280: Comeback Season
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2017
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
GYMTERNET NEWS
- Check out the behind the scenes video from the unicorn of gymnastics, concurrent elite and college gymnast, New Zealand/Boise State's Courtney McGregor.
- It's comeback season!
- November 1st was National Simone Biles Is Back In The Gym Day. How did you celebrate?
- The Alexei Nemov show
- Mustafina did almost-real beam and Komova did even more almost-real bars
- Spencer the Khorkina Whisperer breaks down the true meaning of her exhibition performance
- Khorkina also sticks her foot in her mouth again. All the surprise.
- Tatiana Nabieva continued being retired by winning the St. Petersburg Championship
- NCAA news
- Bailie Key is back and beaming for Alabama
- Madison Kocian had successful labrum surgery
- Sabrina Schwab has medically retired
- Maggie Nichols and Kyla Ross are still pulling out new tricks because of badassdom
- Mixed gender gymnastics
- Is mixed-gender team competition the future of gymnastics? We discuss the merits of the mixed team format at the Swiss Cup.
- Kenzo is the greatest uneven bars worker of our day
- The #manbeamwar is in full swing!
- Trigger warning section
- Larry Nassar's trial will not be moved. Plus, his child porn charges cannot be used in the assault trial. Is this horrible or normal law things?
- Tatiana Gutsu went on a Russian TV show, spoke about her rape in detail, and was treated horribly. She is the bravest ever.
FEEDBACK
- What really happened with the redo vaults in 2000
- The truth about Raducan and Amanar's positive tests in 2000, and what we're going to do about it!
- Other gymnasts who could potentially "Ray" (perform three eponymous skills in the same routine)
- Thoughts for making floor exercise less sexist
- More ideas for how to fix worlds
- Why we're wrong for wanting to move worlds out of Doha
RX BAR
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NORBERT'S
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RELATED EPISODES
- 279: A Diva Is Magical: The Svetlana Khorkina Episode (Commissioned)
- 278: 2000 Sydney All-Around Final (Commissioned)
- 277: Post-Worlds Therapy Session
- 262: 1996 Olympic Event Finals (Commissioned)
- 256: 1996 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
- 255: 1996 Olympic Team Final (Commissioned)
- 276: World Championships Day 7 — Event Finals Part 2
- 275: World Championships Day 6 — Event Finals Part 1
- 274: World Championships Day 5 — Women's All-Around Final
- 273: World Championships Day 4 — Men's All-Around Final
- 272: World Championships Day 3 — Women's Prelims
- 271: World Championships Day 2 — Men's and Women's Prelims
- 270: World Championships Day 1 — Men's Prelims
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.8 | Today's show is brought to you by Rxbar. |
| 0:06.8 | For 25% off your first order, visit Rxbar.com |
| 0:10.9 | forward slash gymnastic and enter promo code gymnastic at |
| 0:15.3 | check out. Today we have Simone News, Nemoff show in Russia happened the Swiss |
| 0:22.0 | Cup almanac did test positive for banned substance in |
| 0:25.7 | 2000 we'll have more feedback from you guys and some science about what happened there also we have the man be more to discuss |
| 0:34.2 | and mixed gender gymnastics. |
| 0:36.1 | This is episode 280 for November 8th, 2017. |
| 0:39.8 | And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast. It in the Galaxy. I'm Jessica and here |
| 0:44.6 | with Spencer from the Bellent Fuchs situation and before we get right into the |
| 0:48.7 | Jimternet News I wanted to tell you guys that we have a new video up from our world's coverage. It is |
| 0:53.9 | behind the scenes video filmed by Courtney McGregor for us. Courtney is a |
| 0:59.8 | collegiate gymnast. She's also an Olympian. She's from Zealand, and if you want to know what it's like to do college |
| 1:05.6 | gymnastics, be a university level student, and do elite gymnastics and travel to world championship |
| 1:11.9 | at the same time, she lets you know all about that in this behind the scenes video. |
| 1:17.1 | You can also find out what happens when the bus doesn't come and what you do when you're an athlete athlete you have to get a practice what the |
| 1:23.1 | training halls were like what the hotel was like all that from the |
| 1:26.0 | athletes perspective it's really cool I'm we'll put a link in the show nuts you can |
| 1:29.5 | also find our YouTube channel website tripcaster.com all those places. Thank you so much to |
| 1:33.6 | Courtney and the whole New Zealand Federation, the men's team, the women's team, the |
| 1:37.5 | coaches of Federation were just awesome and amazing. It's no wonder the Germans fell |
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