192: NCAA Regionals, Doha World Cup and Cottbus Highlights

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🗓️ 6 April 2016

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

In the news, Uncle Tim, Spencer from the Balance Beam Situation, and Jessica chat about:

How to watch Pacific Rim Championships from anywhere in the world (3:45)
NCAA Regionals (8:15)
- The heartbreak the terror, the need for warning labels and a recap from every regional
- Our favorite individuals going to NCAAs and superstars who didn't make it
- War on the Floor - Lindsay Mable vs. Nina McGee in Minnesota
- Why the regional format SUCKS and needs to be changed immediately
Doha World Cup (1:08:00)
- Catalina Ponor wins gold on BB
- Bai Yawen competed on a futuristic beam that certainly was the cause of her almost fall
- Women's and LGBT human rights issues in Quatar
- How are the Romanian women looking heading into the Test Event
- Manrique Larduet of Cuba
Cottbus (1:15:24)
- Lisa Top proves the Dutch can do more than spin
- Is Oksana Chusovitina changing her strategy to qualify for Rio
- Dominick Cunningham (GBR) insane new floor pass.
- Oleg Verniaiev update

Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet includes (1:22:00):

The Pacific Rim Championships team for the US
Popa, Adlerteg, Hambuchen, Epke, Yang and Komova all injured.
Olympic ticket sales low
Meldonium update
- Valentina Rodionenko says the Russian team stopped taking the drug in August
- European champion Nikolai Kuksenkov tested positive at Russian Nationals and says they took meldonium "like vitamins"
1984 Olympic all-around champ, Mary Lou Retton and her self-described thunder thighs has undergone 19 surgeries!
Josh Dixon on the importance of being an out athlete and why the post-Olympic tour should also be sponsored by PFlag.

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RJ and his subway sandwiches have won two all-session passes to the Pac Rim Championships to watch Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Brenna Dowell, Ashton Locklear, Laurie Hernandez and Ragan Smith in person! Watch his entries and our honorable mentions here.

Watch the Doha 2016 video playlist on YouTube here.

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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.
0:03.8	Today, Panoa wins gold and dougha. NCA's, Valentina admits Russians took Maldonium until August as a gymnast test positive.
0:18.0	Everyone in the whole world have Niska's tear and Kautibus highlights.
0:22.0	This is episode 192 for April 6th, 2016. Welcome to the
0:27.2	number one gymnastics podcast ever in the history of the world. I am Jessica and I'm here with Uncle Tim Talks
0:34.7	Men's Jim and Spencer from the Balance Beam situation. Let's first get some
0:40.3	house cleaning out of the way and discuss our contest winners.
0:44.4	All right, Jessica, we had some amazing entries.
0:48.0	Some of my favorite entries of all time for gymnastic contests, who ended up winning and can you describe this person's entries for us?
0:57.6	These are we had everyone's entry made me laugh so hard so this was a mock press conference you had to
1:04.4	pretend you had won the two all session passes to Pac-rim championships this
1:08.4	weekend and our winner made multiple videos.
1:14.3	Not only did he make multiple videos,
1:16.6	he took other people's entries
1:18.9	and turned them into his own entry
1:21.0	by adding sound and adding in other people's videos into them.
1:26.3	And then he also used props.
1:29.5	And for example, he was carrying around a subway sandwich the entire time, and he also put clips in from
1:36.2	Al Trotwig telling Nostia that he hated it when she bore a pinklyotard.
1:41.7	So our winner is R.J.
1:45.0	make sure to email us at Jim Kastic at gmail.
1:49.0	Congratulations and you will give you details on how to pick up your two all session passes.
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