187: McKayla Maroney Best of GymCastic

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🗓️ 13 July 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Olympic gold medalist and three time World Champion, McKayla Maroney has much to share about where she has been, what happened along the way and where she is going next. She settles long debated gymternet questions and we find out what caused the physical and emotional breakdown she referred to in this video last year. We discuss:

If she feared blowback from speaking frankly about her experiences.
The skill she tried that Marta told her to never to do again.
The circumstances surrounding her injuries and multiple surgeries.
The post-Olympic tour conditions and their effects on her health.
She answers fans suspicions that her injuries are due to poor nutrition.
Some fans claim that AOGC break gymnasts, her thoughts.
Did the advice she received from her coaches contribute to her injuries?
How she dealt with self identity as she struggled to stay healthy.
Discusses the role of humility and insecurity through the Olympic selection process.
Does she think the men's team should be more like the women's program in order to be more successful?
Dealing with criticism on social media.
She describes her personal experiences as an elite gymnast, and their influence on changes she would like to see made at the national team level.
Did she really have to hire bodyguards after the Olympics?
Who does she credit with teaching her that amazing vault technique: her second coach, Howie Liang at Gym-Max or her Olympic coach, Artur Akopyan at All Olympia Gymnastics Center (AOGC)?
Why did she go overtime in 2013 at the Antwerp World Championships on floor?

McKayla Maroney official website and YouTube channel.

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0:00.0	Remember the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:04.3	When I wanted to talk and when I wanted to be open and kind of have that conversation,
0:10.5	I wasn't allowed to have it.
0:12.0	And that was like really hard because my personality is very just like outgoing like that
0:16.1	Like I know Simone's coach like Amy is just like lets her like smile which I'm just like super jealous of which is sad.
0:24.0	But like that's all I would ever want is just to like just enjoy competing like enjoy
0:29.8	training and but I didn't really have that choice so I just kind of like was just traumatized consistently and once you get stuck and like not speaking up for yourself the universe just keeps giving you more and more things that like
0:44.8	bring you down because you need to eventually learn how to speak up for yourself and it was my lesson to learn
0:58.0	This is episode 187 for February 24th, 2016, and welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy Galaxy bringing you all the most fascinating people
1:04.8	from around the gym internet.
1:06.5	I'm Jessica and today our guest is Olympic gold medalist and the three-time world champion
1:11.8	and probably the most recognized person from the 2012 Olympics for her
1:15.6	unimpressed face Michaela Moroni. So we're kind of excited around here.
1:21.2	Thank you so much to our club gym nerd members for making this show possible and also to
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