266: Screams of Joy

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🗓️ 6 September 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

IN THE NEWS

Spencer and Jessica chat about:

Chinese National Games
- Jiang Tong's scream of joy after hitting floor
- Retirements, including Bai Yawen and Shang Chunsong
- Chen Yile killer beam, TingTing is the top senior in AA qualification - beam
- Fan Yilin rocking a new Huang Huidan/Riley McCusker dismount
- Wang Yan's brush-your-shoulders-off floor routine
- China announced Worlds Team: AA -Liu Tingting, Luo Huan; VT, BB, FX - Wang Yan; UB - Fan Yilin
Romanian Championships
- - The craziest scoring of any national championship in the World.
  - Larissa Iordache had a very head-shakey E score on beam, but upgraded to a Fabrichnova on bars
  - We enjoy Catalina Ponor's death-stare-down at the beam after an unusual two falls in a row. Then we interpret Ponor's new floor routine
Varna World Cup, Italian and Swiss Nationals
- Andrade Amanar
- We seethe about Brazil's decision to only send two athletes to Worlds this year. SEETHE!
- Deisree Carofiglio of Italy has a Dowell and so.much.drama. in her floor routine!
- The official roster for US Worlds Training Camp is: Carey, Chiles, Frazier, Gaskins, Hurd, Locklear, McCusker, Schennikova, Smith, Thomas.

GYMTERNET NEWS (46:56)

Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet include:

Aliya Mustafina has returned to training at Round Lake with her baby.
John Geddart got caught in what seems to be a big fat lie about disgraced ex-MSU coach, Kathie Klages working at his gym.
Simone's therapist, Robert Andrews has written the best article ever on why gymnastics has found itself in hot water; the culture of disempowerment: USAG Sexual Abuse Scandal Is A Symptom Of Deeper Issues
Danell Leyva will be on Danell Leyva Mira Quem Baila
GAT Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund to help gymnastics clubs impacted by Harvey.
- Houston warned in August 2016 of rain bombs

FEEDBACK (46:56)

1996 Olympic commentary and what gymnastics was like in the 70's
Accidental upgrades like the WolfKino: Stella Nistor accidental double pirouette
Katelyn Ohashi speaking up
Where is Gabby Douglas?
Bone Density and gymnastics feedback from a Bioengineer
How far can the bars be spread apart in FIG competition?
Competing back-to-back from Floor to Vault

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0:00.0	Today, Chinese and Romanian nationals, more world's teams announced, someone has arrived at
0:06.9	round like, your feedback on bone density physics and more accidental upgrades.
0:13.0	This is episode 266 for September 6, 2017.
0:17.5	And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast
0:20.4	in the galaxy.
0:21.5	I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the balance team situation
0:25.0	Spencer let's get right to it and talk about
0:28.0	the beloved Chinese who we don't get to see enough of
0:31.0	and they had a major major meat.
0:34.0	Tell us like how can you put this meat into context?
0:38.0	Yeah, so the Chinese are competing at the Chinese national games right now, and I know it can be confusing because we've got the Chinese Nationals and then they have an individual event nationals later and then they have the national games and it's all sort of like which competition is which. The Chinese national
0:54.4	games is the biggest deal of all of them. It's a once every four year
0:58.8	competition just like the Olympics and takes place the year after the Olympics. It has all the Olympic sports. It
1:05.2	brings together the entire nation of China, which is 20% of the world's population, so it's basically
1:10.8	like a 20% of the world's population Olympics. And it's one of the, it's basically like a 20% of the world's population Olympics and it's one of the it's the main reason why
1:16.8	With most countries you see the mass retirement exodus after the Olympics with people saying oh I'm not going to stick around for the
1:23.3	next quad you don't really get that with the Chinese because they're all sticking
1:27.2	around for the next year for the Chinese national games to participate in that and
1:31.1	represent their province because it's just so
1:33.4	prestigious and such a big deal that they all will stick around even if they're not
1:37.8	intending to try for 2020. Right and if that wasn't enough to put it into context for you, let's put this, I want to play the sound effect for you.
1:48.0	So this is the kind of prestige this is.
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