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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Headlines
- The overturning of Roe, the disastrous implications for human rights and gymnastics, and which gymnasts have hit the streets
- The good news: Sanity has prevailed and Rhys McClenaghan can compete at the Commonwealth Games
- Japan has left world beam champion Ashikawa Urara off this year's worlds team. We dissect how this happened and whether it makes sense
Meet News
- Germany got the band back together for nationals, Kim Bui won two titles at 33, and a wolf turn reaction for the ages
- Naomi Visser dominated Dutch nationals, Eythora returned with a new floor routine, and Sanne left the national team!
- Italy sent its A team to win the Mediterranean Games, while France took 2nd despite an injury to Lorette Charpy because we can't have nice things. BUT, Melanie is back to being perfect in training
Olga
The film about a Ukrainian gymnast who goes to live in exile in Switzerland during the 2013-2014 rebellion is out in limited release in the US. We discuss the AMAZING performance from Anastasia Budiashkina, how it pays to have real gymnasts in these roles, and why this is among the best gymnastics movies ever made.
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| 0:00.0 | Remember, the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.3 | Norbert is having a sale on chockgo2norbert.net for a 10% discount on anything with the code |
| 0:10.8 | GymCasticJune. Norbert are also giving away a $50 Norbert's gift card that can be used on |
| 0:17.9 | anything in their online store. No minimum. Just follow Norbert's athletic on Instagram, |
| 0:23.4 | then like and comment on the giveaway post. Good luck. |
| 0:27.0 | Today, we watched the Olga movie about the Dignity Revolution in Ukraine and it's honestly |
| 0:34.2 | incredible. German Dutch Nationals have a German Dutch Nationals. The German and separately the |
| 0:40.7 | Dutch Nationals happened and also the Mediterranean game. So we have some details. Some of your |
| 0:47.2 | favorites are back. Plus, Japan selected their world's team and left out the reigning world champion |
| 0:53.5 | off the team. So we have thoughts about that. We'll explain what happened. |
| 0:57.2 | Plus, finally, the results of the white report on abusive British gymnastics have been released. |
| 1:02.8 | This is episode 26 for 27 for the year of 2022, the week of June 27 and welcome to the number |
| 1:11.0 | one of NASA's podcasts in the universe in the galaxy. I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer |
| 1:16.0 | from the Balanced View situation. We have some headlines to talk to you before we get to the meat here. |
| 1:24.4 | Spencer, take it away. Yeah, so we did a behind the scenes episode about the Supreme Court in the |
| 1:31.1 | United States overturning Roe v Wade. We talked about it a lot of behind the scenes and that episode |
| 1:35.1 | is available for everyone. Typically behind the scenes is just for club gym nerd members. That |
| 1:39.2 | one's available for everyone. So we're not going to go into too much more today, but we did want to |
| 1:44.9 | run down kind of what's been happening. As far as we know, Randy Lane had coach at Long Island. It's |
| 1:52.2 | the only coach to have released a statement both in support of athletes who might need abortion, |
| 2:00.4 | slash, resew slash, I'm a resource to help and that kind of thing and that was retweeted and |
| 2:05.2 | endorsed by Cecil Landy, but Jessica, at least as far as I know, those are the only statements |
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