285: Bring on 2018

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🗓️ 20 December 2017

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

GYMTERNET NEWS

This week, we get all the yucky parts out of the way at the beginning.

It was a bad week (month) (year) to be USA Gymnastics
- What USAG told the athletes in Rio about Nassar
- P&G and Kellogg's (then Under Armour and Hershey's) drop sponsorship of USAG
- USAG's hideous motion to dismiss in the Denhollander case
- The Maroney birthday tweet
- Athlete reps can still serve on selection committees, counter to the Daniels Report
- But, progress made at the Board of Directors meeting
Nassar Sentenced to 60 Years
- The letter Aly wrote to read at his sentencing.
- Where are the consequences for Michigan State?
Dave Brubaker, director of Canadian women's national team, charged with 10 sexual offenses.
Todd Gardiner from IGI placed on permanently ineligible members list for violating provisions concerning a sexual relationship with an athlete.

BUT ALSO (42:00)

Simone participated in the most hilariously un-fact-checked local news piece ever.
Maria Paseka will miss 2018 with back surgery
Our thoughts on the Russia Winter Olympics "ban" and Khorkina's bonkers response
A 12-year-old verbally committed to Georgia
Max Whitlock is learning air flares on pommel horse, just like Jess prophesied!
Morgan Hurd, Yul Moldauer (and Brooklyn Moors!) are going to American Cup

BRING ON 2018

NCAA season is soon upon us! We discuss (01:12:11):
- Florida or Oklahoma as the #1 team
- Suzanne is back. How does one explain Suzanne? We try.
- Former elites we're excited to see (Bailie! Jazzy! Nia! Alyssa!)
All the exciting new friends who are about to turn senior, like (01:31:00)
- Li Qi, queen of connection bonus and our favorite Chinese gangsta floor routine
- All the US juniors who will take the world by storm, with special attention to Kara Eaker's beautiful beam
- Martina Dominici, the gymnast who will put Argentina on the map
- Plus Chen Yile, ZUBOVA, Simakova, Du Siyu, Sydney Saturnino, Denisa Golgota, Ana Padurariu, and a special Egyptian gymnast who might be Aliya Mustafina in disguise.

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0:00.0	Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:04.0	Today show is brought to by Z-O-L-A.
0:08.0	Sign up with Z-O-A and receive a $50 credit towards your registry. to Zola.com forward slash gymnastic.
0:17.0	Today is our last show of 2017 before we go on vacation Simone and ABC News invented entirely new history of gymnastics.
0:28.6	We'll talk about that.
0:30.2	Nasr is going to prison for 60 years.
0:32.8	A new and improved USA Gymnastics Rules,
0:36.3	Russia News, Li Chi of China, and some NCAA previews.
0:40.8	This is episode 285 for December 20th, 2017. And welcome to the
0:46.2	number one gymnastics podcast in the world. I'm Jessica and I'm here with
0:50.0	Spencer from the balance beam situation.
0:53.0	Let's begin, you guys, with a little bit of things that we need to,
0:57.0	a little trash we need to clear out,
1:00.0	so that we can make way for a beautiful new year Spencer.
1:03.0	Yeah, so we'll start for our last episode of 2017, we'll start with the big bad, I'm assuming
1:09.0	rage meters are going to happen throughout this section, the big bad news,
1:12.6	so that we can end on sort of a happy tone,
1:16.0	optimism for the future.
1:17.6	So this is by way of the sexual abuse trigger
1:20.8	warning for the beginning this time. Fast forward to about... If you want to
1:24.9	skip this part, fast forward to about the 40 minute mark because we had a lot of stuff to cover
1:29.2	because we haven't really talked about this for like three weeks. The news is that it was a very a no good very very very bad
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