250: Cluj European Championships
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 3 May 2017
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
IN THE NEWS
In the news, Uncle Tim, Spencer, Lauren, and Jessica chat about:
- European Championships (2:00):
- Results Finals Day One, Finals Day Two
- Broken heart moments
- Euros highlights and lowlights:
- Devillard won the vault title with a Rudi + DTY
- Dragulescu won the FX title in Cluj
- Angelina Melnkiova (RUS) coming back from heartbreak to win floor.
- Nina Derwael UB win 14.633 (6.1), first ever for Belgium!
- Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) mindset perspective.
- Braegger (14.933 / 6.8) slayed Cluj with this HB
- Oleg won another PB gold!
- Ponor winning beam gold at home.
- Maria Paseka had a 9.95 in NCAA, stuck cold DTY
- Eremina near face-plant on beam
- The Massive scoring error on Ponro's floor routine that took 30 minutes to correct (25:06)
- Our favorite skills, combos or single routines
- Oleg not dying, even though he balked on his HB dismount
- Artur Dalaloyan (RUS) TTY
- Belyavskiy took PH gold when Berki incurred a 0.3 deduction for mounting late!
- Evangelia Plyta bars - Maloney + Deltchev, Tkachev + Gienger
- Ana Filipa Martins (PRT) return to competition
- Best combo: Paseka vault + reaction lady ("State Bird of the Gymternet" is Euros vault gif lady)
- Mr. 6-feet-tall Shatilov is back with a double front pike half out
- Vendula Merkova's (CZE) Onodi to Y turn; kicking booty spin, on beam
- Shennanigans (43:50):
- Bellu making his old athletes do abs in Cluj
- How media etiquette differes from country to country
- Crowd reactions and fans
- Valentina Rodionenko is blaming the judges for the WAG AA results
- Men's NCAA Championship (59:00)
- Oklahoma finishes perfect season with third straight national championship
- Why Anthony McCallum's back-to-back NCAA vault title is so impressive
- Air Force gymnast, Tim Wang, made history at NCAA Championships
- Hazing on the Air Force gymnastics team: Cadets, coach were punished after investigation
GYMTERNET NEWS
Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet include:
- Head coach Danna Durante fired from University of Georgia (1:06:48)
- 3 gymnasts dismissed from Georgia's team
- Dismissal of gymnasts not the right solution, handled poorly by Georgia
- Lacy Dagen, Ashley Hiller granted releases from Florida and Jazzy Foberg is going to Florida early
- USA Gymnastics Sexual Abuse Investigation (1:17:24):
- Joe Catrambone arrested and jailed for alleged sexual and physical abuse at Atlantic Coast Gymnastics in New Jersey
- US Elite gymnast, Margzetta Frazier and her family reported Joe Catrambone's verbal abuse in 2015.
- Tina Frazer talked to us about why she thinks this situation could have been avoided.
- Nassar:
- 3 more MSU Title IX inquires find Nassar violated policies
- Appeals court won't toss lawsuit against USA Gymnastics
- Nassar's abuse didn't stop with the USAGym team; it apparently has affected the Romanian National Team, too
- Doctor at center of USA Gymnastics scandal left warning signs at Michigan State
- Nassar's foundation appears to have violated state law since 2014
- After Nassar: A community responds to a local face shrouded in national scandal
- Newest accuser in Nassar case says she was sexually abused in 1992
- Karmerin Moore Video explaining how Nassar asked to videotape her at age 13
- Radio interview with Nassar supporter who had intravaginal adjustment
- Joe Catrambone arrested and jailed for alleged sexual and physical abuse at Atlantic Coast Gymnastics in New Jersey
- More Gymternet News (1:27:35):
- Mihai's thoughts on his first National Team Camp in Australia
- 16-year-old Russian elite gymnast claims coaching neglect resulted in hip replacement
- Thema Williams's multi-million dollar lawsuit against the Trinidad and Tobago Gymnastics Federation will proceed
- Ashleigh Gnat can casually do an Amanar
- Nadia controversy
- Gymnastics legend Nadia Comaneci defends Ilie Nastase after shameful Fed Cup outburst
- Gymnastics great Nadia blasts 'offensive' Nastase
- We pitch Disney shows for Laurie Hernandez (spoiler alert, we all hate live action Disney kids TV shows)
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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. |
| 0:04.0 | Today historic European Championship finishes. Georgia head coach has been fired and an elite gymnast |
| 0:16.4 | called out the abusive behavior of a coach two years before he was arrested. |
| 0:20.8 | This is episode 250 for May 3rd 2017 and welcome to the number one gymnastics |
| 0:27.4 | podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica and I'm here with Lauren from the |
| 0:32.1 | Jimster dot net Spencer from the balance view situation and |
| 0:35.2 | Uncle Tim married Uncle Tim PhD returned from his wedding. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:45.0 | How are you feeling? Do you feel different? |
| 0:48.0 | Not really. |
| 0:50.0 | Feels pretty much the same. I don't know. I wish I got my like |
| 0:55.2 | MRS degree or something so you could add more letters to this but you know you can |
| 1:00.1 | maybe say like Mr. Dr. Uncle Tim or something but no. Okay so a couple things |
| 1:08.6 | before we get started I want to remind you guys we're going to talk about lots of |
| 1:12.0 | stuff there's time stamps if you want to skip to the thing that you're dying to hear first |
| 1:16.1 | Check out the website or the description of podcast to look at the |
| 1:19.3 | Time stamps also we had a little trouble with the website two weeks ago, but I want to say a huge shout out to Adam at IT elite.org for helping us solve our problems and figure out what's wrong. Thank you, thank you, check them out, IT Elite.org. |
| 1:36.0 | Lifesavers. Okay, number one, let's get to our contest winner. |
| 1:41.0 | The Lucky Club Gymnard member who is getting one of our six |
| 1:44.8 | giveaways per year just to say thank you for supporting the show is Carla Fuentes |
| 1:49.6 | and her adorable baby. Thank you so much for supporting us for so long |
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