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Uploaded by Anne From Gymnastike | September 22, 2011

USA Gymnastics hosted a teleconference call with the United States men's World Championships team and National Team Coordinator Kevin Mazeika. The men talks about their goals and expectations for Tokyo 2011. They finished 4th place in 2010 with a poor showing on pommel horse. This team is much stronger on horse and is well balanced on 6 events. The 2011 Men's World team is made up of:
Danell Leyva, Jonathan Horton, John Orozco, Steven Legendre, Jake Dalton, Alex Naddour, and the alternate is Chris Brooks.

Speakers: Kevin Mazeika, Steven Legendre , Jonathan Horton , Danell Leyva , Chris Brooks, John Orozco, Alex Naddour, Jake Dalton

Categories: Press Conference, world championships

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11 comments

Laura Mazeika 2 years ago

Are you all watching now???? USA is well prepared and ready to go!!

Anonymous Coward 2 years ago

sooo...what were u saying about china? i guess their answers werent such "BS" after all...?

Anonymous Coward 2 years ago

I think apolytonGP is a moron and doesn't know what he is talking about. Do some research before you go putting down the US mens team. They are very strong and CAN win worlds.

Ono No Komachi 2 years ago

TCO, if you bothered to watch much men's college gym, you already would know the answers to your questions #10 and #11, and probably a lot of the others as well.

The Chinese team sent to the Japan Cup was a C team., so you can't judge how China will do relative to the US from that meet..
The biggest problem the US men will have is Japan's stront team having the home gym advantage..
I'd well advise people to take a hard look at Great Britain as well.
The United States does have a shot at the Gold. Sometimes it's as important to be lucky as it is bo be good.

Anonymous Coward 2 years ago

The Chinese team is one of the weakest they have put up in years...don't get me wrong it is a very good team, but it is vulnerable. While this US team rivals our 04 team...statistically, analytically, realistically, or however u want to cut it the US team has the ability to make a solid run at it.

Anonymous Coward 2 years ago

"did u see the results from Japan Cup?"

Yeah. Something tells me that China is not going to end up behind the US at Worlds.

Anonymous Coward 2 years ago

"analysis shows it is very unlikely"...???? did u see the results from Japan Cup?

ApolytonGP 2 years ago

I listened to the version on USAG (seemed longer) and some of my questions were asked). This one is not loading again so cant see if I brain farted or Anne cut content.

ApolytonGP 2 years ago

12. Any new named skills that may emerge from the team's performance in Worlds?

ApolytonGP 2 years ago

Questions they should have asked:

1. Compared to the top teams, what events is this team strongest on, what weakest on?
2. What is the training of these athletes like in the final weeks before the competition? Do the numbers increase to hone them or decrease to rest them? Do you do a lot of simulated competition?
3. (Chris) what is the status of your ankle? What tricks are limited? Is the injury healing and getting better going into competition or is it something where you need to keep putting numbers on it until Worlds are over and then try to finish healing then?
4. (Jon) What is the status of your shoulder? Are you back to doing your full rings routine difficulty? Do you have to limit some of your training numbers?
5. Keven, will you please give us a little bit of an NFL coaches injury report on the gymnasts? Are there any others limited in their ability to practice?
6. Chris, you fell twice on your Dragulescu but seemed to have good height to do the skill. What is the path forward to perfecting that skill?
7. For the casual viewer what are a few of the very biggest skills (most difficult tricks) on the team so we can make sure to catch them.
8. Where are a few places where we have big hopes for event medals?
9. How much time will the team have to socialize and enjoy Japan before or after the meet? Planned activities?
10. Steve, youve shown some incredible FX skills, for instance the 2.5 twisting double layoyut. But youve also had to balance consistency with difficulty. How will you approach team and EF in terms of FX routine composition?
11. for the college gymnasts, how do your routines for Worlds compare to college? Do you dial up or down the difficulty? Is the scoring similar enough that you can help your team with identical routines in either college or international? Can your body take doing World's class routines every week in college season?

ApolytonGP 2 years ago

BS answers. They have this rap of saying how they are going for gold, but realistically analysis shows it is very unlikely. They need to be more honest and analytical.