347: The Michigan Mess and the Viral Queen
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 15 January 2019
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
CONTEST:
Prize: University of Denver hat, shirt and sweatshirt.
How to Enter: Tell us why you love Denver gymnastics and use the #DenverGymCastic on Twitter or Instagram.
Deadline: Sunday, Jan 20th at midnight Pacific.
Do I have to be a Club Gym Nerd member? No! Open to all.
IN THE NEWS
- The Rhonda debacle: Michigan hires, then fires, Rhonda Faehn in the span of a single weekend. Because gymnastics totally has its life together.Â
- What the team members are saying, what Rachael Denhollander is saying, and how we navigate the politics of whose voice gets to matter—especially when people we agree with happen to disagree with each other
- Why gymnastics fans largely have a better impression of Rhonda than of the other USAG employees involved
- How the University of Michigan royally screwed this up in every way
- Dan Baker replaced MLT as the developmental program head coach (from what we can tell), and USAG didn't say a word about it
COLLEGE GYMNASTICS
- Auburn upsets LSU
- Derrian Gobourne is a star (1:14:15)
- The entire Auburn bars lineup is taking Abby Milliet pills
- What happened to McKenna Kelley
- How DD handled the dudes in the front row
- Denver defeats Michigan and Alabama
- Gushing about Alexis Vasquez for all eternity (15:40)
- Jessica's inside stories from visiting Denver during the preseason
- Alabama has a stick bedazzled Thor's hammer
- Plus...
- We're desperately worried about Maggie limping after floor
- Trinity Thomas debuts for Florida (1:16:56) and Kathy is everyone
- Anaheim quad meet
- College meets are playing the national anthem before the athletes enter
- Ohashi goes viral for her floor routine again (our first interview with Ohashi in 2013)
- Special appreciation for Kelley Hebert and Sarah Liddle of UC Davis, Alma Kuc and Sofie Seilnacht of Cal for NOT BEING BASIC
- Why Jessica cried over Marz Frazier's floor routine
- Spencer rants about the competition's horrible strip club poster
- "Splashdown"-gate
- How would an Olympic team of Nichols, Ross, Finnegan, and Skinner do?
- Crack or Correct:Â Justice for Lexy Ramler, leo scoring is real, and more bizarre judging in Alabama
GYMTERNET NEWS
- The American Cup roster is out! We break it down gymnast by gymnast
- USAG hasn't been paying the men's national team. RUH ROH.
- Update: They've now been paid for January—why it's too late and way too little
- Plus: USAG finally suspends internet troll Don McPherson, Geddert case updates, Aly broke a bone, and rules about FIG nationality changes
FURTHER READING
- Nancy Armour asks: whose voice counts?
- Week 2 Ranking Notes
- Sunday Live Blog – January 13, 2019
- Saturday Live Blog – January 12, 2019
- Friday Live Blog – January 11, 2019
- Things Are Happening – January 11, 2019
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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. |
| 0:04.4 | So she has a moment before her final pass where she's in the corner, where she snaps and does |
| 0:08.8 | a head whip and I'm sold, 100% on board, but she was so enthusiastic with the snap and the head whip that she kind of had a balance check and almost like headwinds herself out of bounds on the floor while standing before her last pass because that is investment to your |
| 0:24.0 | choreography. |
| 0:26.5 | This podcast is sponsored by Warby Parker. Go to Warby Parker. |
| 0:33.4 | Com slash Gymkastic. |
| 0:35.6 | That's W-A-R-K-E-R-G-E-R-G-C-E-R-G-C-C-T-E-R-T-E-R-T-E-T to get your free home try on glasses. |
| 0:44.0 | Today, USAG hasn't been paying the men's national team members their monthly stipend, |
| 0:50.0 | but they had the goal to ask the bankruptcy court for staff bonuses. |
| 0:54.3 | Ron D'Fane was hired and then fired by University of Michigan. |
| 0:58.1 | Ohhashi is going viral again. |
| 1:00.9 | The American Cup roster is out. We have a new terminology for you. The balance beam |
| 1:06.0 | crotch grab. Alabama has a bedazzled Thor's hammer and Denver beat Alabama and to celebrate we're giving way Denver swag this week. |
| 1:16.2 | This is episode 347 for January 16th 2019 and welcome to the Number, Gymnastics Podcast in the Galaxy. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the Balance Beam situation that has all of the |
| 1:29.6 | balance beam situations details for you every every day of the week the balance |
| 1:33.7 | mean situation has news for you and by the balance mean situation I mean |
| 1:38.4 | Spencer doing his amazing work Spencer we have a Denver hat, a Denver, really cool Denver shirt and a Denver |
| 1:46.2 | sweatshirt to give away. So what should people have to do to give them to get them from |
| 1:51.8 | us? They should they say all the reasons they love Lindsay Brown's vault and Alexis Vasquez's beam? |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah, you should do that. |
| 2:02.0 | Okay. |
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