283: Catalina Ponor Says Goodbye
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 6 December 2017
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
SIMONE-TERNET NEWS
- Simone casually has all her skills back because Simone.
- Do we think the Aly/Gabby/Simone twitter victim-shame debacle compelled Gabby to come forward with her story? And does it change how we view her comments?
- Simone will be 23 in 2020. Gasp. What journalists are STILL getting wrong about age and women's gymnastics!
MEET NEWS
- IT'S THE MEXICAN OPEN GALA EVERYONE!!!!!!!
- Ponor gives her farewell gala performances on beam and floor and they're AH-MAZING
- If this truly is the end for Ponor, what is her legacy in gymnastics?
- But also:
- Manrique twerks and Jessica expects more
- LOTS of innuendos about working poles. LOTS.
- Ahmet Onder, Joel Plata, and the importance of men stripping for our enjoyment, even when it's a #stripteasefail
- Michael Jackson impersonations. Like you do.
- That thing where you have a shirtless cowboy duel and then sit astride the pommel horse and slap it so hard chalk flies off
- The award for worst/best use of Kevin Cerda in a Lucha Libre tribute
- An elaborate satire of white people
- Jessica details how to make Yesenia Ferrera into a world floor champ. (Hint: it's conditioning)
- Elite Gym Massilia
- The Russian juniors and their rudis will soon rule us all
- Axelle Klinckaert's insane/amazing must-watch floor routine, starring sound effects
- Cottbus World Cup
- Miyachi, Bretschneider, calculated risk, and the triumph of Marvin "NO LONGER HOT MESS" Kimble on high bar
- China has another one on PBars, and his name is Tan Di.
- Chuso wins her 11th Cottbus vault title because obviously
- Wang Cenyu is gorgeous on beam, but why such a short routine?
- The future of Russian floor is Lilia Akhaimova's huge, strong tumbling and Maria Kharenkova's rebirth!
GYMTERNET NEWS
- Larry Nassar pleaded guilty to seven counts of sexual assault and his statement was just as despicable as his everything else about him.
- Up next: MSU.
- British Gymnastics suspends men's technical director Eddie van Hoof
- Laura Jurca is leaving Romania for Germany
- The FIG finally comes to its senses about naming skills after women!
- Fabian Hambiceps stuck a high bar dismount for the last time
- Chiaki Hatakeda is doing a QUAD on floor. A QUAD YOU GUYS!
- Plus, we answer your feedback about college fantasy gymnastics, gymnerd dating services, and positive changes at TOPS camp!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
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| 0:48.8 | Today it's our favorite time of year, the Mexican open and all its cheesy glory happened |
| 0:55.9 | Pannor had her last performance Simone has all of her skills back elite Jim |
| 1:01.4 | Masala, Kotubus, and more. This is episode 283 for December 6, 2017. And welcome |
| 1:09.3 | to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica and he was Spencer from the |
| 1:14.9 | balance beam situation. So much to discuss today. So much before we get to the |
| 1:20.9 | greatness of the Mexican Open and the best things that have ever happened to us in the history of gymnastics. |
| 1:26.4 | We have a winner of our $200 Tumble Track gift certificate, which went to a club gym nerd member for telling us an embarrassing |
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