Trani may take a couple of days off, but she’ll be back at the gym soon, preparing for the next chapter of her gymnastics career. Though she competed in just two events Sunday, she improved her scores on both: from 14.400 to 14.650 on beam and from 14.250 to 14.350 on floor exercise. Jana Bieger, Chelsea Davis, Ivana Hong, Mattie Larson, Corrie Lothrop, Bridget Sloan and Shayla Worley will join Johnson, Liukin, Memmel, Peszek and Sacramone at the camp.Īfter Friday’s rough start, Trani said she wanted an opportunity to redeem herself – and she did. Sacramone ranked first on vault and third on floor exercise at the trials. College gymnastics, as a whole, is more plugged into pop culture, from fashion to music selection to dance routines.Karolyi also said 20-year-old Alicia Sacramone has the potential to be an indispensable member of the team. Beyond the OlympicsĪrguably, the college leotard is more receptive to fashion trends than its elite sister. Knowing the color of the mats and the trim around the podium helps McKeown and Marta Karolyi, who is currently the national team coordinator, figure out which colors will look best on the girls and pop off the mats.
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It all plays into how you feel, and how you feel affects how you perform."Īnd when it comes to designing the Olympic leotards, every detail is taken into account: the body types and skin tones of the contenders, even the color of the mats. "You don't want to look like another person. "When you think about the psyche of a teenage girl-and a lot of them are either teenagers or just into their early twenties-it's like showing up to the prom," she says. McKeown believes that all of the little details help make the gymnasts feel special. It would be quite easy for cheerleading and gymnastics to cross-pollinate, fashion-wise. Hess suggests another source for the bling invasion: "Cheerleading is just a glitter fest," she says. She pointed out that a lot of gyms have cheerleading programs in addition to competitive gymnastics teams. She also notes the increased use of mesh as another sign of figure skating's impact. "We do a lot of custom designs and we often get pictures sent into us of an ice skating costume," McKeown says. Skaters have been bedazzling their costumes long before gymnasts got ahold of bling. McKeown says the increase in sparkleage is connected to figure skating's influence on the look of the sport.
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If your six pack is ripped, it will show it." "The elite athletes don't have any 'sins' to hide so you might as well show it off," Hess says. "It's very body forming," she continues, of the compressed, iridescent materials. Shinier materials do a better job of displaying the cuts of their abs and triceps. And the high-tech, shiny fabric has the advantage of showing off the athletes' powerful bodies. This elasticity has been crucial in recent decades, as the sport has evolved to include increasingly athletic maneuvers. "The fabric of the '70s and '80s didn't quite have the same elasticity." We have more durable fabric," Hess pointed out. "The construction skills for stretch fabrics and the fabrics themselves were not nearly as close to the level they are today," McKeown says. (Left) Olga Korbut at the 1972 Olympics in Munich (Right) Gabby Douglas at the 2012 Olympics in London Getty Images Improved Technologyīut the most important change in leotard construction over the last 15 years has been the improvement in fabric technology.
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