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Jubilo Iwata 3 : 3 Avispa Fukuoka

There were a couple of surprises in the Avispa starting line-up as Oh Chang Hyon and Takeda came in to make their first starts of the season, with Takeda also making his debut for the club.

The inclusion of Takeda was one which I had hoped for as we were always going to need some more tenacity in midfield against an Iwata squad who have international quality all over the pitch and although aging, probably best squad in the division.
Oh Chang Hyon was a total surprise, but one I could understand as he is a little stronger in defence than Mishima, but didn’t really look up to speed for match fitness and wasn’t going to get much rest playing against a team like Iwata.

We conceded within the first 5 minutes with a goal which looked like it must be off-side. A cross came in from the right and picked out Yamazaki unmarked about 4m ahead of the defensive line who finished with his head easily.
The huge frustration of Japanese football coverage being that they won’t really show off-side decisions properly meant it is impossible to see if it was a valid goal, but watching the replay it seemed that if anyone was playing him on it was Oh who was a couple of seconds behind his team-mates; pretty unacceptable for a right-back to be behind his central pair.

Avispa were not playing well.
I know that we don’t have a great team, but I want us to at least force other teams to have to play and build attacks against us. If they are able to do so then we have to hold our hands up and say they were better, but in the first 20 minutes here we kept giving the ball away again and again in our own half.
Jubilo weren’t having to press or tackle to get the ball back and attack, we would just pass it to them. The worst offender in this regard was Tsutsumi who needs to get his passing and concentration sorted out.

This was the first game I’ve not watched at the stadium this season and was close to reaching for the TV remote control after 21 minutes when the referee again looked like he wanted to spoil the game.
A fairly innocuous looking cross came in again from the right which Maeda moved to go for but went shoulder-to shoulder with Lee and went down. Lee didn’t change his run, lift his arms, move towards the player, or anything else to warrant any sort of foul.
To be fair to Maeda he didn’t appeal for a penalty, but the referee made the bizarre decision to give one. It was one of the craziest decisions I’ve seen at a match in any country, perhaps only beaten by the late goal from JEF against us away last season.

Maeda and Matsui did rock-paper-scissors to see who would take it and Maeda scored. I have no idea what is going on at a club where players think that is an appropriate thing to be doing to choose who takes a penalty, especially a club who missed one and lost just 3 weeks earlier.

Having gone 2-0 down Avispa started playing. Takeda had been so far behind the pace of the game for the first 25 minutes, but slowly started to catch up and have a bigger impact on making the game a bit scrappier.
We won a corenr from a decent shot by Mishima and Lee showed that he is going to be a threat from them this season with a well-taken glancing header across goal to pull one goal back.

We were doing a little better, but it was quite clear that things needed to be changed up at half-time and Pusnik wasn’t scared to do so. I’m usually dead against half-time substitutions, and definitely double substitutions, but a gaol down and with quality goal-scorers on the bench it was the right thing to do here.
I don’t really know what to make of Park. Against Kyoto he was a rock and looked like our most important player for this season. In the last 2 games he just hasn’t been doing what is needed of him, and Takeda was correct to stay on having developed into the game after a poor first 25 minutes.

He continued to get better in the 2nd half and hit his second long range effort which was tipped over well by the keeper. On his ability to break from his defensive position and shoot alone he has done enough to play next game in my opinion.

Ishizu and Hirai were looking more threatening going forward than what we had had in the first half and linked up well for an equalising goal.
Takeda passed forward to Hirai who headed down to Jogo and continued his run to be picked out in the right wing position with a retun ball. Crossing into Ishizu on the edge of the box he still had a lot to do but got past his defender and slid the ball under the keeper to score.

Avispa were now on top and Iwata were worried into a set of quick substitutions. They could have then been down to 10 men after an awful tackle by Ferdinando. Coming in late on Abe he put his foot over the ball and just below Abe’s knee. He stayed down for a while, but was lucky to not get really badly injured. I was waiting to see if it would be yellow or maybe red for the Brazilian, but the terrible referee didn’t even give a foul.

He did at leat get one decision right when a loose ball put a Jubilo player running free at goal but Lee made up for ‘giving away’ the earlier penalty by putting in a good saving tackle which the stadium called for another penalty but on the replay could clearly be seen to have got the ball.

Avispa were on top but then gave the ball away again as Takeda played a ball to no-one and allowed Jubilo to run on goal with the defence out of position. They still had work to do and as Yamada put a cross in from the right he somehow managed to pick out the 170cm substitute striker with our 2 centre-backs each side of him not even challenging for the ball.
Maeda was bleeding from somewhere by this point, but the referee continued his total lack of knowledge of the rules of the game by allowing him to stay on the pitch with blood running down the back of his shirt. It certainly seemed to be a referee who was in awe of being on the pitch with a player at one-time the best striker in the J-League.

