Women US Champs - WAG

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Champs are this weekend! Use this thread to chat all things WAG at Champs! So excited!

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[iola]

I'm not from the US. Can somebody please explain to me why there are only 24 senior and 19 junior female competitors, but 54 and 39 male competitors.
Thats kind of unfair.
I think like in every other country there are also much more girls doing gymnastics than boys. That's really weird.

 

[Coach Kate]

I think there are more women than men from last year's cycle who are taking time off, and there were also a lot of significant injuries for the women last year and many of them aren't back yet.

It's also an individual worlds this year and then men have two more events than women, so there are more specialists. I think there are 3-5 pommel horse specialists alone! While it's very rare to have women doing only one event, it's becoming fairly regular for the men.