This week, I talked to gym fans across this great, wide gymternet of ours to see what they were most thankful for in the 2014 season. Here’s what they had to say!

1. Ellie Black’s incredibly original tumbling passes.

2. Becky Downie’s success on bars.

3. FLAVIA.

4. Great online coverage of gymnastics events, especially the live streams for Worlds.

5. Larisa Iordache and Simone Biles’ inspirational friendship.

6. Rachel Gowey’s recovery and return to camp.

7. Aliya Mustafina’s ongoing courage, determination, and kindness.

8. Legends like Uchimura and Biles cementing their status among the all-time greats in the sport.

9. Current elite gymnasts signing NLIs to compete in college.

10. USA domination.

11. The German juniors doing so well this year, especially at Euros. Tabea Alt and Maike Enderle are going to be game-changers.

12. Aliya Mustafina getting rid of her triple full on floor.

13. The resurgence of good American bar workers.

14. Eythora Thorsdottir’s recovery.

15. Kohei Uchimura winning yet another all-around title

16. Great Britain becoming competitive and earning medals (especially Whitlock with his AA silver).

17. Martha Karolyi laying the smackdown for that messy bun situation.

18. Simone Biles, who may or may not be human.

19. Brenna Dowell going to Oklahoma and looking really happy.

20. Lesser-known gym programs becoming stronger and celebrated by fans.

21. ALL of the injury comebacks.

22. USA Gymnastics and everything they do. Streaming everything live and for FREE. Posting every single routine on YouTube as soon as they’re done. Social media and Scott Bregman!

23. The NCAA season is almost here!

24. The universities that still do free live streams for those of us who live far away from live NCAA gym.

25. Erika Fasana and Roxana Popa coming out of World Championships super fueled and debuting new skills and upgrades.

26. The Gymternet and Gymcastic.

27. Larisa Iordache finally getting an all-around medal at World Championships.

28. Bees.

29. Instagram posts of Ivana Hong on bars.

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30. Social media bringing you closer to gymnasts than ever before.

31. Aliya Mustafina’s existence.

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32. All of the underdogs surprising us when we thought they were irrelevant or too old.

33. The new additions to the USA Gymnastics national team.

34. Kyla being Kyla.

35. Aimee Boorman.

37. The gymternet and the ability to communicate and learn from different fans all across the world. Interacting with everyone makes the sport that much better.

Lots of people expressed sentiments like this in bits and pieces, so I combined everyone’s ideas using this quote from elisaminimeneghini, who pretty much covered it all.

From all of us at The Gymternet, we’ve only just celebrated our four month anniversary but our loyal readers make us feel like we’ve been here since the beginning. Thank you for trusting in our coverage, for sharing with friends, for offering to help out with articles and website maintenance, and for everything else you do that makes us stand out. We started this site with a “for fans, by fans” mission and love bringing you the kind of content only other obsessive fans can produce. Thank you for all of your comments and questions, and for respecting other readers and all contributors…we’ve not once had to delete or block a user for trolling and we’re very proud of attracting mature readers with a real interest in everything about the sport – you guys are so much fun to interact with both through the site and on social media, and it’s honestly the best part of running this site. We are SO THANKFUL for each and every single one of you. You guys make us great. You make all the hard work seem like nothing and we are out of our minds with gratitude for you all.

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