Training videos have surfaced and what we have seen is that Gabi Douglas has some serious improvement to show for herself. Her bars routine is fabulous, the releases are so high I gasped both times. Her form is clean and she did not waver in her beam routine. Her double turn with leg at horizontal was just beautiful.
So, those that have read something in this blog know that I have my reservations about Weiber and Raisman. I think they are powerful and good gymnasts, but the flexed feet, bad turns and ugly choreography just do not sit well with me.
As Douglas is working on her floor routine in the training video, we can see all the players--Geddert, Raisman, Weiber, Brestyan--and they look worried! Well, I would be worried too. Douglas not only appears to have a higher difficulty score than both (25.8 versus 25.6 of the two others), but is looking very clean and confident.
Let's see how it all shakes off. Here are the videos:
