Archives for 2015

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In the news, Uncle Tim, Lauren Hopkins, and Jessica chat about:

• Shawn Johnson talked to People magazine about her disordered eating. We applauded her for speaking her truth! We also had some corrections:
  • 6% body fat is not healthy unless you are a man or pre-pubescent female child
  • Comparing an “eating disorder” to “disordered eating” is equivalent to calling the bump on your arm “cancer” (Psychology today article). 
• MyKayla Skinner made some bad choices on social media and one of our listeners breaks down why it was upsetting for gym fans.
• Our favorite parts of the FIG’s annual post-worlds data report.
• Uncle Tim reviews Nastia’s memoir, Finding My Shine.
• Lauren tells us what makes her young-adult gymnastics trilogy different from all the other tween gymnastics books. Spoiler alert, it isn’t dumbed down. By a gym fan, for gym fans.

Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet include:

• Vidmar is leaving USA Gymnastics for a missionary posting. We have mandates, for Vidmar’s replacement, the new Chair of Board of Directors:
  • A human resources department for the national team system
  • A policy addressing conflicts of interest between USA Gymnastics and any for profit ventures (like the post-Olympic tour).
  • Hire a health manager for the national team manager’s
  • Fierce Five money should go towards promoting all of the non-artistic sports like tumbling, trampoline, acro, group, adult, rhythmic, etc.
  • Yearly Board of Directors should perform a group aerobic routine live streamed on YouTube in Aerobic unitards.
  • More education and work towards preventing abuse in gymnastics.
  • Adopt-a-country-Pay-it-Forward program to spread our wealth knowledge to developing gymnastics countries.
  • More focus on pro active public relations to address rumors and make gymnastics more professional in terms of external communication. Rather than Simone Biles being the  Olivia Pope/PR rep for USA Gymnastics on Ask.fm.
• Belu and Bitang are back again coaching the Romanians.
• Yuri Titov, former FIG president, thew professionalism aside to talk a lot of crap about Olga Korbut.
• Jessica is in love with Oréane Lechenault floor choreography. 
• What we think Aliya Mustafina’s new collar bone tattoo says.
• Was it ok for USA Gymnastics to delete Marvin Sharp from Bridget Sloan’s profile? Read more about it inNick Zaccardi’s article where Sloan talks about Sharp.
• It has to be done. Yes, it’s juvenile but we had to get it out of our systems. We present as many Marisa Dick Mount jokes as we can do in 3 minutes. You’re welcome. 
• Praise-o-Meter for Victoria Moors calling out Victoria Secret workout compared to any gymnastics workout.
• Rage-o-Meter because Jessica can’t stand it when gymnasts idolize thin, muscleless Victoria Secret models compared to gymnasts amazing, strong, muscular bodies!
• Can a gymnast be a whistleblower by publically calling out a coach for abuse? We examine the case of Margzetta Frasier.

• A Christmas miracle! Spanny Lee Tampson has recapped the Full Out movie here.
• Kenzo completed the triple-twisting double layout!
• Technique magazine free on ISSUU app has an article called Eating Disorder vs. Disordered Eating. Get it for Android or Apple. The full archive of Technique magazines can be found online here.
• Simone became a superhero.
• Gymnastics: the hardest break up of my life by University of Arizona gymnast, Shelby Edwards. 

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• 178: Eythora Thorsdottir and Coach Patrick Kiens
• 177: Stella Umeh
• The Essential Gym Nerd Gift Guide
• Classic Episode 142: They Broke Bart Conner
• 176: Worlds Wrap-Up Show
• 175: Event Finals Day 2 Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 174: Live Show – Event Finals Day 1 and MAG All-Around Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 173: Women’s All-Around Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 172: Men’s Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 171: Women’s Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 170: Women’s Qualifying Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 169: Glasgow Worlds Preview Show