At that point I expected Avispa to crumble. They did well to come back from 2-0 down but to then go behind again with 7 minutes to play would be psychologically tough.
The Avispa team this year look a little stronger mentally however and did come back to take a share of the points.

Again it was a goal of redemption as the player who gave away the third stepped up to score from a free-kick. Having been brought down on the edge of the area Hirai shaped to take a free-kick which was probably ‘too close’ to score from.
In fact just a bluff Takeda came in to shoot low under a wall he has guessed were going to jump. It was a clever goal from a player who seems to be quite intelligent on the pitch. If he can use that intelligence in the anchor position which needs someone who understands the game then he could take over from Park in the position I still think is the key for us this season.

Posted March 22, 2014 by avispafukuoka in Match Reports


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Google and Amazon are already embracing drone technology as a way to offer fast and efficient deliveries to clients with testing underway. Rumours have it that Apple may also be researching drones as a possible delivery option in the future.

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Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

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Please note, this post has been updated by replacing the Azure PowerShell examples with recently published Azure SQL VM CLI.

Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) for SQL Server allows you to use on-premises licenses to run SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines. If you have Software Assurance, you can use AHB when deploying a new SQL VM or activate SQL Server AHB for an existing SQL VM with a pay as you go (PAYG) license. Bring your own license (BYOL) SQL Images on Azure Marketplace should be used to implement SQL Server AHB when deploying a new SQL VM. However, if you already have a SQL VM with a PAYG license, activating AHB currently requires re-deploying the VM with BYOL SQL image.

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az provider register --namespace Microsoft.SqlVirtualMachine --subscription <subscription name>

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If you have not set SqlServerLicenseType property while creating SqlVirtualMachine resource, then the SqlServerLicenseType will be set as “PAYG” by default. At any time, you can update the SqlServerLicenseType property as “AHUB” to activate SQL Server AHB if you have Software Assurance with the following Azure SQL VM Update CLI command:

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If you have recently created your SQL VM through Azure Portal or if you updated any SQL Configuration for an existing SQL VM through Azure Portal then your SQL VM is already registered with SQL VM RP. In this case, you should only run the Azure SQL VM Update CLI command to update the license type from PAYG to AHUB. If the original VM was created from PAYG SQL Server image on Azure Marketplace, then you can update the license type to AHUB and back to PAYG any time without any limitation. If the original VM is not created from a PAYG SQL Server image but SQL Server was self-installed or deployed from a BYOL SQL Server image, then you cannot convert the license type to PAYG.

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Billing for an Azure resource is generated by multiplying the per-second cost of each resource with the used seconds in an hour. The SQL Server license cost will be removed from the bill of the VM resource immediately after the SQL Server license type is updated as “AHUB.” You can verify the changes in the daily Azure bill. To deactivate SQL Server AHB, simply run the same update command by setting SQL Server License type as PAYG. The per-second SQL Server license cost will be added to the VM bill immediately after the new command is executed.

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Learn how to use Azure Cosmos DB with the MongoDB .NET API in a fully MVVM-enabled Xamarin.Forms application!

This quick start demonstrates the following concepts:

  • How to create and configure an Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB database account
  • How to use a Xamarin.Forms app with the MongoDB .NET SDK to connect to the Azure Cosmos DB with MongoDB API database.
  • How to structure a Xamarin.Forms app with the MVVM pattern
  • How to insert, update, and delete records from the Xamarin.Forms app into the Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB database
  • How to read and query records from the Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB database within a Xamarin.Forms app

The Overview

We're going to build a simple todo app using the Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB API. Azure Cosmos DB is a multi-model database - that means it supports several different types of underlying database APIs, like MongoDB or Graph API or SQL. In this quick start you're going to learn how to use the MongoDB API within the context of a Xamarin.Forms mobile app. You'll see both how to access the database to read and write data and also how to architect an app using the MVVM design pattern.

You will need the following in order to run the quick start.

  • An active Azure subscription (get a free one here!)
  • Visual Studio with the Mobile Development Workload installed (or Visual Studio for Mac)

Creating an Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB Database Account

Follow the instructions found in the documentation here to create an Azure Cosmos DB account using the MongoDB API.

Xamarin.Forms app

Solution Structure

  • TaskList.Core => This project contains all of the shared code including the Xamarin.Forms UI pages, view models, and database services.
  • TaskList.Droid => This project contains the necessary platform code to run the Android app.
  • TaskList.iOS => This project contains the necessary platform code to run the iOS app.

Shared Code Structure

The following files are shared across the iOS and Android projects and are where all of the app logic reside.

