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GYMTERNET NEWS

• The US will compete in Japan on November 8. We discuss the meet format and team selections
• British Gymnastics head Jane Allen is conveniently retiring and gave one of the worst interviews ever about it. Not that we have any opinions or anything.
• Why do parents accept abusive coaching practices?
• More countries are withdrawing from Euros. When is a continental championship not a continental championship?
• We celebrate National Coming Out Day and Danell Leyva

DEFYING GRAVITY

• We watched the first three episodes of the gymnastics documentary series Defying Gravity (we’ll have our thoughts on the rest of the series next week) and present our highlights and lowlights. Jessica explains why she thinks it represents a paradigm shift and Spencer rolls his eyes during the extensive fact check portion.

PLUS

• All the gymternet headlines, along with your feedback about Phoebe Mills erasure, the disprespect of Larisa Petrik, and…manual expressing.

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This week’s episode has been commissioned by Kim, who asked for an episode all about the 1991 VHS spectacular—GYMNASTICS’ GREATEST STARS

We discuss:

• Jessica’s show-and-tell primary source artifacts
• Doris Fuchs Brause, meet interruptions, her skill, and alleged star-crossed Soviet lovers
• The Vera Caslavska protest (I mean, it is GymCastic…)
• Olga! Nadia! Nellie being all Nellie!
• Enthusiastic sexism…?
• Jessica’s favorite broken kneecap
• Being personally victimized by the event order
• Elena Mukhina nightmares
• Why we don’t talk about Tracee Talavera enough
• The Nancy Thies compromised cassette tape
• Tong Fei being the star of the whole thing
• Bart needing you to know that 1984 WAS NO FLUKE
• …and a whole lot more, plus what we would include in GYMNASTICS’ GREATEST STARS 2021

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• 441: Gymnastics Commentary Hall of Shame (Commissioned)
• Best of GymCastic: The FluffCast (Commissioned)
• 436: 2000 Women’s Team Final (Commissioned)
• 433: Weirdest Gymnastics Exhibitions of the 90s (Commissioned)
• 431: 2003 Team Final (Commissioned)
• 246 Kathy Johnson Clark Interview

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Behind The Scenes: All of your ideas for our new podcast; ranking all American World and Olympic champions; do the NBC trio avoid Chinese names; American insurance hell update from Jessica; latin class; understanding the block on vault; Roe Kreutzer throwing her wig; a fellow coach apologizes to Jamie Dantzcher; why it’s not ok to mention Cossack’s during commentary; a coach asks if it’s ok to post on social media about an abusive gym; grown ass woman stats  128 medals won by 48 different female gymnasts aged 20 and over since 1996

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GYMTERNET NEWS

• European Championships are still on! (For some reason?) We discuss the move to Turkey, who’s not attending, the change in Olympic qualification, and why this event happening at all.
• Gymnast Alliance: Amy Tinkler has the receipts, and the horrifying letter sent to the Australian juniors in 2000.
• Plus, the campaigns to save Alaska and Minnesota and William & Mary, how the Italian gymnasts may have been cursed by a sea monster, and the revolving door of NCAA coaching that just keeps revolving.

MEET NEWS

• We discuss Mai’s domination of Japanese Nationals, Kohei’s new identity as a high bar specialist, Chinese Nationals confirming the greatness of Tingting, the importance of Guan Chenchen, and Wei Xiaoyuan’s magic charm.
• At Szombathely, Marta Pihan-Kulesza. End of podcast.
• Plus, a blooper for the ages, a possible 2020 competition opportunity for the US, and Oleg updates.
• Check out our new imprint Gymnastics International for full episodes about recent meets!

FEEDBACK

The history of women in American gymnastics commentary, recovering assholes, EDUCATION, dying underwear, mesh lining, and whether there’s a “witch hunt” of gymnastics coaches.

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• 441: Gymnastics Commentary Hall of Shame (Commissioned)
• 440: Chinese Gymnastics Team Trainer: Annemarie Alf DPT, CSCS
• 439: The Curious Case of the Extra Urine

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GYMNASTICS INTERNATIONAL

Welcome to Gymnastics International! On this show, we’ll take a deep dive into the latest competitions from around the world, covering them with the depth and detail we typically reserve for US women’s elite competitions. Because national borders are stupid. This week: the Szombathely World Challenge Cup.

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SZOMBATHELY

We dissect every single little moment from the Marta Pihan-Kulesza Show, Starring Marta Pihan-Kulesza. Plus, a new skill in MAG, a full report on the level of mask-wearing (it was low), and CSI Code Edition takes on the issue Lopez/Podkopayeva credit. We celebrate when talls win the day and bemoan when falls win the day, celebrate when execution wins the day, and bemoan when sexism wins the day. And then watch Marta Pihan-Kulesza a few more times because duh.

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Gymnastics International Episode 1: Chinese and Japanese Nationals

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