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NCAA NEWS (5:22)

• An extended crack or correct about basically every routine at that insane Oklahoma/Florida meet
  • A fall is a fall is a fall is a fall is a fall
  • Confusion about the code of points and rules used to judge NCAA (also from the actual judges, apparently)
    • Rules Modifications for NCAA
• • The deductions that should have been taken in an example routine from this preposterous display of scoring
• More Hall of Fame crack with UCLA and Oregon State
• The worst crime of the whole weekend: UCLA’s leotards
• Sad crack: the underscoring of Sarah Shaffer’s perfect Y1/2 
• Anger come-down: Oregon State’s death by hugging, Emily Muhlenhaupt’s 9.975 on bars, and Lexy Ramler’s perfect beam 
• The SHOCKING TRUTH about NCAA scores in 2019
• Bowling Green wins this week’s random stick-themed nonsense award

MINI-COMMISSION The Anti-Wolf Turn (1:09:41)

• Abzug has commissioned a segment all about turns, asking most crucially, do any less ugly turns have the same difficulty as wolf turns? Oh my yes. We discuss. Jessica talks about backspins. A good time is had by all. 

MEET NEWS (1:26:21)

• Ana Padurariu is the new all-around champion of Elite Canada, Ellie Black has a million floor pass options just because she can, and junior Zoe Allaire-Bourgie competed with the seniors due to awesomeness and took 3rd AA. 
• Kristal Uzelac Bodenschatz competed at the Buckeye Elite qualifier after five months of training, and we highlight all the newest qualified elites
• News on Maile O’Keefe and Adeline Kenlin

GYMTERNET NEWS (1:37:52)

• Annie Heffernon is the permanent senior vice president of the women’s program
• Michigan Radio NPR: Federal Regulators release report citing 21 instances of Clery Act violations by Michigan State
• North Korea is considering participating in the Korea Cup in South Korea
• New York has passed the Child Victims Act
• Oleg had all the surgeries again
• Diego Hypolito says, “it seems that the Brazilian athlete has no value”
• Jessica makes Spencer talk about a feel-good story and he barely knows what to do
• Simone Biles is a badass (duh)
• Updates on post-birth college gymnastics, leadoff 10s, and beam music

FURTHER READING

• 2019 NCAA Rules Modifications
• 2019 NCAA Judges Cheat Sheet
• Week 5 Ranking Notes
• Sunday Live Blog – February 3, 2019
• Saturday Live Blog – February 2, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – February 1, 2019
• Things Are Happening – February 1, 2019
• Roster Notes – Week 4
• Only the Best – Week 4

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NCAA NEWS

• Oklahoma extends its national lead at Metroplex, and Maggie is back
• Jessica has a moment about Stanford, featuring a story of public embarrassment from her college years (yay!) 
• Auburn has a stick stick, Washington has a money gun, and Maryland has a sparkly turtle shell. The real heroes. 
• Weekly feelings alert: The Ari Guerra story
  • Or, does gymnastics fetishize and celebrate risking your future health too much?
  • Example, Kim Hamilton’s excellent book starts with her post-gymnastics crawling on the floor, in too much pain to stand.
• The problem with scoring the rotation order—and what’s the best lineup strategy if you know Carol is coming to town? 
• Crack or correct: The Natalie Wojcik problem and the most WTF vault score ever for Penn
• So that happened: John Roethlisberger, the Auburn dudes, and we’ll never be the same
• A sexism Rage-o-Meter from…Spencer? Stop listing the names of the parents like that’s a stat, and maybe hire some more women for these jobs

GYMTERNET NEWS

• We discuss how much money USAG is paying Steve Penny, Mary Bono, and Box of Scarves. NOT GREAT, BOB. 
• The Senate has an “AHEM, HEM” moment re: decertification and the USOC’s tax-exempt status. 
• Katarzyna Jurkowska-Kowalska is retiring
• Getting ready for Elite Canada and the Buckeye Kristal Uzelac qualifier this weekend
• Updates on Amy Tinkler, Ashton Locklear, Roxana Popa, Beth Tweddle, and the potential for world peace
• The latest on Jessica’s quest to become an arm scientist
• Why doesn’t the high bar have padding on it?
• Nina gets another…oddly shaped award

