352: The Rachel Borden Appreciation Episode (and other things about gymnastics)
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2019
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
LI LI LEUNG (1:38)
- The new USAG President and CEO is Li Li Leung formerly a vice president at the NBA.
- We evaluate whether or not she is the right choice for USAG (another *cough* marketer *eye roll* and of course analyze, her actual gymnastics.
- Here are some of the former junior elite and University of Michigan gymnast's routines FX, BB.
NCAA NEWS (19:40)
- Crack or correct
- The mega-controversial Georgia/Kentucky meet
- A perfect 9.950 from Sarah Finnegan, and what should have been one from Sarah Shaffer
- The latest UCLA 10s from Kyla Ross and Katelyn Ohashi
- Gymnasts are NINJAS (37:40)
- Anna Warhol's epic vault save
- Jessica pens a love ode to her new wife, Rachel Borden of Illinois
- Womp womp news
- The Toni-Ann Williams injury that's NOT FAIR
- Spencer takes issue with UCLA's alleged pride meet
- Safety (59:45)
- The NCAA responds to our questions about safety and equipment failures
GYMTERNET NEWS (1:06:19)
- Dan Purvis announces his retirement
- GYMNASTICS IS FOR EVERYONE, screams Jessica
- Utah Gymnastics: Red Rocks Retrospective
- Kenzo can do a piked Arabian double to a punch front double full. OF COURSE!
- Gymnastics Canada launches probe after former coach acquitted in sex assault trial
- The Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals will be made from recycled electronics, a.k.a. our chance to get excited about the 2020 opening ceremony
WINTER CUP (1:16:53)
- Day 1 and the WINTER CUP OF SPLATS - we relive the best falls
- Who made national team? Was it based on reality and results, or...nah?
- Kensley and Spencer discuss NT snubs (Levi Anderson! Eddie Penev!), the epic importance of athletic goggles, tired old pommel horse narratives, and what the point of having a points system is if you just ignore it because it's so dumb
- What is the criteria for being sent to individual Olympic qualification world cups? (Spoiler alert: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
CHRISTY LINDER AND DEANNA HONG
- We talk to Christy (1:56:33) and Deanna (1:39:43) about becoming a professional photographer/videographer in gymnastics, what they've learned on the job, the specific coverage challenges gymnastics presents, how to be athlete respectful, and how we stop gymnastics articles from choosing the WORST photos of leaps.
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FURTHER READING
- Monday Live Blog – February 18, 2019
- Sunday Live Blog – February 17, 2019
- Saturday Live Blog – February 16, 2019
- Friday Live Blog – February 15, 2019
- Things Are Happening – February 15, 2019
- Only the Best – Week 6
- Week 6 Ranking Notes
Transcript
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| 0:38.4 | Today, we heard back from the NCA |
| 0:40.6 | about safety sanctions, the best beam routine of a generation by Rachel Borden. |
| 0:48.0 | Yule Moldauer does all around for the first time this year and wins of course Winter Cup had all the |
| 0:55.0 | splatiness and prelims but not so much in finals also some news about why gymnasts |
| 0:59.8 | are actual ninjas a really scary vault happened but the gymnast was totally fine |
| 1:04.4 | so we're gonna talk about that and some Jim turnet news and we have |
| 1:09.0 | Deanna Hong and Christy Linder here to talk about being a videographer and photographer in gymnastics |
| 1:14.7 | especially if you want to get into that because we need more women in this field listen to |
| 1:20.3 | them and kensley's here to talk about Winter Cup. |
| 1:22.6 | This is episode three hundred and fifty two for February 20th 2019. |
| 1:28.6 | And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the universe. I'm Jessica and I'm here with |
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