176: Worlds Wrap-Up Show

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🗓️ 18 November 2015

⏱️ 106 minutes

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30-year-old Marian Drăgulescu (ROM) won his 10th world medal in Glasgow and the coveted Mr. Congeniality 2015 award from GymCastic. © Christy Linder

Uncle Tim, Spencer, and Jessica discuss the state of gymnastics after the Glasgow World Championships:

Awards:
- Miss & Mr. Congeniality Awards
- Artistry Award (both intended and unintentional)
- Highest non-vault E score Awards:
  - FX - 9.066 - Simone Biles of USA (Quals)
  - PB - 9.300 - Artur Davtyan (Quals)
- Biggest D Awards (non-vault):
  - UB - 6.900 - Fan Yilin (TF, EF) and FX - 6.900 - Simone Biles (Quals)
  - FX - Kenzo - 7.600
- “Size Isn’t Everything” Award
The State of Gymnastics:
- Rules most desperately needed to change.
- What worked in this code and what didn't.

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

Mustafina has had knee surgery. Gulia Steingruber knee injury update.
The Rio Olympic Qualifer Hunger Games-style rule changes have begun, starting with Trinidad & Tobago.
Are Jordyn Wieber, Shawn Johnson and Nastia all training for the post-Olympic tour?
The Myth of Pregnancy Doping: where it began, lawsuits that were won and why it's just stupid crap "science."
Simone Biles and John Orozco will perform at the Colgate Skating & Gymnastics Spectacular at Northern Illinois University on December 16th.
The NCAA signings we are most excited about, including Ruby Harold, Sabrina Vega and Polina "Puppy Feet" Shchennikova.
Your voicemails:
- Is Romania focusing too much on veterans?
- Was Mustafina engaged and where to find your fellow gym nerds.
- The perspective of the Belarusian-American gymnasts and maybe we need an international meet for all this American talent?

Fantasy Gym drafts open on November 29th collegefantasygymnastics.com!

Rio qualifiers and Test Event qualifiers: buff.ly/1NSt2dd

How to Get Your Favorite Gymnast to the 2016 Rio Olympics [A Flowchart]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Remember this show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:05.0	But you do have to put them in special envelopes now, so I mean...
0:09.0	So you're not just waving dollar bills at people like they're strippers.
0:13.0	Nellie, Nellie!
0:15.0	Sticky, 20s in Nellie's collars.
0:19.0	Could you imagine if you're on your third complaint and you paid them in singles?
0:23.7	I was $10 in singles.
0:26.7	Get Jiller Rice in there making it rain all over the technical
0:29.8	communication. Today our world's wrap up shell and our awards plus the state of gymnastics as we see it after this world championship, NCA signing, who's stopping a surgery,
0:45.0	the myth of pregnancy doping in gymnastics,
0:48.0	and who we think is getting in shape
0:51.0	for the post-Olympic tour. This is episode 176 for November 18th, 2015,
0:58.0	and this is the number one gymnastics podcast. In the Galaxy, I'm Jessica and I'm here with Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim
1:05.3	talks men's gym and Spencer from the balance beam situation. Thanks for being
1:10.5	so patient during our little breakipoo
1:12.8	so we could recover from worlds.
1:14.9	And I want to give a special shout out to Vera
1:18.2	in Scotland or England.
1:19.8	Wherever you live, Vera, I love you.
1:21.9	Thank you so much for all of your help. And Judith. you did such an amazing job helping us and went out of their way to make the show happen and I just am so appreciative and I wanted to just send you guys some kisses and love on the air right away because you guys were amazing and I can't say thank you enough.
1:44.0	So let's discuss the state of the world after this world championships by
1:49.6	starting with Mr and Miss congeniality for the Glasgow worlds. Spencer who would you give
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