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FURTHER READING

• Safeguarding:  A Checklist for parents and coaches
• Week 4 Ranking Notes
• Sunday Live Blog – January 27, 2019
• Saturday Live Blog – January 26, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – January 25, 2019
• Things Are Happening – January 25, 2019
• Roster Notes – Week 3
• Only the Best – Week 3

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COLLEGE GYMNASTICS (03:36)

• SEC excitement won the day on Friday. We ask: is there actually a way to make wins and losses matter in college, or is it just a nice idea?
  • Plus, Ruby’s shriek of joy, Alexa Al-Hameed’s Tkatchev, the Priessman/Hundley friendship featurette for people with feelings, Finnegan being all Finnegan, and Baumann being all Baumann
  • Crack or correct: Lexie Priessman’s 9.825 VT (8:08) and Trinity Thomas’s 9.950 FX
• Sabrina Vega literally broke the beam in Georgia (or it bowed to her greatness)
• Spencer has no words for the insane scoring at the UCLA/Arizona State meet.
• Oklahoma scores 197.000, which is like 193.000 for Oklahoma
  • Maggie Nichols out with a bruised heel
  • Crack or correct: Anastasia Webb’s 9.950 on beam (45:20)
• McKenna Merrell-Giles wins the hilarious beam fall award, and what’s the deal with Skinner’s scores?
• Random stick-themed nonsense of the week: Oregon State’s stick chainsaw, and Illinois’ stick STICK
• Shout outs to Arden Hudson of Ball State for vaulting a handspring repulsion 2/1, and Sophia Hyderally of Alaska for her magical floor.
• Crack or correct: Ona Loper’s 9.750 vault, New Hampshire’s 49.425 beam rotation ((1:24:00)

ADVICE CORNER (1:08:59)

What is proper meet etiquette? Jessica and Spencer have some…differing views about how one should behave in the audience at a gymnastics competition. As you might imagine. 

GYMTERNET NEWS (1:26:44)

• John Engler finally resigned from MSU
• Kathryn Carson has a board update. Everything is great apparently, unless you ask anyone
• US women have national team camp at EVO this week, and there’s drama over who got invited and who did not
• TRIGGER WARNING: The trouble with SafeSport
• Rosters are out for the Stuttgart AA world cup (SIMONE AND ALIYA) and Melbourne event world cup

FURTHER READING

• Monday Live Blog – January 21, 2019
• Saturday Live Blog – January 19, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – January 18, 2019
• NCAA Week 3 Preview
• NCAA Week 3 – Schedule and Links
• Roster Notes – Week 2
• Only the Best – Week 2

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Prize: University of Denver hat, shirt and sweatshirt.
How to Enter: Tell us why you love Denver gymnastics and use the #DenverGymCastic on Twitter or Instagram.
Deadline: Sunday, Jan 20th at midnight Pacific.
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IN THE NEWS (3:00)

• The Rhonda debacle: Michigan hires, then fires, Rhonda Faehn in the span of a single weekend. Because gymnastics totally has its life together. 
  • What the team members are saying, what Rachael Denhollander is saying, and how we navigate the politics of whose voice gets to matter—especially when people we agree with happen to disagree with each other
  • Why gymnastics fans largely have a better impression of Rhonda than of the other USAG employees involved
  • How the University of Michigan royally screwed this up in every way
• Dan Baker replaced MLT as the developmental program head coach, and USAG didn’t say a word about it

COLLEGE GYMNASTICS (30:50)

• Auburn upsets LSU
  • Derrian Gobourne is a star (1:14:15)
  • The entire Auburn bars lineup is taking Abby Milliet pills
  • What happened to McKenna Kelley
  • How DD handled the dudes in the front row
• Denver defeats Michigan and Alabama
  • Gushing about Alexis Vasquez for all eternity (15:40)
  • Jessica’s inside stories from visiting Denver during the preseason
  • Alabama has a stick bedazzled Thor’s hammer
• Plus…
  • We’re desperately worried about Maggie limping after floor
  • Trinity Thomas debuts for Florida (1:16:56) and Kathy is everyone
• Anaheim quad meet
  • College meets are playing the national anthem before the athletes enter
  • Ohashi goes viral for her floor routine again (our first interview with Ohashi in 2013  and second in 2015) 
  • Special appreciation for Kelley Hebert and Sarah Liddle of UC Davis, Alma Kuc and Sofie Seilnacht of Cal for NOT BEING BASIC
  • Why Jessica cried over Marz Frazier’s floor routine
  • Spencer rants about the competition’s horrible strip club poster
• “Splashdown”-gate
• How would an Olympic team of Nichols, Ross, Finnegan, and Skinner do?
• Crack or Correct: Justice for Lexy Ramler, leo scoring is real, and more bizarre judging in Alabama

