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259: The Nassar Plea, Parkour Responds to FIG, and Ranch Updates!

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IN THE NEWS (6:37)

  •  Jessica speaks with John Manly of Manly, Stewart, & Finaldi, who represents Olympic and world medalists in the cases against Larry Nassar and USAG, about
    • The plea deal offered to Larry Nassar last week
    • The mistakes made in communicating with victims about the deal
    • Who the real bad guys are here
    • How settlement agreements can be used to change a culture and make an organization safer

MEET NEWS (19:24)

Jessica and Spencer chat about :

  • American Classic
    • Jade Carey’s star turn (that no one has seen)
    • WHY SPENCER DOESN’T WATCH GAME OF THRONES OMG
    • Margzetta Frazier’s new Amanar
    • The triumphant returns of Elena Arenas and Deanne Soza
  • National Team Camp
    • Jordan Chiles is back, and it’s going to be spectacular
    • Sunisa Lee did not attend but gave us an apology Nabieva.
  • How to watch the U.S. (no longer Secret) Classic on July 29th.
  • Men’s National Qualifier
    • Sam Mikulak returns on pommel horse, exactly five months after tearing Achilles
    • Marvin Kimble wins the AA! Cue [hitting pommel horse joy-scream]!
  • Spanish Championship
  • Swedish Championship
    • Marcela Torres, 28, hadn’t competed since early 2016, came back to win her third-straight national title
  • Central American Sports Festival
    • YESENIA FERRERA IS BACK
    • Her floor is the most important thing in your life and ranks among the best in the world.
    • But, Cuba isn’t registered for worlds. NOOOOOO.

GYMTERNET NEWS (43:06)

  • The NCAA gymnastics committee has approved a format change that makes almost everything better! (But it’s not final yet.) 
  • Amy Smith is the new head coach at Utah State! She appeared on Episode 237 to talk about UNC’s Pride meet. 
  • Olivia Cimpian has left Romania and is now training in Hungary. 
  • Tatiana Nabieva intends to return in December, and compete “until I die.” Spencer has some plans for her triumphant return.
  • A British gymnastics coach is being questioned by police for child cruelty and has now been suspended by BG.

THIS WEEK’S INTERVIEW (58:34)

  • Jessica speaks with founders David Thompson and Victor Bevine of the International Parkour Federation and WFPF about the FIG’s attempts to take over jurisdiction of parkour and why they went to Switzerland to fight it.
    • The history of parkour: It involves hot Frenchmen called the Yamakasi
    • The Ultimate Parkour Challenge show on MTV
    • How parkour competition works.
    • PK Silver, Parkour for seniors.
    • Parkour coach Certification 
    • Find our more about adding Parkour to your gym at USAG Congress in Anaheim here.
    • Have insurance worries? USAParkour has you covered.
    • Find a gym with Parkour in the database.

GIVEAWAY

Thanks to the good people at Norbert’s, we’re giving away a beam!

It’s a 4-foot long sectional beam, valued at $79, covered with beam suede and filled with solid (but very light weight) crosslink foam, perfect for learning those jump or acro skills that might be a little ouchy to try for the first time on the hard beam.

This giveaway is for Club Gym Nerd members ONLY. Just enter by email at gymcastic@gmail.com and let us know that YOU WANT THIS BEAM. You just may be the lucky winner selected at random.

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 that day! 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.

BUT WAIT: Before this contest starts, we need your help coming up with the scavenger hunt list! Please tweet us your suggestions using #BeerWithBetty from now until July 31. Ryan on twitter is already owning the suggestion game.

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258: The Fluff Cast (Commissioned)

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This week, it’s the commissioned episode you’ve all been waiting for…the FLUFFCAST! We jump into all the most insane, hilarious, horrifying, sexist, perfect, amazing, diva-tastic, butterfly-gazing, Romanian candle-holding fluff pieces in the history of gymnastics broadcasts. Thank you so much to Fluff Feels for commissioning the episode we were born to do, and thank you to everyone who sent in suggestions!

Jessica and Spencer dissect:

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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 that day! 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.

BUT WAIT: Before this contest starts, we need your help coming up with the scavenger hunt list! Please tweet us your suggestions using #BeerWithBetty from now until July 31. Something like socks with sandals, overused beam poses, someone over 50 doing the splits. We will give you full credit for any suggestions we use!

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257: The Daniels Report

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IN THE NEWS

  • Deborah Daniels, a former federal prosecutor, was commissioned by USA Gymnastics to conduct an independent review of USAG’s handling of sexual misconduct, and her report is OUT.

MEET NEWS

Spencer and Jessica chat about:

  • National championships galore!
    • Canada – Brooklyn Moors steals the show with a Podkopayeva
    • Mexico – Nicolle Castro is going to save the world with her bars
    • Germany – Pauline Tratz is ready for NCAA, and Michelle Timm teaches an important lesson on how to lie on the beam properly
    • Australia – Emily Little’s scary fall — but she’s going to be OK!
    • France – Marine Boyer‘s best-ever beam, and Juliette Bossu is the definition of expressiveness and musicality on floor
    • Japan – Kohei puts all the HB specialists to shame

GYMTERNET NEWS

FEEDBACK

  • Reactions, corrections, and theories about the 1996 Olympics episodes
  • Gender equity at the Olympics
  • Vanessa Atler was better in 1999 than she thinks she was
  • The real reason for the open-ended code
  • How we get US women sent to the University Games
  • The power of adult gymnastics!

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256: 1996 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)

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This week, it’s Part 2 of our very, very, extra special commission series about the 1996 Olympics, this time brought to you by Club Gym Nerd member Kris. Brave Kris channeled Lilia Podkopayeva and rose to Mount Olympus as a true and eternal hero by asking us to talk about the explosion of world champions that was the 1996 WOMEN’S ALL-AROUND FINAL! Thank you so much for supporting the show, Kris!  

Jessica and Spencer discuss:

  • Withdrawals!
    • Kerri’s foot and its many, varied costumes throughout the all-around final
    • Marinescu being replaced by Amanar because Marinescu “didn’t work hard enough.” HRRRRMMMM (4:16)
    • Romania’s admitted age falsification, featuring conspiracy theories about why those medals have never been stripped but China’s have (8:16)
  • How we got here: an ode to compulsories
  • Rotation 1 
    • Intro fluff about what a failure it is to get silver or bronze (13:20)
    • Khorkina’s no-look salute and perfect “Phantom of the Opera” beam soundtrack
    • Was Gogean really “predictable” and “not that exciting”?
    • Spencer spends 715 minutes on the epic LITTLE ROZA GALIEVA fluff (31:52)
    • The most overtly sexual floor routine in the history of gymnastics
  • Rotation 2
    • Khorkina’s brilliant Carmen floor routine, meerkat impression, and…month-long hospital trip???
    • Pod tucks her legs on bars. Was her score fair?
    • Shannon’s bat toes, insane beam save, and why you have to pay close attention to her leo
    • The Mo salto. The end
    • Kochetkova’s beam set is the best argument for D-scores
    • Was NBC more positive back in 1996?
  • Rotation 3
    • American hopes are dashed on the floor in a stream of tears (1:08:14)
    • “Stop crying. There’s people everywhere.” Why Steve Nunno’s behavior was completely unacceptable
    • So many camera flashes. Because safety and security didn’t exist in 1996.
    • Overtly patriotic leos: Yea or Nay?
    • Theories about who picked Simona Amanar’s floor music, which may or may not involve horcruxes
    • Lily Pod makes her Soviet grandmother proud with her perfection
  • Rotation 4
    • Why Podkopayeva always had the edge heading into the final rotation and didn’t “take advantage of others’ mistakes”
    • Khorkina misses bars and begins an Olympic AA tradition
    • How should the Romanians have actually ranked?
    • Contradictory Mo Huilan fluffs
    • Mo’s floor heartbreak and potential chicken-dance penalty
  • The final result
    • You could tie for medals! What a concept!
    • Piskun kisses Pod on the nose because too adorable for words
    • The most insulting interview in NBC’s history
    • Bela and Nunno try to out-Trump each other

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255: 1996 Olympic Team Final (Commissioned)

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This week, we have another very special commissioned episode for you to sink your ears into. Loyal Club Gym Nerd member Robin helped support the show by asking us to talk about everyone’s favorite competition, the meet that launched a million gym nerds, and probably the most important moment in the entire history of sports, the 1996 OLYMPIC WOMEN’S TEAM FINAL! Thank you so much, Robin!

