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MEET NEWS

Larisa Iordache returned from a three-year hiatus to compete at the Romanian national championship! We discuss her performance and possible path to Olympic qualification.

Silviana Sfiringu is the Romanian national all-around champion, new queen of beam saves, and possible bars savior; we’re very into Ioana Stanciulescu’s beam routine; and junior Ana Maria Barbosu might rule them all.

Plus, the ways in which the Olympic qualification system has personally victimized Romania and how tentatively optimistic we should be about the future of the Romanian women’s team.

GYMTERNET NEWS

• The latest on December’s European Championship that’s still happening
• Leanne Wong’s power move during NCAA signing week
• Who’s canceling the NCAA season and who’s still truckin’
• Shane Wiskus is moving on
• Plus, news on Taylor Lindsay-Noel, Maria Paseka’s husband, Yin Alvarez, North Korean gymnastics defectors, and Jessica and Spencer losing their minds for a while

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• 447: Butt Spins for Friendship
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THIS WEEK

• Riley McCusker is suing Maggie Haney. We discuss all the most horrifying parts of this story, including Haney’s response.
• INTERVIEW: Gymnast activist Abbie Hillis and cybersecurity expert Dr. Betsy Cooper from the Aspen Institute are here to discuss the Center for SafeSport was hacked almost two months ago. As of this recording no athletes had been notified.
• This week’s Skill of the Week segment that’s actually like 4 skills, with analysis of the rollercoaster that is being a US junior champion.
• INTERVIEW: Coach Denis Vachon is here to discuss coaching an athlete through transition.

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• U.S. Center for SafeSport server hacked, sensitive documents potentially exposed
• Gymnastics International Episode 4: Russian & Italian Nationals
• 447: Butt Spins for Friendship
• 446: Chellsie and Andy Memmel
• 445: Xenophobic Bells Ringing
• Gymnastics International Episode 3: Chinese Individual Nationals
• 444: Friendship and Solidarity

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GYMNASTICS INTERNATIONAL

Welcome to Gymnastics International! On this show, we take a deep dive into the latest competitions from around the world, covering them with the depth and detail they truly deserve. This week: Russian Nationals and Chinese Nationals

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RUSSIAN NATIONALS

Tatiana Nabieva is the national vault champion for 2020 and all is right with the world, Maria Kharenkova is the Russian beam champion despite no longer competing for Russia, everyone needs to leave Elena Eremina alone, Uliana Perebinosova delivered Derwael-Fenton realness to win the AA, Ekaterina Boeva showed us how to feel about wolf turns, whose floor routine was the most “pain of a nation,” and a whole lot more.

ITALIAN NATIONALS

Asia D’Amato and Giorgia Villa tied for the national title, Giorgia Villa’s Bhardwaj is still to die for, Stuttgart alternate Martina Maggio is stepping it up, we think we’re really excited about Alice D’Amato’s floor routine, and junior Angela Andreoli may have stolen the whole show.

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Gymnastics International Episode 3: Chinese Individual Nationals

Gymnastics International Episode 2: Szombathely World Cup

Gymnastics International Episode 1: Chinese and Japanese Nationals

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MEET NEWS

The Friendship and Solidarity Competition in Tokyo went off without a hitch! At least…if you don’t count the gymnastics. We discuss:

• COVID protocols and fancy special spraying machines
• Japan just hosting all the gymnastics now and forever. We might be fine with it
• Angelina Melnikova is having a GREAT pandemic, and Nikita Nagornyy’s is pretty good too
• Sophia Butler and Yana Vorona delivering our skills (well, combinations) of the week
• Kohei things and casual middle-school Yurchenko 2.5s
• The difference between a Tsukahara (Tsuk) and a Kazamatsu (Kaz) vault.
• Plus, the statuses of Shilese Jones and eMjae Frazier, comeback performances from Zhang Jin and Chiaki Hatakeda, whether we should be worried about Artur Dalaloyan, and which events are jinxed (all of them)
• Jessica and Kensley’s feelings corner and international friendships and world peace and whatnot

GYMTERNET NEWS

• Who’s pulling out of Euros now, contingency plans for holding an Olympics with fans, Gymnast Alliance news from Switzerland, and a (shockingly non-ironic) coaching award for Bellu and Bitang.

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• 446: Chellsie and Andy Memmel

• 445: Xenophobic Bells Ringing
• Gymnastics International Episode 3: Chinese Individual Nationals
• 444: Friendship and Solidarity
• 443: Gymnastics’ Greatest Stars (Commissioned)
• 442: A European Saga

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Behind The Scenes: Today in our inaugural Club Gym Nerd Shareholders Meeting we discuss our budgets, expenses and why we have to increase our base club price to $4.99/month. They are charts, graphs and a deep dive into what your money pays for. Then we rank top Chinese and Romanian Olympic teams, get a follow up about Fight Club; hear about Obi becoming a real cat, blood oranges in Italy; why Chellsie’s attitude about 2008 Olympics so different from her teammates; the truth about cows and climate change; a dishes breaking soundtrack to dance; will there ever be a scenario where women and men can compete on whichever apparatus they want regardless of gender;  does government have too much control over NGB’s now for IOC’s liking; election feelings.

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Behind The Scenes: We learn all about fistulated cows thanks to a hero veterinarian setting us straight! The weird keywords people search to get to our websites; Turnfest; German wheel; all the things that can kill you in Australia, Jessica was almost eaten by a snake in an outhouse; milking boars; our ultimate Olympics chosen by best AA and event finals from any Games; your irrational childhood fears; more Tennis nerd stuff for Spencer.

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