GYMTERNET NEWS

• The American Cup roster is out! We break it down gymnast by gymnast
• USAG hasn’t been paying the men’s national team. RUH ROH.
  • Update: They’ve now been paid for January—why it’s too late and way too little
• Plus: USAG finally suspends internet troll Don McPherson, Geddert case updates, Aly broke a bone, and rules about FIG nationality changes

FURTHER READING

• Nancy Armour asks: whose voice counts?
• Week 2 Ranking Notes
• Sunday Live Blog – January 13, 2019
• Saturday Live Blog – January 12, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – January 11, 2019
• Things Are Happening – January 11, 2019

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COLLEGE GYMNASTICS WEEK 1

Jessica and Spencer are joined this week by a special guest, the legend that is Peng Peng Lee, to recap the first weekend of the college gymnastics season

• RECORDS: Oklahoma sets a first-weekend record and BRENNA DID BEAM, breaking Jessica
• Peng reveals the secret to perfect beaming
• INJURIES: Bailie Key is going to miss another season and Lexie Priessman is coming back from her 9th surgery
  • Peng takes us through the roller coaster that has been her injury history, from back injuries that could have left her paralyzed, to stopping gymnastics for a year, to her multi-season ACL drama
  • Plus, how Peng’s sixth year came about, why bridges are stupid and no one should do them, and where you can find her now
• OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMEDY: Arkansas has a hog nose on a chain, Alex Hyland has Fresh Prince of Bel-Air floor music, and Maya Bordas wins the beam save award
• HIGHLIGHTS: Natalie Wojcik is our freshman of the week, Gracie Kramer’s floor is Spencer’s favorite because of weird, and Claire Gagliardi from Ohio State has the most fantastic Yezhova (14:38)
• CRACK OR CORRECT:
  • Rachel Dickson’s mathematically impossible beam score
  • Maddie Desch (1:05:55) receives 9.250 for a beam routine with no fall—we discuss what’s right and what’s wrong about this score
  • Were any of the vaults really 10s?

GYMTERNET NEWS (1:33:30)

• KENZO DID MAI’S FLOOR ROUTINE AHHHHHHH
• KRISTAL UZELAC IS RETURNING TO ELITE AHHHHHHH
• Jessica has been reading too many spy novels: Russian doping conspiracy theory edition
• USAG and Safesport news:
  • • USA Gymnastics’ former coach Sergio Galvez accused of sexual misconduct
    • Indiana AG: USA Gymnastics’ policy for handling sex abuse allegations falls short of law
    • Olympian Maroney Stays Nassar Case For USAG’s Ch. 11 
    • “Believed” Podcast Named Best Coverage of a News Story by The A.V. Club
• MELANIE AHHHHHHHH

LINKS

• Seth Delbridge has developed a MAG and WAG Code of points app
• Week 1 Ranking Notes
• Saturday Live Blog – January 5, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – January 4, 2019
• Things Are Happening – January 4, 2019

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INSPIRATION NEWS (1:58:00)

• We’re going to Tokyo!
• Rachael Denhollander and Maggie Nichols are inspirations (duh)
• Simone is dominant (also duh) 

ROPES & GRAY (9:10:00)

• The Ropes and Gray Investigation released its report
  • What we learned about Scott Blackmun and Alan Ashley
  • Nassar’s unsatisfactory score in 2012 and unpacking Martha’s not wanting “the gymnasts to be with the boxers” comment
  • The FBI…what were you even doing?
  • Kathy Kelly and Renee Jamison were in charge of handling abuse reports…so nope
  • THEY KEPT THE RECORDS IN A BARN
• What do we do with this information? What was the point? What do we need now?

