2012 London Olympics

Corinne: While it may seem to us (fans) that Nastia's failure to commit to the training camp is an indication that she may not be that serious in her comeback... On the contrary, she has been training in her own gym for the last 6 months. However, her efforts in mastering a new bars routine has been complicated by shoulder problems, small tears in the labrum and rotator cuff. This pain associated with the injury was bad enough to take her off the uneven bars for about a month. This explains why she did not attend the training camps, because she was at that time unable to verify 2 events. Nevertheless, she has now regained all of her skills and has a bars SV close to a 7.0... Moreover, similar to Chellsie Memmel, who declined the invitation at the recent training camp... their aging bodies may not tolerate the rigors at camp whilst recovering from an injury!. I guess at this point, let's just give her and Shawn the benefit of the doubt! Let's wait for them to debut their routine and then pass judgment thereafter!

Nastia has grown so much since she first started being the female face of USA gymnastics. So is so calm and confident in her interviewing skills.. she's matured very much. I wish her the best this weekend and excited to see what she has to offer.

Nastia can't tumble? She has an EF medal on floor from the Olympics! Lol Get your facts straight. Nastia is very strong on bars, beam, & floor.

She's a famewhore, and I don't think anyone said she couldn't make the team, but many of us don't want to see her on it. Also, grace and elegance, while they make for good pictures and nice viewing, aren't the only important parts of gymnastics. Sure, she can pose and leap and make her skills look good (except for any variation of a double front, in which case hers are disgusting). But she can't tumble or vault the way that far better gymnasts can, and some of them can even do bars and beam almost as well or as well as she can. Maybe not bars, but definitely beam. Also she is NOT that great of a dancer, again, she poses, and as someone who was both a real dancer and a gymnast myself, there are far better gymnasts out there who can actually dance and not just move from pose to pose. Gymnastics is about being well-rounded too, and she is not that. Anyway I just don't want to see her on the team because I find her incredibly obnoxious and I would rather see people who don't take advantage of their country's win at a world championship to make their comeback announcement. Also, she should NEVER have been on that world selection committee either, and knowing that she was training or considering it she should have recused herself from the process immediately. I'd just so much rather see Alicia, Chellsie, and/or even Shawn be put on the team representing the veterans. and given that Aly, Jordyn, and Gabby all seem like they will make it if they stay healthy and keep makng improvements, I say Chellsie (or any other AA/3 event'er that can do bars) takes that last bars spot, especially since she's an all-arounder and we need all-arounders on a 5-3-3 format. Then Nastia isn't needed. That's the only advantage she brings to the team. I just don't appreciate her sense of entitlement and her famewhoring. I think she's done very well being on the outside looking in, and should just stick to that from now on.

All things aside, I'd be shocked if she made the team.

I just wonder how she will handle nerves when she gets back into competition. Having been so long since she last competed I imagine there would be some no matter how good of competition form you are back in. I also remember watching her at 2009 Nationals (?) and she looked a little shaky, hesistant and unsure. I say kudos if you can bring the diva out without any sort of prep, but I wonder if she'll be surprised to find herself not immediately in fighting mode at her first meet back and a little intimidated without a lot of time before the "big show" to get those nerves of steel back.

No one is saying that not liking her is senseless. That's your own personal feelings about her. Trying to veil your dislike for her as a reason for not wanting her on the team by saying, "[her] time was four years ago" or " [she] already had [her] chance" is not a very cogent case. On what basis was her only time four years ago? Sure, she already had a chance but now she has another chance, no? If you don't like someone, then you don't like someone and no one can argue with that. But to try to disguise you not wanting them on the team because of your dislike of them is a baseless reason that is senseless.

how is the opinion that we don't want Nastia on the team senseless? She's a famewhore. That's not senseless. My opinion makes a lot of sense & other people agree. off. If she makes it on the team she's on the team, I'm still allowed to say that I don't want it to happen, & that isn't senseless.

Arguments can consist of opinions. Opinions can also be senseless.

Just want to say kudos to the interviewer! Great, open questions, had them ready, professional. Do more! You're really good at it. :)

I think my pet chimp should be Governor of my state. Humans have had their time. Time to let another primate run this state. #SenselessArgument

I'm sick of this argument about "people having their time." That's such a weak and senseless argument. It's time for whoever helps makes the best team. If Nastia is a crucial part of making the best team then she should be on it. If she isn't, then she shouldn't.

america has so much talent ... I think the veterans (nastia, shawn, Memmel, Sacramone) have already had their chance. they should make room for younger ones. nastia not stand not to the news of the moment from tokyo.