246: Kathy Johnson Clarke Regionals Preview
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 29 March 2017
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEW
Kathy Johnson Clarke, American Cup champion, World medalist, 1984 Olympic team silver medalist and Olympic bronze medalist on beam... and one of our favorite television commentators who practically raised with the foundational video, Gymnastics' Greatest Stars, is here to preview Regionals with us! We discuss:
- Her love for the Soviets and kindness in commentating
- Spencer and Kathy preview every regional!
- The judging situation in NCAA gymnastics
- Kathy Johnson-ing
- Morgan Lane; Erin Macadam; Lauren Rice (beam with robot, floor performance); Diana Mejia on bars; Taylor Houchin; Haylee Young of Iowa State (floor), Maddie Karr (VT); MJ Rott; Mary Jane Horth, senior with THOSE BARS; Stacie Webb, BB; Autumn Jorgensen, BB, JO national champ; George Washington's Drouin-Allaire and Winstanley; Kirah Koshinski, WVU - underappreciated 1.5 and DLO; Rachel Stypinski, Kent State - all the 9.9s.
- Age and training hours
- What makes for good gymnastics television
- 1978 World Championships and the famous floor routine that broke through the Soviet stronghold... and medaled in floor finals with Elena Mukhina and Nelli Kim.
- Why she has been so fearlessly outspoken on abuse and safeguarding in gymnastics and youth sports.
RELATED LINKS
Congressional hearings on Senate Bill 534 - watch it here
- Call your representative (find them here) to thank or tell them to pass this bill!
USA Gymnastics Blasted for Skipping Senate Hearing on Sex Abuse "I'm deeply disappointed they've sent a statement but no witness to question," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said, "If they really cared, they would be here," he added. "They have to answer for what happened here." USOC apologizes to sex abuse victims, says Olympic sports culture needs change. Olympic Gymnasts Recount Their Experiences of Sexual Abuse at a Senate Judiciary Committee
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I would have gone to the Soviet Union in a heartbeat if somebody had invited me to go over and train with them. |
| 0:05.6 | I watched them so closely whenever I had the opportunity to just, you know, even just train during |
| 0:11.1 | world championships if we'd happen to be in the gym at the |
| 0:14.4 | same time I watched them so closely and could just tell instantly their training |
| 0:19.1 | was far superior and they were doing things that we weren't doing. |
| 0:27.0 | Today we are going to preview NCA Regional with Olympic medalist Kathy Johnson Clark. |
| 0:37.0 | This is episode 246 for March 28th, 2017 and and welcome to the Number 1 gymnastics |
| 0:43.2 | podcast in the world. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer |
| 0:46.3 | from the balance beam situation. |
| 0:48.2 | And we are joined by the one and only, Kathy Johnson Clark, |
| 0:51.2 | American Cup Champion, World Medalist, Olympic Silver Medalist, and the 84 Olympics, Olympic Bronze Medalist on Beam, and one of our all-time favorite commentators who practically raised us from Little Baby |
| 1:04.7 | Gymnards in the crib with America's Greatest Star video on VHS, which you can get in our Amazon store. |
| 1:11.3 | If you don't already have it, you're really going to need to watch that so we're going to talk to Kathy about her life |
| 1:16.0 | Then we're going to talk about regionals and do a preview with Spencer and Kathy and then we're going to get back into what's happening with USA gymnastics right now. |
| 1:23.5 | I want to let you guys know that I'm recording this intro on the 28th. |
| 1:27.8 | We recorded with Kathy yesterday, and today is the day of the congressional hearings happened in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:33.7 | About Senator Feinstein's Bill 534 that we've been telling you about. |
| 1:37.8 | The bill is called Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse Act of 2017. |
| 1:42.2 | Jamie Dancher, Jessica Howard, Dominic Mocciano, all testified, as did |
| 1:46.4 | Rick Adams, who is the chief of Paralympic Sport and National Governing Body Development |
| 1:51.6 | for the U.S. Olympic Committee. |
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