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261: 2017 U.S. Classic

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U.S. CLASSIC

Spencer, Lauren, and Jessica discuss everything important and unimportant that happened at Saturday’s U.S. Classic.

  • JUNIORS
    • Our favorite, favorite, favorite future presidents
      • Emma Malabuyo basically Simone-ed the entire junior and senior fields
      • The glory of Kara Eaker on beam
      • Annie Beard wins the performance award of the meet
      • Gabby Perea won bars WITHOUT EVEN DOING A DISMOUNT
      • Jay Jay Marshall channeled Kennedy Baker with her Dos Santos
    • Surprises who rocked our worlds
      • Audrey Davis unites the magic of China and Ukraine on bars
      • Madelyn Williams has presence on floor and a bars that’s ready for seniors
      • Lilly Lippeatt and Love Birt are tiny adults made of perfection
    • Moments of the meet
  • Lauren’s inside scoops from the Hopes competition, including the girl who threw off her crutches and tried to do a bars routine and the newborn baby who will soon rule us all on beam.

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  • SENIORS
    • Jessica is NOT HAPPY about gymnasts being allowed to pass compulsories and compete elite when they don’t have the foundation to compete safely.
    • The big winners of the meet
    • Gymnasts that made us burst into a standing ovation
    • We give out the Simone Biles 2013, Classic Doesn’t Really Matter awards
    • Major trends we noticed in routine composition and judges doing their job

GYMTERNET NEWS

  • Russia repeats as champions at EYOF (European Youth Olympic Festival)
  • The Olympics are coming to LA in 2028. Yea or Nay? We discuss.
  • The FIG Executive Committee announced the JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
    • How many people should be on each team? And is it 50?
  • That video of Simone getting her wisdom teeth out. We translate.
  • There’s going to be a SIMONE BIOPIC. Memo to producers: we’ve already cast all the parts.

GIVEAWAY

The winner of the Norbert’s sectional beam  is Laura Dahlin! Thanks so much to Laura and to Norbert’s for supporting the show!

CONTEST

WHAT: #BeerWithBetty: The Greatest Scavenger Hunt in the Galaxy!

PRIZE: The winner will share a beer (or root beer if you are under 21) with the great Betty Okino, Olympic and World medalist, creator of the triple turn on beam, and a member of the Precision Choreography team.

HOW IT WORKS: In August, we will release a list of 10 items on this photo scavenger hunt. Your mission will be to complete each one and post a photo to Twitter or Instagram tagging @GymCastic and @PrecisionChoreo and using #BeerWithBetty. The winner will be selected at random among everyone who completes all ten items. The hunt will start at 8am on Thursday August 17 and will end at 12pm on Saturday, August 19. The winner will meet with the Betty Okino at 3pm in Anaheim on August 19th! If you enter, be READY FOR BETTY because winner will meet this gymnastics legend at 3pm that day!

PLUS: We will give six additional prizes for Most Outrageous photos! The top three most outrageous photos on Friday will win a personal voice message from one of Precision Choreography’s gymnastics stars (people like Chellsie Memmel, Alicia Sacramone, Houry Gerbesian, and Holly Vise)! The top three on Saturday will get a special shout-out on the GymCastic podcast.

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Rina
Rina
6 years ago

While I was completely impressed with Emma Malabuyo, Maile O’Keefe had a fall on beam and a mistake on bars and still received second place. I think she is still right up there in scoring with Emma and Gabby Perea when she is back. I can’t wait for these juniors to become seniors!

Linkin
Linkin
6 years ago

This is in response to your comments on the LA public transportation system. The LA system is not as bad as your comments make it out to be. The system is rapidly expanding and there will be a train station, bus rapid service or shuttle service to all the sports venue locations. If you check the source there is an article on how the LA system will look like in ’28 http://thesource.metro.net/2017/07/31/l-a-olympics-and-paralympics-what-our-transit-system-will-look-like-in-2028/ . The subway is going to reach UCLA where the athlete’s village will be and there is already rail at USC, the Coliseum and Universal City where the media center will be located. Back in ’84 LA was able to prevent congestion by providing shuttle service to all sports venues and many fans took advantage of that. There is a video that details how big of a success it was and how well it was organized https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ddrOt6-L1Y

Also, in regards to pollution if you check the ’84 team optional video on YouTube they have an aerial shot of LA after every commercial break and the smog is so dense you can hardly see anything. It was seriously bad back then.

Splatler
Splatler
6 years ago

Elon Musk is not Russian. He is in fact South African, but also holds Canadian and US passports I believe.

Rain
Rain
6 years ago

Re: Simone biopic
You guys, you didn\’t talk about who will play MARTHA in the movie. She is guarenteed to play a big role. Discuss, please.

D
D
6 years ago

Why is there no time so we can skip the stuff we dont wanna hear? Usually you have at this time this is discussed?

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