National Collegiate Achilles Apocalypse

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🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Important Updates

Konnor McClain's former coaches respond to her accusations of racism
Fisk University will launch the first HBCU college gymnastics team
Fart sabotage. That's right: fart sabotage.
That whole figure skating thing gets us talking about changing the age limit in gymnastics. Some context:
- "Because she is younger than 16, Kamila Valieva is considered a "protected person" by the World Anti-Doping Agency and therefore could receive a lesser punishment than an adult who could receive a maximum two-year suspension."
- "The panel said Monday that it would be unfair and cause "irreparable harm" to Valieva if she were barred from the Olympic competition."

College Gym Update

The National Collegiate Achilles Apocalypse claimed more victims this week. What will it take to stop the madness?
Thoughts on the midseason blues, NQS, and the college gymnastics schedule
Do DIII teams really get higher scores when they go away at DI schools? SURE DO.
- Not an urban myth, it's a study from Spencer.
  - Using data from every meet for the DIII WIAC teams (the 8 teams in Wisconsin/Minnesota) for the last 10 years—679 team scores—the average score when they compete away at a DI or DII school is 186.104.
  - Compared to when they compete at home or at other DIII schools or neutral venues, when the average score is 183.776.
  - That's a difference of 2.328 in the team score—or greater than four falls—maintained across an entire decade of meets for an entire division of teams. Far from being an urban myth, DIII teams scoring far higher at DI and DII schools is a long-standing and verifiable reality.
Plus, Ana Padurariu's magic foot, the sideline choreography award, the most college salute of all time, the cringiest college gymnastics broadcast moment ever, and the comedy stylings of one Jordan Chiles
Feedback on 10.0s from a real-life gymnast who got one, the irrationality of which gymnasts got to take a COVID year, gymnastics in the classroom, and what if college gymnastics added lyrics to floor music

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0:00.0	I think a very convincing argument, but this is brought up, is if you're competing in this competition
0:05.7	and you can't be held to the rules because you're a minor, and like once again,
0:11.3	she knows, I almost, you can't be held to the rules because you're a minor, then you shouldn't be
0:15.5	able to compete. Like if they're going to be different rules for you, there should be a different
0:20.3	competition for you, and there is, it's called the Youth Olympic Games. Remember, the show is PG-13,
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0:47.7	More history has been made. We have the first ever historically black college gymnastics team
0:53.3	is starting. The Russian doping positive test that the Winter Olympics has opened the gateways
0:59.1	again to talk about the age-old question of raising the age limit, and we're going to talk about
1:03.5	this doping thing because it's wild what's happening. And updates with the Conor McLean
1:08.8	accusations against performer Jim and Peggy Liddick and the discipline. We have definitive proof
1:15.2	that D3 teams are getting higher scores at D1 competitions, we'll discuss. And of course,
1:21.8	the best gymnastics sabotage story ever, you guys. I can't wait. We have a lot of your questions
1:28.7	to answer too. So this is episode seven for the year 2022, and it's February 14th, the Happy Valentine's
1:36.7	Day Spencer. How dare you? Welcome to the Number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica
1:44.5	and I'm here with Spencer from the Balance Room situation. First, let's give you some updates
1:48.4	because we always update you on the stories and things that we talked about. So number one,
1:52.4	USAG responded to my inquiry about safe sport reports for Peggy Liddick based on the Australian
1:59.6	discipline from two different organizations, and they said that Peggy Liddick is not a member of
2:05.2	USAG and therefore not eligible to participate in any sanctioned USAG events. So an update on the
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