The WOGA Disaster!

Before I write this I want to say that I am definitely a fan of Rebecca Bross and Nastia Liukin, WOGA' s two seniors who made it to trials this quad.

However, this quad ended in a disaster for both. Nastia started out in Terin Humphrey's current spot on Martha's selection committee. Rebecca Bross started out this quad as perhaps the most promising young gymnast in the U.S. She was winning almost every meet, and looked like a sure shot for London 2012. Nastia started a comeback in 2011 but didn't compete until the Secret Classic where she only did beam. She added bars at Nationals where she had form breaks and did single layout flyaway dismounts. Then at trials she sat down her double tuck dismount night 1, and fell on her geinger night 2. Bross tore everything in her knee at the 2011 National championships and had to stop competing vault and floor. She fell on her Patterson (double arabian) dismount all but two times during the Classics, Nationals and trials, and fell 3 times during her bar routine on night 2, stopping before she got to her dismount. Needless to say, neither girl made the Olympic team even as an alternate.

I AM SHOCKED! Not that they didn't make the team, but that something like this happened to WOGA! They just simply fell apart at the end. I can't believe Nastia went out and competed those bar routines knowing she couldn't make it through. Nothing against her but honestly how did she think she would make the team if she couldn't even do the one event she was really needed for? Why did Valeri allow this? I also can't help but wonder if some of the problems with Rebecca were caused by the fact that she was being trained by Valeri while he was also training Nastia for the exact same spot: beam and bars specialist.

I feel bad for both girls involved in this mess, but especially Bross. Nastia is already Olympic Champion and has huge endorsements; plus her family is rich from the gyms. However, Bross went pro very early in her career and now she will probably never make an Olympics. She can't do NCAA, she I am wondering what will be next for her. And her family has spent so much money and moved all the way to Texas for this.

The Rebecca and Nastia weren't the only WOGA girls having a disaster this year: the other senior Grace McLoughlin failed to even make the national team. Junior Katelyn Ohashi fell at nationals but still made the junior team. Pretty bad year for WOGA unfortunately.