307: SHAME Congressional Hearings Edition

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🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

DUMPSTER FIRE NEWS

Steve Penny, Rhonda Faehn, and former MSU president Lou Anna Simon appeared in front of the Senate. You can check out the searchable transcript of the hearing, Rhonda Faehn's opening statement and submitted documents, and "Martha's" written statement.

Steve Penny takes the 5th a hundred million times and then hobbles out (SHAME!), but it doesn't really matter because now we have the emails
What we learned from Rhonda Faehn's answers and submitted documents
- 15 people within USAG knew about Nassar (IndyStar)
- Who the eff is Amy White and where does she fit into the medical records moving/destroying allegations?
- Sarah Jantzi's submission clarifies the timeline, and the timeline is BAD for Steve Penny
- How everyone was kept in the dark about Fran "Some Random Lady" Sepler
- The very telling texts between Rhonda and Gina Nichols
- Rhonda was never interviewed for the Daniels report, for the FBI, for any other internal USAG investigation, or for the INDEPENDENT ROPES & GRAY report. Wait...what?
Lou Anna Simon can't figure out how to turn on the mic after 150 tries and it perfectly summarizes everything about her statements.
A ghost named Martha Karolyi
- She did not appear because of medical reasons. YOU GUYS.
- We laugh about how she clearly wrote 0 words of her written statement and has the gall suddenly to recommend athlete chaperones.
Important ideas about the USOC charter

Plus...

Kerry Perry, the interim president of the USOC, and other representatives of NGBs appeared in front of the House, and it was terrible. We talk about how terrible it was.
WTF is the Athlete Task Force, and did Perry lie to Congress about it? We have a statement from USAG.
Why has Ron Galimore escaped consequences, especially after the Nassar-cover-story report (IndyStar), remaining COO of USAG and on the FIG executive board. We have a statement from the FIG below. It's not good.
- FIG Statment on Ron Galimore:
  "The FIG cannot specifically comment on the article or its contents, insofar as the allegations deal with events that took place nearly three years ago at a time when Mr. Galimore was not an FIG member. All events which occurred during the summer 2015 fall within the scope of an ongoing investigation; one mandated by the US Olympic Committee. This investigation, which is in progress at this time, is being undertaken by the independent law firm of Ropes & Gray. USA Gymnastics is cooperating fully with the investigators. It is our sincere hope, that when the investigation concludes, that all the facts relevant to not only the recent article, but the entire matter at issue will be fully brought to light by this investigation."
USAG is "reorganizing" its board, and the FIG is being sued. Whoopsie!
Some far-too-late resolution (OCRegister) in the Marcia Frederick case.

MEET NEWS

We have actual gymnastics to talk about as well!

Osijek (full broadcast)
- Varinska dominates, winning UB, BB, and FX golds. We swoon about her bars.
- Sighs for our cursed darling Zubova in the beam final.
- Yamilet Peña's vault...whaaaaaat was it?
Koper
- Steingruber pulls out an awesome rudi to win vault, shocking exactly one person
- DR. EPKE IS HERE
- Oliver Hegi and his coach really wanted to be in our Gymnastics Fails episode
Ellie Black and Shallon Olsen dominate Canadian Nationals, and Brooklyn Moors brings the necessary amount of comedy. Plus a round-up of major stories from other national championships, including NINA'S BARS.
The American Classic and Hopes Classic are coming to a Utah near you.

FUN STUFF

An important Bart Deurloo nut-injury update from BART HIMSELF
Gymnastics Greatest Stars is on YouTube!
Nastia did INVERTS on Ninja Warrior

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0:00.0	Remember this show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:04.0	Today USAG goes to Washington again.
0:10.0	Steve Penny takes the fifth.
0:12.5	Rhonda Fain provides receipts.
0:14.3	Cary Perry is a disaster, and Marta says she's sick.
0:17.9	A nut update from Bartolow, Zubova, FK,
0:21.4	and Nastia killed it on American Ninja Warrior.
0:25.0	We will discuss.
0:26.6	This is episode 307 for June 6, 2018,
0:31.3	and welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm
0:35.6	Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation and we have a lot
0:40.1	of dumpster fire news. We're gonna to talk a little bit about gymnastics today, but we also
0:45.6	added some updates from last week's episode where we talked about giant fails in gymnastics. But we are going to talk about the testimony that happened.
0:54.4	We're recording today on June 5th, and we're going to talk about the testimony that
0:59.2	happened today in DC.
1:01.1	So Spencer, let's talk about who was there and who testified.
1:06.2	Yes, so we just finished watching,
1:09.0	basically just finished watching,
1:10.4	the testimony in front of the Senate committee. This was with
1:14.9	uh... Ron D'Fane, Lou Anna Simon, the former president of Michigan State, and
1:20.4	supposed to be one Steve Penny, who we've been wanting to get in front of Congress for a while now.
1:28.0	This is following the House testimony from before with Carrie Perry.
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