2019 American Classic
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
AMERICAN CLASSIC
In our first episode of the week (look out for a gymternet news episode where we fight for justice for Mai Murakami later in the week), we take a deep dive into the events of the American Classic, the first "big" elite meet of the summer. You can rewatch (or just watch) the replay streams on USAG's Youtube.
- General "what even is this meet" thoughts about...what even is this meet...and whether USAG needs to try to make it an actual event, with a gentle reminder that it's verrrrry early
- Fangirling the queens: Faith Torrez and Ciena Alipio — why Faith Torrez was so much better than everyone else here, and what Ciena Alipio has in common with Ukrainians
- Opportunities for comedy: Thank you to Emily Lee, Mia Heather, Ciena Alipio, and little Hopes gymnast for fulfilling the true prophecy and point of gymnastics by delivering the moments of the meet
- Sunisa Lee's Nabieva + Bhardwaj. YOU GUYS. I MEAN...
- The new juniors we're now officially obsessed with. Spoiler: it's all of them.
- Spencer's opportunity to stop all this insufferable, deflating positivity and fill his metaphorical chalk bucket with refreshing negativity about some unpleasant trends
- What we noticed from the seniors, including an episode CSI: Code of Points
GYMCASTIC GLOBAL
- Dutch Nationals gave us a fight between Casimir Schmidt and Bart Deurloo on the men's side for who has the best (most) tattoos, while Naomi Visser continues to be the talk of the town, and LIEKE WEVERS IS BACK
- Nina Derwael upgraded her bars routine again at the FIT Challenge, adding a casual new Stalder Tkatchev piked. To her Nabieva. And Derwael-Fenton.
- History for Taiwan at the Asian Championships
FURTHER READING
- American Classic – Live Blog
- Things Are Happening – June 20, 2019
- The Race to Tokyo – Women's Team Qualification
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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. |
| 0:04.7 | It is early, we understand. |
| 0:08.0 | In two weeks, you'll have no memory of what happened |
| 0:11.1 | at the American Classic. You're not supposed to be ready yet. The point of |
| 0:14.9 | this meat is to fall in love with the baby elites and to understand how hard gymnastics really, really |
| 0:21.8 | is. That is actually the purpose. I believe it's |
| 0:24.7 | written on the tickets. It says that. |
| 0:27.0 | Today, the American Classic in depth plus Dutch Nationals Asian |
| 0:36.0 | Championships and our favorite baby elite comedic moments from American |
| 0:40.6 | Classic that remind us why gymnastics is so difficult and why we should be |
| 0:45.0 | Wowed, but we see it made looks so easy. This is episode of 369 for June 2019. 2019. |
| 0:53.0 | I don't know what day I'm putting this out, so it's just June. |
| 0:55.0 | We're at the end of June. |
| 0:56.0 | And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast |
| 0:58.0 | in the galaxy. |
| 0:59.0 | I am Jessica. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm here with Spencer from the Balance Beam situation, and this is the beginning of the week when we are trying an experiment of doing two episodes that are in more depth but a little bit shorter and seeing what you guys think and if you like this so this is going to be the meat recap more in-depth |
| 1:15.6 | Broadcast and then the second podcast of the week is going to be the Jimternet news with more in-depth stuff on the Jimternet news |
| 1:21.9 | So tell us what you think of it. |
| 1:23.8 | Let us know what you think. |
| 1:25.1 | Gymkastic at gmail.com is our email, |
| 1:27.6 | and let's start by talking about the American Classic, |
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