  • Helpers/APIKeys.cs
    • You must update the connection string within the TaskList.Core/Helpers/APIKeys.cs file before you run the app. See this page for instructions on how to do so.
  • Models/MyTask.cs => This file represents the document to be stored in the MongoDB.
  • Pages/SearchTaskListPage.xaml => UI for searching tasks based on date
  • Pages/TaskDetailPage.xaml => UI for entering task details and saving
  • Pages/TaskListPage.xaml => UI for viewing a list of tasks.
  • Services/MongoService.cs => this contains all data access code.
  • ViewModels/BaseViewModel.cs => provides common functionality for the rest of the view models
  • ViewModels/SearchTaskViewModel.cs => view model for SearchTaskListPage.xaml, providing search app logic
  • ViewModels/TaskDetailViewModel.cs => view model for TaskDetailPage.xaml, providing individual task view and save app logic
  • ViewModels/TaskListViewModel.cs => view model for TaskListPage.xaml, providing app logic to list all tasks

This app employs the MVVM pattern. Each page located in the Pages directory is responsible for displaying data and collecting user interaction. Each of those pages also has exactly one corresponding view model. That view model is reponsible for interacting with any services and providing app logic used to display data, handle user the user events, and save the data. Databinding and commanding is used to pass data and events between the pages and view models.

There is also a data service class. This class is shared across the view models and is responsible for interacting with the Azure CosmosDB with MongoDB API.

Interacting with Azure CosmosDB with MongoDB API

Please see this documentation which reviews the code in-depth of how this app interacts with the Azure Cosmos DB.


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29 Dec

One year ago today, I started injections in preparation for our Frozen Embryo Transfer. Today, I am writing this as one of those embryos is now a 17 week old baby girl snuggling me while she naps. I went into the transfer so afraid of what the results would be, so afraid of more loss. And there was loss. We started with 2 babies and ended up with 1. But there is no way to explain how much healing has taken place in me as a result of being Amor’s mama.

All the loss leading up to the birth of my daughter will never be forgotten, but the grief is so much different now. I am not consumed by sadness and longing. I am not afraid to face the future and questioning God’s plan. I am not childless.

Along the road to become parents, I often said that if God would just reveal His plan to me, I would be ok with it. I just needed to know how long I would be waiting for a baby and how that baby would come.

When Amor was born, Arturo and I had been married 5 1/2 years. I realize now, if someone had told me how hard our journey would be, I never would have married him. I would have been too afraid to face the struggle and endure the pain. Amor’s birth has taught me so much about trusting God’s perfect plan.

Being Angel’s mama has taught me so much about how to be a mother to Amor. I am not a perfect mom by any means. But I am 100% more patient and grateful than I ever would have been without loss. My life is forever marked by loss and I am ok with that because I know it has a purpose.

There have been some obvious adjustments in our family but there is one I wasn’t prepared for. I am the type of wife that a lot of my friends tell me I am too good to my husband. I love to take care of him. It gives me so much pleasure to do everything I can for him. But, as I have been sleep deprived and taking care of a tiny human who can’t do for herself, I have not been able to give as much to Arturo. I grieved this for a few weeks until I realized that he is never going to complain about me being a mom to our daughter. I married so well y’all. I really did.

I don’t know what our future holds for more children. I do know that God has promised I will be mother to many. But, just as I didn’t know what the journey held in the 5 1/2 years we waited for Amor, I don’t know what the future holds beyond this point. When I look at Amor and think that she may be the only biological child we have, it does make me a little sad.

Before my embryo transfer last January, I said that if we didn’t have 2 frozen embryos already, I would be done. I would not do another round of IVF. Since Amor has been born, I have been trying to figure out the best way to rob a bank or armored car so we can afford to do IVF again in the future. Literally, before she was even 24 hours old, I was having these thoughts. Holding her in my arms made IVF worth it.

You may have noticed the title of this post, “the end.” I know this isn’t the end of our story, but it feels like an end to this blog. In the same way I didn’t know what these last 5 1/2 years of marriage would look like, I also had no idea what this blog would become when I started it 4 1/2 years ago. I started it for two reasons.

One, it was the easiest way for me to communicate with people about Angel’s life. I had so many concerned family and friends and this way, I could update everyone at once and I didn’t have to face anyone while I did it. I can’t tell you how many times I sobbed as I pounded on my keyboard and I could do this in privacy and didn’t have to overwhelm anyone with my emotions.

Which brings me to the second reason I started this blog. Writing is extremely therapeutic for me. I knew it would be the best way for me to process my emotions and find some healing.

What I didn’t know when I started this blog, is how Angel’s life would touch so many people. I didn’t know that I would make so many new friends, people who have encouraged me and prayed for us since the beginning of our story with Angel. I didn’t know Angel’s life would continue to impact people even now.

