I just had to post this, because I love me some Ishino.
Aleksas pointed me to Allyse Ishino’s floor routine from the UCLA vs. Stanford meet (I believe UCLA won, drat.)
Can I get a ”Yeah, baby!” ? (Though I could do with a little less of the faux belly-dancing.)
For UCLA’s sake, here’s Ye Olde Olympian Tasha Schwikert (gymnastics commentator extraordinaire, sans research skillz) at the same meet.
WTF! at the back of the leotards. Although Stanford’s open-backed ones were slightly worse.
And for Sappy Fluff’s sake, here’s UCLA’s Anna Li on the balance beam – the event on which her mother won a world bronze medal in 1981.
Anna’s mother Wu Jiani (CHN), in 1981:
