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ATHLETE ASSISTANCE FUND

(2:30) The Athlete Assistance Fund has partnered with the New York Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children to provide child sexual assault prevention training to national gymnastics programs. We discuss what the Athlete Assistance Fund is and what this partnership is going to do. We will continue to support Saving Our Survivors Fund via our store. 

COLLEGE NEWS

• (10:03) The Miss Val farewell meet was as extra as you knew it would be
  • The Valorie Kondos Field Floor was unveiled. We have some other ideas for coach-naming tributes
  • Jessica tells us about what we didn’t see on TV, and it involves flash mobs and ice sculptures and math problems
  • We’ve been given a challenge to talk about college meets without discussing the judging. Jessica accepts the challenge. Spencer passes.
  • Why that ridiculous roller coaster of a meet was the perfect tribute to Miss Val
  • Madison. Ward. Sessions.
  • But that broadcast, you guys…
  • Kyla got a Perfect Fall 9.500 from one judge. Has anyone ever scored a Perfect Fall before? Should it be possible?
• Other college developments including Cal’s program-record score of 197.575 and Bridgeport upping the game for next season in terms of celebrations
• (49:53) We announce the Pac-12 Championship ticket winners.
• (50:15) Regionals Watch: Who’s in, who’s out, and who desperately needs a score at conference championships this weekend

ELITE NEWS

• (55:06) Stuttgart all-around world cup
  • Simone wins with “downgrades,” Ana Padurariu is a dream, Elisabeth Seitz upgrades back to the DTY for the first time in forever, and Aliya’s beam features wobbles on everything except her acro series because of course
• Stuttgart team challenge
  • Brazil is coming for all your titles, and Andrade scored 56.932 (!) in the all-around
  • (1:02:08) Jessica provides a moment-by-moment art-historical interpretation of Eythora’s brilliant beam routine
• Baku
  • Jade Carey unleashes her Cheng upon the world and wins vault in a field that was RIDIC
  • Spencer breaks down the qualification rules, including what happens if two people tie for a spot, and what happens if Jade Carey wins more than one event
  • Floor competition brought us the BODYSUIT LEO HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
  • Controversy on beam: Anastasia Bachynska loses the bronze medal because her coach was on the podium. We have many problems with this.
  • Emma Nedov is the real deal, and Jessica and Spencer basically get a divorce while trying to compare Tingting and Li Qi.
  • Man-notes about high bar (eeeeee!) and the return of Yang Hakseon.

GYMTERNET NEWS

• Gymnastics is for grown-ass women
• Nassar Accusers Sue U.S Olympic Committee For Failing To Prevent Sexual Abuse
• OU men’s gymnastics 111th straight win
• Japan submits bid for 2023 Worlds — yea or nay?
  
• The AAI Award Finalists are in — who’s winning?
• (1:41:09) British Championships update from Katie Steele

FURTHER READING

• Final NQS Scenarios
• Sunday Live Blog – March 17, 2019
• Not Remotely Live Blog – Stuttgart Women’s All-Around
• Saturday Live Blog – March 16, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – March 15, 2019
• Things Are Happening – March 15, 2019
• Spring 2019 Elite Schedule
• Only the Best – NCAA Week 10

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MEET NEWS

• (2:30) L’International Gymnix — the Montreal floor strikes AGAIN
  • We break it down moment-by-moment, try to get a redo for special Belgians, and discuss Alyona Shchennikova almost tumbling into some dude
  • Kara Eaker wins the AA, Shchennikova does the best DTY she has ever done, and what happens when a front tuck on beam is too high to function
  • Lilly Lippeatt’s WOW floor combo
• (19:18) Russian Nationals!
  • Luba from Gymnovosti is here to fill us in on all the goodies from last week’s Russian Championship of Splats—who won, who fell, who won AND fell
  • Who made the European Championships team (for now), and why it wasn’t Aliya despite ALIYA
  • The returns of Paseka and Eremina, how Daria Belousova made Jessica into a prophet, and the most important news of all—our annual Tatiana Nabieva update
  • What happened to Artur Dalaloyan on the men’s side, Nikita Nagornyy’s near sweep, and that time the Rodionenkos retired Kuksenkov without his permission because of course they did
  • All the horrible things Valentina said this time
  • (47:18) Liubou Charkashyna, president of the FIG Athletes Commission, said American abuse survivors are in it for the money. Well fab.
    • Meanwhile the FIG suspended a coach for behavior toward an athlete for the first time (we think)
  • That time Aliya gently ushered a furry out of the way

(54:59) GYMTERNET NEWS

• Rebeca Andrade’s bars routine is everything
• USAG is now using professional security as chaperones for the women’s team
• Jessica has homework assignments for our listeners
  • The Treatment from Terrible, Thanks for Asking 
  • Rachel Haines’ book Abused: Surviving Sexual Assault and a Toxic Gymnastics Culture
  • Leaving Neverland on HBO
• The Landis haven’t been paid from Doha, GreatCoach.com has a full list of banned coaches, 2 MSU trainers lied to police, and the Michigan AG has taken over the Geddert investigation
• The coaching news out of Bowling Green and Central Michigan 

(1:21:42) NCAA

• • A rankings update (DENVER?!) and the race for the evening sessions at conference championships. Plus, the important ranking echelons in the new postseason format—and who’s on the cusp of missing out
  • All the scoring records (and there were a lot) broken this weekend
  • The senior day 10: Sweet or condescending?
  • Nothing is a deduction anymore: The UCLA/Stanford meet

FURTHER READING

• Ranking Watch: Week 10
• Sunday Live Blog – March 10, 2019
• Saturday Live Blog – March 9, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – March 8, 2019
• Things Are Happening – March 8, 2019
• Team-by-Team Scoring Records
• Only the Best – NCAA Week 9

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• Men’s Program Clarification (4:55): Paul Ruggeri is the new athlete representative on the USAG Board of Directors.  Steven Legendre is still the athlete advocate representative for the men’s team.

THE MEETS!

American Cup – Women (7:39)

• LEANNNEEE WONNNNG THE END
  • Fact-checking Jessica’s feelings, brought to you by Uncle Tim (!!!!)
  • Why someone needs to get Armine a Spotify subscription
• Kim Bui is a bars NINJA and Jessica has a plan to get her an Olympic medal
• Grace McCallum will do Grace McCallum every single Grace McCallum for Grace McCallum points. How she rode being Grace McCallum to the E-score title
• TIE FOR BRONZE between Black and Murakami
  • There were four whole world-medal-level gymnasts at the top of their games fighting for medals. At AMERICAN CUP. You guys.
• The true winner of the meet: the NBC trio’s Night of Honesty during commercial breaks (27:45)

American Cup – Men (32:42)

• MATH NERD RAGE: Spencer discusses how Moldauer and Mikulak really should have tied, except the FIG doesn’t know how to math good. It’s the strongest he’s ever felt about anything.
• Moldauer did Moldauer, and Mikulak did Mikulak
• Jessica scores Ma Yue’s stick celebration and has a theory about Bart’s performance that involves Bambi

Jesolo – Seniors (50:17)

• Sunisa Lee is HERE! She won the AA with 56.466—WITH A FALL
• In which we learn what led Jessica to scream “THEY’RE DOING IT” in the middle of a Best Buy and then start crying. 
• Ting Ting for silver. We break down her NCAA-performance floor routine and her most glorious beam 
• Emma Malabuyo took bronze as the most consistent competitor of the whole meet, making us forget all about the back problems of 2018
• Qi Qi is everything, and Italy has one allowable bars composition, but it’s AMAZING

Jesolo – Juniors (1:07:10)

• AHHHH KONNOR MCCLAIN AHHHH
  • She won the junior AA title and proved an understanding of slapstick comedy far beyond her years
• Everyone is obsessed with Guan Chenchen on floor
• We have a moment about the Russian juniors. More like seven moments (1:11:46)
  • Vladislava Urazova won the hairstyle award again — and also like the AA silver or whatever
  • Elena Gerasimova’s fantasy gymnastics video game beam routine is EVERYTHING
  • Viktoria Listunova is the people’s floor champion and has set a new standard for getting into a wolf turn position

NCAA  (1:20:51)

• Perfect 40 Watch
  • What kept Kyla “Kayla” Ross from a Perfect 40 on Sunday, and a discussion of whether she will get it before the end of her career
  • We have national championships sign plans involving one Brenna “McDowell.”
  • When your floor routine makes your coach break into a spontaneous college salute, you know it was a win

FURTHER READING

• Ranking Watch: Week 9
• Sunday Live Blog – March 3, 2019
• Saturday Live Blog – March 2, 2019
• Elite Live Blog – American Cup/Jesolo
• Friday Live Blog – March 1, 2019
• Things Are Happening – March 1, 2019
• National Team Rankings – March 2019
• Best NCAA Team Scores