Just last week, I received communication from a friend who told me that when she was up at 3 am trying to get her baby to sleep, she remembered a post I wrote about longing to hold my baby and it helped her to appreciate the time with hers. Her message was a great reminder for me as I am now dealing with a baby who doesn’t want to sleep at night. I never got these moments with Angel and it can be easy to get frustrated when I am so tired. But I want to instead feel grateful as I know these moments will be gone will too soon.

So, thank you all for following our journey and loving us through it. We can never thank you enough.

5 Responses to “the end”

  1. RJ December 29, 2016 at 7:51 pm #

    She is beautiful! Thank you for sharing your journey. I wish you all the best in life.

  2. Rita Brossart January 26, 2017 at 12:01 am #

    Your baby doll is adorable!

  3. Laura Beth Boilek March 3, 2017 at 3:12 pm #

    Hello I just want to tell you congratulations on your beautiful healthy baby and thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your journey of love, loss and faith with us, you have no idea how much I needed to hear your words, your faith and your courage. I just lost my baby at 21 weeks a fews days ago to the exact same condition. I am so blessed to have a healthy 5 year old son Mason already and my husband and I were so lucky to be able to easily get pregnant this time in October. I have never miscarried or had an abortion before. Before I continue I want to mention a very important side note: I have been a labor and delivery nurse for 12 years and am also the bereavement coordinator at my hospital for those that loose their baby so I have been on the other side of this tragedy many many times and right now I feel as if if trapped in this horrible nightmare. Not only do I wonder what I did to cause my baby to have Sirenomelia or mermaid syndrome but was I not compassionate enough? Was it because I didn’t pray enough? Did I not care for these mothers and babies enough? So everything during this pregnancy was going great, our 7 week ultrasound was perfect, I went to the doctor for my prenatal appointments and heard the heartbeat, I even had the luck to listen with my Doppler to my baby’s heart beat while on break at work. I finally started to feel lots of movements at night for over a week and was making a list with my husband of baby names. Our son was so excited to be a big brother too, he talked about it at preschool all the time with his teachers and little friends. He knew the baby was due to come in the summer right around the 4th of July.
    So on February 28th my husband and I with little Mason went to my scheduled level 2 ultrasound ( this was because of me being 35 so I am considered advanced maternal age and this was taking place instead of having a regular ultrasound). All we could think about was my sons reaction when he found out if it was a little sister or brother, he wanted a brother so badly and said he would cry if it was a girl). As soon as the ultrasound started the tech was acting strange, I really am not great at knowing what I’m looking for in an ultrasound, I just wanted to know the baby was healthy and I kept asking the tech and she would just say it was so difficult to see anything. Finally she asked my husband and son to step out and I asked her to be honest and was there something wrong, she looked at me and said there was no fluid. I immediately knew what that meant, my baby could not develop or grow properly without amniotic fluid and since I was only 21 weeks this was really really bad. The perinatologist came in and scanned me while tears where running down my cheeks and then he called my husband in and asked the staff if they would watch my son. I didn’t want to hear what he was going to say. I knew it was bad. I knew I was going to lose my baby. I knew I would have to deliver the baby. I wanted to leave right then. He sat us down and said I’m sorry I have bad news, there is no fluid and it doesn’t seem like your baby has any kidneys. I was hysterical. He talked a lot more and offered us DNA tests, chromosome tests right there and then but I just wanted to leave. I immediately called my OB doctor since I work with him I have his personal number and left him a message. He called me right back after speaking with the high risk doctor and told me what I already knew. My beautiful baby would not survive outside the womb and he is worried if I don’t deliver soon that I could become septic and go into DIC. I told him I wanted to talk to my mom and husband. My poor little son kept saying why are you crying mommy? Why were those people mean? What was I to say to him? What was my mom going to say? I have 9 brothers and sisters! I have 12 nieces and nephews and we are a very very Catholic and religious family. Would my mom understand why I needed to deliver now knowing that I was going to induce the labor and the baby wouldn’t survive? I have to pause here and tell you that I admire how much stronger you are than me, I could not have carried my baby any further knowing the outcome wasn’t going to change. I would like to stop here because my son is crying for me and I don’t even know if anyone will be reading this and I am just sobbing. Please contact me if you are able too.

    • babyangelb March 3, 2017 at 10:42 pm #

      I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your precious baby. There is no harder loss in my opinion than the loss of a baby. The loss of your baby will live with you forever, but overtime, the intense pain will lessen. This is so recent for you! Give yourself time to grieve and be patient with yourself as you heal. Thank you for reaching out to me. I don’t encounter a lot of moms who have had a baby with the same condition. It is very rare. Please contact me any time you need to! My email is if you prefer to send me a more private message.

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Things Are Happening – June 14, 2019

A. US junior worlds team

Following competition today at the national team camp, the junior worlds team for the US has been named—Skye Blakely, Kayla Di Cello, and Sydney Barros, with Konnor McClain as the traveling alternate.

