269: 2017 World Championships Preview
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2017
⏱️ 103 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Spencer, Lauren, and Jessica chat about:
- All the exciting GymCastic goodies you can expect from us at worlds!!!
- Lots of video clips and video analysis from us starting with PODIUM TRAINING this Friday!
- A podcast every single day of competition starting with men's prelims on Monday through finals on Sunday .
- We might try something else we've never done before for Club Members, so if you haven't made sure you can login and get to the extended version of the Maggie Haney, Aimee Boorman interview, please do so now.
- How to watch
- Full competition schedule and USAG live streaming schedule available at www.usagymworlds.com.
- US team selection (7:30)
- WE GOT VIDEOS FROM SELECTION CAMP!!!! #ScottandRhonda4ever
- Why a Smith, Hurd, Carey, Locklear team is weird, unexpected, and controversial
- Why a Smith, Hurd, Carey, Locklear team makes total sense
- That time Italy looked at the US's "controversial" selection and said, "Hold my beer..." (18:44)
- Women's All-Around (23:53)
- True or false: It's Ragan Smith v. Larisa Iordache for the all-around title
- Who else should we be watching in the medal hunt? (Hint: lots of people)
- We preemptively award the Longines Prize for Elegance to at least six people (36:16)
- NEW SKILLS ALERT (41:16)
- Why it's extra, extra important to pay attention to Nina Derwael, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Tabea Alt, Cintia Rodriguez, and Aiko Sugihara this year.
- Event Finals (48:00)
- The major players on each apparatus
- Questions we still have heading into the competition
- Is Paseka...good?
- Does Ashton Locklear have the execut...BUT HER INBARS
- Will Nina Derwael make history for Belgium
- Will Iordache get that giant 6.7 D?
- Will the floor final be Japan's time?
- Our 100% accurate, definite, guaranteed podium predictions
- The part where we remind you to pay attention to other gymnasts for reasons like being in their 20s or being tall or having a good backstory (1:20:26)
- This year's submissions: Jonna Adlerteg, Farah Hussein, and Courtney McGregor
- Letters to Bogi
- What the three of us want for Gymnastics Christmas this year. It's a lot.
- Men's competition storylines (1:27:12)
- Kohei v. Oleg: The Rematch?
- Is Kenzo becoming a real boy? (i.e. all-arounder?)
- Samir Ait Said's return from the Rio leg snap
- Yul Moldauer bringing the pretty back to USA Gymnastics
- The Marvin Kimble resurrection
- The return of Dr. Epke
- Men's super-duper exciting skills to watch
- TTYs from Artur Dalaloyan and (maybe now) Eddie Penev
- Sam Mikulak's possible triple back 1/1 on high bar
- Whittenburg's triple pike on rings
- Hidetaka Miyachi's MOST AMAZING HIGH BAR EVER and the race for the double twisting layout Kovacs
- Max Whitlock's MI6, classified, top top secret new pommel horse skills
- UMMMMMM, the mascot for worlds?!?!?!?!
SUPPORT THE SHOW
RELATED EPISODES
- 268: Aimee Boorman and Maggie Haney: The Olympic Experience
- 267: Growing up in Cuba with Charlie Tamayo
- 266: Screams of Joy
- 265: Russian Cup, University Games, and Feedback
- 264: 2017 P&G Championships Mega Recap
- 263: P&G Championships Preview with Jon Horton
- 261: 2017 U.S. Classic!
- 260: U.S. Classic Preview
- 258: The Fluff Cast (Commissioned)
- 262: 1996 Olympic Event Finals (Commissioned)
- 256: 1996 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
- 255: 1996 Olympic Team Final (Commissioned)
- 254: Vanessa Atler
- 252: Myths, Legends, and Unexpected Moments in Gymnastics History (Commissioned)
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Tumbull Trek has been proudly serving the gymnastics, cheer, dance, and martial arts industry for over 25 years providing the highest quality equipment on the market. |
| 0:09.0 | During the entire month of October, we will have a 15% discount on all of our bar products. |
| 0:14.8 | For more information visit our website at www |
| 0:18.1 | dot tumbletrack.com or give us a call at 800 331-4362. |
| 0:24.0 | Tumble Track, Train Smart. |
| 0:26.0 | Final. |
| 0:28.0 | We need to start like making memes, |
| 0:30.0 | those Hillary Clinton but her email names with with Ash and Buckery and Parks. |
| 0:35.0 | Someone, someone quoted, she was warned, she was given an explanation, |
| 0:40.0 | nevertheless, she's soul circle. |
| 0:43.0 | That's right. Today a full preview of Women's and Men's World Championships in Montreal, Canada coming up in just a few days |
| 1:00.4 | a review of the US team announcement and all the skills we are looking forward to seeing at Worlds. |
| 1:06.0 | This is episode 269 for September 27th, 2017, and welcome to the One Gymnastics Podcast in the World. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the BalanceBean situation and |
| 1:18.5 | Lauren from the Jimter.net. It is World Championship Time. Let's discuss. |
| 1:25.0 | So first of all, the competition begins this Monday, October 2nd, with men's qualification. |
| 1:31.0 | So men's all start first. Women's are going to be second. So men's all around will be before |
| 1:35.8 | women's all around this time. Competition finishes Sunday, October 8th with the second day of event |
| 1:41.2 | finals as normal. |
| 1:43.5 | Jessica, before we preview all of the juicy story lines and wildly irrational hopes |
| 1:49.0 | that we have for the competition, we have some exciting news. All three of us will be there in Montreal at Worlds, |
| 1:57.4 | living in the same house, which can be a disaster. But I mean, great. I mean a dream come true. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.