Farewell, All-Around Standings
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Headlines
- The US women's team for the Pan American Championships has been named, and it didn't go by all-around rank order! We discuss what we're celebrating as well as the issues we still have with how team selection is being conducted in the new era
- Dan Baker, USAG team selection committee member, interview on the role of specialists and laws effecting women.
- A preview of the competition: How to watch on YouTube and the Pan Am Channel, how teams qualify to worlds from this meet, how Andrade and Saraiva will match up against the US team, and how many new Cubans will become stars
Meet News
- The American Classic happened. We discuss the weirdness of this meet being streamed while Pan American selection wasn't, as well as the etiquette for doing a Memmel turn in front of Chellsie Memmel
- Meet news from around the world, including the results of French Championships and worlds qualification from Africa.
Gymternet News and Feedback
- Who's returning to Florida next year, Alabama's surprising new assistant coach, more graduate transfers in college gymnastics, how many football players it takes to be worth one gymnast, and women's gymnastics tattoos.
- Plus, Simone received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and then was given a coloring book on the plane.
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| 0:00.0 | Norberts has a sale on feet everywhere carpets go to Norberts.net for a 10% discount on anything |
| 0:07.2 | with the code GymCasticJuly. Norberts is also giving away a $50 Norberts gift card that could |
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| 0:20.3 | and then like and comment on the giveaway post. Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear |
| 0:26.3 | a naughty word or two. The reason I wanted to focus a lot on the selection of this team other than |
| 0:32.8 | the fact that it's my one true passion is that it's the first selection of this new regime, |
| 0:40.1 | the Trident, it's their first the first team that they've picked and it's a useful indicator |
| 0:47.6 | of what team selection might be going forward. It certainly was when Tom Forster took over. |
| 0:52.1 | Today we have Pan and Am championship rosters including the US women's team. There was a Pan and |
| 1:04.8 | Am championships trial which was held in secret as usual but we got to watch the American classic. |
| 1:10.8 | The Pan and Am championships are super important because there are world championships |
| 1:14.4 | qualifier. We heard from Dan Baker on the US selection committee will tell you what he had to say |
| 1:20.0 | Rachel Denhalder's book is being made into a movie and Simone received the presidential |
| 1:25.6 | medal of freedom and I cried in the middle of a lunch watching her at a restaurant watching her |
| 1:31.7 | get it. This is episode 29 for the year 2022 the week of July 11th and welcome to the number one |
| 1:39.0 | to NASA's podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam |
| 1:43.9 | situation. Spencer let's talk about the biggest news that we got in the US. We have a team that |
| 1:57.4 | qualifies for things and it's happening and we had an actual trial for a team for Pan and |
| 2:02.5 | champions. Okay. Yes so the US has named the women's teams for the Pan American championships which |
| 2:10.2 | will compete which will the Pan American championships is this coming week. We'll talk about |
| 2:14.5 | the schedule. They'll compete on Friday of this week in Rio to earn a team spot at the world |
| 2:21.7 | championships. The team for the US women's seniors is Sky Blakely, Lexi Zeiss, El Miller, Zoe Miller, |
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