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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

194: Rio Test Event and 2016 NCAA Championships

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

News, Sports News, Biles, Radio, Olympic, Simone, Podcast, Gymnastics, Douglas, Mckayla, Gymnast, Ncaa, Sports, Gymternet, Aly, Raisman, Maroney, Gabby

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Flávia Lopes Saraiva nina mcgee Flávia Saraiva of Brazil (left, photo by FIG) and Nina McGee University of Denver (right, photo byChristy Linder)

In the News

In the news, Uncle Tim, Lauren Hopkins, Spencer, and Jessica chat about:

  • Recap of the Olympic Test Event in Rio; the final Olympic qualifier! (2:00)
  • Trinidad and Tobago team drama once again. Thema Williams was pulled at the last minute and replaced by Marissa Dick, but this time Thema's coach, John Geddart, may be to blame. Read his leaked emails here. (34:15)
  • What does Rio need to fix before the gymnasts arrive for the Olympics in August; the list is long. (50:03)
  • 2016 NCAA Gymnastics Championships recap (1:05:00)
    • Men's NCAA Championships highlights (1:44:45)

GYMTERNET NEWS

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

  • Penn State has zero gymnasts in its senior class. We discuss The Daily Collegian's expose alleging abuse by coaches Jeff and Rachelle Thompson. (1:58:00)
  • Louis Smith apologizes for complaining about scoring.
  • Russia says the women's team stopped taking Meldonium a long time ago because it didn't have the desired results.
  • Shawn Johnson got married.
  • We are obsessed with this Spanish gymnastics promo video.

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0:00.0

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0:32.0

There were song competitions basically with national songs being sung in Brazil saying

0:39.3

Copacabana and then the Germans sang for some reason hummed the chicken dance for like 20

0:45.0

minutes and then finally like the German adults started singing this like very

0:51.8

Nationalistic German song and then

0:53.5

slavery, Sariva, Garifver seat on the bus,

0:57.0

went right into the middle of the aisle of a moving bus,

0:59.8

like put her arms like one over the other

1:02.1

and started doing like a Russian folk dance like from

1:04.3

Fidler on the roof where they're like doing like that thing with like the ball is on their head.

1:10.3

She's getting the bottle dance.

1:11.6

Yeah, so she was doing that on the aisle of a moving bus.

1:15.0

Everyone was like cheering.

1:17.0

Like, if you think Flavia has any sort of acts going on,

1:20.0

like, no, she's a ridiculous way of sunshine.

1:24.0

Today who qualified to the Olympics in Rio,

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