Sui Lu’s new beam routine is jam packed with skills and combos. She and Deng Linlin are doing record level difficult routines at Wild Rose Invitational that maximizes at around 6.8. Ideally one should not look this good at this time in the year. Remember what happened to Jiang Yuyuan last year (together with the two Ksenias, Mattie Larson, among some others)? But if Sui and Deng’s consistency and shape withholds, the two will make Worlds and Asian Games team no problem.

By the way, you wonder why China sent an A team to an invitational in the middle of Canada? Here is your answer: Famous MAG chief coach Huang Yubing’s (aka the coach always getting lifted over in MAG team finals) wife lives in Alberta, or somewhere near in Canada, and he’s using this meet as a business getaway to visit his family. Also shocking news: the guy hasn’t seen his wife or his 23 year old son for six years. What kind of Communism is this?