We even got scores. SCORES YOU GUYS!

So, they went purely by all-around results to decide the team and alternate, which will appease the fairness police but is not my preferred strategy for team selection—it’s safe, but isn’t necessarily the peak scoring team or the best option for event medals at what is very much an event-final focused meet. For instance, based on these results the top-scoring team for a 3-3-2 format would be Blakely, DiCello, and Alipio because Alipio scored that huge 14.400 on beam.

The big surprise here, however, is Konnor McClain missing out on a team spot by four tenths and instead going as an alternate. From the scores, it looks like a miss on beam and potentially some struggles on floor. McClain was on the nominative roster and favored along with Di Cello going in because of her results at Jesolo and would have been on the team with a hit here. We’re also missing Olivia Greaves, who was on the nominative roster as well and would have been in the mix but didn’t get the bars score here that she would have needed to make her argument.

If they all repeat what they did here at trials in the actual team competition, Blakely and Di Cello’s scores would count on every event for a total of 112.25. That’s a strong number, very competitive with what Russia’s team can score, though with presumably some domestic bounce in this case. If you look at those huge E scores that Blakely received en route to her magnificent 56.500, we’re probably not going to see gymnasts get those kinds of numbers in Gyor.

Russia looks like it will have the difficulty advantage over the US, so it may just come down to whether Russia does a Russia all over the place on the first day or not. And with Listunova on floor, Gerasimova on beam, and Urazova on bars (if they all end up competing), Russia’s probably coming in with the pre-meet title favorite on those three events.

B. National team camp

The seniors are also present at camp this weekend, and those interested in a spot on the Pan Am Games team competed on Friday along with the juniors as part of their selection process. We’ll know who made the training squad of eight for that Pan Ams team following American Classic on the 22nd.

The entire senior national team is in attendance (though not necessarily all trying to verify for Pan Ams) with the exception of Ragan Smith, whose internet stalkers have confirmed that she’s changed plans and is looking to start at Oklahoma for the upcoming season rather than pushing for 2020. Because we were all thinking, “Oklahoma isn’t good enough right now and really needs Ragan Smith.”

Previously, by my unofficial count, I had Oklahoma short one scholarship gymnast for the 2020 season, so it seems like they were preparing for this. Or at least leaving open the possibility. Who’s excited to waste a lot of energy over the next six months speculating about whether Smith is going to be an NCAA star or elite-burnout victim? I know I am!

As we previously knew, MyKayla Skinner is attending this camp as a non-national-team invitee. There was some question about her not being on the roster for American Classic, but since Skinner hasn’t competed elite in quite a while, she doesn’t have a qualifying score and therefore didn’t meet the roster criteria. She did get a special invitation to this camp, however, which will give her an opportunity to get an elite score again.

C. FIT Challenge

Last weekend’s Flanders Challenge brought some good news for a few national teams in need of exactly that. I mean, the Romanian juniors won the junior team title. It is a new dawn. (Also, the Romanian seniors finished 11th on bars. It is the same dawn.)

Before this meet, I had been a little worried about the Netherlands. Lately we’ve seen Sanne Wevers and Celine van Gerner sort of in and out and out again (van Gerner has had to withdraw from European Games because she’s not fully back yet), but here, Naomi Visser won the all-around title with 54.533 and hit a tremendous bars routine for 14.100, and Lieke Wevers made a triumphant return to all-around competition with 52.198. Her best scores came on vault and bars in the 13s, but obviously I’m just here for the floor.

If the Netherlands can keep Visser and Lieke Wevers on this track, and have Thorsdottir and van Gerner ready along with the usual gang, then I’m 1000% on board.

Australia had Georgia Godwin and Emma Nedov place 3rd and 4th in the all-around competition, which was a positive result especially because Godwin didn’t have the floor she wanted at this competition, splashing out of bounds on her double front both days. With floor usually Godwin’s big point-getter, it’s important when she can place well in the all-around without leaning on that number.

I don’t think a lot has changed for Australia overall, but Emily Whitehead put up a solid performance here to place 7th AA. She wasn’t in the top-scoring group of five in terms of peak scores at nationals, so this result definitely helps her argument to be that “I’ll lead off, and you can count my score on every event if needed” gymnast come world championships.

The headline news for Belgium was the upgrade to Nina’s bars, where she has added a Downie to her routine and reorganized some other composition, currently ditching the Bhardwaj in favor of a Pak to Van Leeuwen combination. That second change is a wash because she loses 2 tenths from changing the Bhardwaj to the Pak (1 tenth in skill value, 1 tenth in CV out of the Stalder Shap) but gains those 2 tenths back in CV for the Pak to Van Leeuwen combination. But, adding the Downie does give her an additional 2 tenths in D over last year’s routine, bringing her up to 6.7.

