Regionals: Carnage and Courage

Regional team placements by event, Dr. Faustin no longer with USAG and alleged homophobia at the FIG.

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Headlines

• We have our NCAA Championship teams! What are the rankings by qualifying score?
• What were our biggest lessons from regionals?
  • Why note every team is invincible
  • Why is the NCAA suddenly so concerned about athlete harassment from sports betting when it didn’t say squat about the stalking, racism, verbal harassment, and cyberbullying athletes have already been facing for YEARS
• USAG ends its contract with the healthcare provider that employs the National Team doctor, Dr. Marcia Faustin
• NIL Settlement News: Livvy Dunne will be speaking at the House vs. NCAA ruling, a multi-billion dollar settlement that will decide how college athletes can get paid
• Homophobia allegations from the FIG general secretary during a meeting on gender equity
• Russia withdrew rhythmic and artistic athletes from competition

GYMTERNET NEWS

• Former Boise State gymnast, Hailey Okula (Gasper), passed away due to complications from childbirth
• Injury updates
  • NCAA: Chloe Negrete (NC State), Csenge Bacskay (Georgia), Frankie Price (Arkansas)
  • Shilese Jones had another surgery
  • Kaliya Lincoln had shoulder surgery
• Gymnasts are among the 17 women filing a lawsuit against Michigan’s ex-football coach, Matt Weiss, who is being indicted on 14 counts of unauthorized access to computers and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft
• The president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine said Illia Kovtun and his coach could face consequences for switching nationalities
• Gymnastics Ireland is now incorporating anti-racism training into its new diversity strategy
• The Italian Federation has fired its rhythmic coach of 29 years after alleged mistreatment of former gymnasts
• USAG has announced international assignments for Jesolo, Osijek, and Varna. Who is going where?
• Nina Derwael got engaged!

NCAA Regionals

• Who are our team and individual national qualifiers?
• What did our eyes tell us from regionals?
  • LSU cannot be making mistakes if they want to stay No. 1
  • Could Michigan State be the national champions?
  • Who are our best teams by event from this weekend and why the best vault team was OBVIOUSLY Michigan State, duh!
  • Judging inconsistencies…
• A WTF-off brought to you by the Alabama, Penn State, Utah, and Washington regionals
  • BYU and Utah State tried to out-Utah each other by doing a mic’d up feature on the gymnasts’ husbands in the audience
  • HOT DAMN DENVER. The Pioneers tied Utah to knock out Stanford during round one
  • California and Alabama looked nervy in that final rotation
  • Florida showed they deserve to be in the top three
  • Did Alabama get the benefit of home scoring?
  • Did you see that Auburn vault rotation???
  • We debrief the close race between Auburn and Missouri for the last spot
  • Injuries and unforeseen circumstances: Georgia didn’t have a fun time at regionals
    • Explanation please? The Lily Smith beam score that makes zero sense

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