Podium Training thoughts. Who made this line up?

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After watching the podium training we have the answers to the line up questions for qualifying. My question is who made this line up? If it’s Tom I can be annoyed and ask questions but if it’s Simone’s coach, Laurent Landi then I have some legit questions about fairness and him propping up his gymnast for EF chances.

Vault went, Suni, Grace, Jordan then Simone. Makes sense. No problems there. Then for the individual gymnasts it goes Jade and then Mykayla and I have HUGE issues with this. First of all, Mykayla is the silver medalist on vault at Nationals and Trials. Jade finished 4th at Nationals and didn’t compete two vaults at Trials. Mykayla Skinner should be the last gymnast to Vault and there isn’t a debate. If whoever decided this line up is going to say well, Jade won a medal at Worlds in 2019 and therefor she gets the last spot in the line up then I want to know why Suni, the silver medalist on floor in 2019 isn’t being put up second to last on floor in team finals. They have Jordan up second to last. You can’t take away the earned spot for Mykayla on Vault with that kind of logic and then not give the same benefit to Suni. I need to hear your opinions on the logic for the Vault line up.

Uneven Bars: The line up was Grace, Jordan, Simone then Suni. I guess this line up will depend on how the judges nit pick Jordan because she’s the new girl. Her start value is a 5.9 or Grace is sticking with her consistent 5.7 routine. I personally think Grace needs to step up in qualifying if she wants to move on to the AA final and that all depends on how Suni competes. When she hits she is easily ahead but Suni can be a bit inconsistent at times. I personally would have grace after Jordan . There is only one tenth between them and I think Grace is a much more natural swinger.

Balance Beam: Grace, Jordan, Suni, Simone. I do not agree with Jordan being after Grace. Grace only is going for a 5.7 start value but she is a much better beam worker than Jordan. This will again come down to the judges who know Grace and don’t know Jordan. If I had to garner a guess why this is being allowed I would say it is because they want Grace to calm down Jordan if she has nerves. Grace has the experience and Jordan doesn’t. They are hoping Grace hits and calms down any nerves Jordan might be having but last time I checked, THAT ISN’T GRACE’S JOB. She’s not here to help Jordan. The individual here is Jade then Skinner. This order is just to justify the screwing on Skinner on vault. It may shut up Mykayla but it’s not going to shut me up.

As for Floor: Here is my biggest issue. The line up is Grace, Suni, Jordan then Simone. Read the first paragraph. Jordan going after Suni is just ridiculous. Suni has the most complete floor worker we have and yes, even more complete than Simone. Suni is a beautiful dancer and she can tumble double double’s and beautiful double layouts. She can’t tumble like Simone but she is light years ahead of her in presentation. That isn’t even my issue. My issue is with Suni not going second to last. Jordan being ahead of Grace on every event and then being ahead of Suni on floor means Laurent Landi is using his head coach label to benefit his gymnast. Even if Tom made the lineup or “consulted” Suni is the better floor worker. Even injured. If you add up all the grievances I have it’s pretty obvious Jordan is the one gymnast being given an unfair advantage to potential EF chances. I don’t want to hear that placement doesn’t matter in this code because it still does. An extra tenth here and an extra tenth here after knowing what one gymnast did, will add up.

I need your opinion people. Am I using my Skinner colored glasses to see this as being unfair? (For the Vault line up) (ROCIO:) You will tell me the truth. What do you think about Grace’s placements in the lineup? I’m starting to wonder why she was even put on this team. If the lineups end up as podium training the only event Grace will be used on is Vault. Mykayla Skinner should have been on this team. Do you think Jordan is being given better placements in lineups because her personal coach is also the head of this team? Do you think Tom made the decisions?

WHY THE HELL are they wearing black and purple? The black leotards were supposedly supposed to represent the Olympic flame but they don’t.