224: Age of the Pegan
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 5 October 2016
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
IN THE NEWS
In the news, Uncle Tim, Spencer, and Jessica chat about:
- Retirements, Valerie's first official camp as team coordinator, US Team to the White House, Ponor dragged into election scam, Lauren Mitchell retires, and Ellis O'Reilly's fractured vertebrae.
- The answer to the question: where's Gabby Douglas?
- Why the UK men are all learning Pegan's on high bar.
- What leotard designs do we want to see now that GK has a deal with Disney.
- A British promoter is marketing the British Gymnastics all-around World Cup. We give him our advice on how to host the best meet ever.
- Gymnastics scoring displays: what ice skating and baseball already have that we need.
- An update on the allegations against USA Gymnastics team doctor, Larry Nassar, and USA Gymnastics sex abuse cover-up investigation.
- Dancing shows update on Laurie Hernandez and Claudio Fragapane.
- The NCAA has pulled all championships out of North Carolina because state laws makes it legal to discriminate against LGBT citizens. Should USA Gymnastics do the same?
- Your Feedback on our Sacramone interview, WADA hack and the ethical conundrum of buying tickets to the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions during the USAG Sex Abuse Cover Up scandal.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In order to get into the mood of the tango, she pretended to smell a really good case of dear. Today the Obama's love our gymnastics team. It's retirement news. |
| 0:17.0 | Pannor, not going to be in the government. Disney Leo's real-time scoring |
| 0:21.0 | displays and lots of your questions. This is episode |
| 0:23.8 | of 224 for October 3rd 2016. I am Jessica and welcome to the number one |
| 0:29.4 | gymnastics podcast in the world and I'm here with Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Talks Jim and |
| 0:35.6 | Spencer from the balance beam situation. And this episode is brought to you by |
| 0:40.2 | Clarissa, wishing Valerie voted to Lane Gymnastics Blunt Nugget, |
| 0:45.0 | Circa 2009, a very happy birthday. |
| 0:48.0 | Spencer, what's happening in the Jimternet News? |
| 0:51.0 | Well, we'll start with the worst news or some of the bad news if you are a fan of Australian gymnastics at |
| 0:58.2 | least which everyone should be Lauren Mitchell the, world champion on floor. |
| 1:03.6 | She's also meddled in 2009, has decided to retire. |
| 1:08.9 | She injured herself in 2015. |
| 1:11.4 | She tried to make a comeback for 2016, which was hindered when Australia only |
| 1:15.8 | qualified one gymnast to the Olympics. She still competed during the trials process, not at full |
| 1:21.4 | Lauren Mitchell ability, but she was back for it. |
| 1:25.0 | She decided that at post-2016 was a good time to hang it up. |
| 1:30.8 | I liked her honesty in her interview when she was asked about why she was retiring she just said well I'm sore like I'm done I'm it hurts and I'm out and I've done enough and since now it's time for someone else to be the one Australian who wins |
| 1:45.6 | medals at things. What do you guys think about this? Any thoughts on the Lauren Mitchell |
| 1:50.9 | retirement? Yeah I feel like it was, I feel like this is the beginning of many Australian retirements, and I'm hoping for better situations in Australia is what I'll say in general. Uncle Tomb. |
| 2:09.0 | I feel like people blame Laura Mitchell for the wolf turn. |
| 2:15.0 | And it's not true. |
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