196: The Romanian Situation
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 4 May 2016
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk about the state of Romanian gymnastics with native Romanian and editor of The Couch Gymnast, Bea:
- Coaches Octavian Belu and Maria Bitang make 1,841 USD/month while gymnasts Bulimar and Iordache get 460 USD/month
- False reports that Diana Bulimar had quit (6:15)
- What happened at the press conference (9:24)
- Rio Selection Process: who is in the running and how they will be chosen.
- Will Romania ever hire a bars coach?!
- Listener questions:
- What is the status of the nationwide star search and development program?
- Can failure of the gymnastics team be blamed on problems in the country generally?
- When Romanians appeared semi-nude in a Japanese gymnastics video: What happened from the gymnasts point of view when they arrived in Japan to film (39:52).
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| 0:00.0 | That's what people do. Like in Netherlands, they have all these coaches come in from other countries. They have Mary |
| 0:06.0 | Lee Tracy come in and do clinics. That's what everybody does here. All the American coaches go to clinics, |
| 0:10.3 | you go to Congress, like you get trained you know and oh jiss but this is Romania |
| 0:16.2 | did you I'm so naive about Romania there's a backlash against immigrants, foreigners. |
| 0:25.0 | Romanians don't like outsiders. |
| 0:28.0 | Romanians know best. |
| 0:29.0 | They have the best artistic knowledge and the best creative genius in everything. |
| 0:34.2 | And if you're Romanian, you know, |
| 0:35.7 | medals are going to be handed to you. |
| 0:38.4 | Because you're a Romanian coach |
| 0:39.7 | and you know better, of course, how it didn't even bark. |
| 0:43.0 | Today it's Romania, |
| 0:47.0 | after they're |
| 0:48.0 | today it's Romania, Romania, |
| 0:50.0 | after their failure to qualify a team to the Olympics, what's happening there? |
| 0:55.9 | Which individual are they going to send to Rio? |
| 0:58.3 | How are they going to figure it out? |
| 0:59.4 | What's happening with Blue and the Tang? |
| 1:01.1 | What happened at the press conference? are they really getting a bars coach? |
| 1:04.7 | Does gymnastics matter under the current socioeconomic landscape of present day Romania? |
| 1:10.9 | Plus what really happened from the gymnast point of view when Claudia Pachecon |
| 1:16.7 | Lavinia Melosievich, Corina Ungaryanu appeared in the semi-new gymnastics video in Japan. We'll tell you what happened from their point of view. |
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