Gymnastics International Episode 1: Chinese and Japanese Nationals

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🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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GYMNASTICS INTERNATIONAL

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Gymnastics International! On this show, we'll take a deep dive into the latest competitions from around the world, covering them with the depth and detail we typically only reserve for US women's elite competitions. Because national borders are stupid. This week: Japanese and Chinese Nationals!

ALL-JAPAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

From Mai's triumphant and dominant all-around performance (that might have been based on spite), to the return of Asuka Teramoto from her Achilles injury, to the surprise silver medal for Yuna Hiraiwa and the unacceptable Sae Miyakawa erasure, we break down everything that happened at Japan's return to competition. On the men's side, we discuss Kohei's self-reinvention as a high bar specialist, what that means for Hidetaka Miyachi, Kenzo smiling his way to vault credit, and Carlos Yulo's opportunity for comedy.

CHINESE NATIONALS

Another national title for Liu Tingting. Why we can't stop talking about Guan Chenchen (and rules about what dance you have to do any time you say the name Guan Chenchen). Wei Xiaoyuan and the magic hair bow. Qi Qi bringing floor back. All the side jumps. Horror at the stupid physical testing rules. New favorites. Old favorites. Medium favorites. Injured favorites. The fundamental repulsiveness of a white pommel horse. Sun Wei's surprise AA title. We've got it all.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the inaugural episode, our very first try of Gymnastics International, part of the
0:10.0	Gymcastic Podcast Network.
0:12.4	Yes.
0:13.4	Jewel in the crown of the Gymcastic Family of Podcasts.
0:16.6	We've decided 17 seconds in.
0:19.6	On this show, we're going to take a deep dive into the latest gymnastics competitions from around the world.
0:26.7	Competitions that we'd typically reference on the main show, Gymkastic, but maybe you would say like, oh, such and such one. Jessica's really
0:35.6	obsessed with this new junior on beam and she's perfect and she's going to make seven
0:40.2	Olympic teams, but that's probably all we would do.
0:43.1	We wouldn't go into a ton of detail the way we do with the US women's elite
0:48.9	competitions when we're like, this person, this person,
0:50.9	this person, this person, this person, this person,
0:51.3	this person, this person.
0:52.4	But we know that you're out there the people who want the same kind of coverage for
0:57.4	every meat that anyone did all around the world so that's what we're doing on gymnastics international.
1:04.8	Today's event is the return of a real live gymnastics national championships.
1:12.2	Japan, the All Japan Championship. Gymnastics National Championships, with Japan Championships,
1:15.5	and the Chinese National Championships.
1:18.6	And we are going to be watching some of those routines
1:22.0	as we talk about them.
1:23.8	So if you want to watch along as we discuss these routines,
1:27.5	you can go to gymcastic.com and see a preview.
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