Good morning! Coming at you live from podium training at the 2016 American Cup. Refresh this page every few minutes. Most recent updates will appear at the top.

12:27 pm. That’s about it! Heading down for interviews now. I’ll put my thoughts and quotes up later!

12:25 pm. Lorrane catches her huge piked Jaeger to pak this time. I think I have her as my favorite for bronze at this meet right now, assuming the Americans get gold and silver. Based on training today, Lorrane looks the most prepared at this point, but you never know. As we say in the theater, a bad dress rehearsal means a good opening night, so it’s likely that some of these ladies just aren’t bringing it today the way they will Saturday.

12:23 pm. Americans are about to do interviews. Little lineup before Martha first.

Ellie on bars- she sticks her tongue out before mounting, bless. Clear hip to Shang, great. Hits hop change to straddle Jaeger to pak (legs in a V but otherwise good). Toe on to van Leeuwen, form break when she catches. Giant full, toe front layout half with a little hop. GOOD.

I really wish I knew where Mai Murakami was. I’ll ask around.

12:20 pm. USA is cooling down. Vault is long done.

Ellie on bars- Holds first handstand for 9 years. Clear hip to Shang, great. Loses form on hop change and comes off.

Lorrane fell on a piked Jaeger a second ago…it was HUUUUGE. Otherwise she’s looking ridiculously clean, just super straight and together legs on every skill.

12:17 pm. Maggie’s floor is new! And looks good. Piked full-in, legs are bent, timers for the middle passes, and then a good double tuck.

Amy just killed her triple full off beam. Like, good enough to where she could basically get a 3.5 out of it if she felt like it.

12:15 pm. Tabea also has a loso loso series, I think with a side aerial at the start but I missed that. Gabby does her double tuck in her last pass.

12:13 pm. Amy back on beam. Loso loso loso!!! THREE IN A ROOOOOW. Front aerial, check. Full turn, good. Triple twist off, a little under-rotated.

Gabby’s dance-through, still with last year’s music. LA LA LA LA LA.

1.5 from Carlotta but she tucks her knees for the last half of the twist and crashes it anyway.

12:12 pm. Good van Leeuwen from Ellie. Clean giant full, tucked toe-front half, assuming she’ll lay that out in her actual routine. Tisha on vault again, still just the layout and her hips are pretty piked.

12:09 pm. Maggie’s having slightly rough landings on her double double. Gabby’s good on her full-in. Better double double from Maggie this time but she was spotted.

Ellie bars- Toe on to Maloney, then just swings for awhile. Wheeee. Amy off on her loso loso flight series, ooh, standing full is good though. Little low. Tisha is only doing Yurchenko layouts.

12:07 pm. Maloney to pak, super clean from Lorrane. Great double arabian from Gabby. Carlotta’s doing an FTY and then hopping around the last half after she lands so I’m guessing she’ll do the 1.5.

12:05 pm. Double tuck from Maggie to start off. Then one from Gabby. Tucked full-in from Maggie, double pike from Gabby.

Ellie is working clear hips for Shang prep. Now doing toe-ons on the low bar. Little stumble from Amy on beam. Clean switch half. Still only timers on vault.

12:03 pm. Ellie and Lorrane on bars, Tabea and Ay on beam, Tisha and Carlotta on vault. Oh, Gabby and Maggie are back! Yay. We’ll get to see their full floor routines hopefully.

12:01 pm. Given that Laurie isn’t here at all, I’m going to assume she’s not doing anything exhibition-wise.

Gabby and Maggie just left the arena instead of doing floor so I’m guessing we’ll have to wait to see these super top secret routines until Saturday?

11:58 am. Solid double layout from Tabea off bars. Ooh, that was just a timer! Gets on again and does a DLO full.

Gabby’s back up on beam, looking more in attack-mode this time. She is secretly reading this live blog and is like how DARE Lauren say Maggie looked better than me.

