Interview with Chellsie Memmel and Alicia Sacramone at the 2023 Core Classic
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2023
- USA Gymnastics high performance technical lead, Chellsie Memmel, and strategy lead, Alicia Sacramone Quinn, discuss Simone Biles' comeback, what they're looking for during the 2023 U.S. Core Classic competition, and their thoughts on the petition process for athletes to make future camps and the Worlds team if they're not able to compete or get the scores required.
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I have ZERO doubt, Chellsie being in her role had an impact on Simine returning. Chellsie's KIND, CARING, and SENSIBLE approach - putting athletes wellbeing FIRST, in all aspects of the word - is EXACTLY what USAG needed.
They sound so much more knowledgeable than (recent) past leadership. Breath of fresh air.
I'm so glad these two amazing gymnasts are coaching now!
I love these ladies so much, seeing them playing such an important role on improving the environment for the girls makes me so happy. And they are clearly doing a wonderful job.
I'm glad to see these veteran gymnast supporting the new and aspirant Olympians.
I don't know why that lady felt the need to "correct" ASQ and Chellsie, but I love that Chellsie didn't back down yet stayed respectful.
I'm sorry, but who is that on the right jumping in and "managing" the whole situation? Sacramone and Memmel are professionals, and seem to be handling the press just fine. That gave me bad vibes, and was painfully reminiscent of previous eras with coaches and USAG "handling" athletes.
USAG have press officers who manage communications with the press, and I'm assuming this is who this woman is. But she seems to be sticking her foot in it when really it's questions Chellsie and Alicia should know the answers to and be able to answer themselves.
@@liukin95 She had the information wrong LOL!
Who was that talking from USAG? It’s nice to see Alicia & Chellsie and the positive way they talk about the athletes.
Jill Greer.
She was really annoying to me
@@kohei8061I was yelling at my screen for her to just shoosh already.
@@keljells 😂
These two are a miraculous help for USWAG!
Apparently Alicia and Chellsie need some sort of all-knowing overlord to police their interviews. That woman was so overbearing.
😂😂😂😂
Cause we know that they would be honest about just how shit the system is
I WiLL FaCtUaLLy CoNfiRm ThAt😳😬
She was SALTY about having to answer that question. Just let Suni go to camp, dammit!
@@amarkray01 she really didn't want to hear they are five seconds away from having a situation😂
The way Chellsie gave her side eye like "You're really gonna be talking to Jessica like that?!?!......" Time to get rid of her. She made Alicia and Cellsie obviously uncomfortable. No excuse for her to not know the verbiage and treat people disrespectfully.
What's her name?
literally agree. even small stuff like this should be grounds for getting old and grumpy losers off USAG's team of people. we don't want any of that in this culture anymore and idc how small of a thing it is. this lady's comments scream that USAG isn't doing their job effectively and they're going to get defensive over it. we've seen enough of that. get her and anyone else with this attitude out lol. why wait for some bigger reason to do so. we are in an era of rebuilding and restructuring rules and culture so anyone who is hostile towards those things NEEDS to go. so annoying lol
@@turbojon8117 I think Jill Geer the, soon to be former "chief communications and marketing officer".
Lol Jessica needs to be talked to like that. lol. period.
@@DL-sl3ntIt was a valid question? Please expand?
Jessica is AWESOME. Who is that lady? How rude! (In my Stephanie Tanner voice).
The audio is very low, it's hard to hear!
The lady interrupting was so embarrassing for USAG…not a good look
Omg so unnecessary
Love that Chellsie acknowledged how fucked up the Worlds qualification process is
So, if sounds like they're saying if Gabby doesn't compete tomorrow (and she isn't), she cannot petition to Nationals or Worlds selection camp. That makes perfect sense, but also kinda sucks for Gabby if she's competition ready.
The problem I think is that it's going to be very upsetting for a LOT of people if she doesn't come back to international competition before trying for an Olympic spot, especially since I think (unless she had MAJOR upgrades), whether or not she competes AA, she would fill a similar role to what she did in Rio, which is really just Uneven Bars. And the difference between Rio 2016 and Paris 2024 is that, between Suni, Simone, Jordan, Shilese, and others- we don't have room for an UB-only specialist. She will need to be a competitive AAer (over Suni, even) at this point to merit an Olympic spot if she's not competing at a Worlds before that.
If she was competition ready, she would probably want to compete.
