Hang Up and Listen - Remember When U.S. Women's Gymnastics Used to Be Joyful?
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin is here to introduce you to What Next, Slate's new daily news podcast.
UCLA’s Katelyn Ohashi wowed the internet this week with a viral video of her college gymnastics floor routine. As Ohashi’s star rises, the U.S. women’s gymnastics program is imploding. Fans of the sport wonder: What is the price of being world-class? Slate contributor Rebecca Schumann joins What Next host Mary Harris to investigate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, hang up listeners. It is me, Josh Levine. I am not here today with a new episode of our show. |
| 0:08.2 | Instead, I'm here with something different. I think that you will really like. It's an episode of |
| 0:13.6 | What Next Slate's New Daily News podcast. In it, the great Mary Harris sits down to talk to Rebecca Schumann about a piece |
| 0:22.4 | of hers we ran in Slate on Monday. It's about the college gymnast Caitlin O'Hashi, whose floor |
| 0:28.7 | exercise routine has gone mega viral this week. You might have seen it. Mary and Rebecca |
| 0:34.5 | investigate why the routine went viral and explore what the difference is between elite gymnasts, the ones we know about from the Olympics, and college gymnasts, the ones who make the sport look a lot more fun. |
| 0:47.9 | You can hear what next every weekday morning. It comes out at 5 a.m. They deliver smart, critical analysis from right inside the Slate Newsroom. It's one of my favorite new shows. I think you'll enjoy it as well. If you do like what you hear, I encourage you to subscribe to the show in its own feed. It's the best way to support the program and the journalism we do here at Slate. Thanks so much and enjoy. |
| 1:12.9 | Hey, everyone. Just a warning here at the top. This episode mentions sexual assault. It's |
| 1:17.5 | going to happen a few times. The references go by fast. They're not graphic, but we wanted |
| 1:21.9 | to give you a heads up. Thanks. |
| 1:33.6 | Okay, so, yeah, all right, so I've got the embedded tweet. |
| 1:34.9 | It's the second one down. |
| 1:39.4 | I called up Rebecca Schumann because I wanted to watch this video with her. |
| 1:42.6 | It's a tweet from UCLA Gymnastics that says a 10 isn't enough. |
| 1:43.9 | You've seen this tape, right? |
| 1:48.6 | The one with the college gymnast, Caitlin O'Hashi, and her phenomenal floor routine, |
| 1:51.7 | it started making the rounds on Twitter this weekend. |
| 1:54.5 | Yeah, so last weekend was their opener. |
| 1:58.4 | And I went on Twitter and I was like, who's going to watch UCLA Gymnastics? |
| 2:00.0 | And all these people laughed at me. |
| 2:13.6 | They were like, um, I think just you. So I was like, all right. Okay. Rebecca saw this video way before I did. |
| 2:18.2 | She used to compete as a gymnast. Now she writes about competitive gymnastics for Slate. |
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