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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Elite season is back with the Cottbus World Cup and Winter Cup, where Frederick Richard debuted his ~~genius marketing campaign~~ uniform revolution, impossible scores, and the Oklahoma mini-documentary!

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AWARDS

The Most Winter Cup Award
- Zoey Molomo's unintentional dismount
- Runner up: Claire Pease getting a full point of OOB deductions on floor
The Best Way to Get People Talking About Men's Gymnastics Award
- Frederick Richards' revolutionary basketball pajamas at Winter Cup
Best Reason to Cancel NCAA Gymnastics as a Sport
- One judge gave Kayli Boozer a 9.550 WITH A FALL.

Injury updates
- Anya Pilgrim (Florida), Sloane Blakely (Florida), Charlotte Booth and Jennifer Gadirova (GB), Brianna Taurek (Cal)

Winter Cup

Ashlee Sullivan is your 2025 Winter Cup Champion! Jayla Hang came in second despite a fall on beam, and Simone Rose came in third
Wait a second... did the U.S. get the memo about beam choreography?
Why NASA needs to hire Kelise Woolford because have you seen her Jaeger?
Why everyone and their mother is suddenly doing a second vault
Event Champions
- Zoey Molomo is looking ready for college
- Alicia Zhou won bars with her amazing E-score
- Tatum Drusch and Claire Pease shared the beam title
- How we know Nola Matthews actually read the new Code
The skill that Vivi Crain did that made us all swoon

GYMTERNET NEWS

Serenity gardens, chandeliers and "We can say that's better but better is still a deduction, right? And better is less than you are capable of." - what learned from the SEC Networks's "Inside Oklahoma Gymnastics" mini-documentary.
We have another all-Black podium! This time at Elite Canada
Eythora will be competing at Gymnix

Cottbus World Cup

Why we have problems with the award ceremonies
The vaulting is for grown-ass women club: all vault medalists were 30+
The German audience applauded the men who could actually hold a scale
Noah Kuavita understands the assignment and threw all the big-D skills
Thoughts on the new 0.2 women's post-flight bonus
Why Artur Davtyan's vaulting could lead to a potential Doordash sponsorship

NCAA

What are the ranking shakeups after week 8?
- LSU, UCLA, Cal, Georgia, and Florida
Florida had an injury apocalypse at Oklahoma and had to count a fall on beam
Cal scored a season-high 197.775 against Pittsburgh
We have problems with BTN's coverage of gymnastics
Pride meet alert: Cal hosted a pride meet with very prominent pride flags
Ondine finally made her beam lineup debut!
We hand Clemson the "Gaslighting the Judges" award
Mika Webster-Longin and her Yurchenko 1.5 wins the "Figuring it Out" award

UP NEXT

- College & Cocktails: The Live NCAA Gymnastics Post-Meet Show
  - after Arkansas v Alabama on Friday, Feb 24th at 6:30pm Pacific
  - Spencer is doing a watch-along watch along live blog at 3:00pm Pacific before College & Cocktails
  - Not sure if you are ready to join? Watch College & Cocktails sample free here.
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FANTASY GAME:

- GymCastic 2025 College Fantasy Game now open. Never too late to join!
- ALL TEAMS MUST REDRAFT THIS WEEK before Friday at 2:15pm Pacific

Play the Fantasy Gymnastics League

BONUS CONTENT

- - Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!) for access to weekly Behind the Scenes episodes.
  - Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded and get access to all of our exclusive extended interviews, Behind The Scenes and College & Cocktails.
  - Not sure about joining the club? College & Cocktails: The Friday Night NCAA Gymnastics Post-Meet Show is available to sample (even if you aren't a Club Gym Nerd member yet). Watch or listen here.
  - 2025 College & (M)Cocktails menu (including mocktails of course)

MERCH

GymCastic Store: clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly and even "tapestries" (banners, the perfect to display in an arena) to support your favorite gymnast!
- Baseball hats available now in the GymCastic store

NEWSLETTERS

RECENT

RESOURCES

Spencer's essential website The Balance Beam Situation
Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
Kensley's all things men's gymnastics: Neutral Deductions

RESISTANCE : Submitted by you, our listeners.

ACTION
- Indivisible
  - Practical ideas about what you can actually do in this moment, check it out: indivisi.org/muskorus
- 5Calls App will call your Congress people by issue with a script to guide your call.
  - - Make 2 to your Congressional rep (local and DC office). 2 each to your US Senators (local and state offices)
      - State your name and zip code or district
      - Be concise with your question or demand (i.e. What specific steps is Senator X taking to stop XYZ)
      - Wait for answer
      - Ask for action items - tell them what you want them to do (i.e. draft articles of impeachment immediately, I want to see you holding a press conference in front of...etc.)
- ResistBot
  - Turns your texts into faxes, postal mail, or emails to your representatives in minutes
- ACLU Mobile Justice App
  - Allows you to record encounters with public officials while streaming to your closest contacts and your local ACLU; REPORT any abuse by authorities to the ACLU and its networks.
LAWSUITS
- Donate to organizations suing the administration for illegal actions
  - ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, Northwest Immigration Law Project
STAY INFORMED
- Suggested podcasts: Amicus, Daily Beans, Pod Save America, Strict Scrutiny
Immigrant Rights
- Know Your Rights Red Cards, We Have Rights Video, Your Rights on trains and buses video

Transcript

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0:00.0	Remember, this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two.
0:04.8	Also, important note, if you don't get your medal from a woman dressed like a medieval
0:09.3	peasant at the full moon festival, it's not a gymnastics world cup.
0:13.1	Everybody knows.
0:13.7	If you're organizing a gymnastics World Cup, you have to, like, part of the proposal, the
0:18.9	submission for hosting it is like how many women are
0:21.1	they're going to be at a moon festival. And you're like three and they're like, okay, now you
0:24.9	can host a World Cup. Norbert's is offering 10% off their vinyl cleaner and chalk cleaner.
0:31.7	Go to Norbert's.com for a 10% discount on anything with the code Jimcastic. Norbert
0:36.4	is also giving away a $50 Norbert's gift card that can be used on anything in their online store, no minimum.
0:42.7	Just follow Norbert's Athletic on Instagram and comment and like the giveaway post.
0:48.5	Chuso is officially back.
0:52.0	We have a cop bus report.
0:53.6	There was a winter cup and it went as winter cups generally go.
0:58.7	Frederick Richard Richard had a genius marketing campaign, and we're going to talk about it. We got a
1:03.0	mini documentary on Oklahoma, and I'll tell you all about it, plus some NCAA news. It's February 24th,
1:08.8	2025, and welcome to the number one Duranessit podcast in the Galaxy.
1:12.7	I'm Jessica and her with Spencer from the balance theme situation. And let's start with the most
1:17.8	important thing, awards. Let's start with some awards. Spencer, what awards would you like to do?
1:24.0	Not headlines, awards. No. Headlines are over.
1:27.6	We're post headlines.
1:28.4	We're just doing awards.
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