437: Lineup Racism
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 104 minutes
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HEADLINES
- Texas Dreams Fallout
- Statements from more athletes about their Texas Dreams experiences, including Ragan Smith and Macy Toronjo
- Discussion: What responsibility do college coaches have to speak out about abusive coaching in the elite world?
- ESPN article on racism in college gymnastics
- The details on Alabama's Title IX investigation, and...Dana what are you doing?
- "Skin-tone" and the NCAA demographics database
- D-D Breaux retired
- Her epic legacy at LSU and what's next for the team
MINI-COMMISSION
- Last week, Kennedy Baker discussed her experience with racism at Florida and mentioned the much-discussed history of Florida floor lineups. We use that as a lens for this week's mini-commission, in which Sophie asked us to discuss NCAA lineup strategy, what each of our strategies would be if we were making lineups, and whether there's a program that excels at lineup strategy.
GYMTERNET NEWS
- Amy Tinkler's former coaches suspended by British Gymnastics, Memmel upgrade news, the Kathie Klages sentencing, USAG's 5-tier system for SafeSport reports, Donnell Whittenburg's piece for Team USA, Nina's new dismount, and more
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| 0:00.0 | Like I've always been a big fan of this lineup strategy because it reflected effective awareness of the existence of judging nonsense in college gymnastics and it exploited it. |
| 0:11.4 | But Kennedy is accurate in pointing out |
| 0:14.6 | what I had not seen, like of all the years |
| 0:16.9 | we talked about this on the show. |
| 0:19.7 | We never once talked about how it was always the black women who were being put you know in the |
| 0:24.9 | fifth position and always the white women in the sixth position which I guess is you |
| 0:28.5 | know the definition of privilege we didn't see it because we didn't have to see it. |
| 0:33.9 | Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:39.8 | Today, Gymnist Alliance is not slowing down. |
| 0:44.0 | Amy Tinkler's former coaches have been suspended, |
| 0:46.6 | but without the years old investigation being completed, |
| 0:51.4 | Texas Dreams Fallout, we're going to discuss the excellent E-SPN article, Black Collegiate |
| 0:56.8 | Gymnist-described Culture of Racism in Isolation. |
| 0:59.6 | It includes FOIA requests, you guys, the receipts. Don L. Wittenberg backs up |
| 1:06.7 | John Arrosko's claims in his guest post for Team USA. We'll talk about that. |
| 1:11.9 | We have a mini commission on NCAA lineups |
| 1:15.2 | as inspired by Kennedy Baker's allegations against Florida. |
| 1:18.3 | This is episode of 436 for August 19th, 2020, year one of the pandemic, year of, please make sure you're |
| 1:29.2 | registered to vote. Are you registered to vote? Make sure you're registered to vote? Make sure you're registered. |
| 1:33.1 | Spencer's registered. |
| 1:34.3 | I have double checked like 17 times |
| 1:37.0 | because I'm afraid of being purged. |
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