Jessica and Spencer discuss:

  • Olympic Trials Drama! (6:24)
    • Compulsive gym hopping
    • Miller and Moceanu injury petitions
    • All those heartbreaks (Kulikowski! Jennie Thompson! Kristy Powell!)
  • JUICY, JUICY 1996 FLUFF (15:59)
    • “Little girls dancing for gold” (Jessica has some feelings)
    • Romania apparently training inside Dracula’s castle
    • “Just Shannon” and Shannon’s epic snapback
    • Racist propaganda fluff about Mo Huilan
    • Putting Dominique Moceanu on a seesaw for some reason
  • The competition (35:40)
    • The important debate: who’s better, John Tesh or Al Trautwig?
    • How unbelievably super awesome the US team was on bars
    • Romania’s endless injury drama
    • Karolyi legs and form nostalgia
    • What we think every time we see the Moceanu parents
    • Deep thoughts about Geza Pozar floor routines
    • Why Svetlana Khorkina is better than all of us in every way
  • THE VAULT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD 
    • A second-by-second breakdown of the Kerri Strug vaults
    • The Strug parents (clap clap clap, chop chop chop)
    • What Bela said to Kerri after her vault
    • Did she actually do it on one leg?
    • Should Kerri have been allowed to vault again when the US would have won anyway? (1:40:49)
    • Was Russia not able to hear the floor music? Did it matter?
    • The worst, most unprofessional, unsafe scene you’ve ever seen
  • The GALA (1:47:54)
    • The US group dance to the YMCA and the Macarena. It happened.
    • The biggest cheer than anyone has ever received
    • Sexy Alexei‘s pommel horse
    • Khorkina‘s epic bars dismount
  • Fairytale endings! (1:52:33)
    • Where are they now?

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254: Vanessa Atler

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THIS WEEK’S INTERVIEW

Vanessa Atler is an American treasure and fans have loved her from the moment they first saw her elegant power. She’s a multi-time national champion, multi-World Cup champion, Goodwill Games event champion. She would probably have made the 1996 Olympic team had she been age eligible. She was one of those gymnasts for whom nothing ever worked out the way it should have and fans hearts broke along with her through the 1996-2000 quad. We discuss:

  • Why she requested the interview with us
  • Her thoughts on age limits and specialists (13:10)
  • Elements she worked on but never competed (19:25)
  • Dealing with emotions and tears of frustration
  • The Comaneci-Salto & The Rybackis – (22:34)
    • Why didn’t she just take the Comaneci out of her routine and win all the things? 
    • Beth and Steve’s differing opinions on bars 
    • What worked and didn’t work with the Rybackis 
    • How being at Charter Oak effected her own coaching
    • Did she seek counseling or therapy? (31:01)
  • Her early online presence… and her mom’s (32:50)
    • Epic fluff from 1997 on Vanessa’s online diary
  • 1999 Goodwill Games and Sang Lan’s vault accident (34:43)
  • Why she left the Rybackis (39:00)
  • The real story behind the ankle injury (47:57)
  • Why she did not train with Bela Karolyi (50:47)
  • The letter Larry Nassar said USAG received about him that caused him to be banned from the Ranch (52:16)
  • Pre-2000 Olympics, moving to WOGA (1:00:01)
    • What did and didn’t work for her with Valeri 
    • How Valeri helped make her more confident on bars
    • Weigh-ins (1:04:29)
  • 2000 Olympic Trials
    • When an agent gets into the mix: where the “you didn’t make the team because you were fat” rumor came from (1:08:35)
    • Bela told her he’d put her on the team 
  • Did she try and compete after 2000?
  • What are her feelings toward gymnastics now?
  • Being on the realty show “Starting Over”
  • Outside influences: family members and agents
  • The decision to turn professional
  • Fibromyalgia after her motorcycle accident
  • Dealing with anxiety and food
  • Talking about her support for the defendants in the Larry Nassar case (1:36:00)
  • Worlds in China: Nassar asking who wanted a cortisone shot without parental consent and alone in room (1:39:36)
  • What she overheard during a coaches meeting through the walls of a hotel (1:44:11)
  • Would she want her son to participate in elite gymnastics?
  • What she does to keep gymnastics fun for her gymnasts
  • What are her upcoming plans… is another book in the works?
  • What are her thoughts on the Nassar situation and USAG today?
    • How terrible the food was when she was at the Ranch for national team camp (2:00:11)
    • The group message exchange asking for support for Nassar (2:02:04)
    • Asking for help for her bulimia and being told to do what it takes (2:03:55)

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253: Koper, Asian Champs, Osijek and Yoculan is back!

