420: Jamie Dantzscher

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

IT'S JAMIE DANTZSCHER YOU GUYS

In this full episode with Jamie Dantzscher, we discuss...

Life with the Rybackis, why Jamie "left," and why she came back
How Jamie feels about their coaching now (spoiler alert: NOT GREAT)
How weird it is that we still care about her 1999 floor music
The bonkers 2000 Olympic selection process
Speaking out publicly about Bela—then, later, and now—and a current sense of vindication
Why Bela took her off bars in qualification in Sydney
The INSANE story about why she didn't salute after her team final floor routine
Being awarded a retroactive Olympic bronze medal, how she feels about it, and that famous press conference
The time a judge apologized to her for the corrupt scoring at nationals
What skills she would have done if she competed in an open-ended code
What her relationship with Vanessa Atler is like now

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0:00.0	By the way, before my 14, they said, if I made my 14 on the second day, they wanted me to
0:08.4	limp off, like my ankle was really bothered.
0:11.8	They wanted me to like create a carry stroke woman.
0:15.0	Oh my God.
0:17.0	Welcome to Gymkastic.
0:20.0	Warning.
0:22.0	This podcast discusses gymnastics in a frank and adult manner.
0:26.0	So you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:28.0	Welcome to the Gymnastic Interview with Jamie Dancer. This is episode 420 for April 15th,
0:40.3	2020. Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the universe. I'm Jessica and
0:45.5	I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation. Jamie Dancher really
0:49.5	needs no introduction. She's a national team member for 8 years, 94 to 2001, openly spoke out against
0:57.4	Bella Coroli and the way the 2000 Olympic team were treated by USA Gymnastics.
1:03.0	She, Elise Ray and Kristen Maloney have also said in their interviews with us
1:08.0	talked about how that team was treated.
1:10.0	She spoke out again about Bella and how the team was treated when she received her bronze team medal in 2010 for the 2000
1:19.4	Sydney Olympics when China had there taken away for age falsification.
1:23.0	The first to file a lawsuit against USA Gymnastics
1:26.4	ex-doctor in the abuse case.
1:29.4	She wrote the forward to the new edition
1:32.2	of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes.
1:34.4	She's a three-time NCAA team champ,
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