Friday, July 12, 2013

All The Featured Ladies (All The Featured Ladies)

The artistic portion of Nationals 2013 is nigh!

The Australian Olympic Committee has posted a brief update with absentee Lauren Mitchell. Nationals will be our first real indication of whether or not the "keeping the national team at home to up difficulty and consistency" approach will be one that works in our favour.

And we must wish a very Happy 21st Birthday to Queensland superstar Larrissa Miller today!

I'm psyched!


12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Larissa's not competing

Mez said...

Is she not? Dang. I'll edit the post.

Anonymous said...

from the sounds of the quick hits it seems there was practically a fall per routine. not good.

Anonymous said...

it was great GA did Quick hits, but they weren't especially insightful or accurate. I was surprised to open up the scores after their comments on some of the routines. They raved about Emma Nedov's beam but then you see her e-score was in the 6s for example. And every routine was beautiful or great or wonderful, and then it would be like oh btw she fell 3 times! Not really useful information for someone trying to follow the competition.

In any case if I were Peggy I would be worried about my job. To have only one senior break 50, and only just, is very worrying. If you look at results from Euros this year for example, where these days the gymnastics powers are not even concentrated anymore, Brown would barely qualify for the AA, and only her out of our entire senior team.

Anonymous said...

Well, it could have been that everyone just had a really bad night... ? (yeah, the chances of everyone timing it so that they all had a bad day on exactly the same day are a bit slim!) However, for the other days hopefully there will be fewer falls, and they'll do better over all.

My over all feeling was, "Oh dear. And this is them supposedly consolidating." The scores did seem to be exceptionally low.

But then I guess if you're all trying to up your difficulty (did they? I wasn't there so I don't know) maybe it takes more time than they have had to get those harder skills into a routine and working well. Perhaps we are still expecting too much of them at this stage?

Looking forward to better performances over the next few days. Hopefully last night was just a blip.

Good luck ladies! Do your best! :-)

Anonymous said...

Perhaps if GA and Peggy had spent more time on looking after the Seniors that were left after the Olympics we might have more out there competing. When you are given no goals to keep you motivated how do they expect these girls to keep pushing through. They have just given thier all for the sport the past few years. Not all could make an Olympic team but they don't deserve to be pushed a side either. If they don't have enough to make a team next year for Comm Games, they need to look at how they treat thier Seniors.Yes, the next cycle are important, but at the expense of girls who have given years of dedication?

Anonymous said...

It is certainly a shame that more girls don't stay on but I don't understand what you mean about them being "given" goals. After all those years of training don't they and their coaches set their own goals?

Anonymous said...

Is it actually confirmed that people such as Emily Little have retired? I have only had it confirmed that Ashely and Georgia B. have retired.

Also, what happened to Angela Donald? She was a great beam worked and could make a final if she is fit and competing and the other great beam worker Amelia McGrath?? Lovely gymnast. Would have been great to have seen her just compete beam is she wanted to. In this world championships I would assume there is definitely space for specialists.

Anonymous said...

From what I've heard, Emily doesn't train at WAIS anymore.

Anonymous said...

Emily will be back. Bonora is not retired, in the gym training. Lauren is training. Larrissa is training. Olivia is competing. GR Brown is competing. MA Monckton is competing.

Anonymous said...

A. Donald quit, declined scholarship offer. A. McGrath quit.
Can only offer them the opportunity, if they don't want to do it any more, can't make them.

Anonymous said...

Quit is such a harsh and disrespectful term to use for these girls who gave everything to their clubs and indeed their country. Has anyone stopped to think of the toll this sport has on young girl's bodies, living with constant pain, constant injections and medical treatment. Perhaps what needs to be considered, is how do we keep talented gymnasts in this sport. I am sure if both girls were fully fit would still love to be competing. Probably didn't help that MLC closed the elite program while McGrath was in the middle of year 12 either.