Episode 178 Transcript

This week the girl who’s name we have been mispronouncing for years, the magical ethnically Icelandic sprite from the Netherlands, her Dutch majesty, the crown jewel of Holland who makes fans cry with her performance art known as gymnastics, Eythora Thorsdottir is here!  (It’s pronounced AYE-tora Thor-s-DOT-er by the way.) The Ljubljana World Cup floor champion and her coach, Patrick Kiens, who’s musical theater background and genius strategy got Eythora to beam finals in her first world championship talk about:

Eythora:

• What kind of attention the Dutch team has received since returning from Glasgow as a Rio qualified team!
• Her future career plans in the performing arts and if college gymnastics in the United States is a possibility.
• Did she notice the positive response from fans during her coming out party at European Youth Olympic Festival?
• Upgrades, Rio plans and her unique style and routine construction on beam.
• On being compared to Princess Catherine Lyons.
• Does it surprise her that fans cry during her performances?
• Training with and learning from the American team, especially Simone (who she adorably calls See-mo-nah)
• Was she surprised to make it to the World Beam final in Glasgow?
• The advice her coach, Patrick, gave her after her beam final fall.
• What she has learned from both the positive and negative experience in the sport so far.

Patrick:

• Why one size does not fit: how the Dutch program has changed, why that change was necessary with a small population and how Holland’s strategy proves that the code is for everyone.
• Lack of depth and limited gymnasts, “Everyone can stretch their knees but not everyone can do a double layout”
• Personal taste vs. artistry
• Why Simon Bile’s Amanar is artistic
• The arm swing rule at Worlds, was it enforced?
• Acting classes, smart routine construction and ballet on the beam
• We debate — can bars be artistic?!
• How college style artistry can be applied to elite gymnastics.
• Backstage shenanigan tories from his glory days on the stage.

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This is the famous choreographed march-in moment from Glasgow Worlds. 

Here is a link to the Dutch gymnastics scandal that changed the system in the Netherlands. Much like the 2000 US women’s Olympic team, their experiences changed the system and ousted a coach.
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• 168: Shannon Miller, Belarusgate, NED vs GB
• 148: Shannon Miller
• Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals
• Episode 12: Miss Val Part 2
• Episode 11: Miss Val
• Episode 15: Joan Ryan Author of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
• Episode 17: Growing Up In The Soviet Gymnastics System And Training At Round Lake
• Episode 22: Beth Tweddle
• Episode 28: Kristen Maloney
• Episode 31: Elise Ray
• Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches
• Episode 48: Kyla Ross
• 61: Katelyn Ohashi Clears The Air
• 77: Aly Raisman
• 81: Jenny Hansen
• 99: Princess Catherine Lyons and Coach Rochelle Douglas
• 101: Olivia Vivian
• 137: Lady Lisa Mason

Watch this week’s playlist filled with videos of baby Eythora to elegant, teenage Eythora and a young, hot Patrick in the background.

This week Canadian gymnastics legend, artist, Olympic all-around finalist, World vault finalist, 13-year Cirque du Soleil veteran, entrepreneur and mutli-NCAA champion, Stella Umeh tells her story. Known for her incredible power, she combined a dance background to perform floor routines that had ballerinas and jazz dance fans alike, sighing with ecstasy.  In November, Stella and her husband, Sam, (head electrician for Cirque’s Kurios show) had a tour stop in California. Jessica joined Stella and her 3-month-old daughter, Billie (cue adorable baby gurgles in the background) to discuss what she’s learned from her prolific career :

On being an atypical Canadian gymnast in her era and being labeled as difficult for standing up for herself and doing things her own way: “I work hard, I play hard. I’m responsible because I love what I’m doing, I’m not going to jeopardize it (also because I don’t want to get injured)…. I would always do the job but because I didn’t fit the mold, it looked like I was fooling around or Mickey Mousing or I wasn’t taking things seriously. But I don’t think you have to completely conform and lose yourself to take something seriously–because if you are meant to do it, and it is your passion, it’s going to be serious regardless of who you are or what you look like. You see a person’s heart and soul in what they are doing; and that is what people should be looking at.”

