265: Russian Cup, University Games, and Feedback

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🗓️ 29 August 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

All of our good thoughts and leotard sparkles are going out to the people of Texas, as we give 10 Khorkina glares to Hurricane Harvey. Here are the NY Times recommendations for how you can help.

MEET NEWS

Spencer and Jessica tell you everything you need to know about

The Russian Cup of Valentina Crazy Scores
- How Melnikova won the all-around and hit beam (!), and it was all because of that sad Instagram post from Euros
- Elena Eremina's 57.900 from qualification is the highest AA score in the world this year
- Jessica explains why having a baby makes you better at floor, like Eleonora Afanasyeva
- Maria Kharenkova is back with confidence! (And the highest scores of the meet on beam and floor)
- Is she challenging Anastasia Ilyankova's spot on the worlds team?
- Uliana Perebinosova wears white socks on bars and is the next coming of Beth Tweddle
The Larisa Iordache University Games Starring Larisa Iordache
- Iordache's massively risky beam that could be a 6.7 D score, and that she can fall on and still win the all-around.
- Canada's team was NCAA strong and put the US to shame
- Daria Elizarova is 26, has the most impressive tumbling in the meet, and didn't get the memo about not smiling
Southeast Asian Games
- Rifda Irfanaluthfi of Indonesia is the Simone of Southeast Asia
- Farah Ann doesn't need a last name anymore and is made of pizzazz and jazz hands
- Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines aren't sending anyone to worlds. We have feelings.

ATTENTION CLUB GYM NERD MEMBERS

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MINI COMMISSION

This week's mini-commission—GAME OF WOLF TURNS—is brought to you by Slothanova. Thanks for supporting the show!
She asked us to rate the wolf turns from P&Gs in the following categories: Comedic Genius, Doesn't Make Me Want to Burn Down the Building, Close to Perfectly Executed, and Transformative Life-Changing (Jordan Chiles Wolfkino) Art. It's what we were born to do.
For GIFs of the horror-larity we discuss, check out The Wolf Turns of Nationals.

GYMTERNET NEWS

It was a good week for hilarious falls
- Cristina Onofre of the Philippines Purvises onto the judges and breaks everything
- Oleg Verniaiev damaged some sensitive cargo
Katelyn Ohashi wrote about cruel, unwanted body remarks she received and how body shaming has affected her life in Dear Standards.
- How do these actions compare with Valeri's comments after the Atler interview?
Kathie Klages, deposed Michigan State head coach who did not report concerns about Nassar, is filling in at Geddert's Twistars. Geddert is also named in suits along with Klages for failing to report concerns about Nassar.
- Geddert denied this to the Lansing State Journal.
- And now it looks like someone's caught in a lie. OOPSIE.
- Lindsey Lemke's piece for Cosmopolitan
NCAA coaching news
- Tabitha Yim is going to save Stanford!
- Chris Brooks is going to bring Cheeseburgers On Beam to Nebraska
- McCool and Husband McCool are heading to Arkansas

FEEDBACK

Clarifications and additions to our coverage of nationals
Aly Raisman = hero
Jessica explains inbar skills
Genius ideas for women to get the same number of medals as men
Why it's very good that USAG is not buying the ranch
Details on the famous Sho Fujimoto kneecap incident of '76
Why the men don't do step-out passes
A heartwarming story about removing the board from the 1988 Olympic Trials
How to advocate for gymnastics and reconcile all of the problems with our love for the sport

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0:17.2	One more thing I do want to say about Caitlin because I feel like this is a really sad story, but there's part of it that with Ali talking it just feels like the optimism I get from this is that sort of this generation of elite gymnast is standing up for itself like no
0:33.8	Generation I can remember before like even the ones very recently like the Nastia generation. I'm not to use just to use Nastia as like an age group of people, but this generation is like finding their voice and finding their power and knowing that they can say things in a way that we haven't really seen before and so that's that's a
0:38.8	positive that I take from this and something that where I kind of feel like I can't wait until this group is in charge.
0:45.8	Today, Russian Cup, University Games, hilarious wipeouts of the week, lots of your feedback
0:59.3	and your questions answered today. This is episode 265 for August 30th, 2017 and welcome
1:06.0	to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica and I'm here
1:10.6	with Spencer from the balance beam situation.
1:13.4	Before we start today, I just want to give a shout out a, we're thinking of you, a,
1:18.1	we're giving all of the waters the Russian Deva death stare stop back off from our people in Texas right now because
1:26.9	especially to our audio editor Ivan who is in Texas and is house flooded.
1:33.0	If you guys want to donate or do something
1:36.2	for the victims, including the animal victims,
1:38.8	as Ivan pointed out, a lot of shelters
1:41.1	won't take animals.
1:41.8	We're gonna put up a link to the New York Times
1:43.6	recommendations for how to donate to victims of the hurricane, plays charities
1:50.0	that aren't scams. So show notes and we're thinking of you Ivan and everybody in Texas.
1:59.1	Yes, so this week as we recovered from US nationals, lots of other countries and lots of other
2:05.8	gymnasts got competing. So we have to talk about the Russian Cup. Best thing
2:11.4	about the Russian Cup is the Valentina crazy scoring that I love. The mostly so that Valentina has like a justification to complain after worlds about how the
2:25.1	scores were too low and unfair to the Russians and then she'll say something veiled and
2:29.3	racist like she usually does about it. But so she gives, make sure everyone gets a 15, so then when they get like a 13-9 at
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