357: It's the Freakin' Lighting!
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
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MEET NEWS
- Birmingham World Cup (2:11)
- Why did everyone fall on everything? Try the crazy spotlight lighting! Measure your lumens, yo!
- Aliya is the champion and is going to Euros now—called it!
- Riley McCusker is the women's team answer to Sam Mikulak
- ...and the FIG still can't tell any of the Chinese gymnasts apart. Great.
- Superstars (or Stuperstars) of Gymnastics (14:54)
- Jessica loved it and Spencer was like [sigh]—obviously
- We discuss Danusia's new vault family, Simone stealing the show with the best line of the night, Ellie Black going ALL IN on this craziness, Casimir Schmidt's pink broccoli boxers, how Laurent was one of the celebrity judges, Jessica's feelings moments, and more
- NCAA Conference championships (43:24)
- LSU beats Florida in an intense SEC Championship that came down to floor
- Denver almost beat Oklahoma at Big 12s, you guys
- The three-way AA tie in the Big Ten made Jessica's dreams come true, though the camera work...didn't
- UCLA won Pac-12s as both UCLA and Utah broke 198. We discuss the 10s and the "coincidental" change in Ohashi's floor music
- Plus, is the one-routine-at-a-time, 2.5 hour format of Pac-12s working?
- Regionals! (1:11:44)
- George Washington and Lindenwood claim the last two spots on a dramatic final day. We discuss the heartbreaking finish for UIC and the beautiful Cinderella story of Lindenwood gymnastics
- The regionals draw—what are the juiciest matchups to watch, and how did the committee screw up the team distribution? Oh, in several ways!
- Doha Apparatus World Cup (1:25:00)
- The day the Australia broke
- High bar is fulfilling all our hopes and dreams for this qualification method
- NINA!
- Jade Carey, Maria Paseka's best-ever Amanar, and the race for the Perfect 90
FURTHER READING
- 2019 Regional Championships Draw
- Conference Championships Live Blog – March 23, 2019
- Friday Live Blog – March 22, 2019
- Things Are Happening – March 22, 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. |
| 0:04.8 | USA Gymnastics filed for bankruptcy on December 5th, 2018 in the United States Bankruptcy Court |
| 0:11.3 | for the Southern District of Indiana. If you have a claim against |
| 0:15.2 | USA gymnastics including a claim arising from sexual abuse, your claim must be submitted by April |
| 0:20.8 | 29th, 2019 at 4 p.m. Easter. Sexual abuse claims will be confidential. They will not be publicly posted. For more information on the bankruptcy case and the claims filing requirements and process, please visit omnymGT.com |
| 0:39.0 | slash USA Gymnastics or call 1-888-682-03-60. |
| 0:47.0 | This episode is dedicated by club gym nerd member Lauren. |
| 0:56.0 | I would like to acknowledge and appreciate the Legion of Gym nerds on Twitter, |
| 1:01.0 | including the Gymcastic team D, who keep me informed and entertained every single day. |
| 1:08.0 | This week, A Leo won the All-around at Burm, the Birmingham World Cup, |
| 1:12.8 | World Cup, of course she did. |
| 1:14.2 | But she did it, where the gymnast practically |
| 1:17.0 | had to compete in the dark, more on lighting later. |
| 1:20.2 | The Doa World Apparatus Cup was insane, Eppke Tin, and Miachi are within 10 points of each other. |
| 1:28.6 | And the restrama will discuss also the conference championships which count for your RSQ |
| 1:34.2 | happen and regionals were announced the Nina Funulin bars dual happened |
| 1:39.2 | Superstars of gymnastics was actually entertaining. |
| 1:42.9 | The SEC network set the standard for gymnastics coverage again. |
| 1:48.0 | D2 Heroes, Lindenwood, advanced to regionals, all that in this episode |
| 1:53.4 | 357 for March 27th 2019 and a welcome to the number one |
| 2:00.4 | gymnastics podcast in the galaxy I'm Jessica and I'm here with |
| 2:03.2 | Spencer from the balance beam situation Spencer now let's talk about the meat |
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