GYMN-L Digest - 6 Jan 1996 to 7 Jan 1996
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Topics of the day:
1. GYMN-L Digest - 5 Jan 1996 to 6 Jan
1996
2. Olympic HOPES, not
predictions (4)
3. Gail Kachura
4.
Olympic Hopes, not predictions
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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 09:34:19
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From: ***@FREENET.BUFFALO.EDU
Subject:
Re: GYMN-L Digest - 5 Jan 1996 to 6 Jan 1996
Who wrote the message
about Gail Kachura? How did you find out
this information?
Can you keep me updatd? She's my favorite
junior......
CYA
L8R
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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 10:50:48
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From: ***@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU
Subject:
Re: Olympic HOPES, not predictions
I, too, hope Fabrichnova
will be healthy and Chutsovitina will medal, but
I
have a few little hopes outside of that:
1)I
hope Galieva makes the Russian team. She is an
absolutely wonderful
gymnast and I think she got jipped in 1992.
2)I hope
Miller and Milosovici manage to medal individually.
Both are
veterans who purposely stuck around for
1996 with the intention of winning
a gold medal.
While I don't know if that is possible, I hope they don't
end up like Boginskaya did in
1992, with only a team medal (though that
is an
honor, as well.) Both deserve more.
3)I hope
the scoring and judging will be equitable and fair as much
as possible so that we don't get this "home field
advantage" gripping
like what happened in Los
Angeles and Indy. I realize scoring can
almost
always (and almost always is) disputed, but I hope it will be
at a minimum.
4)And I hope
everyone will be healthy. No injuries keeping the best away,
and ruining Olympic dreams.
God bless, all.
(BTW,
if Zmeskal makes the team, and the picks of Miller,
Dawes, Borden,
Strug and Phelps, plus Moceanu work out, do you realize this will be the
oldest American Olympic team in a VERY long time? Average
age for that team
would be approximately (I'm not
sure on Zmeskal's age) 18.5 Barcelona was
15.8,
Seoul was 16.5 and Los Angeles was 17.5, with Kathy Johnson at 24.
You
might have to go all the way back to 1976 to have as old an Olympic
team, and it won't be just the Americans, either. Lots of
veterans this
time arround.)
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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 13:06:35
-0600
From: ***@SASKNET.SK.CA
Subject:
Re: Olympic HOPES, not predictions
>2)I
hope Miller and Milosovici manage to medal
individually. Both are
>veterans who purposely
stuck around for 1996 with the intention of winning
>a
gold medal. While I don't know if that is possible, I hope they don't
>end up like Boginskaya did in
1992, with only a team medal (though that
>is
an honor, as well.) Both deserve more.
I kind of understand what
you're trying to say here, but I'm sorry, I
just
don't think *anyone* "deserves" a medal. You can't give Shannon
Miller a gold
medal just because she's Shannon Miller.
This kind of
thinking simply milks the
already dripping udder of political judging.
What about Boginskaya and Zmeskal who have
*come back* to try for
the Olympics? I would have to think that coming back
is a bit
harder than "sticking
around." Should they have a
gold medal, too?
Also we should not base Miller's
and Milo's Olympic success on the number
of
medal(s) they receive. As always,
I'm sure Shannon's goal is to
simply nail all of
her routines. She doesn't have
control over anything
else (ie
- scores) and if there are gymnasts in Atlanta that perform
and/or score better than she does Shannon will just have to
deal with
it.
As for Milo, in MY opinion she wouldn't go into the Games with
that viewpoint.
Milo probably sees nothing else besides gold. IMHO
you're
only setting yourself up for disappointment with an attitude
like that. Milo
and Miller aren't the only gymnasts hoping to compete
in
Atlanta and not everyone can have a gold medal. If Miller and/or
Milo hit 8 for 8,
12 for 12, or 16 for 16 but don't win any medals,
can we call them "unsuccessful?" I don't think so.
I have a
feeling that the scoring in Atlanta is going to be some of
the worst ever.
There were *far* too many injustices in Sabae
and
the Olympics following the qualifier Worlds
are usually worse.
Atlanta could bring some outrageous results ... partly
because of
the current Code, partly because of the
meet being held in the
USA, partly because of the media's attitude towards
"success",
partly because of the biased
crowd, plus a few other factors.
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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:49:45
-0500
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: Olympic HOPES, not predictions
In a message dated 96-01-06
14:16:07 EST, you write:
>I have a feeling that the scoring in
Atlanta is going to be some of
>the worst
ever.
Me too. I think that
the Americans are going to be grossly overscored,
and
the Russians will be grossly underscored. To me the graceful original style
of Russsia combined with their
incredible diffulculty is much more than that
stock difficulty of most of the Americans
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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:51:17
-0500
From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Gail Kachura
Hi,
Although I didn't
write the message about Gail, I am a friend of hers and
I'll try to update
everyone when I can. She had elbow surgery on November 7,
1995. She said
that she's doing physical therapy, and light workouts in the
gym. She hopes
to be back in competition this season, because she is hoping
to qualify for Championships this year. If anyone wants an
address to write
to her, she told me to tell
everyone I know "Hi, and please write to me, I
love
to get mail"
jessica
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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 17:26:45
-0600
From: ***@VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU
Subject:
Re: Olympic Hopes, not predictions
Did I SAY that Shannon and Milo
were going to have set their goals to
win
medals??? No, I didn't. I simply said, that from what I heard, they
had decided to stick around because they wanted to win a
gold. Geesh...I
am SURE
that Shannon's main goal will be to hit.
As for "deserving"
a medal...all I meant was that with the amount of
respect
both athletes have garnered, they certainly deserve to have a medal.
PROVIDING
they do the job and deserve the scores they receive.
I really don't
mind be taken literally, but let's keep a little perspective
here. I don't think this much explanation was really nessecary.
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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 01:38:28
GMT
From: ***@IC.AC.UK
Subject:
Re: Olympic HOPES, not predictions
Dory said,
> Milo
probably sees nothing else besides gold.
IMHO
> you're only setting yourself up
for disappointment with an attitude
> like
that.
When Milo was in tears after her final AA routine at Sabae Worlds,
many thought
that she was in tears of sadness because she didn't win
the
All-Around gold after being so close yet again. But the fact was
(or at least this was what Milo said afterwards) that she was
in tears
of happiness because she didn't think she
would have a chance of
getting any AA medal, and
of course at the end of the day she won the
AA bronze,
which was more than she had hoped for.
Sherwin
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