Road to Nationals Starts Tonight

CU-UF said:

No worries, only 4 compete with all 4 counting, so yes, if a fall occurs, the fall counts. They are allowed to select alternates which can be called on in the event of injury (Ragan Smith was an alternate for the 2016 Olympics) but only those 4 scores will be added to the team totals. The individual gymnasts while representing the US as an individual will do their own thing. I am also not a complete expert on the Olympic format so I could stand corrected, but at the Olympics they have 2 separate competition days. One for individual and one for team competition. That is why someone like Simone Biles can potentially win 6 golds, 4 for the individual events and 1 for individual all-around at the individual portion of the competition and 1 for the team competition. Idk why they really screwed with the rules this year. Apparently there has been enough uproar that they are going back to old rules for 2024.

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CU-UF said:

Gators travel to Penn State this afternoon for a rare Saturday performance (4pm BigTen Network). Florida goes out of conference in preparation for post season regional play. It might prove smart, as Penn State is a regional host site and a decent chance that Florida gets sent there as the #1 seed. Nothing much to gain here other than experience. I would not be surprised if we see some of the regulars rested to keep them fresh for the SEC tournament and post-season. Trinity Thomas (the #1 all-around gymnast in the country) however will probably go since her hometown is about 2 hours away and will have a large family/home contingent there. Barring having to count a fall, UF should easily handle the pedophiles and look to return home for senior night next week. This would be an excellent watch after watching the basketball game. We will all probably need some positive Gator vibes after that.

Last week Dan Mullen got into crushing the Dawgs by giving the gymnasts a pre-meet speech. Good to see coaches from other sports supporting each other. The Gators ruined the Georgia "black-out" and senior night by coasting to a one point margin of victory (huge in gymnastics) despite 10k cheering against them. Team is looking solid but still has that "perfect" meet out there with all stuck landings and toe points. Hopefully saving it for nationals, because they are the only team with a shot of stopping Oklahoma and the Maggie Nichols farewell tour.

By the way if things get really bad with basketball, might want to switch over and check out future gator gymnast Morgan Hurd represent the US at the America Cup at 12:30 on NBC Hurd has a high probably to ultimately be on of the four gymnasts representing the US in the Tokyo olympics this summer! The future is bright!

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