Podium Training: Men

It starts tomorrow.

USA-Gymnastics has the times

I’ll tell you one thing the set up of this stadium, sucks. It looks dark. The seats are a mile away from the competition. No wonder the seats were cheap. You might as well stay home. Glad I did.

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My thoughts…

I hate this introduction thing. This is a gym meet not a concert….

The US men are a mess on Vault. Penev didn’t even come close to landing his triple Yurchenko. Whittenberg fell and was out of control. I thought both guys were gonna kill themselves. Yul landed knee’s locked.

Yul fell on the Parallel Bars and on his dismount. Marvin has a messy routine and nearly put his hand down on the dismount. Whittenberg had some issues in his but he nailed his dismount.

Mikulak had a very good High Bar but he front loads his routine and then does nothing til the dismount, which he stuck. He also NEVER shuts up. This is the most boring podium I have watched, like ever. Marvin has a boring high bar routine with nothing in it. Code whoring his way through. He stalled on one move and a sloppy dismount. I looked it up he has between a 6.0 and 6.2 start value but it’s literally just a boring routine to watch. Yul didn’t do a full set.

Penev walks like he needs his diaper changed. Yul had a lot sloppy twisting form but a lot of great landings on Floor. Whittenberg OOB with what looked like both feet then he fell. He’s having a really off day..lots of sloppy landing for Penev but he stayed on his feet. Fell doing an extra pass after routine. Pretty sure he didn’t do that pass during his routine.

The US men being themselves on POMMELS Yul fell twice. Sam messed up a few times but didn’t do a full routine. Marvin hit his but hit his foot on the pommels at the end. Mr Hollie Vise had a few bobbles during his routine but stayed on and then Sam did his full routine and fell 3 times. This was the Only event the US have shown 4 guys so far so they must still be undecided. Pretty obvious who shouldn’t be competing here…

Whittenberg hit his Still Rings but a messy landing. The wires swung quite a bit during this routine but this was his best routine of the night. Alex had a great routine. The wires rarely swung for him at all. Step on landing. Nice routine for Marvin though his wires moved too but not as much as Whittenberg.

Overall not a great day for anyone but Yul ( and even his pommels were a mess)