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NCAA NEWS

• How to get your early release tickets for our live show at NCAAs.
• A little something called the UCLA/Utah meet. We have many thoughts about how crazy the internets are being about MyKayla Skinner and newspapers. Also gymnastics isn’t cotillion, and you all got overscored.  (10:22)
• The Carol Address. An email about the sudden phenomenon called bias in judging (which just started now) was sent to the NCAA judges this week. We perform a dramatic reading.  (24:10)
• By popular demand, the Oklahoma fish net leotard discussion (27:35)
• Trinity Thomas went to national team verification directly after the Florida meet. We discuss what the elite program can do to encourage more athletes to do both college and elite at the same time. (29: 47)
• A shout out to Sarah Finnegan‘s right leg for its unwavering support during these troubled times. 
• Crack or correct: The trouble with DIII scoring, when this Y1.5 gets 9.600. Plus Natalie Wojcik’s make-up 10 and the inconsistent application of “form forgiveness” in evaluating DTYs. (40:44)

MELBOURNE WORLD CUP (47:38)

• Vanessa Ferrari returned with a new floor routine that has Jessica soaring to the heavens. Plus, missed opportunities presented by the small women’s field, how China is cleaning up and coming for all your spots, Chris Remkes and the 6.9 D, our new favorite beam dreams, and a rundown of all the events, EVEN MEN’S. 
• OLLY HOGBEN Interview (1:12:22). Jessica chatted with our favorite Olympic Channel maestro about how he went from drama teacher to gymnastics commentator extraordinaire, unintentional dismounts, puns, and other genius rules for being a kind commentator.  

THIS WEEKEND (1:36:47)

• Clear your schedules! No lives please! This weekend you have American Cup, Jesolo, the Nastia Cup, and UCLA/Oklahoma. We discuss the announcement of the US rosters for Jesolo and Gymnix following national team camp. 

FURTHER READING

• NCAA Week 8 Rankings and RQS Update
• Saturday Live Blog – February 23, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – February 22, 2019
• Things Are Happening – February 22, 2019
• Gymnastics GIFs For All Occasions
• All-Time NCAA All-Around Leaders

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LI LI LEUNG (1:38)

• The new USAG President and CEO is Li Li Leung formerly a vice president at the NBA.
• We evaluate whether or not she is the right choice for USAG (another *cough* marketer *eye roll* and of course analyze, her actual gymnastics.
• Here are some of the former junior elite and University of Michigan gymnast’s routines FX, BB.

NCAA NEWS (19:40)

• Crack or correct 
  • The mega-controversial Georgia/Kentucky meet
  • A perfect 9.950 from Sarah Finnegan, and what should have been one from Sarah Shaffer
  • The latest UCLA 10s from Kyla Ross and Katelyn Ohashi
• Gymnasts are NINJAS (37:40)
  • Anna Warhol‘s epic vault save
  • Jessica pens a love ode to her new wife, Rachel Borden of Illinois 
• Womp womp news 
  • The Toni-Ann Williams injury that’s NOT FAIR
  • Spencer takes issue with UCLA’s alleged pride meet
• Safety (59:45)
  • The NCAA responds to our questions about safety and equipment failures

GYMTERNET NEWS (1:06:19)

• Dan Purvis announces his retirement
• GYMNASTICS IS FOR EVERYONE, screams Jessica
• Utah Gymnastics: Red Rocks Retrospective
• Kenzo can do a piked Arabian double to a punch front double full. OF COURSE!
• Gymnastics Canada launches probe after former coach acquitted in sex assault trial
• The Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals will be made from recycled electronics, a.k.a. our chance to get excited about the 2020 opening ceremony

WINTER CUP (1:16:53)

• Day 1 and the WINTER CUP OF SPLATS – we relive the best falls
• Who made national team? Was it based on reality and results, or…nah? 
• Kensley and Spencer discuss NT snubs (Levi Anderson! Eddie Penev!), the epic importance of athletic goggles, tired old pommel horse narratives, and what the point of having a points system is if you just ignore it because it’s so dumb  
• What is the criteria for being sent to individual Olympic qualification world cups? (Spoiler alert: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) 

CHRISTY LINDER AND DEANNA HONG

• We talk to Christy (1:56:33) and Deanna  (1:39:43) about becoming a professional photographer/videographer in gymnastics, what they’ve learned on the job, the specific coverage challenges gymnastics presents, how to be athlete respectful, and how we stop gymnastics articles from choosing the WORST photos of leaps.  

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FURTHER READING

• Monday Live Blog – February 18, 2019
• Sunday Live Blog – February 17, 2019
• Saturday Live Blog – February 16, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – February 15, 2019
• Things Are Happening – February 15, 2019
• Only the Best – Week 6
• Week 6 Ranking Notes

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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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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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• 307: SHAME – Congressional Hearings Edition

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