001 over Nastia Liukin, and in doing so won a bet with her father from the previous year. She grabbed the 2005 World all-around title by. Memmel asked her dad to start coaching her for the 2008 Olympic cycle. She broke a bone in her left foot in April 2004 and petitioned into an Olympic selection camp, but ultimately traveled to the Athens Games as an alternate. Her first international splash came in 2003, winning the world title on uneven bars at age 15. In her most recent video, Memmel trained in a mid-2000s era leotard (due to losing a bet). “I had done that hard part, so why not reward myself with flipping again? Once I started doing that, it was that much more fun, and I looked forward to working out even more because I was doing gymnastics again.” Let’s just see how it feels,” Memmel said. She called that conditioning, one year after giving birth to her second child, daughter Audrielle.īy early 2019, Memmel, also a gymnastics coach to 18 girls ages 12 to 18 and a judge at all six of Simone Biles‘ national championships, began “playing around more” with gymnastics. It all started with “Chellsie Challenge” videos - also uploaded to her YouTube channel - of gymnastics-related exercises. Once you do that, there’s a certain level of expectation. “That just gives it more of a commitment,” Memmel said of the video, which had 38,000 views as of Monday morning. “And the coach is going, it’s so easy, why are you not still doing this?”īy posting Friday’s video, Memmel hit a milestone in a process that began in late 2018. “The dad in me is like, she’s crazy, why are we still doing this?” he said. Memmel’s father said in a video posted June 11 that she was “95 percent in shape.” She went about seven years between doing skills on a four-foot-tall and four-inch-wide beam. If Memmel can do that, perhaps at a World Cup meet, it will be named after her, to go along with an eponymous skill she already has on floor exercise. She’s consistently working on a piked Arabian flip on the balance beam, which no woman has performed in international competition. Olympic gymnast in 60 years), but said it would be cool to get another skill named after her. Memmel isn’t yet speculating about the national championships or Olympics (in 2021, she will be older than any U.S. “We haven’t set our sights on anything specific yet, but thinking about routines and formulating plans.” “It would be fun to make it to a competition,” Memmel, a 32-year-old mother of two, said by phone Sunday. The first step toward competing for the first time in eight years would be attending a camp, though the coronavirus pandemic put the sport on pause. women’s high-performance team coordinator Tom Forster in July to discuss just that. ![]() ![]() What does that mean? Well, Memmel called U.S. “Well, I guess it’s time to admit this is a comeback,” Memmel said. “OK, anything else you want to say,” Andy asked. That’s because of what she chose to include at the end, a short conversation with her father and coach, Andy, inside M&M Gymnastics, the family’s gym in New Berlin, Wis., just outside Milwaukee. Chellsie Memmel, a 2008 Olympic gymnast who retired in 2012, documented what she titled an Adult Gymnastics Journey the last 16 weeks on YouTube, but she felt nervous about uploading last Friday’s video.
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