@@turbojon8117 I meant to say if she was competition ready for Nationals or Worlds it sucks that she can't participate in them bc she wasn't ready by Classics.
As per my understanding on Gabby’s instagram posts…
Just like Chellsie Memmel in 2021, there’s no expectations, she just wanna enjoy. And to me, I hope every gymnasts think in that way too: enjoy doing it, win or lose. Just having fun. Winning is a bonus!
Love for every athlete competing today ❤❤❤
@@nikko2434 Well, I don't think it's necessarily about expectation. I think it's more like, "let's see how far I can go." And it's GREAT that it's out of fun, but it's also hard to imagine a gymnast coming back during an Olympic year and specifically wanting to compete just for funsies unless they're also open to trying to make a team.
Like, you don't have to do national or international competition if you just want to do gymnastics for fun. I do love that Gabby says she found love for the sport, again! That's super important, and it's beautiful. I just think, if she isn't competing internationally before this time next year, there is no way at all she's making an Olympic Team. So, since she's missing Nationals & World's, they'll need to send her to a World Cup event, or she will have to have a KILLER set and place Top 3 AA for that. Even if it's not her personal expectation, everyone and their mom is already talking and dreaming about a Gabby/Simone/Suni Olympic Team.
@@nikko2434 Gabby isnt coming back to just HAVE FUN and whoop it up. Trust. She wants to be in the mix.
LOVE them 💜💜
Subtitles plz I cant hear them very well
Who is the woman interjecting? Is she White House counsel? Optics lady, optics - she sounds secretive and shady talking over the candid, relatable, likable chellsie and alicia. Excellent questioning of dumb-ass rules. Are they really gonna sideline Simone all season if she tweaks an ankle on event 1 and withdraws? Im used to sports like figure skating where you have several events over several different months to qualify score-wise for nationals or Worlds. US Gymnastics feels like you get just a couple - Winter cup in the winter or Classics in August. These youngsters don't get much practice/experience competing on podium with big crowds in big arenas. The veterans with college experience (or extensive elite experience) have a big edge in the mental game. Shout out to Jessica O'Beirne being heavily quoted in a cnn article today. Good job.
Well I’m sure that woman is tired and sore from moving the goalposts all damn day.
Any word on if Chellsie and Alicia will give kendall a solo? I know that Tianna stepped out of a vault at panams and Jill reportedly sniffed the opportunity back in pittsburg.
A solo? What are you talking about? This isn’t dance moms
@@Chels-fz5uq its a dance moms reference joke. I'm not being serious
Well, Kendall may get a solo, but only if Simone steps out of bounds. Also, I heard that Candy Apples is coming, so it's gonna be a wild show!
@@SquirtlePower809 sources claim they have a senior gymnast competing in the jr division
I looove that Jessica (gymnastics) knows more about the classification process than they do 😂
Jill Geer sounds like a lawyer. Just let Chellsie talk, she's got this.
Yeah the left hand and the right hand are not on the same page here 😂
They are doing fine!! I think it's a dynamic duo bringing so much first hand skill and judging experience! 😊
@@jojox9791I don't think they're referring to Sacramone and Memmel.
Who is that off to the side ensuring what is being said?
Ooof chellsie and Alicia can barely hold their irritation at the USAG rep in. They look like they’re being handled.
Whoever that lady was in background needs to go!!! She sounds like a bully! Geez nobody was saying anything out of line or promising anything! That lady is what is wrong with U.S.A. Gymnastics! Kaiser status!
Gabby coming in 2024 is going to throw a wrench in some dreams if she keeps looking like she is! Im psyched. Imagine 3 Olympic AA champs on one same team! DAM...
her bars are chef kiss
Keep lookin like what? has she competed?
@@DL-sl3ntnope. She has not. A few short videos have come out but nothing else. I’d say she’s keeping her progress to herself BECAUSE she doesn’t want to pressure herself too much. I’m sure she’d like to compete this year but she obviously isn’t ready or she would be regardless of the videos we’ve seen right? Love Gabby and she’s a tough one in all forms…..BUT we need solid and consistent All-Arounders and not so many specialists.
hopefully all of the politics are gone and she isn't able to steal another spot away from someone more deserved like in 2016
Is the rude lady a lawyer?
yeah idk who that rude lady was but sounds like someone's not doing their job effectively and she's getting defensive over it. looks like another person they need to rethink lol. get ALLLL the old farts out of there. we don't need any of the old culture USAG has had in recent decades bleeding over. even when its small stuff like this. ugh so annoying.
