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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

Luisa Blanco Interview and Oversight Season

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Interview: Luisa Blanco (48:17)

NCAA champion for Alabama, Colombian Olympian and Paris all-around finalist talks about her career and what's next. In this week's interview we discuss:

  • Her next chapter in gymnastics
  • Growing up at WOGA
  • What her parents did to afford gymnastics
  • Her most embarrassing fall of all time
  • Learning a Patterson
  • Why she went elite and what she learned about herself
  • Details about her shoulder injury
  • The Paris Olympic experience

Gymternet News

  • German gymnasts are speaking up about abusive coaching practices. (2:31)
  • Oceanside quad meet's organizational disaster and the 2019 article in Variety detailing a lawsuit against the organizer.
  • We said goodbye to Olympic great and holocaust survivor, Agnes Keleti. Watch her gorgeous beam routine under trees.

Week 1 Meet News

  • Jessica and Spencer attended the American Gold Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Classic in Oceanside, CA and share their impressions
    • How Jade Carey, even after all her success, continues to improve
    • The return of Brooklyn Moors to three events
    • Cal's steady performance to open the season
    • Reactions to the scoring and Score Board from Cal co-head coach, Justin Howell (27:02)
    • Ondine Achampong (Cal/GB) on adjusting to life at Berkeley and her ACL recovery (46:26)

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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.

0:04.3

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0:07.0

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0:13.1

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0:15.4

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0:20.6

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0:25.8

Today, we have Olympian, Paris All-R-R-Rown finalist,

0:34.2

Alabama-Great NCAA-Champion on Beam.

0:37.0

Luis de Blanco is here to chat with us and tell us

0:40.7

some very exciting news. German gymnasts are calling for an investigation. We'll tell you all the

0:45.7

details. And the NCAA season has started with record for the last five years, low scores in the new

0:52.2

oversight era. The new season of watch your Favorite Olympic World Champion Elite compete every weekend for 14

0:58.6

weeks is here.

0:59.9

College season.

1:01.0

We're going to talk about it.

1:02.1

It's January 6, 2025.

1:04.0

And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy.

1:06.8

I'm Jessica and remember with Spencer from the balance theme situation.

1:10.2

And in case you missed it, we have a show called College and Cocktails, the NCAA gymnastics post-meat show, which we've been doing for years now.

1:18.0

And we started last week this season.

1:20.8

So you can listen to Friday's episode.

1:23.2

We pick a meat and we watch it.

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