• Injuries and accidents:
  • Crying and developing an eye twitch every single day for a year she performed on Teeter Board in Cirque du Soleil’s Mystère because she was terrified of the apparatus.
  • Competing with a sprained neck and back.
  • Competing with labyrinthitis, a condition caused by California-specific seasonal allergies, which led to a broken bone and very scary crashes.
• College Culture Shock
  • Moving to LA immediately after the 1994 earthquake when UCLA looked like “Beirut“
  • Not finding the United States to be as multi-cultural as her home in Mississauga, near Toronto, Canada.
  • Getting booed in a college meet.
  • Her opinion of current college difficulty compared to her era in the 90’s and how the loss of compulsories effect the current skill level of incoming elite gymnasts.
• Being Different
  • Her dance foundation and wanting to be like her famous choreographer sister, Anastasia (Stacy) Umeh
  • Feeling out of place in school and in her upper middle-class gym
  • Being bullied–being chased home from elementary school by rock-throwing girls
  • Gymnastics always being the happy, safe place.
• Elite Gymnastics
  • Scoring low domestically
  • Her advice for learning a painful skill, doing it
  • Fashion show, changing leotards for each event, mobster leos
  • Hair fashion when Stella didn’t have enough hair for a scrunchy, but the head coach wanted her in one (cue comedy)
  • “I never saw myself as a black athlete. I always come back to, this is what I love to do. I don’t really care what my color, my creed, my size, my shape is. This is where I am supposed to be.  If someone wants to sort of, discriminate against me or make things difficult for me because I’m different, then that’s their shit. I’m still going to go out and do what I need to do.”
  • Dealing with the reputation of being difficult and non-conforming because she stood up for herself and her teammates. For example:
    • The time Stella asked a judge what rumors she has heard about her.
    • The time Stella told off a Canadian judge for giving the Canadians lower scores than the international judges from the window of a taxi, as she took Larissa Libby (née Lowing) to the emergency room!
• Artistic Style
  • The story her coach, Alex Bard, loves to tell about the time she refused to demonstrate her dance chops!
  • Her unique style was “not revered in Canada,” but it was abroad because being different was an asset. “I was loved internationaly, because in the end of the day, it was just about what I was doing on the floor.”
• The Barcelona Olympic Games  in 1992
  • She cried for 30 days after the games because of the emotional investment in the journey and how fast it came and went.
  • Parties, make-out sessions and how she snuck out of her room with the help of the Olympic wrestling team.
• Transitioning out of sport for the first time at age 40
  • Never had an orthopedic surgery due to or during her gymnastics career.
  • Had her first surgery after 13 years as an acrobat with Cirque du Soliel.
  • Thought she wouldn’t be able to walk after college. Thought her body would be “decimated.”

• Advice to her younger self, “Do it your way. Do it the way that feels right and intrinsic to you. Follow that passion. Dream huge and don’t let any thing or anyone, including yourself, stand in your way. Because if you believe in what you are doing and you are loving it, you can’t go wrong. Whether you place first or last, you can’t go wrong.”

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• 168: Shannon Miller, Belarusgate, NED vs GB
• 148: Shannon Miller
• Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals
• Episode 12: Miss Val Part 2
• Episode 11: Miss Val
• Episode 15: Joan Ryan Author of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
• Episode 17: Growing Up In The Soviet Gymnastics System And Training At Round Lake
• Episode 22: Beth Tweddle
• Episode 28: Kristen Maloney
• Episode 31: Elise Ray
• Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches
• Episode 48: Kyla Ross
• 61: Katelyn Ohashi Clears The Air
• 77: Aly Raisman
• 81: Jenny Hansen
• 99: Princess Catherine Lyons and Coach Rochelle Douglas
• 101: Olivia Vivian
• 137: Lady Lisa Mason

English Nationals, NCAA Conference Championships and Jesolo are on the menu this week (Originally aired March 25th, 2015). Uncle Tim, Emma, Spencer, Spanny, Evan, and Jessica chat about:

