453: European Championships of Feelings with Olly Hogben
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
WOMEN'S EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Olly Hogben is with us this week to discuss everything that happened at European Championships last weekend including
- Larisa Iordache's Simone Slam in her return to international competition
- Ukraine's dramatic team final victory and the saga of Larisa's floor routine
- Goksu Uctas Sanli and the floor inquiry heard 'round the world
- Nation after nation making first-time history
- The travails of Luxembourg's quest to qualify to the team final
- Don't miss: Olly being so eloquent about the beauty of humanity and sport that he makes Jessica cry
THERE'S MORE
In the gymternet news, LSU's Gymnastics 101 provokes an epic COVID rage-o-meter, including this article in Time about cancelling college season. Plus, we discuss USAG's athlete bill of rights, Gymnasts for Change, and a paper on bias in gymnastics judging.
HOW TO COPE WHILE WE ARE ON VACATION
- Watch our Fundraiser for Feeding America where we instructed the gymnastics world on proper artistry: How Not To Be Basic
- Listen to Jessica's interview with The End of Sports podcast
- The Shift Show where Jessica and Dave Tilly nerd out about science and gymnastics culture
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Bias in Gymnastics series LGBT panel moderated by Ms. O'Beirne.
- Listen to our archives here.
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| 0:30.2 | There's an injured teenager who's 50-50 about whether they're going to ever be able to do gymnastics again. |
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| 0:41.5 | That 50-50 means she got a pretty good chance. At every single sporting event, |
| 0:47.2 | there's somebody watching on a TV screen, usually a kid whose dreams are formed because of what they have just seen. This European |
| 0:55.3 | Championships was unprecedented for very many reasons. It was full of never |
| 0:59.2 | before seen moments. So when it comes to final thoughts on these European Championships, I would say |
| 1:06.2 | ask us all again in 2030, because I think that's when we'll know the impact that some of these |
| 1:12.0 | gymnasts have had. |
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| 1:34.4 | Larissa Yodaki won four medals, Anna Barbosa from the junior team showed us |
| 1:40.0 | how to hear the Romanian anthem again after all these years, which was a glorious moment. |
| 1:46.0 | Ukraine senior team won. There were tears. It was historic. There are many historic finishes, |
| 1:51.6 | including Turkey and Golden Walter, Sophia Kovach. |
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