All About Aly (Commissioned)
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 108 minutes
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THIS WEEK
- We have a commissioned episode all about Aly! A Club Gym Nerd member asked for a deep dive into the gymnastics and activism career of one of the true champions of the sport, our beloved Aly Raisman. We discuss
- Consistency and muscles and cardio (and tugboats for some reason)
- Owning things we thought about Aly when we first saw her as a junior elite that turned out to be false
- Her 2010 American Cup performance and what that beam routine told us about Aly
- The "mini-Alicia" years, and when she broke out to establish her own identity
- The 2012 Olympics, an AA tiebreak, and a beam petition
- The lie of "she'll never get those scores internationally"
- Behind the scenes memories of Aly at competitions
- 1.5 to double Arabian to layout. We gush for a while, and discuss why no one else has done it
- The comeback, and why her final competition was also her best one
- The post-gymnastics years, her platform, her activism, her quest for justice and commitment to sending monsters to prison and getting receipts
- What is Aly's ultimate legacy?
THE POSTS
- Aly Raisman's Darkness To Light Training for adults
- Regional Championships – Schedule and Links March 29, 2021
- Keeping Up with the Cool GIFs – Conference Championships March 23, 2021
- Top Scores of Conference Championships March 23, 2021
- 2021 Regionals Draw March 22, 2021
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember, the show is PG-13. |
| 0:02.0 | So you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:05.1 | Today, a gymnastics champion, |
| 0:08.5 | a champion in life, |
| 0:10.1 | the first gymnastics Olympian majoring |
| 0:12.4 | in making the world a better place. |
| 0:14.5 | We revisit the career from hot pink Leo J. Buu |
| 0:18.2 | to her triumphant return to the metal podium in Rio |
| 0:22.1 | and her life afterwards. |
| 0:23.7 | Today is a commission all about Allie Raisman. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome to season 21, |
| 0:29.5 | episode 14 for March 30th, 2021. |
| 0:32.4 | This is Jim Castick, |
| 0:33.8 | the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm Jessica and he was Spencer from the balancing situation. |
| 0:40.5 | And Spencer tells about this commission. |
| 0:43.6 | This was, this is an anonymous commission, |
| 0:47.0 | but it was not commissioned by Allie herself. |
| 0:49.4 | We should just, you know, she wasn't, |
| 0:52.6 | Allie didn't like call up Jessica and be like, |
| 0:54.8 | so what I'd really like, |
| 0:57.0 | like commission's not a great idea. |
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