167: Romanian and Italian Nationals

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🗓️ 30 September 2015

⏱️ 103 minutes

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WHAT: Elevate of The Stage: Xcel, J.O., with Auburn vs. Alabama dual meet finale WHEN: January 16-17, 2016

WHERE: Legacy Arena at the BJCC in Birmingham, Alabama SPECIALNESS: It's on podium and the college coaches will watch the top levels on Saturday night.

TWO PRIZES:

$250 off of a gym's registration (20 or more gymnasts) to compete in the JO meet and no team Fees.
Four VIP passes to watch the college meet on the floor, access to hospitality and four free t-shirts. ***With this, the winner will have to be someone 18 or older because recruitable gymnasts can't be on the floor during college meet competition (blame the NCAA rules).

HOW TO ENTER:

Like us on Facebook
Send us an email with the subject line “Elevate the Stage” to [email protected]

DEADLINE: Sunday, October 18th More details on the Elevate the Stage podium meet here.

In the news, Jessica, Lauren Hopkins, and Uncle Tim chat about:

Ages and height of the US women's Olympic teams since 1972
Why Russian gymnastics fans are the best!
Who's on and who's missing from the preliminary US World Team, including Brenna Dowel!
Is 4th place all-around the worst place to be for an American gymnast?
Romanian Nationals:
- Marian Dragulescu won a zillion medals
- Larissa Iordache is back on top
- Catalina Ponor is injured, but hopefully will be back in time for Glasgow
The Junior Japan International
- Cameron Bock, is he the next Sam Mikulak?
- Jazzy Foberg takes silver and Laurie Hernandez goes undefeated in the all-around in 2015
The London Open
- Never count Louis Smith out, he is on the nominative roster for Glasgow.
- Max Whitlock recovered from his mono and won with a 7.2 D score on pommel horse!
- Brinn Bevan is gorgeous on high bar and why Kristian "The Legs" Thomas should do a cameo in an episode of Outlander.
Italian Nationals
- The perilous status on Vanessa Ferrari
- Erika Fasana is amazing on floor, as usual
- Why Russian fans should love the new all-around champ, Tea Ugrin
- Did Carlotta Ferlito fix her execution problems during her mono-induced competitive hiatus?

Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet include:

Marian Dragulescu shows us allll of the places he shaves.
Sho Nakamori launches www.totaltaiso.com
Dubmash (lip sync) videos we want our favorite gymnasts to post on Instagram
Shannon Miller launched her own line with Alpha Factor.
Australian Olympian, Larissa Miller, shares her story of sexual abuse by a family member in order to help others.
Your letters and voicemails about combating abuse, the "joker" system for elite, British teams update, lyrics in floor music.
Why Danell Leyva is a wonderful leader, a true feminist and a irrefutable gentlemen.

Danell Tumblr Women Props

Bai Yawen is on Instagram instagram.com/baiyawen0909
Adult Gymnastics news: the most adorable Instagram account of a dad and his daughter doing gymnastics together. https://instagram.com/my_gym_dad/

Update to the GymCastic-approved acceptable exit transitions from the dreaded wolf turn mentioned last week:

Wolf turn to gradually standing double turn
- Seda Tukhalyan https://youtu.be/IitX_4Vg4YQ?t=1m8s
- Lauren Mitchell https://youtu.be/Gy2vmdqMak4
Wolf turn to split
- Maddie Gardner (Canada, Oregon) wolf turn to reverse split/I’m the baddest woman in all the land - thug life beam pose
- Chelsea Tang (OU) wolf turn to side split beautifulness
Wolf turn to needle scale turn
- Melitina Staniouta https://youtu.be/4DoBZ1Zfsq0?t=20s

RUby Harold kiss selfie

Ruby Harold gets a smooch from her teammate on the scoreboard.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:06.0	Today Romanian and Italian nationals, more world team news than
0:11.0	non-minative lists are out, Lori Hernandez goes undefeated in 2015.
0:15.9	Russian fans are the best and manscaping from a gazillion-time Romanian gold medalist.
0:24.0	Finally, we get the truth about armpit shaving.
0:27.1	This is episode 167 for World Month, October 1st, 2015, and welcome to the Number One Gymnastics
0:35.8	podcast in the world. I'm Jessica and I'm here with Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim
0:39.4	Talks Men's Gym and Lauren from the Jimter.net, and as is our tradition starting off each episode we make corrections additions little
0:52.3	adjustments like we do.
0:55.0	Usually on things that I messed up.
0:58.0	So the first thing we shall start with is we talked about ages a little while ago and one of our listeners wrote in with a voice
1:06.6	actually she voicemailed in with some facts but I think that there was a little
1:10.6	misinterpretation so let's get down to the actual facts. So these are the
1:17.0	ages during the actual Olympic Games, not the year of the Olympics, but during the actual cycle of the Olympic Games.
1:26.0	So we were talking about, Uncle Tim, what do we say?
1:28.9	It was the US Olympic teams and what ages I thought that there had been 20 year olds at least every single
1:37.6	Olympics since like 2000 but I was a little off so here are the facts. In 1980 we're talking about who was an adult in their 20s.
1:45.3	In 1980, Kathy Johnson was 20, 84. Kathy Johnson again, she 24 years old.
1:49.9	88, Kelly Garrison, Steve's was 21 when she was on the Olympic team and she was also
1:55.2	an NCAA gymnast Oklahoma at the time.
1:58.2	In 92 and 96, also known as the Bella Corolla years, no one in their 20s. Is that a surprise to anyone?
2:06.0	No. Then we get to 2000, the year the Bell Corroli got himself fired.
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