207: A History of Political Protests in Gymnastics
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 27 July 2016
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
IN THE NEWS
In the news, Uncle Tim, Dvora and Jessica chat about:
- Russia has not been banned as a country, but the FIG must decide on individuals. (3:00)
- Valentina has declared Ksenia Afanasyeva retired, might not be true but Afan is out.
- Kuksenkov was cleared of all Meldonium doping charges earlier this year and is in Rio.
- Marta Karolyi Press Conference (9:25)
- We've decided Rhonda Faehn and Simone Biles/Aimee Boorman have started working Marta's mouth like a puppet because she held an open practice and even said the gymnasts must all be trained as individuals! Praise the gym gods!
- Germany, Steingruber Win in Chemnitz (14:00)
- Sophie Scheder scored a 15.25 on bars (better at German Nationals with 15.5 which ranked her 8th in the World)
- Catalina Ponor scored a 14.700 on VT in Chemnitz. She outscored Larisa Iordache (FX, double Y turn immediate illusion turn!) on every event (except bars, which Ponor didn't do)
- Ponor has a full twisting DLO
- Ponor took on her haters on Instagram--straight up Gabby Douglas style.
- Insane Skill Alerts (17:40)
- Kirsten Polderman (NED) switch-half Dick. What should the Dick Half be rated?
- Will Sae Miyakawa (JPN) compete her front full to double front on the Gymnova floor in Rio?
- Artem Dolgopyat (ISR) is doing a triple back.
- Takahiro Goshima (JPN) doing a back 3.5 to punch 2.5; He can also do a front 3.5 but he won't be in Rio.
- A History of Political Protests in Gymnastics (27:45)
- Are political protests allowed by the IOC and what are the rules about free speech for athletes?
- Vera Caslavska (CZE) wasn't punished for her protest against the Soviets by the IOC but Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos were expelled from the Games.
- 1991 World Championships, Kuwait's thank you t-shirts.
- Statements by gymnasts that could have been taken as protest speech.
- Politically charged uniforms: Korea vs. Japan's rising sun throwback flag leotards.
- Black Lives Matter (56:30)
- Should the US gymnastics team be prepared to answer questions about Black Lives Matter?
- Rio Olympic Athlete Village update. (1:02:00)
- Dvora's experience interviewing Oksana Chusovitina and Svetlana Boginskaya for Elle magazine.
- Khorkina “Biles will always be second.”
- Maggie Nichols continues to be a shining light of joy.
INTERVIEW Because the end of the quad is a time for competitive retirements and new artistic beginnings, we have a little glimpse into a gym nerd dream job with the casting director of Le Rêve, Louanne Madorma. (1:17:19)
- They have self-taught, level 8 and Olympians all in the show, there are knitting circles and dance contests, but unfortunately it's nothing like the movie DreamGirls.
- Louanne was in the roller-skating sensation, Starlight Express, and has hilarious blooper stories.
- The Wynn hotel, where Le Reve lives, pays for college at nearby UNLV!
- Contact Louanne Madorma at Le Rêve casting here.
- Listen to Jessica's review of Le Rêve in episode 41 here.
CONTEST Win: The End of the Perfect 10: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics’ Top Score – from Nadia to Now by Dvora Meyers What: Write a new rule for the next quad How: #Endofthe10Book @GymCastic on Instagram or Twitter Deadline: Sunday, July 31st at midnight.
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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.com blogger Devorah Myers. |
| 0:10.0 | This exciting and insightful look into the sport explores the recent controversial changes to the scoring |
| 0:14.6 | system and how they will drive American gymnast to the very top of their sport. |
| 0:19.2 | Full of exclusive interviews, the end of the Perfect 10 chronicles the crucial changes since |
| 0:23.6 | Nautia's perfect 10 40 years ago to today as elite gymnastics prepares to |
| 0:28.2 | enter an uncharted world of imperfection the end of the perfect |
| 0:31.5 | 10 by DeVorayers on sale now. |
| 0:34.0 | Remember the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:38.0 | Clearly a bunch of people were hanging out with the gymnast at the ranch, which is like never ever happens. |
| 0:43.5 | You know that like basically once you're on the team, |
| 0:45.5 | you're never allowed to touch another human being |
| 0:47.8 | or see them or speak to them until the competition is over. |
| 0:52.6 | So she said, yeah, we had an open training session |
| 0:55.5 | with some local parents. |
| 0:57.4 | She said that it was maybe not good |
| 1:00.7 | to keep the team isolated and protected all the time. And I, my mouth. not Today, Russia not banned so far, a history of Olympic protests. We are loving some routines from Germany this weekend. |
| 1:19.0 | Horkina talked about |
| 1:25.0 | Black Lives Matter, we'll discuss. |
| 1:28.0 | And because it's the end of the quad and time for retirements and new beginnings, |
| 1:32.0 | we have a glimpse into a gym nerd dream job with the |
| 1:35.9 | casting director of La Rev. This is episode 207 for July 27th, 2016. |
| 1:43.0 | I'm Jessica and welcome to the number one gymnastics |
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