• Princess Catherine leading her troops to battle to strike fear into the heart of the balance beam.
• Senior champ Amy Tinkler, is her pepto-pink gym at South Durham, the key to her success?
• Claudia Fragapane’s improvement from her American Cup fall-a-thon.
• Lisa Mason’s triumphant performance, pep talks to the baby gymnasts, Artistry award and practically leaping onto the judges table to dare them to deduct from her floor routine!
• The British Bars Revolution: Kelly Sim and Becky Downie are doing bars that make you wonder if their routines aren’t actually YouTube edited pranks.
• Jingoistic floor routine musical advice for the Rio Olympics, from a self-proclaimed Brazilian cultural expert.
• Louis Smith competed well but raised some eyebrows with his post-meet exit.
• The reason for Max Whitlock’s spectacular but  limited performance plus, injury updates on our favorite English gymnasts.

NCAA Conference Championships (28:00)

• Shawn Johnson tweeted that she wants to coach a college team. Where do we think she’d fit in and what are the most important traits of a great coach?
• Bedazzling Beelzebub sparkle-tards -The leotard debate.
• New vocabulary word “pusillanimous: showing a lack of courage or determination; timid.“ as in, wimp.
• Would Minnesota’s Linday Mable get better scores if she was a member of one of the six schools that have won an NCAA Championship.
• Regional seeding and our picks for biggest upsets.
• Coolest vault in college, Alex Marasco –  Yurchenko ½ on or a Yurchenko full-on Cuervo.
• Most robbed vaulter last weekend, Jaida Lawrence of West Virginia.
• Rage-o-Meter regarding the Pac 12 Networks decision to zoom in on every inopportune moment of every routine. Dear Director’s of  Television Gymnastics, here are the rules:
  • We do not use stick and ball sports analogies to explain artistic gymnastics.
  • Never, ever, zoom in during a routine, ever. That’s what secondary camera playbacks are for.
  • We do not zoom in between the hip bones and thighs, ever. If that accidentally happens, the director will immediately switch to a different camera.

Jesolo Competition Preview! (1:35:00)

• How did this meet become the debutant ball of US Gymnastics?
• Gabby, Aly, Simone, Skaggs, Hernandez, Flatley –  gymnasts we are most excited to see in Italy!

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• 82: Cottbus, English Championships & Danusia Francis finally gets a 10 on beam!
• 69: 2009 World Champion Kayla Williams & Alabama’s Sarah Patterson
• 84: Meet Recaps! Jesolo & NCAA Conference Championships
• 88: Rhonda Faehn & Mackenzie Caquatto
• 135: The Duchess of Stalderland
• 134: 409 Wins Restored, Lives Still Ruined
• 137: Lady Lisa Mason
• 136: Full Out Syndrome
• Episode 16: Elizabeth Price

Uncle Tim, Spencer, and Jessica discuss the state of gymnastics after the Glasgow World Championships:

• Awards:
  • Miss & Mr. Congeniality Awards
  • Artistry Award (both intended and unintentional)
  • Highest non-vault E score Awards:
    • FX – 9.066 – Simone Biles of USA (Quals)
    • PB – 9.300 – Artur Davtyan (Quals)
  • Biggest D Awards (non-vault):
    • UB – 6.900 – Fan Yilin (TF, EF) and FX – 6.900 – Simone Biles (Quals)
    • FX – Kenzo – 7.600 
  • “Size Isn’t Everything” Award
• The State of Gymnastics:
  • Rules most desperately needed to change.
  • What worked in this code and what didn’t.

Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet include:

• Mustafina has had knee surgery. Gulia Steingruber knee injury update.
• The Rio Olympic Qualifer Hunger Games-style rule changes have begun, starting with Trinidad & Tobago.
• Are Jordyn Wieber, Shawn Johnson and Nastia all training for the post-Olympic tour?
• The Myth of Pregnancy Doping: where it began, lawsuits that were won and why it’s just stupid crap “science.”
• Simone Biles and John Orozco will perform at the Colgate Skating  & Gymnastics Spectacular at Northern Illinois University on December 16th.
• The NCAA signings we are most excited about, including Ruby Harold, Sabrina Vega and Polina “Puppy Feet” Shchennikova.
• Your voicemails:
  • Is Romania focusing too much on veterans?
  • Was Mustafina engaged and where to find your fellow gym nerds.
  • The perspective of the Belarusian-American gymnasts and maybe we need an international meet for all this American talent?

