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Hang Up and Listen

Remember When U.S. Women's Gymnastics Used to Be Joyful?

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 22 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. Subscribe to What Next on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to whatnext@slate.com. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show. Podcast production by Mary Wilson and Jayson De Leon, with help from Danielle Hewitt.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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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

0:06.3

episode of our show. Instead, I'm here with something different. I think that

0:11.1

you will really like. It's an episode of what next, Slate's new

0:15.9

Daily News podcast. In it, the great Mary Harris sits down to talk to

0:20.7

Rebecca Schuman about a piece of hers we ran in slate on Monday. It's about the college

0:25.6

gymnast Caitlin Ohashi whose floor 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 differences

0:38.4

between elite gymnists, the ones we know about from the Olympics,

0:42.3

and college gymnists, the ones we know about from the Olympics, and college gymnasts, the ones who make

0:44.8

the sport look a lot more fun.

0:48.0

You can hear what next every weekday morning, it comes out at 5 a.m.

0:51.9

They deliver smart critical analysis from right inside the

0:55.5

slate newsroom. It's one of my favorite new shows. I think you'll enjoy it as

0:59.7

well. If you do like what you hear, I encourage you to subscribe to the show in its own feed,

1:05.0

it's the best way to support the program and the journalism we do here at Slate.

1:10.0

Thanks so much and enjoy.

1:12.0

Hey everyone, just a warning here at the top. Thanks so much and enjoy.

1:13.2

Hey everyone, just a warning here at the top.

1:15.5

This episode mentions sexual assault.

1:17.3

It's going to happen a few times.

1:19.0

The references go by fast.

1:20.4

They're not graphic, but we wanted to give you a heads up.

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