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HEADLINES

• Mahdi Olfati showed a Yurchenko full-in at Asian Championships podium training and our jaw is still on the floor
• Mary Lou Retton was arrested for a DUI in West Virginia
• The biggest stories at the European Championships
  • Manila Esposito is the European All-Around Champion AGAIN!
  • This is Ana Barbosu's world, and we're all just living in it
  • We need to talk about the Mixed Pairs competition because strategy
  • The domination of grown-ass women
  • International world peace news starring Missouri Gymnastics

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

• A rundown of who the Champions of Europe are in our heart and on paper
• What were the coolest skills we saw at these Championships?
• Our favorite opportunities for comedy
  • Why Ruby Evans and Jake Jarman are our new favorite comedy duo
• When Jennifer Williams hits her beam routine, it's so over for everyone else
• In "everything is terrible" news, Helen Kevric injured her knee on vault
• Alice D'Amato and Sabrina Voinea had some uh-ohs during qualification
• The mixed-team event
  • An opportunity for comedy brought to you by Turkish Gymnastics
  • Thoughts on Germany's win over Great Britain and Italy
  • I'm sorry, Italy had the highest cumulative score but only came in third??!?
  • How would we run a mixed-team event if we were in charge?

GYMTERNET NEWS

• Civil Rights Attack and the NCAA Mini-Commission follow-up
  • Can we get the NCAA to boycott politically problematic states?
  • We mentioned the sports boycott of South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s, but notably the USAF let gymnasts compete in South Africa
• College Transfer News
  • Brooke Pierson changes her commitment from Clemson to Georgia
  • Ashlee Sullivan changed her commitment from Michigan to UCLA
  • eMjae Frasier graduated from Cal early and will attend Florida for her final year of eligibility
  • Sadie Smith is transferring from Arkansas to Arizona
  • Naya Howard is transferring from Georgia to Michigan State
  • Madison Ulrich is transferring from Denver to LSU
  • Natalie Martin is transferring from Maryland to Ohio State
• BJ Das got promoted to UCLA's associate head coach
• Megan Haught is Denver's new assistant coach (previously a coach at WOGA)
• Josh Nilson is the new Illinois head coach
• Iowa State hires Jazmyn Estrella and Mary Wise as assistant coaches
• Eli Seitz announced her retirement at Euros
• Jade Barbosa announced she is pregnant
• Brody Malone got married and wore his 2024 U.S. Championships belt buckle to his wedding
• Justice for Arkansas: the SEC announced all nine teams will be at next year's conference championships
• Can Zoe catch a break? Zoe Miller had a second surgery on her other shoulder
• Abbey Scanlon announced she will be returning to Cal for a fifth season
• Dulcy Caylor, Jayla Hang, Gabrielle Hardie, Hezly Rivera, and Tiana Sumanasekera will represent the US at the Pan American Championships
• Japan has named its Worlds team 4,000 years ahead of everyone else: Sugihara Aiko, Kishi Rina, Okamura Mana, and Nakamura Haruka
• Dumpster fire news
  • The man accused of killing UW-Whitewater gymnast Kara Welsh appeared in court
  • Former English gymnastics coach, Michael Haynes, has been found guilty for raping and sexually assaulting two young girls in the 1980s
• What's happening on the social medias?
  • Luka van de Keybus had his baby celebrate his win on the podium at Belgian Championships

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