GYMTERNET 2018 – A Year In Review (1:08:46)

• The GymCastic Indictment Draft – As we review the events of the year that was, yell DRAFT every time you want to put someone (or something, or a concept) on your all-indictment fantasy list

BRING ON 2019 (1:37:07)

• New seniors we’re too excited about
  • (ITALY)
    • Giorgia Villa – Youth Olympic Games Champ – Bars
    • Elisa Iorio – Bars 
    • D’Amato twins, Asia and Alice – Asia Floor
  • Ksenia Klimenko (Russia) – Bars
  • Anastasiya Bachynska (Ukraine) – Beam, Floor
  • Qi Qi (China) – Beam
  • Tang Xijing (China) – 4th AA at Youth Olympics – Floor
  • Amelie Morgan (Great Britain) – 2nd AA at Youth Olympics – Floor
  • Emma Slevin (Ireland) – Bars
• All the elites heading to college competition in 2019. Next time we meet, the college season will have started!  (1:43:25)
  • • Marz Frazier and Norah Flatley (UCLA)
    • Trinity Thomas, Sydney Johnson-Scharpf, Leah Clapper (Florida)
    • Emily Gaskins (Alabama)
    • Alexis Vasquez (Denver , another Chow-baby in college!)
    • Olivia Trautman (Oklahoma)
    • Bailey Ferrer (LSU)
    • Molly Frack (Auburn)
    • Grace Quinn (Cal)
    • International Elites in the college:
      • Canada: Shallon Olsen (Alabama), Megan Roberts (Georgia), Madeline McLellan, Meaghan Ruttan (Washington), Meixi Semple (Iowa State)
      • Great Britain: Abi Solari (Cal), Phoebe Turner (Iowa State)
      • Spain: Ana Palacios (Iowa State)
      • Czech Republic: Anna-Maria Kanyai (Bowling Green), 2014 world
•  Study proves adult gymnastics is the foundation of youth : 
  • “People in their 70s who have been exercising regularly for decades seem to have put a brake on the aging process, maintaining the heart, lung and muscle fitness of healthy people at least 30 years younger… As for muscle health, the findings were even more significant… researchers were surprised to find the 75-year-old muscles of lifelong exercisers were about the same as the muscles of the 25-year-olds.”

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FURTHER READING

• 2019 Preview – Pac-12 Roundup
• 2019 Preview – SEC Roundup
• 2019 Preview – Alabama Crimson Tide
• 2019 Preview – Georgia Bulldogs
• 2019 Preview – LSU Tigers
• Things Are Happening – December 11, 2018

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The tie that wasn’t a tie! This week’s episode has been commissioned by Club Gym Nerd member RayRay, who requested an episode on “An Abundance of Shushunovas (TM Jessica) – The 1988 battle between Shushunova and Silvas.” Thank you for letting us do this, RayRay! 

Psst: Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about the dumpster fire, so just a few words on that before we begin. We’ll get into it in detail next week, but you can read the entire Ropes and Gray report here. 

WATCH: UK Coverage; US Coverage 

We discuss:

• Who won the AA battle, event by event, routine by routine
• Silivas’s own thoughts about the hardest mats of all time
• Perms and shorterall leos and mullets — the big 3
• THERE IS AN OUTLINE OF A BUTT ON THIS SPRINGBOARD
• Classic (i.e. horrifying) US fluff pieces
• Floor whisperers: We interpret the floor choreography with 100% accuracy
• The most 80s thing that has ever happened in history ever
• The SHOVE of victory
• Where are they now? Checking in with the main characters

FURTHER READING

• 2019 Preseason Coaches Poll
• 2019 Preview – Utah Utes
• Things Are Happening – December 7, 2018
• 2019 Preview – Cal Golden Bears
• 2019 Preview – Nebraska Cornhuskers
• 2019 Preview – Michigan Wolverines

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• 312: 4th Is the New 1st (Commissioned)
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• 308: 2004 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
• 306: Gymnastics Fails (Commissioned)
• 304: The GymCastic Olympics (Commissioned)
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THIS WEEK (1:30)

• First, Scott Bregman of the Olympic Channel joins us to talk about his fantastic interviews with Simone Biles and John Orozco and handle Jessica’s request for a naked interview with a bunch of Japanese men, or something

IN THE NEWS (19:50)

• We discuss what we learned about THE DOCUMENTS from Scott Reid’s report on the depositions in Aly’s lawsuit against USAG and the USOC – it ain’t good.
• The FIG Congress approved creating a Gymnastics Ethics Foundation — is this anything?
• The FIG has proposed changes in the way athletes qualify for worlds — we like!
• The USAG board has a new chairwoman – is there a secret golf cabal we should know about?
• Lou Anna Simon has been charged with lying to police – oh, that’s too bad.
• Alex Naddour has been removed from the suspended members list.