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How to Get Your Favorite Gymnast to the 2016 Rio Olympics [A Flowchart]

• 173: Women’s All-Around Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 172: Men’s Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 171: Women’s Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 170: Women’s Qualifying Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 169: Glasgow Worlds Preview Show
• Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches
• 151: Danell Leyva
• 164: Marian Dragulescu

Jessica is reporting in person from the 2015 Women’s Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland with the European Gymnastic Crew: Michelle Web, Cordelia Price, and Becca Emrick:

• What did Bruno say about black athletes in gymnastics?
• Steve Butcher addressed the delays in the press conference.
• Is there a pro European bias?
• More discussion of debunking myths–we discuss the state of gymnastics TODAY!
• We talk men’s vault: we dissect each competitor.
• Are there rules about selfie-sticks on the floor?
• What the hell was with the walk-in music?
• We talk women’s beam: of course we break down all the deets.
• Komova has officially become a fighter–and her leo was on point.
• Cordelia does her best Scott Bregman impersonation.
• Coach Carol Angela is The Alchemist.
• Simone is a diamond–the more pressure the more sparkle she produces.
• Is the Azerbaijan buy-your-gymnastics-team system working?
• We talk men’s parallel bars: the cleanest final of the day.
• We talk women’s floor: a great final, but Jessica is not happy!
• We dig deep into Sae’s (JPN) floor routine.
• Who fanned themselves better? Afasanava or Maggie?
• We talk high bar: Chris Brooks’ routine reminds us why gymnastics is an important life skill
• Cordelia channels Yin.
• Where are the giant plane tickets to Rio?
• We talk about how everyone else can get to Rio and what controversies await them, especially if the IOC crack down on the three years of citizenship rule for Jamaica and Belarus.
• Guess who has guaranteed himself an automatic spot to Rio? Maaaaaanriqueeeeeeeeeee!
• Simone made history AGAIN! More Simone please.
• Glasgow has set the new standard. We love you Glasgow and thank you for your hospitality!

We are taking a two week because, let’s face it, we just did more shows in one week than we do in a month, we need a little vacation! Thank you all for making this coverage possible!

The Gym Report’s best guesstimate which individuals made it to the Rio Test Event.

How To Get Your Favorite Gymnast to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games [A Flowchart]

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• 173: Women’s All-Around Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 172: Men’s Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 171: Women’s Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 170: Women’s Qualifying Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 169: Glasgow Worlds Preview Show
• 151: Danell Leyva
• 88: Rhonda Faehn & Mackenzie Caquatto
• 124: Event Finals at the 2014 World Championships
• 123: All Around Finals at the 2014 World Championships
• 122: Team Finals at the 2014 World Championships
• 121: Qualifications Recap from the 2014 World Championships
• 120: The World Championships Preview Show
• Episode 52: Triumph & Heartbreak Prelims Recap from Antwerp Worlds
• Episode 53: All Around Finals Recap from Antwerp World Championships
• Episode 54: Event Finals Recap from 2013 World Championships
• Episode 55: Worlds Wrap Up & Ferlito-Gate
• Episode 51: Podium Training Report From Antwerp
• Episode 50: 2013 Antwerp World Championship Preview
• Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals
• Episode 17: Growing Up In The Soviet Gymnastics System And Training At Round Lake
• Episode 22: Beth Tweddle
• 148: Shannon Miller
• 139: Steve Butcher, President of the FIG Men’s Technical Committee
• Episode 28: Kristen Maloney
• Episode 31: Elise Ray
• Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches
• Episode 48: Kyla Ross
• 130: Mary-Anne “Mez” Monckton
• 77: Aly Raisman
• 101: Olivia Vivian
• 164: Marian Dragulescu
• 115: Kenzo Shirai
• Tim Daggett: A GymCastic Classic Episode

Jessica is reporting in person from the 2015 Women’s Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland with the European Gymnastic Crew: Emma Bailey, Michelle Web, Cordelia Price, Coach Rick, and… wait for it… Mr. Scott Bregman:

• We’re live from The Corinthian Club in Glasgow, Scotland.
• We recap the Men’s AA final.
• We discuss the first day of event finals routine by routine!
• We have quizzes and even take a few question from those who watched on Periscope.
• The GB men get their first individual gold on event finals–they go one-two in pommel.