11:56 am. Tabea just missed a straddle Jaeger, toe half to straddle Jaeger the second time is great. Amy hit her full routine.

Front aerial + sissone + split jump for Maggie, side somi, wolf jump to front tuck, YAS. Super quick. That side aerial, though…she just looks a little off. Another solid bhs loso, switch to back tuck, good routine. She looks a little better there than Gabby.

11:55 am. Amy hit her Maloney to Tkachev this time, and no problems on the pak. Toe on to van Leeuwen, giant half, front giant half, hit full-in. Great!

Gabby stayed on with her standing full this time but still stumbles a little. Slow connection on leap series. Aggressive punch front tuck. Switch ring, front aerial to split to pike jump is great this time. Double pike dismount, big pause before going into it, oh, and then just balks and does a tuck.

11:52 am. Another gorgeous double wolf from Maggie on beam. Then she does it again just to be like “yeah I did that, not a fluke, jealous?” Side aerial looks better this time. Switch ring. Solid bhs loso. Switch to back tuck, tiny stumble. Hit double pike.

Tabea connected her toe on + toe full + Maloney + pak this time but still with the messy legs on the pak. She and Amy are having a nice little convo at the chalk bowl. ❤

11:51 am. Amy on bars again, leg sep on toe full and she comes off. Catches Tkachev, pak has leg sep and she whacks her feet on the floor.

Gabby on beam – front aerial, check before split + pike jump. No connection. Double pike, chest still down, but better this time.

11:50 am. Lorrane on vault, another FTY. Tisha about to do her dance through…she has a typical Dutch routine with 8 billion spins. Music is SUPER fun and she whips out a quad turn casually just to start things off. Omg her choreo is kind of hot which is super weird to say because she looks 12, she is fully twerking LOL. This is going to be a crowd-pleaser.

Double pike from Maggie off beam is good. She had a little wobble on a side aerial but otherwise looked clean.

Tabea does a toe on to toe full to Maloney, all great, but doesn’t connect to the pak. Handspring layout half from Ellie is again pretty piked.

11:49 am. Ellie just did a front layout half but it was super piked. Tabea doing toe on to toe full on the low bar, very clean. Maloney to pak (split legs). Amplitude on Maggie’s jumps is A+. Good side somi.

11:48 am. Lorrane just worked up to a full on vault, toe full to Maloney to Tkachev for Amy, but she fell on the Tkachev. Front aerial + split jump + pike jump from Gabby on beam. Then a good double pike dismount.

11:47 am. Little stumble on a bhs loso from Gabby. Fell on standing full.

11:45 am. Maggie looks really good on her double wolf turn on beam. Still getting timers on vault and mostly timers on floor. Very slow-paced with only eight here.

11:44 am. Japan is supposed to be on bars but I don’t see Mai Murakami anywhere.

11:42 am. Full-in dismount from Amy just now. Carlotta’s floor music is Christina Aguilera complete with full riffing LOL I CAN’T. LOVE IT.

11:40 am. Carlotta is doing a dance-through on floor, love her music. OMG THE MOST PERFECT MUSTAFINA TURN EVERRRRRRRRRR HOLY CRAP.

Punch front pike from Gabby on beam. Amy Tinkler’s working a toe full on the low bar but keeps smacking her feet on the floor.

11:39 pm. Gabby and Maggie are going over beam on the floor podium at the moment. Lorrane Oliveira is on vault. I think Carlotta Ferlito is on floor as well. Ellie Black is also on vault. The next training rotation is starting now.

11:37 am. Aaaand that’s it for bars. I’m guessing they must’ve started training much earlier and we’re only allowed a little hour-long glimpse. Amy Tinkler is coming to bars now, along with Tabea Alt.

11:34 am. We were just allowed into the arena in time to see the U.S. on bars. Only Gabby and Maggie are here right now, and both look good so far. Martha is shouting some notes. I SPY THE RED-HEADED CHOW. Gabby’s working a Chow half!

Article by Lauren Hopkins