420: Jamie Dantzscher
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 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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