Trouble in Romania
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Romanian Infighting
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- Today, we're checking in with a quick mini-sode (our main commissioned episode will come later this week) about what has happened in Romania since the women's team qualified to the Olympics at worlds last month.
- We discuss what Jessica has learned from sources who witnessed what happened to Ana Barbosu during podium training at worlds—as well as in the mixed zone—as well as Catalina Ponor's television interview about it, and whether it is appropriate for Ponor to remain in the athlete rep position
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I mean the core of the issue is, what if we go to the Olympics, Anna Barbossu has a problem that she needs to talk about with the athlete rep? |
| 0:10.0 | She's not going to feel comfortable doing that if Poonor is the athlete rep and that should be the only issue because every athlete needs to be comfortable with the athlete. |
| 0:19.0 | Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:23.4 | Today, the historic Romanian qualification |
| 0:26.2 | has been marred by Romanian infighting. |
| 0:29.8 | We are going to talk about what is happening with a TV interview that Pinaor did last week. |
| 0:35.8 | This week was supposed to be a commissioned episode, but instead we are going to talk about |
| 0:40.7 | what happened with Pinaor and then we are going to put out our commissioned |
| 0:44.5 | episode on The Perfect Body Tomorrow. |
| 0:46.6 | So look forward to that. |
| 0:47.8 | Coming tomorrow. |
| 0:48.8 | Today is November 6, 2023, and this is Jim Kastic, the number one Jim Masters podcast in the Galaxy. |
| 0:54.7 | I'm Jessica under here of Spencer from the Balance Beam situation. |
| 0:57.8 | So let's start with the Romanian mess. |
| 1:01.3 | But before we get to this, I just want want to do I just want to talk a little bit |
| 1:05.2 | about the way we report and why we report the way we do and make a distinction between like |
| 1:10.9 | when we just read the Jimternet news and give our opinions opposed to original reporting. |
| 1:15.4 | So you know not all information is created equals Spencer. I don't know if you know about that. |
| 1:21.2 | What? So I know, it's shocking. |
| 1:23.4 | So as we're ramping up for the Olympics |
| 1:25.4 | and more information comes out, |
| 1:27.0 | we're going to have to start our four-year headlines again. |
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