147: The 2015 European Championships

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🗓️ 1 June 2016

⏱️ 109 minutes

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This GymCastic Classic originally aired April 29th 2015. The 2016 Euros start this week!

Current Australian national team member and World Cup medalist, Mary-Anne "Mez" Monckton joins Emma to give us all the details on the 2015 European Championships in Montpellier, France:

Preliminary Problems:
- Before the meet even started Kristina Pravdina (AZB) and Anna Pavlova (AZB), along with Alla Sosnitkaya (RUS) were all out with injuries.
- Epke fell on high bar and failed to make finals. What world is this?!
Women's All-Around:
- Historic Firsts: Giulia Steingruber all-around gold was the first ever win for Switzerland, Ellie Downie's bronze was the first ever medal for Great Britain, Poland's fifth place all-around for Marta Pihan-Kulesza was the highest ever finish for Poland--from a 27 year-old!
- Can the Russian women challenge the US now that they have two Amanar's in the lineup?
Men's All-Around
- Sam Oldham returned after his awful ankle injury at Commonwealth Games.
- The Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) vs. Oleg Stepko (AZE, formerly UKR) show down.
- David Belyavskiy (RUS) and Verniaiev showed the world why sports and peace go hand in hand.
Event Finals
- Rayderley Zapata (ESP) was allowed to repeat his floor routine after a timing error.
- Maria Paseka (RUS) flew in last minute and won gold where difficulty won over execution.
- The bars nail biter coming down to two-tenths for Daria Spiridonova (RUS) where perfect form came in third from Sanne Wevers (NED).
- Champion, Eleftherios Petrounias (GRC) actually made Emma and Mez want to watch Rings, RINGS!
- Andreea Munteanu (ROU) won beam, but Vasiliki Millousi (GRE) stole our hearts and broke them again when she fell at the very very end of her routines.
- Claire Martin (FRA) brought back some well deserved glory to French gymnastics after a long drought.
- Marijo Moznik (CRO) vs. Sam Oldham (GBR) high bar debate, justified or not?
Fragapane's ridiculous, unbelievable, not pretty but amazing save on beam - video.
We reanact Carlotta Ferlito's tweet as she, once again, blames everyone but herself for not making beam finals.

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0:00.0	Emma and Mez are here so you're going to get all the real life elite gymnast stories.
0:06.0	You can always tell when somebody shouldn't really be competing by the amount of tape they use.
0:11.0	I should never compete there.
0:13.0	I should never compete there.
0:14.0	If those are the rules.
0:18.0	I use like a roller tape and daze.
0:20.0	And all the excellent analysis.
0:23.0	On any apparatus, it's so hard to build difficulty when you get up near the sixes.
0:28.0	Like you can put in another D or E and it might give you point one,
0:31.0	and it's like the hardest skill you're doing, and it's really difficult to add it in but you can lose it like that.
0:37.2	Like you flex your foot that's point one. You separate your legs that's point one. You know what I mean? It's like it's so easy to lose what you just
0:43.9	spent months and months trying to put into your routine.
0:48.4	Switzerland, yes, Julius Steingruber, beat Russia, the British and the Romanians to take home
0:58.0	the 2015 European Championship all-around Medal in Montfite France.
1:04.3	This is episode 147 for April 29, 2015.
1:08.7	Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in The Star System. I'm Jessica and today Emma is here with
1:16.3	Australian national team member and World Cup medalist Marianne Mez Monckton.
1:21.6	They're going to tell you everything that happened at the historic European
1:25.6	Championships, which may mean we've entered a new era of parody in elite gymnastics. I'm not sure. you'll have to tell us what you guys think.
1:34.7	We're going to start with event finals because honestly they're my favorite and they're the
1:39.2	most exciting even rings. Wait to you guys hear about rings. It's shocking I know no one fell asleep during rings. Wait until you guys hear about rings. It's shocking, I know.
1:43.0	No one fell asleep during rings.
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