Also significant for Belgium was the performance of new senior Fien Enghels, who piked Stalder-ed the crap out of this routine for 14.200 (the feet, I know, but still), establishing herself as a compelling challenger to disrupt the traditional Belgian five. Enghels will be part of the European Games team for a chance to continue proving that.

Isabela Onyshko also placed 6th here with bars and beam scores that, while not up to the level of her scores from Canadian Nationals—they were never going to be—should keep her in the mix as a “you can go up on bars in TF” possible team selection.

D. NCAA news

In NCAA news, Bailie Key officially announced her retirement, which had seemed only inevitable based on the last two years of injuries and being unable to compete for Alabama. We’ll always have that one beam routine where she scored 8.475. Which is the saddest sentence I’ve ever heard.

There has been a lot of criticism of Alabama for giving scholarships to injured former elites—this was also the line against UCLA about 5 years ago, and then they started winning so it was fine—but honestly, it was Bailie Key. Nearly every program would take that shot if presented, and if it doesn’t work out, then it doesn’t work out.

Also, official word has finally come that Suzey Suze is stepping down as Georgia’s volunteer assistant and retiring for the second time—although she told the team this information at nationals and obviously it got out within 13 seconds because there’s no such thing as a secret in NCAA.

It’s the right move. It’s time for this to be Courtney’s program and not Suzanne and Courtney’s program. (That whole drama this season involving Georgia Elite that I couldn’t possibly be less interested in really exacerbated that “whose program even is this?” dynamic.) For all of Suzanne’s protestations that she’s just an assistant and Courtney is the head coach and people are misrepresenting the dynamic…I mean, come on. You’re Suzanne. You’re automatically in charge of every room you walk into, even a closet. It was never going to be any other way. We see who the gymnasts turn to for validation immediately following their routines, and it isn’t Courtney.

But I’m sure going to miss having Suzanne on the floor…again. I mean, who’s going to deliver our bedazzled stilettos and honest background facial expressions now?

E. Championship meets

The headline news from Brazilian Nationals was the ACL injury to Rebeca Andrade—that she still managed to score a 13.767 for that floor routine where she injured her ACL has to be some kind of a record—but some other gymnastics also happened. Thais Fidelis won the all-around title by less than a tenth over Flavia Saraiva and only two tenths over Jade Barbosa, with Lorraine Oliveira in 4th (but also won the bars title), so the healthy four is very much still the four.

In other developments, 2005-baby Ana Luiza Lima won the floor title with a 14.100 and a Dos Santos, so…hello you.

In France, MDJDS won the all-around title by a billion millions with Lorette Charpy in 2nd and Claire Pontlevoy in 3rd. Juliette Bossu competed only bars, winning that event, and Coline Devillard won vault. Marine Boyer didn’t compete but is not expected to be out long. So in all, the French five (MDJDS, Charpy, Boyer, Bossu, Devillard) doesn’t appear to have changed.

This weekend is going to be a little slow, but with American Classic, Asian Championships, European Games, and junior worlds all still coming up this month, we have some busy times in our future.

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  1. The French team is gonna have a hard time picking their 4 come Tokyo. MDJDS & Lorette Charpy are locks, as is Marine Boyer. You’d also want Coline Devillard’s Rudi because it’s so valuable and reliable, but you’d also not want to have to count Boyer’s bars when you’ve got Juliette Bossu who can outscore by 2 points. If Coline and Juliette can merge into some sort of Brittany Rogers-esque vault/bars specialist that would be ideal.

    1. I think a lot of teams are going to have similar dilemmas. Even Russia will have that dilemma. Teams with strong 3 and 4 event athletes are going to be at a big advantage. So assuming Japan gets through this year’s worlds without Mai Murakami and the selection process doesn’t kick her (or someone just as essential) out, they could be at a big advantage in Tokyo because their gymnasts tend to be good AAers. As evidenced by only using three gymnasts in TF last year.

  2. yep, jr worlds will be very interesting.. could this be a forshadow of a more competitive competition of the post simone world?

    1. I definitely think so. I already think Simone has hard carried the US to their ridiculous victory margins in TFs, and this quad even more so. Last year’s margin was more a product of every team having mistakes (and wafer thin depth, cough Russia and China and Japan cough) than any of the non-Simone American scores. I do still think the US will be the favourite to win TFs next quad, but because of depth and consistency. Which is a merit in itself, of course.

      1. But in Russia’s case, for example, if those current juniors were to stay intact as seniors, they could eventually take on the Americans next quad and challenge their golds. But half of them won’t and the other half will fall the entire time, probably.