The Gym Report’s best guesstimate which individuals made it to the Rio Test Event.

How To Get Your Favorite Gymnast to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games [A Flowchart]

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• 173: Women’s All-Around Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 172: Men’s Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 171: Women’s Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 170: Women’s Qualifying Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 169: Glasgow Worlds Preview Show
• 151: Danell Leyva
• 88: Rhonda Faehn & Mackenzie Caquatto
• 124: Event Finals at the 2014 World Championships
• 123: All Around Finals at the 2014 World Championships
• 122: Team Finals at the 2014 World Championships
• 121: Qualifications Recap from the 2014 World Championships
• 120: The World Championships Preview Show
• Episode 52: Triumph & Heartbreak Prelims Recap from Antwerp Worlds
• Episode 53: All Around Finals Recap from Antwerp World Championships
• Episode 54: Event Finals Recap from 2013 World Championships
• Episode 55: Worlds Wrap Up & Ferlito-Gate
• Episode 51: Podium Training Report From Antwerp
• Episode 50: 2013 Antwerp World Championship Preview
• Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals
• Episode 17: Growing Up In The Soviet Gymnastics System And Training At Round Lake
• Episode 22: Beth Tweddle
• 148: Shannon Miller
• 139: Steve Butcher, President of the FIG Men’s Technical Committee
• Episode 28: Kristen Maloney
• Episode 31: Elise Ray
• Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches
• Episode 48: Kyla Ross
• 130: Mary-Anne “Mez” Monckton
• 77: Aly Raisman
• 101: Olivia Vivian
• 164: Marian Dragulescu
• 115: Kenzo Shirai
• Tim Daggett: A GymCastic Classic Episode

Jessica is reporting in person from the 2015 Women’s Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland with the European Gymnastic Crew: Emma Bailey, Michelle Web, Cordelia Price, and Becca Emrick:

• Who made the No-Fall club.
• Shout-out to many coaches for their positive methods.
• Was Simone and Gabby flexing photo a direct response to Komov’s steroids accusation?

• Simone
  • Simone becomes the first ever three-peat, consecutive women’s AA World Champion
  • Is Simone the most dominant female gymnast of all-time?
  • What did Aimee Boorman say to Simone after her almost-fall beam routine?
  • The area flashed the score  Simone needed to win on the mega-wall before she went on her last event.
  • The touch-warm-ups show just how many ice buckets of water she has in her veins.

• Was Jurca’s vault over-scored? We still think she’s amazing–a tiny, amazing little beast!

• Gabby
  • It’s her FIRST EVER world medal! How is that possible?
  • Did she reveal her upgrades at the press conference? What should she upgrade in her secret gymnastics workshop?
  • Gamer… very sparkly!

• Larisa
  • REVENGE!
  • Her and Jurca made Romania cool again.
  • Her handstands were like Code of Points drawing on the bars!

• Who gets air time on beam? Let me get a tea and wait while she comes down. Oh, it’s Guilia Steinbruger.
• Mai wasn’t even on the original team, but represented Japan like a G! She’s got a big E and she knows how to use it.
• Wang has a big D, but a small E.
• If you had a gun and one bullet with a zombie coming at you on beam, who would you hand the weapon to? Carlotta Ferllito.
• We have another answer for why there’s a delay between routines and making the gymnasts cold –  TV Time Out.
• Lieke does ballet on the beam, no seriously, and it shows!
• Questions for our gymnasts, how does Emma live her amazing gymnastics lifestyle?
• We break down the scores. The judges got it right, most of the time tonight.
• The most important question of the night… Who had our favorite leotard?
• Our favorite skills of the night.
• Corrections… there might have been one or two from previous episodes.
• Rant: The importance of The Feelings Police, apparently, thats us now.
• Komova update… an apology and a selfie.
• The listeners tell us what we missed.

