68: Most Fascinating People of 2013
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2014
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Uncle Tim, Blythe, and Jessica chat about:
- Our picks for most fascinating people of 2013.
- Routines from 2013 that people will still be talking about 20 years from now.
- Victoria Moors at the Tokyo International.
- Oleg Verniaiev and Danell Leyva at the Valerie Liukin Invitational
- Tatiana Nabieva's retirement.
- Plus Rowena Needham, Kohei Uchimora, Mykayla Skinner and Sam Mikulak's cool new skills.
We give our opinions on the latest news stories from around the gymternet:
- Our fantasy gymnastics teams.
- The bars falling down in Ellie Black's gym.
- Aliya Mustafina's fan Q&A session on VK.com (translations thanks to World of Gymnastike).
- A Gabby Douglas gymnastics update.
- Lexie Priessman and Amelia Hundley health updates.
- Simone Biles new choreographer.
- The airport adventures of Sam Peszek and Eric Stonestreet (Cameron on Modern Family).
- Our two solutions for making elite floor more fun with less tumbling passes even though the Stork Stand is here to stay.
- We respond to listener Questions & Comments:
- In tirade news - Jessica responds to a listener's offense over her designation of cheerleaders as wearers of "slutty" outfits.
- The best camcorder for recording gymnastics meets.
- Should USAG hold a red-carpet award gala like USA Swimmings' Golden Goggles?
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- GymCastic's Top 6 Episodes of 2013
- By the Numbers: 2013's Top All-Around Gymnasts
- A Gym Nerd's Guide to NCAA Bars
- 65: NCAA Judge Dean Ratliff, Early Recruiting & Saving Temple Men's Gymnastics
- Episode 62: Pavlova to Azerbaijan, Oleg (Finally!) in Stuttgart & The Mexican Open Extravaganza
- Episode 48: Kyla Ross
- Episode 40: Michigan's Stacey Ervin
- Episode 39: Victoria Moors
- Episode 38: Svetlana Boginskaya
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Just a reminder that this show is rated PG-13. |
| 0:05.0 | This week our picks for the most fascinating gymnastics people of 2013. Hey Gymnnis, Elite Sports Band is a cutting edge compression backwormer that can protect |
| 0:19.0 | your most valued asset. |
| 0:20.9 | You're back. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Allison Taylor on behalf of Elite Sports Band. |
| 0:24.7 | Visit Elite Sports Band.com. We've got your back. |
| 0:28.3 | This is episode 68 for January 1st, 2014. |
| 0:34.0 | 2014! |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Jessica from Masters Gymnastics. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Blayeth from the Gym |
| 0:40.0 | Examinar. |
| 0:41.0 | And I'm Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Talks Men's Gym. |
| 0:45.0 | And this is the number one gymnastics podcast for all time. |
| 0:51.0 | Bringing you all the news from around the gym internet. |
| 0:54.0 | So let's talk about the meets that happen over our two week break. |
| 0:58.0 | Uncle Samo, what happened in Tokyo? |
| 1:00.0 | So at the Toyota International, I believe it's called, it was a lot of repeating on the |
| 1:07.5 | men's side from the world championship. |
| 1:10.2 | So for instance on floor, Shirai Kenzo finished first with a 16.325 on |
| 1:17.0 | pommel horse Kojkami kamiyama of Japan finished first with a 15.3 still rings Arthur Zanetti finished first and |
| 1:26.5 | then on vault Kim he hoon finished first and Kochi uchimura won both parallel bars and high bar. |
| 1:35.0 | On the women's side, we had Van Thi Hawthorne of Vietnam, |
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