29 thoughts on “The World Championships Master Team List”

1. This is why Romanian gymnasts who had tons of potential last quad including Munteanu, Stanila, Iridon, Zarzu, etc.. wanted to give up… this bs where RGF basically tells them that larisa and cata are guaranteed spots months ahead of the competition, while they have to work very hard with no guarantee of a spot until right before the competotion. Even in the states where they had a god who decided to shape shift into biles last quad, they still made everybody including her fight for spots until the very end. Until Romania realizes that they can’t constantly demoralize their second and third tier gymnasts which make up like 50-60% of world/Olympic teams for them this quad, (because everybody knows including the gymnasts themselves that lari and cata are guaranteed to be on every major team) and still expect gcreat results, they will fail. Oh yeah and because bars are an event.

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   • To be fair, just looking at this years European results justifies the spots for Catalina and Larisa. They are the two best gymnasts in Romania right now, no country is not going to send their best gymnasts.
     And, no way was Simone not going to the Olympics, whatever happened at Trials.

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     • I see both of your points and agree with them. There’s literally no one who can contend with those two at the moment so they’re obvious choices…but at the same time it does suck to be an up-and-coming gymnast and constantly have it in your head that those two are going to get all the spots no matter what. At some point it’s a mind game kinda thing…like with the U.S. in 2016, everyone knows Simone is going, everyone knows Aly and Gabby are probably going, and yet girls who had no chance kept competing at a really high level because in their minds, anything could happen. MyKayla Skinner was not going to make that team for several reasons, no matter how well she did, but no one ever told her that, and so she trains and competes like she’s going to win the Olympic all-around. Plenty of U.S. gymnasts have gotten last-minute team spots for worlds and other meets when gymnasts who earn spots or who are likely for spots get injured, so there’s always that thought in mind like, okay, maybe I’m not a #1 choice, but it could still happen! Whereas in Romania, there’s very little hope and it gives many of the girls who COULD one day be really great athletes no motivation to keep training at a high level.

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       • It was also announced that besides these girls (Catalina, Larisa and Ioana), Maria Holbura and Carmen Ghiciuc are fighting for the fourth position in the team, giving the other girls no chance to fight for a spot. 😦

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       • Also, while there was basically zero doubt of Simone going to the Olympics, she still had to compete at nationals and trials and at least pretend to fight for her spot. She wasn’t officially named to any teams months in advance of the competition, like Lari and Cata have been multiple times.

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       • Yeah, in the U.S. it’s like, even though Martha clearly knew who she was going to put on that Olympic team like, months in advance, she still makes everyone go through the motions. It PROBABLY doesn’t matter how they end up competing at nationals and trials. They’ll most likely still be put on the team. But even though Martha knows her team, they keep it from the press and from the gymnasts because they don’t want to make everyone else feel like they’re training for nothing. If the U.S. staff said after Jesolo and American Cup and those early season meets “we’re sending Simone, Aly, Gabby, Laurie, and Madison for SURE,” there would be zero reason for anyone else to keep training. It was pretty clear to me that Madison would get the bars spot over Ashton, and yet Ashton was literally at the same level as Madison and they were sooooo close, it could’ve gone either way and if Madison got injured/couldn’t compete, they could’ve replaced her with someone literally just as good. But if they said months earlier that the spot belonged to Madison, it would’ve made Ashton not fight as hard, which decreases the depth and makes it harder to find suitable replacement athletes. So there is definitely that aspect to it where like, it’s pretty obvious Cata and Lari will be the ones going to literally every major meet…but the way the federation talks about them as basically goddesses while everyone else is ignored or crapped on, that definitely hurts. Especially after worlds in 2014 where they were nonstop like “omg this team sucked, we hate everyone, we need Catalina to come back to save us from this garbage fire of a team”…and then they’re like oh why did everyone on that team retire almost immediately? Hahaha.

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       • Romania at least could’ve done what Russia has been doing for years. We all knew that Larisa and Catalina were going regardless of what the other girls did. But even in Russia they say “these are the four that we think are going to go, but it can change depending on how those on the outside perform relative to the ones on the current team”. That basically gives them room to prepare the ones that are most likely going to go while still not sweeping the ones off the team to the side. I’m not saying that Russia’s strategy is perfect (like how they named their entire Olympic team in December of 2015), the way the US does it is way better, but anything is better than being like “alright, you 15 will fight for one spot, since the first 3 have been predetermined, and will not change.” In Rio they literally said that the spot was going to Larisa or Catalina, regardless of how the others performed. It’s one thing to say “yeah so and so are most likely going to go” and a whole other thing to say “yeah, you have no chance those two will go no matter what you do”.

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       • I guess we should thank Valentina for shuffling the teams a ton. This keeps every one in top form, because they could lose their spot after a bad meet.

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       • Regarding how RGF was trashing all the other girls but lari in 2014, I’d always heard of that happening and know it did but are there any articles where they say all of that terrible stuff? I would love to read/look at what they said to those poor girls ;( no wonder they all quit. 4th isn’t even that bad! Somebody in the big 4 had to be 4th! Like they improved by 3 places in that final, can’t Romania just be happy with its undeserved overachieving success from that year?! Smh

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2. Concerning Russia, Valentina revealed the team by phone today, just before the Russian Cup … One million twists can happen. For example : if Melnikova falls 4 times and Kapitonova just once … In the same interview, she says that Spiridonova is still an option (for ub and bb) if she hits at the Universiades.

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3. North Korea isn’t going? Hong Un-Jong would almost surely medal again this year!

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   • They’re not on the sign-up but neither was Cuba and they’re going so we’ll see!

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4. Rebeca and Thais confirmed. Hopefully, Flavinha will recover in time.

   http://globoesporte.globo.com/ginastica-artistica/noticia/com-zanetti-selecao-brasileira-e-convocada-para-o-mundial-de-montreal.ghtml

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5. Yay Giulia’s back!

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6. Georgia and North Korea aren’t going?

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   • They didn’t submit so I’m guessing no.

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     • ☹️☹️☹️

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8. What happened to Marie Skammelsen?

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   • She retired in August. 😦 Decided to focus on dance instead of gymnastics.

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9. Isn’t it Mariana Pitrez de Carvalho from Portugal, I only mention it because you already have a page for her in the gymnast database but it’s not linked

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   • yup! sorry, probably just forgot to link.

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10. About the Portuguese girls, I can confirm Mariana Marianito and Filipa Martins are definitely going because they’ve confirmed it on their Instagram pages. However, I have yet to see an official post by the Portuguese Federation and have heard nothing from Pitrez

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    • Thank you!

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11. GB has been confirmed- same as nominative

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12. Any idea when the US will announce the actual team?

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    • Tonight! 🙂

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13. Is there any information if North Korea is just not sending a gymnast, or if they don’t have one/any currently training?

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    • They’re not sending anyone.

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