when do we find out who is on the olympic london 2012 team?

[amberdezi]

how long before the gymnasts find out who is on the olympic team? a year? a few months? i have no idea...

 

[gymnastgets10]

Presuming you're asking about the US, there will be Olympic Trials in 2012, probably in late June, and the top 2 all-arounders will automatically qualify for the Olympic Team (unless it has changed...). Then the top 12? (maybe 16?) and some event specialists will go to a selection camp and the team will be anounced a few weeks after Trials. How do other countries select their Olympic teams?

 

[staceyb]

About a month before the Olympics.

 

[gymjoy]

Presuming you're asking about the US, there will be Olympic Trials in 2012, probably in late June, and the top 2 all-arounders will automatically qualify for the Olympic Team (unless it has changed...). Then the top 12? (maybe 16?) and some event specialists will go to a selection camp and the team will be anounced a few weeks after Trials. How do other countries select their Olympic teams?

While that is what happened last Olympics, it will be different for 2012.
Trials is scheduled for June 28-July1 2012 in San Jose, CA only 4 weeks before Olympics. Therefore, the team will be named at or just after trials because of the deadline to submit teams to the IOC. No selection camp afterward.

 

[ZJsMom]

Really? No selection camp for 2012? That's a major departure for Martha and crew.

 

[staceyb]

Really? No selection camp for 2012? That's a major departure for Martha and crew.

No but I'm guessing there will still be a verification camp to prove their fitness and readyness before they leave just so Marta can try and break somemore bodies.

 

[Pickle's Mom]

So, who do people here think will make the team? I know it's 2 years off and plenty will change between now and then, but what are your best guesses?

 

[staceyb]

Weiber, Bross, Ross, Sloan, Raisman.

 

[katemoss1]

If they dont get ingured: Weiber, Bross, Raisman

and I reeeaaly hope : Nastia and Shawn

 

[Deleted member D3987]

No but I'm guessing there will still be a verification camp to prove their fitness and readyness before they leave just so Marta can try and break somemore bodies.

not fair.

 

[Deleted member D3987]

So, who do people here think will make the team? I know it's 2 years off and plenty will change between now and then, but what are your best guesses?

way to soon...

 

[staceyb]

not fair.

?............

 

[Deleted member D3987]

No but I'm guessing there will still be a verification camp to prove their fitness and readyness before they leave just so Marta can try and break somemore bodies.

your reference to marta is unfair.

 

[slkbeambabe07]

No but I'm guessing there will still be a verification camp to prove their fitness and readyness before they leave just so Marta can try and break somemore bodies.

marta and bela are two of the best things to happen to the US gymnastics program.

 

[bookworm]

I don't think Ross will be old enough.

I wouldn't venture a guess at who would be on the 2012 team as two years out is a pretty long time to either get injured or broken and with the pace she keeps these girls at, no one is a shoe in.

 

[bookworm]

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your reference to marta is unfair.

I don't think the reference is totally unfounded though....while Marta and Bela have been "good" for USA gymnastics , they are total extremists in their training...sometimes more isn't better just because it is more...

 

[Blazing15]

Not sure who I think will make it. But I do know that Shawn is trying again and that there is another girl at Chow's named Keeley McNeer who Chow is also trying to get to the Olympics. Two girls at the same gym. Wow gonna be hard. Having two girls from the same gym competing to go the olympics. Not very likely that they both will make it if at all even one of them. But I do hope that one of them makes it. I know that Keeley is going to the Visa Championships. Not sure if Shawn is going or not. Haven't heard.

 

[bookworm]

I don't see McNeer making the cut for the Olympic team in 2012...she's just not far enough along yet..

 

[staceyb]

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your reference to marta is unfair.

Why? Marta over trains the girls before big competitions, she had Shayla train AA when she should have been focusing on bars, she has needless amounts of camps and sends girls off to competitions that don't need it and ignores the ones she doesn't like or she doesn't want to lose face by not winning.

What is good about that?

 

[staceyb]

I don't think Ross will be old enough.

I wouldn't venture a guess at who would be on the 2012 team as two years out is a pretty long time to either get injured or broken and with the pace she keeps these girls at, no one is a shoe in.

Ross will be 16 in 2012, she is only just elligable.