257: The Daniels Report
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 28 June 2017
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
IN THE NEWS
- Deborah Daniels, a former federal prosecutor, was commissioned by USA Gymnastics to conduct an independent review of USAG's handling of sexual misconduct, and her report is OUT.
MEET NEWS
Spencer and Jessica chat about:
- National championships galore!
- Canada - Brooklyn Moors steals the show with a Podkopayeva
- Mexico - Nicolle Castro is going to save the world with her bars
- Germany - Pauline Tratz is ready for NCAA, and Michelle Timm teaches an important lesson on how to lie on the beam properly
- Australia - Emily Little's scary fall — but she's going to be OK!
- France - Marine Boyer's best-ever beam, and Juliette Bossu is the definition of expressiveness and musicality on floor
- Japan - Kohei puts all the HB specialists to shame
GYMTERNET NEWS
- Valeri Liukin responds to our interview with Vanessa Atler
- Aliya had the baby!
- Jon Horton retires
- Aimee Boorman and Kim Zmeskal-Burdette are recognized for achievements in awesomeness
- Another plot twist in As the Stepko Turns
- Larisa Iordache's big upgrades
- Laurent and Cecile Landi are leaving WOGA
- Laurie plans to return to training
- Aly's body-positive tour of America
- Her new book Fierce: How competing for MYSELF changed everything
- Her reaction to that TSA guy
- "Women do not have to dress modestly to be respected"
- That weird NHL awards moment
- On that note, sexist coverage increased during 2016 Olympics
- NCAA roster and coaching developments
- Athlete welfare
- Did USAG illegally settle cases in California?
- Did the USAG chair call a sex-abuse victim's lawyer a "f*cking d*ickhead"? (Spoiler: yes)
- The FIG commits to a Duty of Care code
- Senators propose legislation to offer legal protection to Safe Sport
FEEDBACK
- Reactions, corrections, and theories about the 1996 Olympics episodes
- Gender equity at the Olympics
- Vanessa Atler was better in 1999 than she thinks she was
- The real reason for the open-ended code
- How we get US women sent to the University Games
- The power of adult gymnastics!
RELATED LINKS
- The full Deborah Daniels report into USAG's handling of sexual abuse.
- USAG's summary of 70 recommendations made in the Daniels report.
- Report Calls for Culture Change at USA Gymnastics
SUPPORT THE SHOW
- Join Club Gym Nerd here with brand new membership tiers, commission your own episode, or commission your own segment.
- Buy some of our awesome merchandise here.
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- 163: ENOUGH
- 56: Preventing Abuse in Gymnastics
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- 254: Vanessa Atler
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 the Deborah Daniels reports about USA Gymnastics is out. |
| 0:12.0 | National Championships Around the World USA Gymnastics is out. |
| 0:12.8 | National Championships around the world, babies, books, |
| 0:16.7 | and the chairman of USA Gymnastics, Paul Perilla, |
| 0:19.8 | is in the news for cussing and being asked if he knows it's illegal to settle abuse cases of both minors in California. |
| 0:26.3 | Hmm, we'll discuss. This is episode 257 for June 28th, 2017, and welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the world. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the Balance Beam situation. |
| 0:41.2 | And I want to thank you guys first of all we blew past 2 million |
| 0:44.8 | downloads we are over 2.5 million downloads now so thank you so much you guys |
| 0:51.8 | it's so it just makes us happy and gratified to know we have so many |
| 0:57.8 | listeners and so many people continue to listen to the show and thank you all |
| 1:01.8 | for sending us like positive feedback and your kind words are I always |
| 1:07.2 | pass them on to the group and we just appreciate them so much so thanks you guys. |
| 1:11.6 | Thank you thank you thank you. Also I want to mention we have new |
| 1:16.1 | tears for club gym nerd so this is a way that you guys can help us pay our bills and |
| 1:21.1 | we can say thank you to you. So we have our traditional bronze level where you |
| 1:25.9 | get some ringtones and you get discounts and we have new merchandise and giveaways. We have six giveaways a year and there are all kinds of special things and we have something |
| 1:37.0 | besides of the giveaways we have something really exciting planned for |
| 1:41.2 | worlds that we hopefully if we can do this it'll only be available |
| 1:46.0 | to club gym nerd members and something that's never been done before so cross your |
| 1:50.1 | fingers that we can do this and we'll let you know if it's going to happen. |
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