182: Triumvirate of Glory

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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🗓️ 20 January 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

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Paul Ruggeri, Steve Legendre, Brandon Wynn, Donell Whittenburg, Sam Mikulak, Danell Leyva, Alex Naddour and Jake Dalton (L-R) at training camp in Rio.

In the news, Jessica, Spanny Tampson, and Lauren Hopkins chat about:

The most important innovator on vault of all time, Natalia Yurchenko gave a fantastic interview which made us wonder if more cultural context is needed when commentary is given about the Russian gymnast's sideline
Who we are most excited to see at the American Cup and why Mai Murakami is going to win floor according to Jessica.
NCAA (19:00)
- Why aren't there more head coaches of color in the NCAA?
- Heroes of the week: Alex Marks (OU), Kennedy Baker (FL), Michaela Gerber (UCLA)
- The Yurchenko 1.5 situation
- Can someone interpret Charity Jones (OU) floor routine for us?
- Which team we'd buy a workout video from because their conditioning is insane!
Gymternet News (49:00)
- Afanasyeva has ankle treatment in Munich
- Why do all the Russians have to go to Germany for medical care?
- Nica Hults got a 10 on beam while Simone Biles cheered like crazy and Chusovitina intimidated the judges at the Texas Prime meet.
- The US men wore culturally appropriate bathing suits on their trip to Rio, and shocker, the world responded with joy!
- Where we'd send the US women for international training camps like the men have.

What: One lucky listener will have their very own unique skill or routine written into book two of the Lauren Hopkins 2016 trilogy.

How: Tag us in your routine (5 skills) or skill invention with #2016trilogy on our Facebook page or Twitter. For example, "1.5 twisting Shapahnikova catch in reverse grip to immediate Geiger @GymCastic #2016Trilogy"

Prize: A copy of Lauren's book, "Finding Our Balance"

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0:00.0	Well, and they love the Cold War, like still going all whatever.
0:03.2	So if NBC is in charge, like, they're going to have infographics of like missiles coming
0:07.5	out of Komova's mouth or something.
0:09.8	Today. Today, Afasanava's ankle is not cooperating, your Chenko's take on the Russian ethos.
0:21.0	The American Cup roster, NCA Heroes of the Week, and the U.S. men are marketing themselves
0:28.0	very well in Brazil.
0:30.0	This is episode 182 for January 20, 2016.
0:34.4	And welcome to the number one gymnastics
0:36.5	podcast in the entire galaxy.
0:38.8	I'm Jessica, and I'm here with Lauren from the Jimter dot net and Spanny Tamsin from Spanny's big fake
0:45.9	smile. Let's begin by talking about the amazing interview with Natalia Yurchenko
0:52.0	who I don't know do you guys can you think of
0:56.0	anybody else who's more important than she is or who's as important as she is to the history of innovation on vault.
1:05.0	Is there anybody comparable?
1:10.0	For just winning? No.
1:11.0	No, yeah, I was thinking of I mean some men but no like
1:17.0	Sukahara maybe for men but that's what I was thinking yeah yeah she's I feel like
1:21.9	if your name is something that's said every single day like 300 times per meet, then I feel like you're pretty much like it for innovators.
1:31.0	Yeah, totally agree. So thanks to rewriting gymnastics who have a real live certified
1:37.0	official badass Russian translator, we can we have a very dependable
1:41.6	translation of her interview.
1:44.0	And she is, let me see, so she has the Urchenko vault of course, and then she also has
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