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Anyone know why USA gymnastics women have become THICK+CHUNKIER over the years?

they just won the team gold medal, however i'd characterize ...
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even jade carey is thicker than the usual white girl here...
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uungh nastia. she's got a slav body. shawn johnson has a thi...
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the median age of the current team is 23. plenty of short (5...
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your romanian link is dead but the answer is that gymnastics...
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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:17 AM
Author: vivacious fortuitous meteor

they just won the team gold medal, however i'd characterize 4 out of 5 as being THICK with a lot of meat on their bones, built like mini soccer players or swimmers

https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/6dfee73/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4000x2667+0+0/resize/2400x1600!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F9e%2F13%2F360d4621444793fd50a6b213c7f9%2Fwomensfinalteamleo2.jpg

by contrast, here's the romanian women's gymnastics team that won gold in 2000. they fit the mold for women's gymnastics body types for as long as i remember.

https://wagymnastics.fandom.com/wiki/Category:2000_Romanian_Olympic_Gold_Medal_Team

going far back in time, you'll notice the female gymnasts, whether romanian or russian or chinese or american, to be rail thin and prepubescent looking, delicate and dainty. one might reasonably conclude that this was the optimal body type for gymnastics.

something seems to have changed in the mid 2010's, whereby darker, swarthier, more robust body types have begun to dominate in women gymnastics, where previously this wasn't thought possible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912870)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:18 AM
Author: diverse sanctuary boiling water

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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:19 AM
Author: Lime property

BC+SSRI cocktail

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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:40 AM
Author: self-centered death wish sound barrier



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:19 AM
Author: Peach Nubile Station Haunted Graveyard

roids, plus superior blacks who didnt do the white sport of gymnastics diminate any white sport they do. jade carey the only white girl looks like a typical gymast

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912878)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:27 AM
Author: vivacious fortuitous meteor

even jade carey is thicker than the usual white girl

here's the 2008 olympic team (all white):

https://usgymchampionships.com/wp-content/uploads/400-3-1.jpg

sure some of them have thick, stubby legs and a rounder posterior but they look functional and carved out of muscle. jade carey's trunk looks like it has an extra 5 pounds of fat cushion that isn't used for anything sports-related.

and just out of curiosity, this was the 2008 chinese team:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gymfan/images/5/52/2008_team_final.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120525201925



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912929)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:37 AM
Author: Peach Nubile Station Haunted Graveyard

uungh nastia. she's got a slav body. shawn johnson has a thickkkkk white girl body in a jade carey way. more are built like johnson than nastia.

of course oriental girls are gonna be skinny, but us white girls have always been on the thicker side.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912978)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:20 AM
Author: hyperactive swashbuckling brethren

They also became ethnic. Since the top girl is chunky, she set the example for the rest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912886)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:21 AM
Author: Motley Menage

Need DAT AZZ to propel them into more elaborate flips and stuff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912894)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:25 AM
Author: exciting stead doctorate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912919)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:21 AM
Author: electric field hissy fit

uughnn--

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912896)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:22 AM
Author: autistic walnut therapy den

Didn’t they change the rules so that they all have to be 16+ now?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912899)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:23 AM
Author: Wonderful painfully honest potus step-uncle's house

The current model is athletically ideal, but wasn’t practical to achieve until relatively recently. It is difficult to get a naturally petite (since they need to be like 4’8”) 14-y/o girl to pack muscle onto her frame — it’s only possible at all for certain races (a chink literally can’t) and takes dedication even for those for whom it’s biologically possible (and sacrifice, since it isn’t aesthetically ideal).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912903)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:35 AM
Author: vivacious fortuitous meteor

the median age of the current team is 23. plenty of short (5'0) girls who have muscle around that age

the drift in body type happened alongside a drift in age. so the difficulty of getting muscle on a young girl is not the reason since they're not young anymore

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912972)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:46 AM
Author: Wonderful painfully honest potus step-uncle's house

They don't just show up at the Olympics a year after starting gymnastics; these girls have been performing at an elite level (with top-tier coaches, etc.) for 10-12 years at this point. Likewise, while an adolescent with nothing else to do all day but eat and train can pack on muscle more quickly than you or I can, that process also still takes years.

