223: Tasha Schwikert
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 29 September 2016
⏱️ 97 minutes
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THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEW
Olympic medalist, NCAA Champion, law school graduate (currently waiting for her bar results) and legend of the dance floor, Tasha Schwikert, joins us this week. Tasha (and her baby daughter) joined us to discuss:
- Gym Mythbusters: did she really learn a back handspring on the side of the bathtub, did she give her NCAA AA trophy to Maloney, and more...
- Her famous perceived snub of USA Gymnastics president, Steve Penny.
- Being designated a Vegas Gymnast and a rebel by the New York Times.Â
- Her lifelong relationship with GymCats coach Cassie Rice.
- The difference between Bela Karolyi and Martha (Marta) Karolyi as national team coordinators.Â
- How she managed not to tear her achillies despite lifelong achillies problems.Â
- The 2000 Olympics:
- Making the team as the second alternate
- What she thought of fans perception that it was her fault Jamie Dantzscher and Alyssa Beckerman were snubbed in Sydney.
- The current abuse investigation and cases against USAÂ Gymnastics:
- Her experience and opinion of the abuse review system she served under.Â
- Serving on the USAG Ethics, Grievance and Safe Sport Committee where she voted to ban coaches like Don Peters.
IN THE NEWS
Spencer, and Jessica chat about:
- The allegation update of Dr. Larry Nassar
- 20Â more women have come forward
- Contradictions between the USAG and Nassar quotes
- Nassar fired from MSU
- Update on the Georgia case that seeks to release all of the abuse allegation files USAG hasÂ
- USOC announced a Safe Sport agency
- Dipa Karmakar's coach Bishweshwar Nandi seems like a jerkÂ
- Ferrari surgery and future
- Jessica's review of the Kellogg's TourÂ
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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. |
| 0:04.6 | And this has now become famous that Steve Penny kind of like reached in to like shake your hand |
| 0:11.5 | and then give you a congratulatory kiss on the cheek and you just sort of like, you know, gently touch his arm and give him a look like, no, thank you, sir. |
| 0:19.0 | Can you tell us what was happening there? |
| 0:22.0 | Okay. Today law school graduate and Olympic |
| 0:31.0 | medalist Tasha Schweikert Esquire, is here to talk about her famous |
| 0:35.6 | shade gift with Steve Penny and what it was like to serve on the USAG committee that banned |
| 0:41.5 | Olympic Coach Don Peters. |
| 0:43.0 | We have an update on the Nassar case, my review of the Kellogg's tour, |
| 0:48.0 | and all the Jim Internet News. |
| 0:49.0 | This is episode 223 for September 28th, 2016. |
| 0:53.7 | And welcome to the Number One Gymnastics Podcast in the world. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm Jessica and please excuse my voice because I was out really, really late after the Kellogg |
| 1:01.5 | tour and I'm still recovering and I'm here with |
| 1:04.9 | Spencer from the world famous balance beam situation. How's it going Spencer? |
| 1:09.6 | It's good. Excellent. What do you have up on the balance beam situation this week? |
| 1:14.8 | There I have my review of the trailer for the Alexi Namov tour complete with gifts. |
| 1:21.6 | Yes. the latest. |
| 1:23.0 | Oh my God, it's the best. |
| 1:26.5 | The one with the lion head, right? |
| 1:28.5 | Oh yeah, there's a lot of lion head. |
| 1:30.0 | But it also has horns and I don't know what animal it's supposed to be it's irrelevant |
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