359: Sudden Death Regionals, Morgiboo Magic
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 9 April 2019
⏱️ 116 minutes
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NCAA REGIONALS (9:20)
- It all went to plan...until it didn't
- Oregon State
- A forensic investigation, with historical reference points, of the Florida beam disaster and elimination
- Artistic gymnastics alert: Denver coach Linas Gaveika's bars performance
- Oregon State's magical beam levitation, and How To Give Birth Under a Double Layout: The Regional
- LSU
- Brace yourself: MyKayla Skinner fell on bars, ending a streak of 161 consecutive hit routines
- Auburn's amazing semifinal performance, the injury to Sam Cerio, and the delicate politics of covering gruesome injuries—plus a shoutout to Ella Douglas, who had to go on floor right after that
- Lexy Ramler and Ivy Lu. Done.
- Michigan
- From the lack of television coverage, to this regional being behind a paywall, to the unreliable and nonexistent live scores, we have a serious access problem for regionals that needs to be fixed
- Alabama is eliminated. This will be the first national championship without Alabama since 1982, the first year women existed
- Kyla Ross got three more 10s, meanwhile Taylor Houchin got zero 10s, and we have a problem with that
- Penn State got two individuals qualifiers to nationals and we're taking all the credit. Sorry, gymnasts
- Georgia
- Spencer calls for a judging intervention after this preposterous regional
- Oklahoma recorded the highest road score in NCAA history, and Cal and Kentucky both set program records while being eliminated
- Shoutout to Alma Kuc, Emi Watterson, and Cal's best bars rotation ever en route to the strongest performance to be eliminated from any regional final
- Marissa Oakley's 10 was a thing of beauty and a joy forever, and Rachael Lukacs BROUGHT IT
- Um. So. We need to talk about some leotards
- Gymnasts are ninjas — regionals edition
- What we still need to work on with this new regionals format, including meet timing and schedule, team distribution, and those stupid team prisons—now even stupider than ever!
TOKYO WORLD CUP (1:29:10)
- Morgan Hurd won the AA title by less than a tenth over Ellie Black, proving she is a sorceress on vault and beam, while also debuting her new floor routine. We interpret.
- Ellie Black and Asuka Teramoto were on fire, though Teramoto's true meet highlight had nothing to do with gymnastics
- Sam "Consistency" Mikulak hit an entire meet, including HB, to take the all-around title
- Plus, Giarnni Regini-Moran beat Kenzo on floor, why we're excited to be concerned for Kenzo's safety, and while we're definitely not excited to be concerned for Bart's safety
GYMTERNET NEWS (1:40:00)
- Former gymnastics coach in Brazil, Fernando de Carvalho Lopes, banned
- Everyone is pulling out of Euros, even Mustafina
- Gymnastics coach Jerry Reighard not fired from CMU, has two weeks to respond to investigation findings
- Shawn is having a baby
- FIG Parkour World Cup series set to begin
- Marz + TRUTH = yes.
- Flippin' 5K Race & Festival (1:49:43)
FURTHER READING
- Onward to Fort Worth!
- Regionals Live Blog – Regional Finals
- Regionals Live Blog – Round 2
- Regionals Live Blog – Round 1
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- 354: American Cup and Jesolo Explosion
Transcript
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| 0:22.0 | On this show, we harp on safety so much. Safety against |
| 0:26.9 | grooming behaviors and predators but also safety that seem as insignificant as |
| 0:31.0 | the lighting and we make sure to talk about those things and we talk |
| 0:34.4 | about those things because to us it doesn't seem like the people in charge of these |
| 0:38.5 | competitions respect the danger level of this sport. So when we see something like lighting being so |
| 0:46.4 | dark that the gymnast can't see the apparatus, we make sure to talk about it. |
| 0:51.0 | And I think that by sharing Sam's injury and talking |
| 0:54.0 | about the injury you don't have to watch it whatever but you can see how dangerous |
| 0:58.8 | the sport is and it makes sense when you see something like this, |
| 1:02.5 | why we complain so much about and bring up |
| 1:06.1 | the safety level of the equipment and the sports |
| 1:08.2 | and the arena and how important that is. |
| 1:10.3 | And it also gives you respect for how freaking hard this is, how easy they make it look when it's so dangerous and so incredibly difficult to do what they're doing. |
| 1:22.0 | This week, we are shook. Florida and Alabama have been eliminated. |
| 1:30.2 | Oklahoma, UCLA, Georgia, LSU, Denver for only the fifth time in their history. |
| 1:36.2 | Michigan, after all the nonsense they've been through, Utah for the 44th time or something |
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