290: Valeri is Out
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
GYMTERNET NEWS (03:28)
- Valeri Liukin has RESIGNED as National Team Coordinator!
- Our reactions
- Was Valeri forced out, or did he decide this himself?
- Who should succeed him as NTC?
- The state of the current WAG program
- We discuss the new verification competition being held at LSU
- ...and the ensuing, totally predictable NCAA coach freak out
- The 180 USAG just did on the family chaperone issue, along with our concerns
- #WST
- Larry Nassar's FINAL sentencing (37:33)
- We might never have to look at him again!
- The dad who lunged at him in court. Yea or Nay?
- Michigan State offices raided by law enforcement
- The USOC failed to act on Nassar's abuse for a full year (Shock! Surprise!)
- Senator Gillibrand calls for the DOJ to investigate the USOC
- The New York Times says at least 40 people were abused by Nassar AFTER the FBI already knew about him.
- What an ACTUAL FBI agent told Gina Nichols, and why it sort of blows up USAG's party line
THE. SIMONE. MOVIE. (52:38)
- Ironically amazing or actually amazing?
- WHAT WAS THAT RANCH?
- That thing where Aimee has to explain to Martha what gymnastics is
- The Biles is really just a whip 1/2, you guys
- Why the casting of the national team maybe needed some work
- And SO MUCH MORE.
MEET NEWS (1:08:57)
- All about THAT Oklahoma/UCLA meet
- We find out how many times Jessica cried
- Why this meet perfectly encapsulated everything about college gymnastics and everything sport should be
- Spencer has to ruin the mood by whining about the scores
- Charlie Tamayo is out at Georgia
- Alex McMurtry explains why she opted out of elite
- Brooklyn Moors won Elite Canada and has a new, UPGRADED floor routine (1:34:18)
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| 0:27.0 | Today, Valleary resigned. The FBI has no good explanation for why they weren't |
| 0:36.6 | basically doing anything for 11 months just like I said the Simone movie |
| 0:40.9 | Plus Spectacular plus the Oklahoma |
| 0:44.2 | UCLA together we rise tears on tears and more tears meet we will discuss this is |
| 0:51.0 | episode 290 for February 7th 2018 and welcome to the |
| 0:56.1 | number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy and Jessica I'm here with Spencer |
| 1:00.5 | from the balance Beam situation. |
| 1:02.8 | Today's episode has a special dedication |
| 1:05.7 | from club gym nerd member William, |
| 1:08.8 | and it says, I would like to wish the happiest and most amazing birthday do gymnastics biggest fan and now |
| 1:16.7 | contributor Philip. His passion for gymnastics is contagious and he is truly a great ambassador for the sport. I look forward to many |
| 1:25.5 | more years of travel to meets across the world with him. From William. |
| 1:30.5 | That's like the sweetest dedication. You know how I love love letter dedication, Spencer? |
| 1:37.0 | Yes, I do know that. |
| 1:38.0 | I know. It's the best. |
| 1:41.0 | So we've all been Edamete Jessica and wondered why did that routine score an 8-4 because it looked like a 9-3 to me what were the judge of thinking? |
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