Basically means she is turning down college gymnastics to focus on international competitions and train full time for those. She can also get paid by sponsors. She's gonna get endorsements like crazy. Would be too difficult to do that and be in college.
Balance beam companies pay big so sales won't fall off.
Sexy adds focussed on dwarfed bodies.?
About 19 years ago, a close friend of mine's 12-13 Y.O. daughter made alternate on
the U.S. gymnastics team. Seems husband-wife coaches defected to U.S. from Romania
(to Orange Park). Sally had to be homeschooled because she missed so much
school going to U.S. team events all over the nation. Her parents hired a very accomplished,
specially certified "all-subjects" teacher ($$). Real soon they had an 11 year old gymnastics
hopeful move in, sent by her parents from Atlanta to live in Orange Park, to be coached.
These coaches were world renown.
Those Romanian coaches soon helped husband-wife coaches defect from another
communist country and they built their gym in Southside, Jax. So back then Jax/O.P., FL
was a world hub for gymnastics. BTW, those huge IPF-size gyms cost millions $, so
some serious American supporters were behind it all. I went to a party at the coaches'
home. It was very small, modest but that coach-couple was full of joy with their new
country, new home, new gym facility. They had us all join hands and say Grace for the
food, fellowship, and the Lord's blessings. You see the wholly defection was related to
their being rescued as "covert" Christians in a dictated atheistic country.
Sally broke her ankle 3 times and the surgeons refused to repair it unless she quit
gymnastics. Sally was very delicate in figure, not power-muscled like today's gals. So she
switched to low impact rhythmic gymnastics, kinda dance with ribbons, juggling pins etc.
In less than a year, Sally was alternate on that team. But that wasn't as exciting.
Anyway, Sally turned away from it, went to a Christian College, where she was recruited
to travel with evangelists and give her testimony about the wrongness of letting your little
girls get into gymnastics. There's a lot of secret sacrifices, methods for delaying normal
growth, etc. I couldn't give a flip, but I agree with Sally.
