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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

437: Lineup Racism

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

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Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded (pre-edits with all the flubs and hiccups) and see video of the routines we discuss.

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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Transcript

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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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