        The other nations absolutely have as much talent as the US and sometimes even more, is what I am saying. They just don’t use it as nearly as well as the US have learned to use in the last ten years. The presence of Simone has given the US team a glow of “they just perform at an entirely different level”, but other than Simone they don’t really. They are very good, but without Simone, not unreachable.

      2. I just ran the numbers for Doha and replaced Simone scores with Ragan’s from world trials and the US still beats Russia by 6+ points. Simone is amazing but she’s not the reason the US is winning by such large margins. She contributes but o completely disagree about her hard carrying the team. The US is dominant with out without her. The rest of the world is still really weak.

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    2. MMM, I, for one, am not really convinced. I think this is definitely an abnormally strong set of Russian juniors, and, likewise, I think that this set of American juniors is one of the weakest of recent memory (at least in terms of depth). Just look at last year’s juniors and the year before that one, too. I do think that Russia’s juniors have a good shot at winning, but, … can they hit?
      I agree that Simone inflates their margins by a wild amount, but I think their consistency and their depth are too much for anyone else to touch. The USA hasn’t fallen in a TF since 2010, and they’re pretty much a factory churning out stars right now. Russia seems to have improved their consistency, but all it takes is one Melnikova 2017 type gymnast who is on a team because of potential to send the Russian house of cards to the ground.

      1. Yeah, if the margin of difference in TFs has been due to mistakes by Russia and China and ‚wafer thin‘ depth on these other teams, Simone‘s absence won’t make much of a difference. Unfortunately. 2012 was way more fun when there were actual threats for the gold medal.

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      2. Yes, but that was with a plethora of falls and Mistakes from Russia. They had a mess-anar from Paseka, a mediocre bars set from Grishi, wobblers from Musty and Komo, and two falls on floor from Grishi and Afan.

      3. While the USA hasn’t had an actual fall in TF since 2010, as far as I can recall, Biles had a problematic BB in TF in Doha. She had two major balance breaks and put her hands down on her front pike to keep her from falling off the beam. If she hadn’t put her hands down she would have fallen. The errors equated a fall. She scored in the 7s for that set and I count that as a missed set.

    1. They got disinvited because some of the gymnasts also cheered for Sami Durante at a UGA-LSU meet. Durante is an alum of Georgia Elite, so of course they did, but Suzanne et al viewed this as disloyal.

      1. Thank you! No social media so I’m always out of the loop.

        My god that’s petty. I question a club gym having such a tight relationship with a NCAA program because it invites so many recruiting violations and conflicts of interest and pressure on the athletes. But this is a clear and direct power move and it’s also beyond inappropriate. Good on Georgia Elite for calling UGA out.

    2. Iirc, it was something about coaches/parents associated with Georgia Elite cheering for Sami Durante- who spent her club career at Georgia Elite and was supposed to attend UGeorgia before her mom was fired as coach-competing for LSU and then ensuing social media drama on the end of UGeorgia’s coaching staff basically calling them out and saying they shouldn’t root for another teams gymnast, and GE firing back and saying that they will always support their own, no matter where they are.

  3. Can Ragan or anyone around her make a smart decision for once? She is constantly in a boot. If she’s done with elite, why would they have her go to Oklahoma right away? If I were her I would have gotten surgery as soon as possible, and then still defer for a year to let the ankle recover. I feel like going nonstop from elite to NCAA is just asking for her to burnout.

    1. I don’t know. Maybe she doesn’t want to put off college any longer. KJ doesn’t seem to be one to push an athlete beyond where her body will take her, so I imagine that if she needs rest, she’ll get it.

      1. I agree about KJ. She has more than shown aptitude for pacing & resting gymnasts on her team, even if they’re stars! Evidenced by resting Maggie from AA almost the entire season, for a minor injury, & many other examples that I’m too tired to come up with right now, haha…

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        Ragan may be limited to bars and beam as a freshman (like Maggie as a junior until Regionals/Nationals) and despite bars being her weak even throughout elite, KJ will craft a simplified routine and have Ragan compete in the anchor spot after Maggie so OU will go back-to-back with 10s at multiple meets. The gymternet will then debate whether Ragan’s routine is too easy for her and complain that such a simple routine shouldn’t be beating out ones where the gymnasts put up lots of difficulty.

    2. I think going to Oklahoma and getting off the elite train IS the smart decision. We don’t know what else she is doing – who knows, maybe she is having surgery (many NCAA athletes do in the off season) but in any event, she won’t be training elite hours or nearly the level of difficulty she was in elite. That alone is a good decision.

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  4. also, for someone whose dream it was to make an olympic team (proper), i imagine it would be heartbreaking to sit around and recover for a full year while your peers prepare for olympic trials. going to college and getting a change of pace seems like a good way to allow her to start over and build her life after elite.