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IN THE NEWS

In the news Spencer and Jessica chat about:

  • Koper World Challenge Cup in Slovenia (results)
  • Osijek World Cup in Croatia (results);
    • Irish 17-year-old Rhys McClenaghan won pommel because you have to stay on the horse people!
    • Obsessed with Kirill Prokopev FX – flares
    • Shelgunova challenges Flavia’s choreography fall
    • Thais Fidelis Dos Santos won BB and floor and her back handspring arabian is HUGE!
  • Asian Championships
    • It’s one million degrees in Thailand and the training hall was outside. Despite FIG recommendation for a heat index equal to or less than 39
    • Tingting won all the things
    • South Korea/North Korea world peace picture
  • NHK Trophy
    • Kenzo almost beat Kohei in the AA with his 15.900 (7.2 D) on FX
    • Kohei’s 40th straight victory in an AA meet

GYMTERNET NEWS

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

  • Technology & Gymnastics
    • What we want to see mainstreamed in gymnastics to prevent injury and aid judging
    • The My USAgym app
    • The new concussion detection test that uses spit to identify brain injury in juveniles.
    • Robo judging with 3D lasers
  • NCAA Happenings:
    • Georgia hires Courtney Kupets and dun dun dunnnnnnn volunteer Suzanne Yoculan
    • Mckenzie Wofford is undergoing surgery for her scoliosis
    • Zoe Draghi’s speech from women’s gymnastics’ annual banquet at Cal
    • LSU gymnast Lexie Priessman won SEC title on torn knee cartilage, coach D-D Breaux says
  • Missouri Gymnastics Stolen Money and Team Policies
  • Insane Skill News
  • Aliya Mustafina interview
  • USA Gymnastics won’t buy famed Karolyi ranch after all. Hummm, wonder why?
  • Who’s coaching your kids? Background checks not required in NC
  • USA Gymnastics Sexual Abuse Investigation:
    • Deposition in sexual abuse case delayed to allow former USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny to attend Indy 500 parties. Not a joke folks!
    • Nassar May 12th Hearing:
      • John Geddert allegedly walked in on Larry abusing one of the victims and said, “That must have hurt”
      • Plaintiff Rachael Denhollander destroyed Nassar’s defense team!
      • Nassar’s defense is that children don’t understand the difference between sexual assault and legitimate medical procedures performed without gloves, parental notification, consent or explanation. Seems legit.
      • Nassar hearing continues this Friday, May 26th. 
        • News reports:
          • Details from preliminary hearing for Larry Nassar
          • Three alleged victims testify against Nassar in graphic, tense court hearing
          • Nassar attorneys quiz women on whether treatments helped
          • “My trust had been used against me as a weapon, and I never wanted to trust again” – Denhollander
          • Meet the 7 women and girls testifying against Larry Nassar on Friday
    • Bill requiring Olympic sports organizations to report sex abuse allegations advances
      • Senator Diane Feinstein introduced her bill (S534), read the text of the bill here and her press release here.
      • Call your representative (find them here) to thank or tell them to pass this bill!
      • To support the victims use hashtag #GymJaneDoe
  • British Gymnastics continues to be amazing. Love to Move is a chair based activity program to fight dementia

FEEDBACK

  • The body shaming of McKayla Maroney
  • Pregnancy Doping – the science behind the myth explained!
  • Episode 252 Myths, Legends and Unexpected Moments Commissioned show feedback:
    • David Henderson at the 2000 Pontiac International Team Championships. The pommel broke off in his hand and the shards on the pommel base ripped his pants.
    • Rianna Mizzen (AUS) had to call animal control to remove this snake from her gym. 
    • Khorkina is the VBBF (VBBF pronounced phonetically = eponymous skill on every event)

