212: Rio WAG Olympic Prelims

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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IN THE NEWS

In the news, Uncle Tim, Spencer, Stefane and Jessica chat about:

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How to watch live on BBC, CBC or NBC (details here).
Injury updates, rumors and coaches who don't know basic first aid procedures:
- Samir Ait Said (FRA) suffered compound fracture of his leg, he wasn't splinted before he was moved and then the Rio medical staff dropped him.
- Ellis O'Reilly coaches did not have her checked by medical staff immediately following this crash on her beam dismount. Maybe she was checked after the rotation, either way, absolutely unconscionable.
- Martha Karolyi says injury played role in keeping Laurie Hernandez out of the all-around.
Yesterday's guest, Houry Gerbisian got her her skill named after her! See it here.
Results, finals qualifiers, upsets and shockers, plus individual highlights from the fan favorites. Hint: CHUSO DID IT WITHOUT THE PROD!
- Tutya Yilmaz, Larissa Miler, Vasiliki Millousi, Catalina Ponor, Ana Derek (vault blooper),Dipa Karmakar Jessica Lopez, Hong Un Jong, Marissa Dick, Giulia Steingruber, Zsofia Kovacs
Vault Issues, got clarification from men’s head coach, Mark Williams on what equipment the men actually have. “This is new Speith vault top. OTC has older version + Speith PH, PB & HB.” Alex has Speith PH. OU does not have Speith equip.”
Our favorite non-gymnastics moments; The Judge Cheryl Hamilton Cam
Worst moment: Al Trautwig tweets about Simone's biological grandparents who adopted her when she was a toddler,"They may be mom and dad, but they are NOT her parents."

GYMTERNET NEWS

Round-up of the latest news from Rio includes:

NBC has streaming covering and a daily online gymnastics recap show called the Daily Dismount. We are obsessed with how good they are! Jim Watson, Courtney Kupets and Jonathan Horton #Jhortney 4 eva!
Sex Abuse Cover Up Allegations update:
- “Four U.S. senators wrote a letter to USA Gymnastics President Steve Penny on Friday, expressing "deep concern" about the organization's handling of sex abuse allegations about coaches” - IndyStar
- USA Today has an excellent explanation about this issue in the article titled: Sexual Predators Left Off the Banned List
In happy news, Alicia Sacramone had her baby!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gymcastic. Just so you know, this podcast discusses gymnastics in a frank and adult manner.
0:08.0	We do need to note that the judges messed up Spirit
0:13.2	Omnova's Bar D score, crediting her with a Camova 2 instead of a Maloney.
0:16.8	So she did an inbar, they gave her an inbar stolders chapash instead of a toe-on chapash. It didn't make any difference in terms of the final
0:25.6	qualifying scores, but it is somewhat worrisome that the judges are making those many errors.
0:32.2	Where was Nellie Kim, the 2008 Nellie Kim who walked in March?
0:36.4	Right.
0:37.4	That Nastia got credit for that Wolfold connection.
0:39.8	Where was she today? with you today. Today our second Olympic bronze contest winner will you
0:50.3	announced women's qualifications will tell you who qualified to final turns out Lori W
0:55.1	W Wrens qualifications will tell you who qualified to final.
0:54.1	Turns out Lori is injured and we'll tell you who was to per country.
0:59.0	Our favorite non-gy gymnastics moments and US senators
1:04.0	President Steve Penny for explanations about the sex abuse
1:07.2	cover up.
1:07.9	This is episode 212 for August 7th, 2016.
1:13.0	And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast
1:15.4	in the universe.
1:16.6	I'm Jessica O'Burd, and I'm here
1:18.3	with Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Talks Men's Jim,
1:20.5	Spencer from the balance beam situation,
1:22.2	and Stefan, who you will know from Douglas
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