McKayla Maroney: U.S. Olympic Medal Hopeful Profile - Yahoo! Sports
Just stumbled across this article on Yahoo. I don't know whether to laugh or scream. Soooo many mistakes!
"Height/weight: 5'2"/160 lbs"
Um, really? 160 pounds? I don't think so.
"Her difficult vault (called the Amanar) is competed by very few gymnasts in the world"
Well, I don't know about other countries (I mostly just follow gymnastics in the US) but this is now the United States of Amanars!
"While vault is clearly a strength for her, she is also a strong competitor on the other three events"
Well, I don't know about you, but I certainly don't want to see her up there swinging bars in team finals!
"[Her beam routine] was clearly noticed by Marta Karolyi and evident in her decision to include Maroney on the team"
I thought Marta took her because of vault and floor? She can be put on beam in an emergency, but we already have Jordyn, Gabby, Aly, and Kyla.
Career highlights: Does becoming the WORLD CHAMPION on vault not qualify as a career highlight???
I've probably missed a few and/or gotten some of my above facts wrong. But oh well, good enough to show how people pretend to know about gymnastics but really don't. The sad thing is, there are a lot of articles like this, written by people who don't understand gymnastics. Especially in the newspaper. I can't even read about gymnastics in the newspaper anymore, as it ends up with me yelling at it.
Just stumbled across this article on Yahoo. I don't know whether to laugh or scream. Soooo many mistakes!
"Height/weight: 5'2"/160 lbs"
Um, really? 160 pounds? I don't think so.
"Her difficult vault (called the Amanar) is competed by very few gymnasts in the world"
Well, I don't know about other countries (I mostly just follow gymnastics in the US) but this is now the United States of Amanars!
"While vault is clearly a strength for her, she is also a strong competitor on the other three events"
Well, I don't know about you, but I certainly don't want to see her up there swinging bars in team finals!
"[Her beam routine] was clearly noticed by Marta Karolyi and evident in her decision to include Maroney on the team"
I thought Marta took her because of vault and floor? She can be put on beam in an emergency, but we already have Jordyn, Gabby, Aly, and Kyla.
Career highlights: Does becoming the WORLD CHAMPION on vault not qualify as a career highlight???
I've probably missed a few and/or gotten some of my above facts wrong. But oh well, good enough to show how people pretend to know about gymnastics but really don't. The sad thing is, there are a lot of articles like this, written by people who don't understand gymnastics. Especially in the newspaper. I can't even read about gymnastics in the newspaper anymore, as it ends up with me yelling at it.