THIS WEEK’S INTERVIEW

Jessica Steyers, former competitive gymnast, NBC Olympic gymnastics producer and who is now a NY licensed clinical social worker certified trauma psychotherapist. We discuss:

  • Red flags and warning signs
  • How to help if a victim comes to you
  • If USAG’s response on social media hurt or helped victims
  • The line between grooming and healthy coach-athlete bond
  • How listeners can support victims
  • NBC’s on-air interview with Nastia

Resources:

The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453) is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse. Serving the United States, its territories, and Canada, the hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with professional crisis counselors who, through interpreters, can provide assistance in over 170 languages. The hotline offers crisis intervention, information, literature, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources. All calls are confidential. Here is a list of all the Child Protective Services hotlines in the country. Stopitnow.org has great information on spotting behavioral signs in adults

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252: Myths, Legends and Unexpected Moments in Gymnastics History (Commissioned)

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Welcome to another commissioned episode. Club Gym Nerd member, Alison, helped support the podcast by asking us to talk about the greatest myths, legends and unexpected moments in gymnastics history.  Thank you so much Alison!  Spencer, and Jessica chat about:

  • Greatest Myths:
    • Menstruation, height, beam width, Raducan’s gold medal, and pregnancy doping
  • Legends:
    • Age stereotype-defining heroes in the Olympics and NCAA from Chusovitina to Daria Bijak
    • Innovators from Mo Huilan, Hali Sheriff, to Elvira Teza
    • The 1974 NCAA Championship streaker
    • Champions from Khorkina, Shun Fujimoto, Gabby Douglas and Vera Caslavska
  • Unexpected Moments
    • The vault height during the all-around final at the Sydney Olympics
    • 2004 Olympics men’s gymnastics multifaceted debacle
    • Wildlife
    • Age falsification. Why do only the Asian countries get punished?
    • Lingerie gymnastics
    • The judge who gave an impossible score
    • Tie breakers, wooden legs, circus discrimination, and that one time when Alijaz Pegan broke the P-bars

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251: Chinese & JO Nationals

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Miss Li Qi

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IN THE NEWS

In the news, Spencer, and Jessica chat about:

  • Chinese National Championships 2017 (1:40)
    • The floor fell apart
    • Shang Chunsong got a 3 on bars with a scary fall/ invents clear-hip seat drop to back tuck for 0.8 CV
    • Lo Huan gorgeous beam and bars
    • Li Qi (pronounced Lee Chee *squeals*) 6.3 D score (WOAH!) beam with so many missed connections.
      • Adorable gallop to handstand
      • Her floor is ready for NCAA. So. Ah. Mazing.
    • Chen Yile switch ring to catastrophe but is it the future of chinese bars
    • Du Siyu silver on bars
    • Lu Yufei doing a GORGEOUS Fabrichnova 
    • Zou Jingyuan stole the show and got really mad when he wasn’t perfect on the 6.6. D p-bars routine. 
  • Level 10, Junior Olympic National Championships (26:07)
    • Watch every routines here.
    • Kalyxta Gamiao (Hawaiian Island Twisters) toe-on counter Kim
    • Aleah Finnegan (sister of Sarah) won age group AA/BB
    • Leanne Wong – Basically just won the 2020 US Bars title
    • Lexy Ramler (Minnesota, Kid Sport) toe-on full twisting shaposh to immediate pak;  also highest BB score of competition (aerial + split ring)
    • Ky George (Cal) will be the next NCAA floor star, highest FX score of meet
    • Vault:
      • We explain the JO vault bonus.
      • Kai Rivers (LSU, won the Nastia) – DTY (automatic 80-point Geddert behavior deduction)
      • Haleigh Bryant – handspring pike ½ is Rachel Slocum good
      • Lexi Graber got a 10 for this 1.5

GYMTERNET NEWS

Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet include (41:59):

  • Nikita Nagornyy casually chucking a Tsuk double-double.
  • A gymnastics name pronunciation database!
  • Should Parkour be an Olympic sport and under the FIG?
  • All the college coaching news
  • The US men are actually going to University Games!
  • “The Damage I’ve Done” Kristen Maloney
  • Everyone should sing their heart out during their gymnastics dance class like these kids.
  • When you miss prom because you qualified for Nationals, your coaches take you out for dinner in your prom dresses
  • FEEDBACK:
    • Gender outrage: How is gymnastics gender unequal when rhythmic is only for women!
    • Military academy hazing
    • How to include Nassar news without triggering
  • RAGE-0-METER
    • Stop the glitter trampoline insanity! Wear goggles and a mask!

