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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

140: The 2015 American Cup

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News, Sports News, Biles, Radio, Olympic, Simone, Podcast, Gymnastics, Douglas, Mckayla, Gymnast, Ncaa, Sports, Gymternet, Aly, Raisman, Maroney, Gabby

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2015

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Simone Biles hugs Katelyn Ohashi after winning the 2015 American Cup.

Simone Biles hugs Katelyn Ohashi after winning the 2015 American Cup.

In the News

This week we are joined by very special guest and World Cup silver medalist, Mary-Anne Monkton of Australia. Uncle Tim, Evan and Jessica recap of the 2015 American Cup in Cowboy Stadium AKA Simone Biles new house:

  • Marta was on the Nastia Cup broadcast doing commentary again and it was fantastic!
  • Oleg gave Uncle Tim the best birthday present ever!
  • MyKayla Skinner crashed her Cheng in podium training and completely missed her hand. (see photo gallery link below).
  • Head Scratcher of the week: How does a gymnast get invited to a World Cup. Read all 16 pages of Rules here or this:
    • The top seven all-around placers at World Championships are invited. If that includes the host country already, the 8th placer is invited. If it doesn't include the host, the 8th spot is reserved for the host. The FIG Executive Committee can invited a 9th wildcard. If after inviting the top eight they don't have eight participants, they then invite placers nine through twelve from Worlds. If they still don't have eight, they then invite each federation in the order they finished in the team competition at World's (up to the eighth place team) to send a gymnast until they get eight. Then the wildcard gymnast is selected by FIG.
  • Do we think it’s fair the way NBC characterizes Simone as unbeatable, as if the pressure doesn’t compound exponentially the more she wins?
  • Debate our favorite moments and best saves of the meet: MyKayla Skinner on beam or perhaps Sam Mikulak on high bar.
  • We give our thoughts on leveraging the host country's music and cultural dances in floor routines.
  • We pretend we are Aimee Boorman and devise a strategy to keep Simone Biles happy, healthy and engaged.
  • We pretend to be Sam Mikulak and devise a plan for him to convert the consistency he had for his NCAA team to his elite career.
  • The High Bar tension controversy: are the men supposed to all use the same tension on the high bar? No, we are asking. We want to know!
  • Nastia Liukin gets her first grade from us as a commentator.
  • Fashion: what did we think of the Nastia Cup leo, and could Nastia's Swarovski crystals on the nails work for the men
  • Friday the 13th of NCAA Gymnastics. Every meet had a terrifying crash. The worst of which was Shelby Hilton from University of Kentucky. We have an update on her and opine that perhaps a little angel named Kylie had something to do with that crash.
  • The Rage-o-Meter ; Trautwig needs to acknowledge that the majority of the gymnasts on the World Cup circuit are in their 20's and that's the new norm. And many women in their 20's make the US Olympic team and even win medals.
    • We launch a new campaign. Tweet to NBC #NoPolosForNastia

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0:00.0

Remember the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two.

0:04.8

Nastia, why NBC are you doing this to Nastia?

0:10.4

Nastia is a treasure. She is a national and international treasure and as you can see now a

0:18.1

fashion icon. You don't see Johnny and Tara on the ice skating shows for NBC wearing polo shirts.

0:25.0

Right?

0:26.0

I mean, it's nastier, like she would look better in a leotard right now than in that

0:29.8

shirt. Today Simone Biles dominates the American Cup as if there was any doubt.

0:41.0

Olleg gave Uncle Tim the best birthday present ever, and we have an Australian treat here with us today.

0:47.6

This is episode 140 for March 9, 2015.

0:51.1

Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the entire universe.

0:55.9

I'm Jessica and I'm here with Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Talks Men's Jim and Evan Heider and Mary Ann

1:01.6

Mokton from Australia.

1:03.6

Before we get started with the American Cup,

1:06.2

I wanted to give you guys an update on something

1:08.6

that happened last week.

1:10.2

Last week, last Friday night was basically nicknamed Friday the 13th of NCA Gymnastics because every single

1:18.0

meat had a horrific terrifying crash between men's and women's and one of the worst ones happened to

1:24.9

Shelby Hilton at the University of Florida. She's from University of Kentucky

1:29.2

they were there competing against Florida and we have an update on how she's doing but Uncle Tim can you

1:34.8

kind of describe for everybody who didn't see the meet what happened with her?

1:39.3

Yeah so she was doing her first tumbling pass and it was going to be a round off back

1:44.6

handspering double pike and she did her first sulto and she just opened up and

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