Yup. She negated the entire thing, in my opinion. I enjoy the way Alicia and Chellsie are positive, hopeful, but not the overly confident (egotistical) things we've heard in the past from others about how tenths don't matter and our B team could win gold easily and blah blah. They seem realistic and growth/health-oriented. However, they seemed muted here. Very dry and blah, and I was like what is going on...? Then when the lady butted in it all clicked. They are being "handled" from just off camera. Has USAG learned nothing?
@@nothanks0082no USAG has learned nothing because they never owned up to what they allowed to happen to begin with. Honestly….my gut says Simone put off deciding to compete again BECAUSE of USAG NOT owning up to what they allowed. She said in several interviews pre-Tokyo that she didn’t want to compete for a system that didn’t protect their athletes. It’s hard to heal from SA.
Well that was awkward…
sacramone has crazy eyes
that women WAS SO RUDE when they asked about suni, chellsie and alicia looked so awkward and uncomfortable when she was talking
Oh my that was so awkward. USAG doesn't know their own publicly available selection procedures. Luckily to two Leads do. And she kept jumping back in. EEW!
LMAO Alicia is ready to cut a b at the end of that interview!
Instead of dancing around it, Alicia should have made a public apology for inevitably her, through her loudmouth husband, announcing Simone's return before Simone could. She had a PR answer of, you could see her playing around at the gym on Instagram? Be for real. No one knew Simone was throwing DYPs again, ok? Alicia really gives off modern Marta, and I hope we see Dominique in that role one day. Chellsie, on the other hand, is always a breath of fresh air and I'm so happy she's there--she's brilliant in her position. Also Jill Geer, exit stage left please.
Wah wah wah. U feel better> Meet that quota?
DYPs?
@@mchur001 double yurchenko pikes
@@ofsaturnstar That's not what it is called, it is a Yurchenko Double Pike. Yurchenko comes first because it is the vault family and named after Natalia Yurchenko who first performed the round off entry.
I disagree. I think Alicia is phenomenal.
Still extremely shocked that Alicia is in this role. Her history towards her peers and others is not good. Unacceptable in this position. This is the problem. Certain people who had power in won't give it up to others. There is many other just as talented people for this role. Give it to them.
Alicia Sacramone is the last person in the world to preach about consistency after her Olympics performance. I understand s$#t happens but her attitude about it was always very complacent, unapologetic, and she is in no position to compare herself to Simone Biles at all.
I mean, both had major breakdowns at the Olympics when literally the entire gymterverse was watching. I think she can relate to how Simone may feel, just a bit. Both are amazing and the "reliable one". That is heavy on your soul. I think they both get a bit of leeway.
She cried at the Olympics. I don't think she was complacent of unapologetic. Maybe her Olympic performance makes her the best person to talk consistency. Also, she's a 4x world champion from four different worlds, in three different areas, two of them individual events. IIRC she was pretty important to the team at the 2007 Worlds for the team gold.
@@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628 YES YES YES. She seemed a bit scared to talk here. But she has so much experience and perspective that I hope it translates to being a good leader in USAG.
@@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628 so what ... if you cry everything is okay? ha! Everyone cries at the olympics. And she was complacent in interviews years after that when she wasn't crying. If you haven't seen it then look it up.
Complacent in interviews years later? Maybe she has just made her peace after almost 20 years. Maybe it’s time for her to move on and stop having to answer for it?
As an athlete you can be consistent and fall ALL GYMNASTS FALL. Shoot the last gymnast to beat Simone Biles in competition was Laurie Hernandez in the beam final after a Simone fall. If you don’t fall and then fall on the big stage, you’re still consistent. It’s a numbers game. Gymnasts understand that.
Alicia's fall and fall in 2008 team final 🤫. She shouldn't be in this role.
Excuse me, but what kind of comment is that? Alicia is doing an amazing job alongside Chellsie. Alicia's work in this role is unparalleled compared to what happened back in 2008.
That's actually why she's probably more suitable. She was one of the best gymnasts at her time and she understands that everybody can make mistakes, that's okay. Nobody is perfect.
And what do you know about being in her role, keyboard warrior?
@@charitybosua Her back-to-back falls proved that she can't handle the pressure, if she can't how can she help the gymnasts? The gymnasts can benefit more from someone else in this position.
@@Shane_2022 sad that you judge somebody based on 1 day of their career. She has won many many medals for her country. She had far more good competitions that she had bad competitions.