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A lot of people are saying that Laurie has been second to Simone all year and that isn\’t true. Aly was second to Simone at Pac Rims and at Nationals. Laurie was only second to Simone once this year, at Trials. Yes Laurie is amazing but I don\’t understand why everyone is so shocked. This result was pretty obvious. The first year senior almost always gets the shortest end of the stick unfortunately.
Why is written like Aly is taking Laurie’s spot? Actually in truth Aly and Laurie have been tied for second AA all of 2016 behind Simone in the US — it’s Gabby that’s taking a spot she hasn’t earned in 2016.
Yes Gabby is good. Yes she won AA titles in 2015, but you can also point to the fact Weiber was the 2011 AA World Champ yet throughout 2012 her gymnastics were on a downward turn as Gabby rose and Aly maintained and peeked in London.
A big thank you to Gymcastic for addressing the topic of sexual abuse in gymnastics.
I just wanted to offer another opinion on the debate about whether the timing is appropriate to talk about this issue. I think that the sentiment of “let’s not ruin the olympics with this uncomfortable topic” is a position of privilege. It’s the privilege of folks who have not experienced abuse to be able to look the other way and say, “I don’t feel like addressing this now.” Victims of abuse don’t usually have this privilege–its an ever-present reality that this happened or is happening. What about the victims who had dreams of making it to the Olympics themselves, but their path was possibly derailed by the traumatic impact of sexual abuse? That story is also an Olympic story, a voice that needs to be heard.
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