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  5. Alabama does take broken elites hoping it works out for them… but the medical retirements of Ernst and Key seem to validate UF cutting ties with them….for the record, I think it was handled terribly and when you sign former National team members who’ve endured years of elite training , injuries are to be expected and you roll the dice. I guess Rowland exercised her prerogative to not follow through on the verbal and time proved her right , in that injuries would take their toll and Ernst at least would not be able to contribute to UF.

    I’m hoping Foberg doesn’t meet this same fate down the road… she was an over trained successful elite but the injury bug has bitten at UF…

    1. ???? Ernst did contribute to UF – just bean routines, but Rowland didn’t break the verbal commitment with her or anything. She told her to medically retire when Ernst wasn’t ready to – that was her reason for leaving Florida (and IMO I think that’s kind of shitty, though understandable given that a coach’s job is to win). I guess you mean Key then? We don’t have any evidence that Rowland let Key go, do we? Just rumors that Bama used Ernst‘s signing to convince Key to come to Bama.

      1. Didn’t UF want Ernst to medically retire so they had the extra scholarship so Foberg could enter college and compete a year early… Pretty sure the two are connected.

        Ernst wasn’t happy with the way UF let her go/treated her and she and Key are BFFs so I imagine that’s the reason Key decided not to follow through on her verbal to UF and instead follow her friend to Alabama. Key never signed anything with UF so she had the freedom to change her mind. I don’t think UF had anything to do with it – and I doubt they’d bother saying if they still wanted her or not. Emily Gaskins is another former UF verbal who switched to Alabama, though I imagine she realized she would likely compete more AA chances with the Tide then she would with the Elite-deep UF.

      2. Yes, Ernst did beam at UF but as you say, when told to medically retire, she felt she wasn’t ready… but UF wasn’t going to continue to fund her as 1 of 12, so she’d have to stay on her own nickel and hope to compete as UF wanted Foberg a year early….I think Ernst was just a victim of the Texas Dreams mega training/multiple injuries that never get a chance to heal that you see with a lot of their athletes. Key too…it seemed she was a great elite, peaked , got injured, and never recovered enough to be viable for NCAA…quite sad actually given her talent.

        ….enter Alabama who thought Ernst had a chance to return to compete and offered her a spot on that team. She and Key are BFFs and apparently the scenario at UF didn’t sit well with the Keys so she switched to Alabama as well…and, if they’d both stayed healthy, was going to be a tremendous coup for Bama..but instead, both are done with the sport due to injuries.

      3. I can’t remember…did Bama have to rescind any verbals or scholarships to make room for Ernst/Key, or did the math all sort of work out? Because I agree it was a gamble absolutely worth taking assuming Bama didn’t have to cut anyone else loose.

  6. From the outside I’m surprised that Key’s injuries were so bad – during her career I had the impression that she was being paced reasonably and rested when she was in pain. I was definitely not alone in this – at the time, she was held up as an example of responsible coaching, including by some people who are now claiming that Texas Dreams is an example of what not to do (hindsight is 20/20 I guess?).

    Key skipped her last year of junior nationals, ostensibly because her coaches were being cautious about injury and overuse, and didn’t need to re-win a meet that she had already won. The skills she threw as a junior never seemed beyond her capabilities – if anything, Key had usually good form and landing control and she almost never missed in competition. She showed a few training videos of harder skills that she wasn’t competing yet. There weren’t signs that she was peaking too soon.

    I do agree that Texas Dreams needs to take a hard look at its program because they’ve had two very strong elites fail to recover from their injuries, to the extent that they couldn’t compete in college (Ernst and Key). And as people have pointed out some of the technique on their tumbling is poor and makes it hard for gymnasts to adjust to added height and weight as they grow up. But I’m also tired of all the armchair analysts claiming that TD is such an injury factory when all gyms have gymnasts who get too injured to compete elite. I saw someone try to blame Baker’s senior-season Achilles tear on her elite coaches.

    1. I think you’re right. Its easy to blame coaches for injuries, but this is gymnastics. This sport is very demanding and unfortunately not everyone has a body that will carry through the years of intense training this sport requires. It’s unfortunate really that so many talented and hardworking junior gymnasts will deal with injuries that prevent them from obtaining success past a certain age. It can be the coaches, but it isnt always that. Thanks for providing your inside to that side of the story!

      1. Bailey Key had a pretty significant back injury that kept her from Jr. Nationals and defending her title. (I believe Foberg won that year.) I think it was 2014 as Key was a senior in 2015.

  7. I think a lot of TD’s problems are the result of having good-but-not-Simone elites in the right place at the right time. It would be natural for someone like Bailie Key or Ragan Smith to feel pressure to push through and make a team, especially since it might be their one shot. Also TD has a huge elite team, so statistically it makes sense that they seem to have more than their fair share of injuries and burnouts.

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