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250: Cluj European Championships

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IN THE NEWS

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

  • European Championships (2:00):
    • Results Finals Day One, Finals Day Two
    • Broken heart moments
    • Euros highlights and lowlights:
      • Devillard won the vault title with a Rudi + DTY
      • Dragulescu won the FX title in Cluj
      • Angelina Melnkiova (RUS) coming back from heartbreak to win floor.
      • Nina Derwael UB win 14.633 (6.1), first ever for Belgium!
      • Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) mindset perspective.
      • Braegger (14.933 / 6.8) slayed Cluj with this HB
      • Oleg won another PB gold!
      • Ponor winning beam gold at home.
      • Maria Paseka had a 9.95 in NCAA, stuck cold DTY 
      • Eremina near face-plant on beam
    • The Massive scoring error on Ponro’s floor routine that took 30 minutes to correct (25:06)
    • Our favorite skills, combos or single routines
      • Oleg not dying, even though he balked on his HB dismount
      • Artur Dalaloyan (RUS) TTY
      • Belyavskiy took PH gold when Berki incurred a 0.3 deduction for mounting late!
      • Evangelia Plyta bars – Maloney + Deltchev, Tkachev + Gienger
      • Ana Filipa Martins (PRT) return to competition
      • Best combo: Paseka vault + reaction lady (“State Bird of the Gymternet” is Euros vault gif lady)
      • Mr. 6-feet-tall Shatilov is back with a double front pike half out
      • Vendula Merkova’s (CZE) Onodi to Y turn; kicking booty spin, on beam
    • Shennanigans (43:50):
      • Bellu making his old athletes do abs in Cluj
      • How media etiquette differes from country to country
      • Crowd reactions and fans
      • Valentina Rodionenko is blaming the judges for the WAG AA results
  • Men’s NCAA Championship (59:00)

GYMTERNET NEWS

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

  • Head coach Danna Durante fired  from University of Georgia (1:06:48)
  • Lacy Dagen, Ashley Hiller granted releases from Florida and Jazzy Foberg is going to Florida early
  • USA Gymnastics Sexual Abuse Investigation (1:17:24):
    • Joe Catrambone  arrested and jailed for alleged sexual and physical abuse at Atlantic Coast Gymnastics in New Jersey
      • US Elite gymnast, Margzetta Frazier and her family reported Joe Catrambone’s verbal abuse in 2015.
      • Tina Frazer talked to us about why she thinks this situation could have been avoided.
    • Nassar:
      • 3 more MSU Title IX inquires find Nassar violated policies
      • Appeals court won’t toss lawsuit against USA Gymnastics 
      • Nassar’s abuse didn’t stop with the USAGym team; it apparently has affected the Romanian National Team, too
      • Doctor at center of USA Gymnastics scandal left warning signs at Michigan State
      • Nassar’s foundation appears to have violated state law since 2014
      • After Nassar: A community responds to a local face shrouded in national scandal
      • Newest accuser in Nassar case says she was sexually abused in 1992
      • Karmerin Moore Video explaining how Nassar asked to videotape her at age 13
      • Radio interview with Nassar supporter who had intravaginal adjustment
  • More Gymternet News (1:27:35):
    • Mihai’s thoughts on his first National Team Camp in Australia
    • 16-year-old Russian elite gymnast claims coaching neglect resulted in hip replacement
    • Thema Williams’s multi-million dollar lawsuit against the Trinidad and Tobago Gymnastics Federation will proceed
    • Ashleigh Gnat can casually do an Amanar
    • Nadia controversy
    • Gymnastics legend Nadia Comaneci defends Ilie Nastase after shameful Fed Cup outburst
    • Gymnastics great Nadia blasts ‘offensive’ Nastase
    • We pitch Disney shows for Laurie Hernandez (spoiler alert, we all hate live action Disney kids TV shows)

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