Tenths Don't Matter
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
THE TOM INTERVIEW
Nicole Langevin interviewed Tom Forster, and Tom's performance left us...scratching our heads. We discuss:
- How he obviously hates this job and wishes he were coaching club instead
- Bold-faced lies about being asked for interviews/comment
- How *no one could POSSIBLY have predicted* the deductions the US team would receive at the Olympics
- "We don't think it will come down to tenths"
- Misinformation about the 2016 Olympic Trials
- And a lot more
THE GYMTERNET NEWS
- A racist attack on Suni Lee
- The FIG elections and what to make of them
- College signings for the 2023 season
- Alleged retaliation by USAG against a security company that reported SafeSport violations
- Personnel changes afoot at USAG
- Good news for event specialists
- Plus, a new gymnastics movie, a new gymnastics board game, streaming the GOAT Tour, and all the latest from meets around the world
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| 0:00.0 | And this goes back to the issue that we talked about |
| 0:02.1 | during the time of the Olympics, like saying, |
| 0:04.3 | oh well, you complained that only, you know, |
| 0:06.8 | USA Gymnastics only cares about metals is half a sense. |
| 0:11.2 | The problem is caring about metals |
| 0:13.1 | at the expense of athlete safety, athlete mental health, |
| 0:19.4 | athlete autonomy, caring about metals is part of the job |
| 0:23.6 | and is not a bad thing. |
| 0:25.5 | It's caring about only that, that is the bad thing. |
| 0:29.4 | And that's been lost. |
| 0:31.2 | Remember the show is PG-13. |
| 0:33.3 | So you might hear a naughty word or two. |
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| 1:07.6 | Today, Tom Forscher doubles down that before Tokyo, |
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