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What The Board Got Right
The board also fundraised a designer purse, chocolate strawberries and a dragon leotard. GGMB found Boginskaya footage she had never seen of herself, and dug up the 1984 Friendship Games in Olomouc so the gymnasts who competed there could finally watch their own routines.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week's episode: The History of GGMB & Mini Commissions 🎧 GymCastic.com
#gymnastics #GGMB #gymnasticshistory
No Fifty-Year-Olds On My Team
“I am not bringing fifty-year-olds on my team.” Spencer's dream seven is built to win in 2028: Simone, Suni, Shilese, Skye Blakely, Jade, Leanne — and Riley McCusker, recruited by a rival country purely on the strength of the name Riley McCusker.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week's episode: The History of GGMB & Mini Commissions 🎧 GymCastic.com
@simonebiles @sunisalee @shicanfly @skyeblakely
#gymnastics #LA2028 #WAG
Do The Minimum And Get Off
You want to do the minimum and get off the apparatus. Jessica's rule for routine construction, with one exception: if you are a Katelyn Ohashi or a Manila Esposito, you get to blind the judges with your beauty instead.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week's episode: The History of GGMB & Mini Commissions 🎧 GymCastic.com
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#gymnastics #KatelynOhashi #WAG
Fixing Claire Pease's Floor
Cut a tumbling pass and gain a tenth. Spencer rebuilds Claire Pease's floor routine: drop the back one and a half to front one and a half, take the Popa, and turn the lone back two and a half into a combination pass. Higher D score, less pass pounding.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week's episode: The History of GGMB & Mini Commissions 🎧 GymCastic.com
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#gymnastics #ClairePease #WAG
The U.S. Needs To Be Riskier
Watch the people you are trying to beat. Nishiyama Misa's floor has a higher D score than Claire Pease's without a single tumbling element above a D. It is all connection bonus. Spencer's note to the U.S. program: be less conservative.
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#gymnastics #WAG #worldchampionships
A Closeted Teenager In The Midwest
“I was a closeted teenager in the Midwest.” One reader's account of what GGMB actually gave people: it taught them about gymnastics, about gay people in the real world, and about how to talk to strangers online before anyone was teaching that.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week's episode: The History of GGMB & Mini Commissions 🎧 GymCastic.com
#gymnastics #GGMB #gymternet
Suni's Stolen Head, Found With The Guns
Suni Lee's stolen bronze bust turned up in a house full of guns.
St. Paul police were investigating a report of gunfire when they found the 50-pound bust, missing for a year, sitting with the ammunition and firearms. It was near a closet of men's clothes — because someone planned to disguise it in a trench coat.
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The Gymternet Before Social Media: The Wild History of GGMB
🤸 Before social media, there was GGMB—the Gymnastics Gossip Message Board.
We revisit the influential, informative, bizarre and sometimes deeply toxic message board that helped shape the early gymternet—and GymCastic itself. Plus, we investigate the developing Rich Stenger/Cal gymnastics Instagram story, celebrate the recovery of Suni Lee’s stolen bronze bust, fix Claire Pease’s floor routine construction, and draft our dream seven-member U.S. and international Olympic teams.
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⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 – Russian Lobbying & Rich Stenger/Cal Investigation
03:45 – Suni Lee’s Stolen Head Was Found
07:30 – World Team Camp & Full Commission Raffle
12:21 – The History of GGMB
36:01 – Raffle, Live Show Replay & Roster Lab
36:48 – How We’d Fix Claire Pease’s Floor
58:21 – Our Dream 7-Member Olympic Teams
1:19:43 – Dumpster Fire News & Gymnastics Australia
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• Russian lobbying and financial flows in world gymnastics
• Developing Rich Stenger/Cal gymnastics story
• Suni Lee’s stolen bronze bust has been recovered
• World Team Camp roster
💻 GGMB: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE BARTA
What was the Gymnastics Gossip Message Board? Jessica takes Spencer through the scandals, gossip, insiders, bizarre filters, genuinely valuable gymnastics knowledge, toxicity and cult-like behavior of one of the early gymternet’s most influential communities.
We also discuss how GGMB influenced GymCastic, why the podcast initially resembled an “audio message board,” what we intentionally left behind, and why investigating a rumor is different from simply repeating one.
🧮 FIX HER ROUTINE
We put routine-construction discourse to the test by trying to build a smarter, realistically achievable floor routine for Claire Pease.
🏅 DREAM 7-MEMBER OLYMPIC TEAMS
Seven gymnasts + traveling and non-traveling alternates. Jessica and Spencer build their dream U.S. and international Olympic teams.
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Jessica brought a Produnova prayer candle to the dream team draft. Made by one of the professors who listens to the show. She would list Yelena Produnova a hundred times if she could — the greatest who ever competed, anywhere, of all time, and the most punk rock.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week`s episode: The History of GGMB & Mini Commissions 🎧 GymCastic.com
#gymnastics #Produnova #WAG
The board also fundraised a designer purse, chocolate strawberries and a dragon leotard. GGMB found Boginskaya footage she had never seen of herself, and dug up the 1984 Friendship Games in Olomouc so the gymnasts who competed there could finally watch their own routines.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week`s episode: The History of GGMB & Mini Commissions 🎧 GymCastic.com
#gymnastics #GGMB #gymnasticshistory
You want to do the minimum and get off the apparatus. Jessica`s rule for routine construction, with one exception: if you are a Katelyn Ohashi or a Manila Esposito, you get to blind the judges with your beauty instead.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week`s episode: The History of GGMB & Mini Commissions 🎧 GymCastic.com
@katelyn_ohashi @_manilaesposito_
#gymnastics #KatelynOhashi #WAG
“I am not bringing fifty-year-olds on my team.” Spencer`s dream seven is built to win in 2028: Simone, Suni, Shilese, Skye Blakely, Jade, Leanne — and Riley McCusker, recruited by a rival country purely on the strength of the name Riley McCusker.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week`s episode: The History of GGMB & Mini Commissions 🎧 GymCastic.com
@simonebiles @sunisalee @shicanfly @skyeblakely
#gymnastics #LA2028 #WAG
Cut a tumbling pass and gain a tenth. Spencer rebuilds Claire Pease`s floor routine: drop the back one and a half to front one and a half, take the Popa, and turn the lone back two and a half into a combination pass. Higher D score, less pass pounding.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week`s episode: The History of GGMB & Mini Commissions 🎧 GymCastic.com
@clairepease
#gymnastics #ClairePease #WAG
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The Produnova Prayer Candle
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Jessica brought a Produnova prayer candle to the dream team draft. Made by one of the professors who listens to the show. She would list Yelena Produnova a hundred times if she could — the greatest who ever competed, anywhere, of all time, and the most punk rock.
For the entire conversation, listen to this week's episode: The History of GGMB & Mini Commissions 🎧 GymCastic.com
#gymnastics #Produnova #WAG ...