MCSMaria's Artistic Gymnastics Blog

Welcome to Power Rankings! First one of 2018. This is where I recap the most interesting parts of the week of competition and stack them against each other. This isn't real team rankings. This is ranking the newsworthy and the interesting stuff that goes on during the week. We now have two weeks of NCAA gymnastics under our belts, all the teams have shown up in competition. There was drama, tears laughter, falls and crazy scoring! I'm a total procrastinator, so I missed the first week (sorry). So this is the procrastination edition. Since I put this off for a couple of weeks, this might be short. (sorry) Let's discuss!

Utah's Sabrina Schwab and Arkansas' Amanda Wellick both went down this week with injuries and could be out for the rest of the season.

Good news from Beth Tweddle regarding her injury. Beth, world champion, Olympic Medalist and European Champion has been discharged from the hospital following her scary accident while filming the latest sports reality celebrity competition show "The Jump" in Austria.

British Olympic Bronze and World Champion, Beth Tweddle has injured her back while skiing for the British skiing reality competition.

For what seems like the umpteenth year in a row, Anastasia Grishina is injured and will miss Russian Championships. It was reported that Anastasia re-injured her knee when she under-rotated a double twisting yurchenko during training this week. She injured her knee after under-rotating a triple twist on floor during last year's Russian Championships.

In this edition of Keeping Up With The Round Lake Gymnasts, Grishy is back and Aliya is finally taking a well deserved rest from competition for a while (doctor's orders!)

While UCLA had Christine "Peng Peng" Lee, return to competition after dealing with an injury, on the east coast, Florida lost an athlete (temporarily) to an injury. Former World and NCAA all-around national champion, Bridget Sloan injured her ankle in the season opener against Ball State.

Spain's Roxana Popa will miss the next six months due to an injury she didn't know she had. An article on Marca.com released yesterday, stated Roxana, aka "Roxi" felt a pain in her knee during the Mexican Open in December and decided to get it checked out only to learn that she had torn her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in her knee. Not only did she have a torn ACL, it turns out, the injury was an old injury.

After injuring herself during today's podium training, Rachel Gowey has withdrawn from the P&G Championships.

Bailie Key will be unable to defend her national title this year since she has pulled out due to an elbow injury. Bailie, aka Miss I-win-everything-all-the-time was also absent at the Secret Classic last week due to the same injury.  Her coaches, 1991 World Champion Kim Zmeskal and her husband, Chris Burdette announced Bailie's forfeiture via the Texas Dreams website earlier today.

The gymternet nearly fainted this week when Aliya Mustafina posted a picture of her ankle in a boot on her Instagram account.

It's time to wrap the Round Lake gymnasts in bubble and maybe douse every inch of that place in bleach. It's injuries and illness galore over there.

Bad news for Anastasia Grishina. The 2012 team silver medalist and the 2013 European bronze medalist injured her knee on the floor exercise.

Sadly, German uneven bar phenom and recent Cottbus Cup gold medalist, Sophie Scheder has injured her ankle.

After a skiing accident in Utah, two-time Brazilian Olympic gymnast, Lais Souza is in critical condition.

Sadly after sitting out last season,  Christine, also known as "Peng Peng" Lee of UCLA will sit out another season due to her nagging ACL injury. Peng Peng, who tore her anterior crutiate ligament (ACL) last year and missed out on competing with her native Canada at the 2012 London Olympics. She joined the UCLA Bruins, but sat out most of the season while healing her injury. UCLA announced today via their Twitter account that Peng would again not compete for UCLA for the 2014 Gymnastics season.

The list of World Championship athletes who are injured/sick keeps getting longer. The Couch Gymnast reported that Diana Bulimar injured her left knee right before the start of the Romanian Nationals.

USA Gymnastics has announced that Madison Kocian of WOGA has withdrawn from the P&G Championships after injuring her ankle on the floor exercise.