Chellsie Memmel - Uneven Bars - 2008 Olympic Trials - Day 2

[emily555ism]

que salida!

[deblove369]

Her routine is amazing, but she would have lost to nastia.

[livelovelaugh1012]

wait can someone explain to me what happened to Chellsie? So she made it into the 2008 bejing olympics but due to injuries she couldn't continue?

[gemclumsyninja]

@livelovelaugh1012 injury :(

[Altoclarinets]

@livelovelaugh1012 She made the Olympic team. She injured her ankle during the training IN beijing and was unable to compete anything but bars. After rehab, she showed back up last year, competed in the CoverGirl classic and probably would have medaled in the Visa Championships had she not fallen on her bar set. She made the PanAm games team for last year, but injured her shoulder and had to have surgery on it. We might see her in Olympic contention this year, but I doubt it.

[kooki85]

@Altoclarinets She's had some real bad luck. It'd be great for her to make the Olympics.

[BostonTessie]

damn! i wish i could have been there! i live 15 minutes away from the wachovia center :(

[lizziepink15]

so so solid, great job chells!

[edwardismyhomie]

she stuck on every event. floor, beam, bars, and vault, shes amazing

[Singandcheer12]

she got a 16.400 thats aweosme!

[alglmf1976]

beautiful pac



[Therosebud99]

wow!!! that was an amazing routine!!! :D

[2010amberj]

Stunning.......... Nothing more to say.

[KVHolland3]

This is such a smart routine, it is very short, but fairly difficult and gets a lot of connections. Most of the routines in EF of 2008 were like a minute long, (Liukin, Kexin, Yilin, Semenova). And then it has more difficulty then the likes of Shawn Johnson's long routine...

[jcbroadw]

I think that if Chelsie had been healthy at Beijing and hit everything in the quals, she could have beaten out Nastia for the second USA slot in the all-around. Such a shame she had such bad luck with injuries around the Olympics!

[CliqueGirlzFanAPD]

@jcbroadw I love Chells and she's amazing but she wouldn't have beaten Nastia for many reasons. Nastia's routine has more difficulty and she didn't even qualify for Bars finals.

[itsbeccaforreals]

@CliqueGirlzFanAPD She was injured. I really do believe that had chellsie been healthy she could have been a contender for the all around. Day two of trials she was ranked ahead of nastia.

[tmwalkerm]

@CliqueGirlzFanAPD she didn't compete bars, she was injured, so there's no telling how she would have done against Nastia if they had to go head to head.

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

What is her A score?

[TheHorseyGymnast]

some form breaks, but one of the BEST bar workers ive ever seen

[orangegal31]

she is so strong!! double front landing is so hard, and she actually nailed it!

[XoBekaOxGymnastoX]

i love this soo much! she is my favorite bar worker!

[LoliNana]

i have to say she is perfect, oh my god. freakin' amazing.

[benrobinson77]

wow her Hindorf is about as high as Dominique Dawes in 1996

[Tt05998]

She had the best rutine her skills where hard and precise. Plus she stuck the landing.

[mydogwearsacape]

so many double fronts nowadays, but she sticks hers from an L-grip!

[chrislindsey14]

from eagle grip

[macassar88]

They are the same thing

[dragonmaster97531]

@mydogwearsacape but what dont like about her double front is her form. She needs to stick the knees together :)

[moopoo66]

@dragonmaster97531 i know but so does nastia but what are we gonna do?

[TheCookieMonster33]

@mydogwearsacape its full eagle not L

[96horseluvr]

@mydogwearsacape as opposed to what kind of grip? you can only do a double front from an L-grip

[indorican648]

@96horseluvr Actually the majority of gymnasts perform a double front dismount from a reverse or underhand grip, which is different from an L-grip (also called an el-grip or eagle grip). Everything is more difficult in an L-grip as compared to a reverse grip. Nastia did a lot of L-grip work in her bar set.

[ilovemynickjonas92]

@Tt05998 i think that shawn was def. the best but chellsie yes landed way better but shawns was way more difficult