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The Gymnast Who Went Megaviral

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

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? Guest: Slate contributor Rebecca Schumann. Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to [email protected]. 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

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, just a warning here at the top. This episode mentions sexual assault.

0:04.0

It's gonna happen a few times. The references go by fast. They're not graphic,

0:08.1

but we wanted to give you a heads up. Thanks.

0:16.5

Okay, so yeah, all right, so I've got the embedded tweet. It's the second one down.

0:22.0

I called up Rebecca Schumann because I wanted to watch this video with her.

0:26.4

It's a tweet from UCLA gymnastics that says a 10 isn't enough.

0:29.7

You've seen this tape, right? The one with the college gymnast,

0:32.8

Caitlin Ohashi, and her phenomenal floor routine.

0:36.1

It started making their rounds on Twitter this weekend. Yeah, it's super fun.

0:39.6

Last weekend was their opener, and I went on Twitter and I was like,

0:43.6

who's gonna watch UCLA gymnastics? And all these people laughed at me. They were like,

0:47.3

um, I think just you. So it's suicide. I was like, all right. Okay.

0:55.3

Rebecca saw this video way before I did. She used to compete as a gymnast.

1:02.6

Now she writes about competitive gymnastics for Slate.

1:05.6

So I saw that routine, you know, I've seen it before. I didn't see it this weekend.

1:10.0

I saw it last weekend. Everybody who watches NCAA gymnastics did, and we,

1:14.5

are we evolved? It's all old Hata.

1:21.3

All right, so she's gearing up for her first humbling run now.

1:24.0

In this video, Caitlin Ohashi, who is a senior at UCLA.

1:27.5

She's doing all the regular floor routine stuff. Running and flipping,

1:31.7

but she's also dancing accompanied by a pop and R&B soundtrack. Tina Turner, Michael Jackson.

1:42.2

The thing that really gets me about this routine, the reason I've watched it over and over again

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