180: Flamethrowers are the must-have accessory for 2016
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 6 January 2016
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary

In the news, Uncle Tim, Spencer from The Balance Beam Situation, and Jessica chat about:
- A clarification to start the year off : USA Gymnastics did not actively delete Marvin Sharp's name from Bridget Sloan's biography page, it was automatically deleted when his gym became ineligible for sanctioned competition.
- Why flamethrowers are the must-have accessory for 2016 and our favorite trends from 2015
- American Cup competitors announced while Russia names 90% of it's Olympic team and Romania announces the Rio training squad.
- Our thoughts on Shawn Johnson's new wedding-YouTube channel.
- Spencer tells us which elites are killing it in NCAA already, which freshman are on his must-watch list and we discuss our hopes and dreams for the new Greg Marsden, Sam Peszek, Alicia Sacramone commentary team.
- Lots of listener feedback about:
- MyKayala Skinner's use of the N word on twitter
- Do we victim blame on the show?
- Who won Uncle Tim's Tattoo World Championships in Glasgow
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- 178: Eythora Thorsdottir and Coach Patrick Kiens
- 177: Stella Umeh
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- 176: Worlds Wrap-Up Show
- 175: Event Finals Day 2 Recap from 2015 World Championships
- 174: Live Show - Event Finals Day 1 and MAG All-Around Recap from 2015 World Championships
- 173: Women's All-Around Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
- 172: Men's Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
- 171: Women's Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.1 | Today, some elite retirement news, new commentary dream team, |
| 0:09.4 | American Cup assignments, and lots of your feedback. |
| 0:13.3 | This is episode 180 for January 6th, 2016, |
| 0:17.7 | the Olympic year is here. |
| 0:19.8 | Yee! |
| 0:21.0 | This episode, I just said that. And welcome to the Number One Gymnastics podcast in the |
| 0:26.2 | Galaxy. I'm Jessica and I'm here with Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Talks Men's Jib and Spencer |
| 0:30.8 | from the balance beam situation. Let's begin with a great and time honored |
| 0:35.8 | tradition, Uncle Tim. So we're going to start with our corrections. Last time we |
| 0:42.0 | spoke we implied that USA Gymnastics altered history by removing Sharp's name from Bridget Slo's biography on their website. |
| 0:50.0 | Jessica, was that completely accurate? |
| 0:54.0 | Well, it's not completely accurate. |
| 0:56.2 | So here's what we found out. |
| 0:58.0 | The name of the gym on the athlete's bio is actually automatically generated from a database. |
| 1:05.6 | So when a gym becomes ineligible, so they're removed from that database, |
| 1:10.8 | it doesn't populate the name of the gym then on the athlete's bio and of course |
| 1:15.4 | Marvin Sharps gym because he was the owner is now not a USA Gymnastics gym anymore |
| 1:22.2 | and so it was then taken out of the database and therefore automatically removed so no one actually went in physically and deleted it from her bio |
| 1:30.0 | but that's how the system works. So did they intentionally do it? No, but it is part of the system that is in place and that could be changed. It's a so, eh, it's still altering history, but no one |
| 1:50.9 | did it intentionally, specifically, I guess. |
| 1:55.0 | If that makes sense. |
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