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Make It or Break It - First half of Season 1 (semi-spoilery)
Does anyone watch this show? I know that it's wrapping up at the end of this season, but I just started watching it, starting with season 1. I'm mostly enjoying it (I like that the "new girl with raw talent" wasn't able to just jump in and steal the spotlight from the top competitors (at least not yet, only half way through the season), but the cortisone plot is really bugging me.
I've had cortisone shots before, and they take about 2-5 days to be fully functional, so getting a cortisone shot while you are in the middle of competing would be kind of worthless. Granted, they do inject you with some numbing meds first (usually), which would give temporary and immediate relief for a couple of hours, but all the times I've had one (three different parts of my body) I was always told to take it easy after. Now, I'm not an elite athlete, but I have to believe even elite athletes wouldn't be told they could immediately go do an instense competitive work out. I also find it hard to believe that competition rules would allow for lidocaine injections right in the middle of competition, even if they do allow for cortisone shots.
Also, there is no way you could inject cortisone into your own back! There is no way you position it correctly even if you are super flexible.
OK, I'm done ranting. 
Re: Make It or Break It - First half of Season 1 (semi-spoilery)
Gretchen Evie, born 7/8/2012 at 35w5d
If realism is your thing, you prob ought to give it up now
They're finishing out this season though, right? So maybe they can tie things up in a neat little bow ending with the Olympics? or no?
What?! I hadn't heard anything about it being cancelled and now I'm bummed! I was so rooting for Payson to go all the way and win the gold- she deserves it!
An American Girl's Travels
yeah all episodes were filmed BEFORE the network canceled it. So I don't think we'll know who wins gold
Which has me pissed, as that's what the whole series has been working towards.
my guess is they decided a final season would be too expensive, they'd have to have Olympic sets, cast gymnasts for China, Romania, Russia, etc. for them to compete against, etc.
but I wish they'd decided to cancel sooner so they could wrap it up somehow.
effing effballs
Gretchen Evie, born 7/8/2012 at 35w5d
It's cancelled?!?! I love that show! damn it
Ditto!
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LOL! For the most part I'm OK with it because I really have no idea about how the world of competitive gymnastics works, and the whole scoring and difficulty levels and what not are a complete blackhole mystery. But I do know about being injured playing sports and cortisone shots and so that whole thing was driving me batty.
Brandy Johnson did a bar routine on a broken wrist in Seoul. Dominique Moceanu competed in Atlanta on a broken leg well before it was healed since it happened less than a month before the games. She trained everything but floor and landings up until the week before the games. Kerri Strug did that vault in that one with two torn ligaments in her ankle. Most female gymnasts get one Olympics and a couple of World's in their career if they're lucky. If they don't go they miss their shot. The injuries are bad and many do routines on adrenaline during injuries. It's why they've raised the age for elite level competitors.
I've had friends train for the Olympics and they all were close enough to get into Karolyi's Gym, but knew a year or two before the games that their chances were slim and moved home for a normal life. The money and time is a lot which makes competing injured the norm in the sport for a lot of gymnasts.