363: Five Is the New Four ...Is the New Five
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
ALL GYMTERNET NEWS, ALL THE TIME
- Dumpster fire news
- It has been yet another terrible month for USAG (a theme???)
- The Li Li Today interview disaster
- The further mess of the botched hiring of Edward Nyman
- Whose side are we on here? And is it no one's? (It's no one's)
- A deep dive into the unprofessional incompetence of everyone ever
- Seriously Terin? The Terin Humphrey Facebook nonsense.
- The disastrous, unacceptable debacle that was Mary Lou's latest TV appearance
- NCAA Coaching Musical Chairs (41:20)
- Jordyn Wieber is the new head coach at Arkansas
- What do we think of this move? Is 23 too young to be a head coach? And most importantly, should Chris Brooks be her assistant?
- Chris Waller has been named head coach at UCLA
- What does a successful Chris Waller tenure look like? We discuss both results and bras. Guess who brought up which topic.
- More from the NCAA coaching carousel, including all the changes at Utah
- Jordyn Wieber is the new head coach at Arkansas
- Olympic and World Championship news (55:30)
- Olympic teams are returning to FIVE (count 'em five) members in 2024. We have extensive thoughts and further proposals, some of them radical
- World championships will cap the number of competitors and introduce a qualification process starting in 2022.
- There are really strict leotard rules for team and individual competitors in 2020 for some reason.
- DRAH-MAAAAAA in the awarding of 2023 worlds. It involves taking people to court over a lack of numerical specificity in deadlines. Spencer is in heaven.
- Important robot judging news.
- PLUS
- At the Heart of Gold is now available on HBO. Jessica tells us about the premiere, and we discuss overall thoughts and play "what we've learned since."
- Olympic. Channel. Svetlana. Khorkina. Documentary.
- New recruiting rules in NCAA (finally!)
- Diego Hypolito comes out
- Jordan Schwikert, Alyssa Baumann, and Tasha Schwikert have testified in TX about a MeToo bill
- Simone does her second SI Swimsuit Shoot, and Jessica explains to Spencer why it actually matters
- Chinese Nationals!!! (1:36:32)
- Tingting is the national AA champion and UB champion—and is also brilliantly Netherlands-ing the crap out of floor
- The craziness of event finals, where Fan Yilin missed on bars, everybody fell on beam, and Zhang Jin had the most sad-larious floor leap miss-save in history.
- SHANG CHUNSONG won the floor title, but the true winner was her shirt
- World tumbling champion Jia Fangfang has made huge strides on floor
- We have three new perfect junior obsessions: Ou Yushan, Luo Rui, and Guan Chenchen, who is a silly little goose who is dancing constantly
- Plus, the most perfect PBars routine ever.
FURTHER READING
- The Only Gymnast That Mattered: The Svetlana Khorkina Story
- Things Are Happening – May 9, 2019
- Perfect Chinese Beamers Who Never Saw the Light of Day
- Gymnastics GIFs for All Occasions: Part 2
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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. |
| 0:05.0 | Obviously the best part was Cat Ebert calling John Ghetto Satan. |
| 0:09.0 | That was the part. That was the best. They ask, who is John Gatter? |
| 0:13.5 | And she thinks for a second and looks at the camera |
| 0:16.0 | and then says Satan. |
| 0:17.7 | And then she clarifies by saying, the devil. |
| 0:19.9 | The devil. |
| 0:20.5 | The devil. that ball. Today, Ting! |
| 0:25.0 | He is your 2019 Chinese all-around champion. |
| 0:29.7 | Jordan Weber is a new head coach for Arkansas. |
| 0:31.8 | UCLA has a new head coach, the Olympic team size is changing again, but we're still going to have individuals. USA Gymnastics and Mary Lou Retton cannot get their shit together. This is episode 363 for May 15th, 2019 and welcome to the number |
| 0:49.2 | one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica Nye from Spencer from the balance beam situation. Let's get right |
| 0:56.5 | into it and first talk about the Jim Turnet News. Basically this whole episode is |
| 1:01.3 | Jim Turnet News until we talk about Chinese nationals and there |
| 1:04.7 | will be a lot of squealing during that for me. |
| 1:08.3 | Wonderful. |
| 1:09.3 | I'll be squealing inside and not vocally at all. But that's progress for me. |
| 1:16.3 | That is. |
| 1:17.3 | Very proud of you. The Chinese juniors will do that to me. |
| 1:20.3 | It is time. The moment you've all been waiting for you've waited two weeks for this |
| 1:26.3 | We've been waiting so long to get this off our chest. It's time for |
| 1:30.7 | dumpster fire news. Oh my God, these idiots, Jessica. |
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