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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

The GEC Conference refuses to participate in the S.C.O.R.E. board judging accountability system. Wondering what happens now? We have answers from the oversight committee. Romania and the U.S. are both using GymCastic to argue their sides in the Paris bronze medal debacle, Livvy Dunne has thoughts on scoring, plus Corrupt or Correct and all the gymternet news.

Headlines

Because of Elon Musks' double nazi salute, going forward, GymCastic will no longer link to Twitter. We encourage listeners to follow #Ncaagym and other gymnastics starter packs on Bluesky
GymCastic confirmed Friday that the Gymnastics East Conference (GEC) refuses to participate in the S.C.O.R.E. Board pilot program
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Romania and the United States both use GymCastic to argue their sides in the Paris floor bronze medal case appeal before the Swiss Supreme Court
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Gymternet News

Ella Zirbes' (Utah) social media update about her floor troubles.
Why former Russian rhythmic gymnast Alina Kabaeva and her alleged relationship with Putin could help her win a political battle against Irina Viner
People are mad at Livvy Dunne for her Tweet about NCAA scoring
Anna Li's gymnasts and #itsnottrue reposts
Follow-ups from last week
- What is Helen Hu's valdez-thing called?

NCAA

Surprise, surprise. Oklahoma still tops the NCAA rankings while Jade Carey leads the all-around
Florida is the first team of the season to break into the 198s but we have thoughts
LSU forgot to sacrifice another high heel this week and had some issues at Arkansas
- Aleah Finnegan (LSU) accidentally got ejected from the floor on her double Arabian
Opportunities for comedy
- Eastern Michigan hosted the first annual Golden Girls Meet!
- Raphaelle Perreault (LIU) accidentally launched herself into the guard rails and it was hilarious
- A boy at the Alabama vs Oklahoma meet tried to distract Audrey Davis on vault but she was too locked-in to care

Corrupt or Correct

Kaliya Lincoln and Amari Drayton both got 9.85s for their Yurchenko one-and-a-halfs. Neither vault score is possible.
Follow-up question: is cowboying a deduction? This is why we need front and back judges.

NCAA Week 4 Highlights

Brenna Neault's (Stanford) ring leap is the ONLY one that should be getting credit

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How to watch NCAA gymnastics abroad

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Remember, this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:04.4	Norbert's is having a sale on Ninja Obstacle Course Stuff this month.
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0:22.9	giveaway post. Today, we finally, finally, finally, Spencer, your dreams are coming true. We have a
0:30.9	climate change awareness act in NCAA gymnastics. Chuso is back again, again, again.
0:40.6	Teams are refusing to participate in the judging oversight system.
0:45.3	We're going to talk about that.
0:46.7	In corrupt or correct, we're going to talk about the Florida, Georgia,
0:49.9	back-to-back with the Alabama-O-U meet, which gave us whiplash,
0:53.2	and we finally have a 198.
0:55.9	It's almost like some places are like judging oversight. What?
1:01.1	Welcome to the number one of NASA podcast in the Galaxy. I'm Jessica. I'm here with Spencer from
1:05.9	the balance period situation. It's January 27th, 2025. And I want to talk about the most important thing I have in the headlines, obviously, which is Riley Mundell, our savior, at Denver. They had a meet where you wear a ribbon for a cause and everyone gets to pick their own cause because no one can agree on anything. But Riley Mundell's cause was climate change, and she wore climate change ribbon.
1:28.6	So thank you so much, Riley Mundell.
1:31.0	If only the whole meat could be about that.
1:33.8	But I understand that Denver has a car sponsorship, so maybe it could be electric.
1:38.5	How about that?
1:39.5	That's a compromise.
1:41.3	But is her floor routine climate change themed? I think that's the true question.
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