In other words, my point treats the rise in age and musculature as closely associated, whereas you seem to be suggesting they're... coincidental?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47913026)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:25 AM
Author: exciting stead doctorate

to do the craziest jumps and flips, they need a big muscular ass. as a result, pole vaulters have physiques that are more xo approved

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912913)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:27 AM
Author: appetizing home background story

your romanian link is dead but the answer is that gymnastics, like all sports, has been "solved" and in that process has become less interesting

this is not unique. If you looked at an NCAAF roster from 2000 and 2024 you'd be surprised at how much bigger and fitter they are today, even in what seems like a relatively short time period (it's actually a long time and you are old :))

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912933)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:33 AM
Author: vivacious fortuitous meteor

really though? does this look like an optimized "solution" to anything to you?

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7PCLx1OqA-/?hl=en&img_index=1

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912962)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:36 AM
Author: appetizing home background story

obviously yes? I don't pretend to understand anything about gymnastics or gymnastics scoring but thick thighed muscly girls can clearly propel themselves higher & faster than graceful ponytail'd twinks.

nobody prefers the aesthetics of Steph Curry's nothing but 3s model of the NBA either, but the math shows that it works

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47912974)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 10:55 AM
Author: Wonderful painfully honest potus step-uncle's house

Most obvious example (which is so close to the OP's case it seems silly to 'analogize') is the Williams sisters.

Is the silverback physique better for playing tennis than the maria sharpova physique? Of fucking course it is. Are there downsides for every other part of your life? Obviously, and multiple WTA players have said that they refrain from going to far in that direction for purely aesthetic reasons b/c they want to look like women. And bear in mind the WTA pays a far greater number of women far more, for far longer, than gymnastics (which basically gives olympians only a window of NIL opportunities in their teens and early 20s).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47913066)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 1:38 PM
Author: maize marvelous range

Oldest women's olympic team in forever. Their nickname is the Golden Girls.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47913686)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 1:39 PM
Author: Talented Disrespectful Stage Round Eye

Better SARMs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47913694)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 1:39 PM
Author: boyish bearded nowag

There used to be more of an emphasis on feminine grace in women's gymnastics. Now it's more about strength and explosive athleticism.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47913695)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 4:05 PM
Author: Mildly autistic curious faggot firefighter parlour



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47914334)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 4:02 PM
Author: Magical Translucent Indirect Expression

These poor, short trolls

I appreciate their sacrifice.

Gold or not. Doesn’t change the fact that these girls will be forever dwarfs.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47914321)



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Date: July 31st, 2024 4:02 PM
Author: Peach Nubile Station Haunted Graveyard

aly raisman is 5'2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47914324)



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Date: August 1st, 2024 5:15 AM
Author: Magical Translucent Indirect Expression

Chad Men shouldnt date women below 5’8.

The rest are for the manlets and not enough time mistresses.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47916371)



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Date: August 1st, 2024 8:53 AM
Author: exciting stead doctorate

Maybe shouldn't marry, but men short and tall all love tossable, petite women

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47916662)



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Date: August 1st, 2024 8:53 AM
Author: Peach Nubile Station Haunted Graveyard

flame. tall girls are ghastly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47916665)



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Date: August 1st, 2024 9:02 AM
Author: Light Impertinent Site

Just as female periods of menstruation cycle in time so also do their weights

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47916683)



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Date: August 1st, 2024 9:19 AM
Author: passionate drab legend deer antler

Larry Nasser used to keep them in tip top shape with his full body massages. He would leave them feeling a full release inside and out.

They've lost access to his magic hands.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5567461&forum_id=2#47916717)