Simone's 8th: The 2023 US Nationals Debrief
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
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- Simone wins her 8th national title: What routines are we adding to the Simone highlight reel?
- We discuss Shilese Jones and Leanne Wong recording their best results of this Olympic cycle—as well as the injury Jones is dealing with
- The women's AA podium was older than the men's AA podium!
- Progress, and a couple bad looks, from USAG this week
- The deal with floor scoring and the biggest nerd headlines from nationals
- Who is MORE likely and who is LESS likely to make Worlds after this meet
- Reviewing our biggest questions from the preview: Did we learn anything?
- Asher Hong and Colt Walker both won the men's competition (we'll explain) as we discuss selection of the men's Worlds team and our highlights from the weekend
- Plus, the investigation into Tom Farden, which defending champions won't be at Worlds, and other gymternet news
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | President of USA Gymnastics, who Evan Heider aptly said on Twitter was wearing the carcass |
| 0:07.0 | of Carrie Perry during the award ceremony. |
| 0:10.2 | Can you have the US flag scarf? |
| 0:12.4 | Remember, the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:16.7 | Tomaltrac is having a summer blowout sale, 5% off carpet-bonded foam. |
| 0:21.9 | So you can replace that if anyone walks on it in high heels. |
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| 0:28.8 | Check it out on their sale tab on their website. |
| 0:32.0 | That's Tomaltrac, T-U-M-B-L-T-R-A-K, Tomaltrac, train smart. |
| 0:41.5 | Welcome to the Norbert.net 2023 US Championships ReCAT. |
| 0:47.8 | Has NPCs broadcast wildly improved? |
| 0:51.8 | A men's judge was removed during the men's competition. |
| 0:55.0 | Simone Biles won her eighth unprecedented all-around US titles. |
| 0:59.2 | Who made the men's world team? |
| 1:00.7 | Who proved their case for the women's world team? |
| 1:03.6 | And Tom Barton is under investigation by the University of Utah. |
| 1:07.6 | It's the 29th of August 2023. |
| 1:10.5 | And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. |
| 1:13.4 | I'm Jessica. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm here with Spencer from the Bounce Feme situation. |
| 1:17.1 | And thank you to everyone who came to our live show. |
| 1:21.0 | It was so fun. |
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