So I know that this is now my personal blog, and I have my separate gymnastics blog, but I just wanted to blog about this so I can remember this crazy day by the next Olympics. WAG Qualifications were yesterday .. Sunday, July 29th, and I was determined to see each and every Subdivision (there were 5) show both on Live streaming as well as on NBC coverage on TV.
So I got up around 10am Saturday. I watched the MAG Qualifications via Live Extra and freaked out with people on Twitter and got ready for work. I planned to work until around 9, then come home and go to bed right away, since the first Subdivision (3 Mixed Groups and Brazil) started live at 3:30am. Well, as it turned out I was too excited to sleep. I decided to watch every meet of 2012 leading up to Trials (since there are no vids of Trials online) starting with American Cup and ending with Visas. Around midnight I started getting really tired so I decided to nap for 3 hours. I got up at 3 to make sure everything with Live Extra was working right. The first Subdivision was exciting for me because I love seeing the athletes who compete for the countries who don't have teams (Visiliki Millousi, Ana Sophia Gomez, Dorina Boczogo, etc) but can still get into the AA or EFs. Also with the 3 Mixed Groups was team Brazil. There was only about 20 minutes between Sub 1 and 2, so I didn't nap. Sub 2 was 2 more Mixed Groups along with teams Italy and Austrailia. I love Lauren Mitchell and Vanessa Ferrari and I forgot to mention -- Brazil's leos were GORGEOUS and I loved Italy's too! Between Sub 2 and 3 (USA's sub) there was a good 2 hours so I was able to nap. Obviously the USA's night ended with a huge shock .. I planned on napping between Sub 3 & 4 but it was just impossible, I was on Twitter and it was like exploding!! Sub 4 was Russia, China, Germany, and another Mixed Group. Obviously USA and my girls from the team are my #1 favorites but I love Aliya Mustafina of Russia .. I've loved her since 2010 Worlds .. she is such a little diva and she was so adorable on camera Sunday oh my goshh. Komova is starting to grow on me however, I don't like the remarks she's made towards the US. There was another 2 hours between Sub 4 and 5 but at that point I wasn't really tired anymore. Sub 5 I paid least attention to. It was Romania and Japan and two Mixed Groups. I watched the Romanians routine feed, because I do like Ponor and Iorchade. At this point I was scrambling around Twitter and the net like crazy trying to figure out what scores would bump Americans out of EFs and freaking out. LOL.
Sub 5 ended around 4:30 and between that and the 6:00 start coverage of Prime Time I started working on the blog post for my gym blog, and tweeted. I was seriously so irritated that it didn't start until 8:00 .. I don't watch swimming, diving, or really any other Olympic sport and don't follow any of the athletes so I don't really pay attention to that. Around 7:00 I started FB chatting with one of my friends from Twitter who hadn't watched live that morning and I was just like BURSTING trying to keep in what happened. After the women's coverage ended around 10:00pm we kept chatting until around 12-12:30, and at that point Qualifications was re-aired again and we were up til 3am watching it .. her for the 2nd time, me for the 3rd time. By the time I went to bed I'd been up for 41 hours with 5 hours of naps.
It was seriously the most fun experience and I loved it. Gymnastics is one of my passions and I love sharing it with people. At different points during the day my mom, sister, sister's boyfriend, best friend, best friend's sister, and my other friend from work texted me asking me questions they had about different things, the girls, scoring, etc. I missed the Men's TF live today because I was sleeping but I can't wait to watch tonight and also for the remaining Women's events this week. I'm sure this is an Olympic tradition that I will continue for many years to come :)
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