COTTBUS (56:50)

• Jessica’s thoughts on the crowd, swimming naked in Germany, Milad Karimi’s crib, white boards, and genetically modified Ukrainians
• Spencer jabbers endlessly about the Olympic qualification points rules, what this means for 2020 (not so much yet) and Jade Carey’s strategy
• The Rebeca Andrade Cup – THAT DTY YOU GUYS
• The beam final was a mess, but Flavia got 2nd even with a fall because perfection
• Jade Carey did…OK. She took 2nd on VT and 5th on FX with 3 OOBs
• Marta Pihan-Kulesza has brought back her Pink Panther routine, and it was AH-MAH-ZING
• Pros and Cons of how the Olympic rules have changed the apparatus world cup
  • Pros: This is the most we’ve ever cared about an apparatus world cup
  • Cons: Some of these finals were better than worlds: Cough, cough MIYACHI

UNCLE TIM ALERT (14:34)

• Uncle Tim attended Cirque’s show Volta and has an extra special review for us 

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FURTHER READING

• National Team Rankings – December 2018
• Things Are Happening – November 30, 2018
• 2019 NCAA Roster Notes
• Cottbus World Cup – Finals Live Blog Day 2
• Cottbus World Cup – Finals Live Blog

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This episode has been commissioned by Club Gym Nerd member Taylor, Princess of Sexy Data, who requested a deep dive into the infamous CNN Parkettes documentary, Achieving the Perfect 10, that we can all quote by heart. We discuss

• Background
  • What’s the deal with Parkettes?
  • The legacy of this piece
  • Jessica’s experience going to the Parkettes camp as a youth (!)
  • Why we think Parkettes agreed to this
• Part 1: A 7-year-old with a broken ankle
  • TOPs testing gives Spencer a panic attack
  • How NOT to sound like a creeper when talking about a 7-year-old
  • Everyone says “suck it up” 100,000 times because healthy
  • We root for everyone to quit and go to a pool party
• Part 2: Get confident, stupid
  • Demeaning people definitely makes them more confident
  • The Mrs hates everyone, especially gymnasts, and teenagers, and you
  • Jessica is still fawning over Nicole Harris to this day
• Part 3: Annie, are you OK?
  • “Do you just think it’s more important to have bobbles so people will give you attentions?”
  • Why we’re obsessed with deadpan comedy genius Annie Fogerty
  • OH GOOD THE WEIGHT PORTION, THIS WILL GO WELL
  • “Way to give up, Annie, way to give up”
  • “Was that a try, what you just did? What kind of a try? Is there such a thing as a quitter’s try, like lackadaisical?”
  • What exactly is a quitter’s try?
  • The Kristie Phillips cautionary tale
• Part 4: Aftermath
  • Where are they now?
  • What this says about elite gymnastics, and why USAG learned all the wrong lessons from how horrified we are by it
  • The problem with typical American parents’ view of sports

FURTHER READING

• Meet the Freshmen – Oklahoma & Arkansas
• Meet the Freshmen – Florida & Kentucky
• Things Are Happening – November 16, 2018
• Meet the Freshmen – LSU & Georgia
• NLI Week 2019-2020=

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• 312: 4th Is the New 1st (Commissioned)
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• 306: Gymnastics Fails (Commissioned)
• 304: The GymCastic Olympics (Commissioned)
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• 258: The Fluff Cast (Commissioned)
• 256: 1996 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
• 255: 1996 Olympic Team Final (Commissioned)
• 252: Myths, Legends and Unexpected Moments in Gymnastics History (Commissioned)
• 228: Leotards (Commissioned)
• 225: 1992 Olympics Recap with Wendy Bruce (Commissioned)
• 185: 2008 Olympic All-Around Finals (Commissioned)

 

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