink and purple swirls. Concentrating hard. Long wait for her. Should be a DTY...it is! Low landing and had to step forward, but good twist form. Her coach was happy with this, stepped forward clapping. Can she stand up vault no. 2? If memory serves, she fell on it yesterday. 14.225, biggest score we've seen yet. 5.8 D-score. Handspring piked front, sat down. Too bad! She just landed too low, did not get the height she needed. 12.15 second vault, 13.175 total.


Good try, Em! Hope you and your teammates come home safely!

17 comments:

nik said...

USA team to Pac Rims was announced:
Sloan, Bross, Raisman, Vega, Wieber and Ross... stellar team!!! Looking forward to it!

Anonymous said...

This is not the team - the selection camp is still continuing

nik said...

That is the team announced today on the GA website. Seems silly that they would release it if it wasn't confirmed:
http://gymnastics.org.au/default.asp?Page=15957

Anonymous said...

Fabulous USA team...

I wanted to ask a question! I am just booking tickets for PAC, and I just wanted to know if anyone can confirm that AUS is in the second session on the Friday night (April 30). This is the session worth going to isn't it?!

Thankyou!!

nade00 said...

Yes they are - the second session has Canada, USA, China, Russia and Australia.

And the USA team is definitely not confirmed. Entries are nominative and can be changed.

GA don't really seem to care about misleading the public given they were spouting the Lauren Mitchell story when they knew she wasn't going to compete.

The proof is that the US hasn't even held selection camp for this meet yet, it starts in a week or so.

Although, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is the team eventually chosen, provided nothing much has changed injury/fitness wise since they submitted this list.

Anonymous said...

It seems that AAP has picked up the story. There is a Sydney Morning Herald article about Sloan and Bross coming. Very stupid for GA to write a press release about the nominative team when it is not 100% confirmed.

Anonymous said...

Hey Nade ?? The comp starts in two weeks tomorrow. Visas etc take a while .. are you sure of your timing for the US trial?

nade00 said...

The camp is definitely April 20-24. The gymnasts go to camp with the documents/passports organised already and then the final team leaves straight from Houston on April 24th.

As I said, I'd say this team is the most likely one, but it's not confirmed until the camp.

Anonymous said...

Georgia's UB:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuA0cQQgg_0

Anonymous said...

Larrissa's bars:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ffffaaaannnnyyyy#p/u/8/DEJojrWxJmk

Anonymous said...

Emily's DTY: http://www.youtube.com/user/ffffaaaannnnyyyy#p/u/14/6TlrMOYttaI

Wow!

:)

nik said...

Freaking GA- I was pretty excited about this team. I really do hope that is the team they send (or if anything they throw in Larsson or Shapiro instead of one of the seniors). Why make a big song and dance when its not even the truth? Annoying

Mez said...

I think it's more the marketing company than GA in this case. They've run with it all over the event Twitter and Facebook page as well.

As Nade said - their camp is from the 20th! Unless the marketing dept, accreditation desk and GA themselves have been clued up by Martha Karolyi, the nominative team is not gospel.

Anonymous said...

Athletes can be swapped into competition up to 24 hours prior to the event.

Regardless of who the US bring they will be worthy of watching so you can't begrudge GA for trying to sell some tickets and attract some media attention for the event off the back of entries received to date.

Or maybe - in your infinite wisdom you would prefer the athletes to compete in a stadium with no one watching or for GA to wait until 24 hours prior to the event to begin promoting teams and athletes.

You folks need to take a chill pill. Surely having the media even remotely interested in covering the event and god forbid choosing to attend themselves to write stories, take photos and provide some coverage of the sport you all care about so much - is what GA was intending to do.

Think outside the square people.....

Anonymous said...

It doesn't seem to matter what GA do they are constantly criticised.

nik said...

I was mostly cranky because I received that infor as an email as a technical member of GA. I don't need to be convinced by big names, I'm clearly a gym fan being a member and I'm already going. I feel like it was just a bit false to promote it that way. Just as I was annoyed that Lauren Mitchell was touted as going (in her own blogs even etc) and then was not even trialing. I understand injury happens but it was just frustrating to have hopes built up and then dashed.

I understand they need to market but they could have used these names a month ago, releasing them now to the tech members makes it look like they were the definites. Its all good, I'm going anyway and will most likely be happy with ANYONE the USA sends because their depth is amazing. I just got buzzed about the current world champion and runner up.

Mez said...

Anon at 9:10, chillax!

I think it's fair to say that a disservice is being done by saying "x and y are coming!" when the US team hasn't even been named yet.

I wasn't criticising GA, I said it was more likely the doing of the PR/media company. It's GREAT that they want the public to know world champions might be there, that's the kind of publicity and attention-grabbing we WANT to see getting this event in the media. The primary concern is, we want to know that those gymnasts will actually be in attendance before promoters tell the world they can expect to see those very girls out on the floor.

How ripped off would you feel if you went to a concert, under the impression such-and-such performer was on the billing because the promoters told you so, and they didn't show?

I've no doubt Bross and Sloan are leading contenders in the selection process, and I for one would be so excited to see them come to Melbourne (I have support banners in the works, believe me) but I'm concerned they're hyping the public up about something that might not happen - what if Bridget or Becca gets hurt during training camp and pulls out of the race?

That said, I fully look forward to the radio and print ads we're being promised. I loved the double-page newspaper spread for Worlds 2005!