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• Dumpster fire news 
  • It has been yet another terrible month for USAG (a theme???)
  • The Li Li Today interview disaster
  • The further mess of the botched hiring of Edward Nyman
    • Whose side are we on here? And is it no one’s? (It’s no one’s)
    • A deep dive into the unprofessional incompetence of everyone ever
  • Seriously Terin? The Terin Humphrey Facebook nonsense.
  • The disastrous, unacceptable debacle that was Mary Lou’s latest TV appearance
• NCAA Coaching Musical Chairs (41:20)
  • Jordyn Wieber is the new head coach at Arkansas
    • What do we think of this move? Is 23 too young to be a head coach? And most importantly, should Chris Brooks be her assistant?
  • Chris Waller has been named head coach at UCLA
    • What does a successful Chris Waller tenure look like? We discuss both results and bras. Guess who brought up which topic.
  • More from the NCAA coaching carousel, including all the changes at Utah
• Olympic and World Championship news  (55:30)
  • Olympic teams are returning to FIVE (count ’em five) members in 2024. We have extensive thoughts and further proposals, some of them radical
  • World championships will cap the number of competitors and introduce a qualification process starting in 2022.
  • There are really strict leotard rules for team and individual competitors in 2020 for some reason.
  • DRAH-MAAAAAA in the awarding of 2023 worlds. It involves taking people to court over a lack of numerical specificity in deadlines. Spencer is in heaven.
  • Important robot judging news.
• PLUS
  • At the Heart of Gold is now available on HBO. Jessica tells us about the premiere, and we discuss overall thoughts and play “what we’ve learned since.”
  • Olympic. Channel. Svetlana. Khorkina. Documentary.
  • New recruiting rules in NCAA (finally!)
  • Diego Hypolito comes out
  • Jordan Schwikert, Alyssa Baumann, and Tasha Schwikert have testified in TX about a MeToo bill
  • Simone does her second SI Swimsuit Shoot, and Jessica explains to Spencer why it actually matters

• Chinese Nationals!!! (1:36:32)
  • Tingting is the national AA champion and UB champion—and is also brilliantly Netherlands-ing the crap out of floor
  • The craziness of event finals, where Fan Yilin missed on bars, everybody fell on beam, and Zhang Jin had the most sad-larious floor leap miss-save in history.
  • SHANG CHUNSONG won the floor title, but the true winner was her shirt
  • World tumbling champion Jia Fangfang has made huge strides on floor
  • We have three new perfect junior obsessions: Ou Yushan, Luo Rui, and Guan Chenchen, who is a silly little goose who is dancing constantly
  • Plus, the most perfect PBars routine ever.

FURTHER READING

• The Only Gymnast That Mattered: The Svetlana Khorkina Story
• Things Are Happening – May 9, 2019
• Perfect Chinese Beamers Who Never Saw the Light of Day
• Gymnastics GIFs for All Occasions: Part 2

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