219: Rio Olympic Event Finals Day 3 plus behind the scenes with Houry

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2016

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

IN THE NEWS

Day Three, Rio Olympic Event Finals: Women's floor, high bar and parallel bars hosts Spencer, Houry Gebeshian (27 year-old, first ever female Olympic qualifier for Armenia) and Jessica chat about:

Ukraine's rhythmic group routine to Madonna's Vogue was epic. (4:30)
Spencer recaps The Gala (5:50)
Listener Questions (17:00):
- Are gymnasts in the military?
- Race in Rio:
  - Why was Gabby Douglas a target of so much hate, and is her Miss American judging move hypocritical?
  - Is it ok to move forward and forgive Arthur Nory Mariano since he has apologized?
  - Which federation handled issues of race in an appropriate way?
Our favorite and least favorite not-gymnastics moments (13:00)
The Gymternet News (33:57):
- Q&A with Houry about security, flooded rooms, medical care, brazilian fans, and the famous condom machines.
- Grandi and his big mouth strike again. Gymnastics chief prefers Raisman style to Biles "acrobatics" and China are trapped in a robotic style of training.
- Ponor went off on Tumblr, but Bea from The Couch Gymnast put it in perspective for us.
- NBC's epic propaganda-filled fluff piece on Bela and Marta Karolyi :
  - Watch it here
  - Martha and Bela Karolyi Were Great Coaches, But They Also Allegedly Abused Their Gymnasts
- #GymUnsafe news
  - Coach Jeff Bateman of California and Oregon sentenced to 25 years
  - Keith Callen, 45 of Pennsylvania will stand trial for charges of sexual assault
  - In the wake of an IndyStar investigation, Kellogg’s, a key USA Gymnastics sponsor, has added its voice to a chorus of state and federal lawmakers seeking assurances that the organization is doing enough to protect young gymnasts from sexual predators
Full recap of each event final details, scores, and moments we loved from:
- Women's Floor Final (1:02:00):
  - How was the Gymnova floor and carpet for Houry?
  - Simone locked down her place in history with another gold.
  - Aly Raisman vs. Simone Biles execution deductions explained.
- High Bar Final (1:14:58):
  - Fabian Hambuchen finally won!! Hambiceps hugs for everyone!
  - Manrique Larduet was a Kerri Strug-esque hero again with his triple twisting double layout!
  - Should inquiry's now be conducted like they were in wrestling, by throwing plushy toys or like these Mongolian wrestling coaches by furiously stripping.
  - Houry watched Epke's crash in person. As an A.T.C. and physician's assistant, we asked her opinion of how his fall and Ellis O’Reilly’s beam crash were handled. (1:24:39)
- P-Bars Final (1:31:04): The Oleg Vernaieve, Danell Leyva and Belyavsk party where Manrique Larduet was a Kerri Strug-esque hero!
Watch "The Gerbeshian" on bars here.

RELATED LINKS

Full Olympic gymnastics results here
Height, Ages and Repeat U.S. Olympic Gymnasts
NBC streaming coverage has been archived in full along with the daily online gymnastics recap show with Courtney Kupets and Jon Horton, produced by Lauren Hopkins, edited by Deanne Hong called the Daily Dismount.

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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	So, okay, I mean you guys probably know the condom machines like they're so awkward.
0:09.1	They're like in the middle of you know these public places you have to crank them and they're so loud and everybody
0:17.0	turns and is like he he he she's taking a condom's like, are we in middle school?
0:24.0	Come on, well, not middle school.
0:26.0	I hope people are not taking condoms.
0:27.0	Well, safe sex is good.
0:30.0	Same sex is good. But anyway. Good. event finals. Spencer recaps the gala.
0:43.2	I'm excited for that.
0:45.2	Hurry Garvijian is here to give us the inside scoop from behind the scenes in Rio.
0:51.0	Panora let loose, but was her anger maybe directed in the wrong way?
0:55.8	Norie Skinner and Gabby, we discuss Race in Rio, plus all the Jim Internet News.
1:01.1	This is episode 219 for August 24th, 2016 and welcome to the number
1:06.2	one gymnastics podcast with over a million downloads. I am Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the balance theme situation and Horavijian, the very first Armenian female
1:18.6	Olympic gymnast ever who now has a skill named after her in the coded points. Random applause for
1:25.7	Haruori. So excited for you. So amazing.
1:29.7	Yay! This very special episode is brought to you by club gym nerd member Lindsay who doesn't love
1:37.3	floating in pool raft stillman who says so glad I found your podcast and the gymternet. My friends and family thank you also because they were getting tired of listening to me talk about gymnastics and pretending that they cared.
1:49.0	Thanks for keeping the show super positive and not feeding the haters and Twitter trolls except for
1:53.2	outrout wig that troll needs to go hashtag fire outrout leg.
1:56.4	That's the best dedication ever. If you would also like to dedicate an episode, you can do so like Lindsay did by going to the
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