200: Alicia Sacramone

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🗓️ 15 June 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEW

We are honored and humbled to welcome back the legend herself, Alicia Sacramone, to celebrate our 200th episode. She joined us for episode 43, the first ever panel on LGBT Issues in Gymnastics in 2013. Since then she's married her longtime boyfriend, started a few businesses, and began coaching and doing choreography. Alicia is expecting her first child this summer. The Olympic silver medalist, 10x World medalist and 4x World Champion discussed:

The crazy vault she never got to compete
Her goal as a television analyst for the SEC Network
Competing in college at Brown and elite simultaneously
- How Marta Karolyi reacted and why she decided to go pro with Under Armour
Transitioning to the open-ended scoring system:
- The 2006 floor leap series incident when her routine wasn't credited and she didn't make finals
- Placing behind Cheng Fei in 2008 Olympic vault final even though Fei had a fall
- Which gymnast rocked the Code of Points best
Clarifying the facts from Shawn Johnson's recent speech for the Regan Foundation.
The Comeback:
- Tokyo World Championships achilles tear, pain medication and fan reactions to her being awarded the team gold medal even though she couldn't compete.
- How her husband and cross training helped, and what technology she used to come back better than ever after her injury.
- Why Brestyan's gymnasts don't get injured when they land short. Here is a video sample of "Brestyan Legs"
2012 Olympic Trials: what happened behind the scenes, did the selection committee make the right choice, and what she did to get over it
Almost getting into a fight with Isabella Severino (FRA) on the dance floor and the competition floor!
Being the Athlete Representative at USA Gymnastics
- Combating barbaric training methods
- How she promoted positive body image and health education
- Why USA Gymnastics has struggled to retain dietitians and nutritionists for the national team.
- Her own struggles with healthy eating
Growing up in a leotard:
- A little advice about boobs, hygiene, underwear and hair that every coach, parent and gymnast can benefit from.
Are cameras too close to gymnasts on the sidelines of the competition?
- What she tells the directors on the SEC Network about appropriate and inappropriate shots.

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0:00.0	Remember the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:04.0	Yeah, we were doing, so Marta always made me lead warm up because I was very aggressive and
0:08.8	it would cut people off and just like get the use of the floor that we needed and she always thought that was so great but it
0:14.0	pissed off so many people so they were doing like line drills and we were
0:18.8	stretching and she just freaking booted me and I like her and look and was like that which will play.
0:27.0	It became like this whole situation even the coaches thought it was hilarious and they were just dying.
0:34.3	I think I like hip checked her or something on the dance floor and her like little clutch went flying
0:39.1	or cigarettes came out. It was like it was absurd but it was but it was years ago, but yeah, she, like we have like there was a disdain towards each other for sure.
0:47.0	Today it's Alicia freaking Sacramento is here. So excited we talk about dance fights of
0:59.8	puberty that time Nellie Kim stopped her from getting into floor finals, the 2008 Olympics, the 2012
1:05.5	Heartbreak, not being named for the team, breast gene legs, body image, cross-training and technology that got
1:11.8	her back after her Achilles tear and her fight
1:14.8	for gymnast health and safety as the USA Gymnastics athlete rep. This is
1:19.4	episode 200. Our 200th episode it's June 15th, 2016 and welcome to the number one
1:27.1	gymnastics podcast ever in the history of the world. I'm Jessica.
1:30.5	Before we get started I'm gonna let you know that it's time for our June giveaway for club gym nerd members.
1:35.8	Club members are eligible for six giveaways a year and in keeping with the theme of Brestians gymnast because a sacramony went to Brestians gymnast because a
1:43.3	sacramony went to Brestians and Ali Raisman went to Brestians.
1:47.2	This month we are giving away an autographed Ali Raisman
1:50.5	baseball card.
1:51.4	It's still in its Nurdelicious plastic cover. So if you want to like keep it on the
1:56.8	shelf forever and then sell it on eBay like 25 years from now, you can do that in some perfect condition it only costs two
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