316: CATS European Championship Edition
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 8 August 2018
⏱️ 101 minutes
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EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE BIG STORIES
- Celine van Gerner and her CATS floor routine makeup are the talk of the town. We break it all down in detail, featuring a special interview with choreographer Daymon Jones on how the routine came about.
- Russia hit 12-for-12 in a major team final to take gold. WHAT.
- Belgium pulled out of the team final after qualifying in 3rd. WHAT.
THE TEAM FINAL
- France takes a historic silver medal, the country's best-ever team result
- Netherlands wins team bronze, even without Eythora
- Great Britain's beam woes continue
- UKRAINE is back and finished 5th
MORE MEDALS
- Boglarka Devai wins vault gold, as well as Best Reactions In a Vault Final, Melnikova takes silver, and Golgota's bronze keeps a streak alive
- Nina Derwael wins bars, and Adlerteg is awesome again. Will Sweden notice?
- On beam, the queen stays queen. Also, Nina is a beamer now!
- On floor, Melanie takes gold, and Axelle's Harry Potter routine is a crowd favorite.
- Was this one of the better choreographic finals in recent years?
PLUS
- It's only five months until the victorious Italian juniors become seniors
- Amelie Morgan is a thing
- Spencer expresses his love for Sir Punford Punnington-Punsworth III, Duke of Punsbury
- We need to discuss the beam overtime sound, you guys
GYMTERNET NEWS
- The 2008 US women's Olympic team will have a reunion after all, but will the men?
- Is the USAG Hall of Fame...still a thing?
- The women's field for US Nationals has been announced. We explain why Deanne Soza is included, seemingly without qualifying, and why Marz is repping UCLA.
- Plus, your feedback on the judging shortage, JUSTICE FOR MORGAN, being less creepy, and OFFENSIVE BEACH SEXINESS.
SUPPORT THE SHOW
FURTHER READING
- European Championships Event Finals
- European Championships Team Final
- European Championships Qualification
- August National Team Rankings
- US Classic in Review – Life in a Day
RELATED EPISODES
- 315: The Simone Is Back Classic
- 314: US Classic Preview with Mary Wise
- Spencer BlogCast: American Classic
- 313: Best Floor Routines EVAH! (Commissioned)
- 312: 4th Is the New 1st (Commissioned)
- 311.5: Tom Forster Is the New Martha
- 310: Suspension and Sabotage
- 309: Perfect Form – The O'Beirne Code
- 308: 2004 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.0 | Who are getting those e- scores that's making the difference they don't need all that |
| 0:07.4 | difficulty and isn't that the kind of gymnastics we want to see after all |
| 0:12.0 | you guys like everybody was complaining about like that like eat a |
| 0:15.8 | disgusting dirty flex foot bent knee helicopter leg sock right now because you can't |
| 0:21.2 | complain about that nonsense and then be like she's doing too much |
| 0:24.9 | dance just shut up I'm having so much rage today. |
| 0:29.7 | Oh! This week's episode is brought to you by Simple Contacts. |
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| 0:41.0 | or enter promo code Gymcastic 20 at checkout. Today, euros! Russia |
| 0:47.6 | stayed on for all 12 routines and won the team medal. The Dutch are revolutionizing the sport again. |
| 0:55.0 | Selene Van Goerner did her cats routine with cat makeup. |
| 0:58.0 | Melanie, just like I said you would, won the unofficial all around because there wasn't an all around |
| 1:03.6 | hungry won vault and she won it with a Chang as she as in the entire country she's representing |
| 1:09.6 | Nina |
| 1:10.7 | Mina plus some shady USA goings on, USA Gings on and we answer your feedback. |
| 1:17.5 | This is episode 316 for August 8th, 8th, 18th, 2018. |
| 1:25.0 | Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. |
| 1:28.6 | I'm Jessica here with Spencer from the Balance Beam situation, |
| 1:32.2 | and this episode is dedicated from |
| 1:35.0 | clump member Katie. She would like to dedicate this episode to all gym |
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