206: The Russian Situation
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 20 July 2016
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
IN THE NEWS
This week, Uncle Tim, Spencer and Jessica chat about:
- Gabby's secret knee injury (3:30):
- "Broken knee" and absentee father storylines continue to muddle Gabby Inc. waters - NY Times and Mercury News
- McKayla Maroney wasn't randomly Periscoping, she was on her way to surprise some little gym nerds at a Trials watch party!
- Skinner Gate 2.0 (17:47): Miss Skinner (and now her coach) continue to get in trouble on Twitter.
- British Olympic teams strategy (28:00)
- The decades of black gymnasts who paved the way for Simone Biles
- Could we have had an African-American Olympic champion in 1984?
- Tutya Yilmaz (TUR) and Jossimar Calvo were the highlights of the ill attended/post-terrorist attack World Cup in Turkey.
- Russian Cup: the provisional Olympic team and the potential impact of the McLaren report (48:00)
- Mustafina had a weird thing on bars, here's the video
- Romanian Nationals: was it smart to choose Catalina Ponor as the sole Olympic competitor over Larisa Ilordache?
- Anda Butuc's onodi mount on beam is everything
- On the men's side, Marian Dragulescu hurt his ankle, but should be okay
- Chusovitina won a vault World Cup with her Produnova
- Emma Larrsson from Sweden had big band version of Sex & the City floor music
- Why were so many people confused and outraged after the US Team was announced? NBC's coverage of the Olympic Trials is at least partially to blame. (1:29:00)
- Read Cordelia's full analysis and math proof about the US Olympic team decision. Here is a little piece of her work: "To take the top 3 on every apparatus, a 7 person team would be needed. The selection committee has to optimize the team score within a 5 person team, while ensuring there are at least 4 solid or better scores on each apparatus. The only combination of these top 7 gymnasts plus Ashton Locklear that meets the criteria is the team the selection committee chose. 1. Biles 248.25 2. Hernandez 241.65 3. Raisman 240.85 4. Douglas 235.25 5. Kocain 233.5 6. Smith 232.55 7. Skinner 232.1. As it turns out, the Olympic team that was chosen is composed of the top 5 AAers over the two competitions with the next two AAers as alternates (which includes #2 on VT) and the #2 on UB as an alternate. They could stop there, but they need to ensure that the team of 5 gymnasts has the highest scoring potential."
CONTEST
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Just in time for the Summer Olympics, read the end of the perfect 10, the new book from gymnastics insider and Orthodox gymnastics dot com blogger Devorah Myers. |
| 0:09.0 | This exciting and insightful look into the sport explores the recent controversial changes to the |
| 0:13.7 | scoring system and how they will drive American gymnast to the very top of |
| 0:17.6 | their sport. Full of exclusive interviews, the end of the Perfect Ten chronicles |
| 0:21.9 | the crucial changes since Nautia's Perfect Ten 40 years |
| 0:25.0 | ago to today as elite gymnastics prepares to enter an uncharted world of imperfection. |
| 0:30.2 | The End of the Perfect Ten by DeVore Myers on sale now. |
| 0:33.3 | Remember the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:37.6 | If the Russian gymnas are banned, we will forever put an asterisk next to a gymnast name and that asterisk will |
| 0:46.2 | forever note the absence of the Russian team and I hate that I want the bar |
| 0:50.4 | champion to be the bar champion no stupid asterisk I don't want gymnastics |
| 0:54.9 | fans to say well molya moustophano wasn't there so that gymnast really wasn't |
| 1:00.6 | the Olympic bar champion I hate those historical asterisks more than I hate |
| 1:06.4 | man wipes on floor. |
| 1:12.4 | Today with only 16 days until the Rio Olympics opening ceremonies we discuss the |
| 1:20.4 | Russian Cup Romania Nationals Skinner's apology |
| 1:24.6 | Gabby Douglas injury in Glasgow or before she left for Glasgow the FIGs response to the |
| 1:31.8 | Russian Olympic potential ban on all sports and our analysis of |
| 1:37.7 | NBC's coverage of the Olympic trials. This is episode 2006 for July 20th, 2016. |
| 1:45.0 | And welcome to the number one gymnastics |
| 1:48.0 | podcast in the world. |
| 1:50.0 | I'm Jessica and I'm here with Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Talks Men's Gym and Spencer from the |
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