1. "All I have to say is, that is quite a bow." -- Tim Daggett on a gymanst's look at the Nastia Liukin Supergirl Cup
2. "Just waiting for the judges -- they're obviously making dinner plans." -- Tim Daggett at the Supergirl Cup
3. "Explanation point!" -- Tim Daggett on Jonathan Horton's double double off rings at the American Cup
4. "You see a lot of them on the guys' side, but as we all know, tattoos are also in vogue for the ladies." -- Tim Daggett on Jessica Lopez's Olympic tattoo
5. "Well, I feel like I'm at a level 5 gymnastics meet." -- Tim Daggett on Flavius Koczi's single flyaway high bar dismount at the American Cup
6. "Just a few minutes ago, he felt like he could challenge for the lead. And then he got an 11 on the parallel bars, which is the gymnastics equivalent of getting an F." -- Al Trautwig, always looking for something pedestrian to compare gymnastics to
7. "Everyone is saying wow, look at Alicia. and he's saying hold on, hold on, it's a little early to believe all of that. He told me earlier today that he thinks she's really just at the beginning of the wow. She's only at the w. The first w." -- Elfi Schlegel on Mihai Brestyan's reaction to Alicia Sacramone's return
8. "This is Briley's first year as a senior. I asked her how she felt about it and she goes, 'I feel old.'" -- Tasha Schwikert
"Wow. What does that make me?" -- Tim Daggett
9. "No, she's not spraying the judges with that water bottle, although I'm sure she's wanted to at times." -- Tim Daggett on Bridget Sloan getting ready for bars at the Pacific Rim Championships
10. Tim Daggett: "That was an amazing save there."
Tasha Schwikert: "That's what you call talent, Tim."
11. "I went in, did my two events. I didn't vomit anywhere out of nerves, so I was pretty happy about that." -- Alicia Sacramone after joining the commentator team at the CoverGirl Classic
12. Tim Daggett: "She's going to do a different style of vault than we've seen so far...it's called a Kasamatsu, actually, named after a great Japanese gymnast..."
Elfi Schlegel: "Do you think she knows that?"
Tim Daggett: "Nope!"
13. "She does a lot of whacking, doesn't she?" -- Tim Daggett on Martha Karolyi's awkward face pats
13. "I just tell 'em, I'm like a fine wine. I just get better with age." -- Alicia Sacramone
14. "That's your favorite event, right?" -- Tim Daggett to Alicia Sacramone re: bars
"It's both of our favorite events, actually. We really love it. Love doing it in practice, and Mihai loves coaching us on it." -- Alicia Sacramone on training bars with Aly Raisman
15. "And she was overwhelmed, you can see the emotion on her face." -- Terry Gannon on Rebecca Bross's reaction to receiving her floor score at the Pacific Rim Championships
16. "Everybody here is in great shape, but I'm going to have a dream tonight and in that dream I have Chris Brooks's body." -- Al Trautwig
17. "Gosh, I just want to go out there and do a cartwheel." -- Elfi Schlegel after watching Yin Alvarez react to one of Danell Leyva's routines
18. "Well you know, it's funny. They almost seem like, a little bit like an old married couple. They argue a lot and they finish each other's sentences." -- Tim Daggett on Jonathan Horton and Danell Leyva, or on Danell Leyva and Yin Alvarez
19. "Jonathan, congratulations. It was fun watching you get pushed, and fun watching you respond to getting pushed." -- Al Trautwig to Jonathan Horton
20. "It's almost medieval." -- Tim Daggett on how the Romanians don't wear handmade grips created from gauze and tape
21. "The kid from Plano Texas trying to win an all-around World Championship gold medal today, she's going to have to climb a big Russian mountain by the name of Aliya Mustafina." -- Al Trautwig
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Comments
Al needs to go. I think he's trying to be poetic, but his comments are ridiculous.
I love Alicia's fine wine comment. She's being funny, but it's so true!
The funniest of the year had to be those two idiots that did the commentary for the Youth Olympic Games online coverage who obviously did not know ANYTHING about the sport! That was a beautiful “Tuck squish”
There were too many gems said to mention...
BTW Blythe....Love your work
Nwedi -- Thank you! I really wanted to include some of the YOG commentators's remarks (they really were priceless) but have not been able to find the broadcast online to rewatch it. I have to confess, the commentators were so irritating that after about 10 minutes I turned the sound off for everything but floor, so I missed most of their "gems" about gymnastics. -- Blythe
Tim Daggett is the one that has to go! All he cares about is if a gymnast sticks their landing or if they step over the white line on a floor routine! I could literally watch a competition from 2000 while listening to a competition from 2011 and Time Daggett would be saying the exact some thing. "Oh now that, that right there is disastrous." Seriously, can't the U.S get a few new commentators and get rid of Daggett, Al and Elfi? Are they on an NBC contract until 2025 or what??
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