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Today, everything that happened at the American Classic and all associated controversies.

This is a special Spencer blogcast for July 18th, 2018, and welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the world. I'm Spencer and I get to do the intro because

Jessica is off this week. I think traveling around the country forcing everyone to put backspins in their beam routines or something

I wasn't really paying attention when she told me.

So party at my house, we can totally break into the alcohol and she won't even notice I swear and we don't have to talk about feelings or ties or anything stupid like that.

This episode is going to be so damn logical you won't be able to handle it.

So we'll start by talking about the American classic, the fakest meet in the history of USA Gymnastics,

with a few lengthy notes about the inevitable gem-ternet controversy that cropped up

surrounding the stream of this meet because who could have seen a controversy coming?

It was sparked once again by USA Gymnastics inability to plan anything or answer a simple

question ever. In this case, the question was, what even is this mean?

USA Gymnastic clearly had no idea.

On the one hand, it tried to make the American Classic into a real public meet again this year

and sell tickets, exactly 11 of them I think.

But that became a problem because on the other hand it still gave coaches and athletes the

option as exercised by Grace McCallum and her coach and

Riley McCusker and her coach not to be shown on the live stream at a real meet with scores and that's not a thing and is an inherent contradiction which

is it a public meat or a secret meat you have to to pick one. It can't be both. My expectation is that if the American

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