The Gym Report’s best guesstimate which individuals made it to the Rio Test Event.

How To Get Your Favorite Gymnast to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games [A Flowchart]

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GymCastic T-Shirts just in time for 2015 Glasgow World Championships! Women’s styles (even v-neck!), kids and men’s. They will arrive in time for Worlds. They ship anywhere in the world!

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• 172: Men’s Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 171: Women’s Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 170: Women’s Qualifying Recap from 2015 World Championships
• 169: Glasgow Worlds Preview Show
• 151: Danell Leyva
• 88: Rhonda Faehn & Mackenzie Caquatto
• 124: Event Finals at the 2014 World Championships
• 123: All Around Finals at the 2014 World Championships
• 122: Team Finals at the 2014 World Championships
• 121: Qualifications Recap from the 2014 World Championships
• 120: The World Championships Preview Show
• Episode 52: Triumph & Heartbreak Prelims Recap from Antwerp Worlds
• Episode 53: All Around Finals Recap from Antwerp World Championships
• Episode 54: Event Finals Recap from 2013 World Championships
• Episode 55: Worlds Wrap Up & Ferlito-Gate
• Episode 51: Podium Training Report From Antwerp
• Episode 50: 2013 Antwerp World Championship Preview
• Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals
• Episode 17: Growing Up In The Soviet Gymnastics System And Training At Round Lake
• Episode 22: Beth Tweddle
• 148: Shannon Miller
• 139: Steve Butcher, President of the FIG Men’s Technical Committee
• Episode 28: Kristen Maloney
• Episode 31: Elise Ray
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Jessica is reporting in person from the 2015 Women’s Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland with the European Gymnastic Crew: Brevet judge, Coach Rick, Emma Bailey, Michelle Web, and Kensley Behel:

• Japan wins! GB right on their heels, and ooooh China falls to bronze.
• Do the in-house commentators influence the judges?
• Japan has huge Ds so they don’t need to worry about falling off things.
  • Kohei fell on HB again, just like Tokyo
• The Brits were theeee most consistent of the meet (no falls).
  • Louis Smith just ran the press conference and the arena.
  • The Brits got the gold for entrance.
  • Max’s floor was heaven.
  • The best married couple-coaches ever embrace artistry and a big D, Sir Eddy Van Hoof and Carol-Angela Orchard.
  • The crowd was so loud on each tumbling pass many thought it might have caused Uchimura fall on HB.
  • Bryan said that artistry and style gives them confidence.
• A 9.1 is the new 10.0
• Jessica might have left bruise marks on Kensley because she kept grabbing her throughout the meet.
• Is this just the beginning for GB’s reign?
• China’s execution is crap and we frown upon this.
  • Xiao has the potential to be the Rio gold medalist.
• With Japan and GB in the top two spots, does this mean the code of points working as a balance between the E score and D score?
• Coach Rick gets a deduction for stomping his feet on the floor too much while we recorded.
• Some men need Aly’s little girls from Brestyan’s to sit on their feet like they do on Aly’s.
• Can someone explain Russia high bar? Why are the women’s bars so good and men’s so bad?
• Coach Rick reveals who will win vault in the finals!
• Kensley: Let’s take a minute and talk about Paul.
• Jess’s preferred Tomayo sandwich: Paul Ruggeri and Stacey Ervin.
• Where would Horton fit into the USA team?
• The ridiculous wait for Donnel Whittenburg’s enquiry on floor.
• Glasgow sets a new standard for running a meet.
• The Swiss are legit.
• Hansol “Hansolo” Kim’s floor shoots first. Watch his Korean dream floor, we were all impressed.
• Hypolito returns to floor, even though he wasn’t used in prelims.
• Favorite moments from men’s prelims.
• The two team per country rule wasn’t needed for the men’s apparatus finals! Men’s gymnastics is competitive across the entire world!

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