349: The Stick Stick and the Money Gun
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 30 January 2019
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
NCAA NEWS
- Oklahoma extends its national lead at Metroplex, and Maggie is back
- Jessica has a moment about Stanford, featuring a story of public embarrassment from her college years (yay!)
- Auburn has a stick stick, Washington has a money gun, and Maryland has a sparkly turtle shell. The real heroes.
- Weekly feelings alert: The Ari Guerra story
- Or, does gymnastics fetishize and celebrate risking your future health too much?
- Example, Kim Hamilton's excellent book starts with her post-gymnastics crawling on the floor, in too much pain to stand.
- The problem with scoring the rotation order—and what's the best lineup strategy if you know Carol is coming to town?
- Crack or correct: The Natalie Wojcik problem and the most WTF vault score ever for Penn
- So that happened: John Roethlisberger, the Auburn dudes, and we'll never be the same
- A sexism Rage-o-Meter from...Spencer? Stop listing the names of the parents like that's a stat, and maybe hire some more women for these jobs
GYMTERNET NEWS
- We discuss how much money USAG is paying Steve Penny, Mary Bono, and Box of Scarves. NOT GREAT, BOB.
- The Senate has an "AHEM, HEM" moment re: decertification and the USOC's tax-exempt status.
- Katarzyna Jurkowska-Kowalska is retiring
- Getting ready for Elite Canada and the Buckeye Kristal Uzelac qualifier this weekend
- Updates on Amy Tinkler, Ashton Locklear, Roxana Popa, Beth Tweddle, and the potential for world peace
- The latest on Jessica's quest to become an arm scientist
- Why doesn't the high bar have padding on it?
- Nina gets another...oddly shaped award
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FURTHER READING
- Safeguarding: A Checklist for parents and coaches
- Week 4 Ranking Notes
- Sunday Live Blog – January 27, 2019
- Saturday Live Blog – January 26, 2019
- Friday Live Blog – January 25, 2019
- Things Are Happening – January 25, 2019
- Roster Notes – Week 3
- Only the Best – Week 3
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- 343: The Andrade Cup & the Dumpster Fire of Lies
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today, Maggie Nichols is back. |
| 0:04.0 | Thank God, Stanford sold out a gymnastics meet you guys. |
| 0:08.0 | Stanford, because Have at the end is a genius, and also |
| 0:12.0 | Kyla Ross gave us some amazing |
| 0:14.4 | combination mastics finally what she been waiting for. |
| 0:18.1 | Also 36,66 dollars. That's how much Steve Penny was paid by USA Gymnastics just two days before it filed for |
| 0:29.3 | bankruptcy. Not making that up. Mary Bono also made $18,000 for four days of employment. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm not calling it work because four days of employment. |
| 0:38.4 | Who is writing these contracts for the USAD CEOs? |
| 0:41.3 | Who? |
| 0:42.3 | And why doesn't Men's Highbar have padding on it? Yes, we're going to discuss that. |
| 0:47.5 | And meanwhile, University of Washington has a money gun. This is gymnastics, ladies and gentlemen. This is episode 349 for January 30th, 2019 and welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the |
| 1:04.6 | balance beam situation. Go to the balance beam situation every single day of the |
| 1:08.7 | week to get all the live discussions, all the rules rules all the things that are happening |
| 1:14.4 | Spencer has you covered. So Spencer this is where I continue telling people why they should love college gymnastics for the whole first month of the year. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. Okay. |
| 1:28.0 | Because you know what people love being love is being told to appreciate things. |
| 1:33.0 | Right, exactly. |
| 1:34.0 | It goes really well all the time, so definitely. |
| 1:37.0 | Right, it's people's favorite thing. |
| 1:38.0 | It's also, it's like when you're at a concert |
| 1:40.0 | and they're like, let's hear everybody clap and they're like, |
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