Worlds Team Controversy Season
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
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- Team Controversy Season has arrived and this year, Canada is hosting
- Why isn't Shallon Olsen with her big vault score not on the team
- We revisit that year Mai Murakami was left off the Japanese World team to help all those who commemorate
- CSI Szombathely : speaking of controversy, we discuss what happened to Eddie Penev on vault in when the wrong board was put in for him
- The injuries to Nina Derwael (BEL), Elisabeth Seitz (GER) and reigning beam World Champion Watanabe Hazuki (JPN) what that means for their respective countries and Olympic hopes
- Italian Championships! Manila Esposito's beam, Elisa Iorio's AA return, and are we rethinking Italy's team medal chances?
- Thoughts on countries naming six team members and waiting to decide the alternate until the last second
- Plus, the gymternet news, the dumpster fire news, and your feedback on vault versus floor skill difficulty, sting mat deductions, podium training styles, and differentiating a switch full from a tourjete half.
- Team Controversy Season has arrived and this year, Canada is hosting
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| 1:02.8 | Texas again to do live podcasts on location from world team trials next week |
| 1:08.6 | So if you're not a member join now so you can listen to those also we have updates on |
| 1:14.5 | Canadian Belgian Japanese British Chinese teams so much Jimternet news to get to so you all the things happening around the world |
| 1:22.2 | And we have some letters to get to for you |
| 1:25.1 | So it is the second week on September and |
| 1:28.3 | Welcome to the number one to master's podcast in the galaxy. I've just got him here a Spencer from the balance beam situation |
| 1:34.8 | First a little update on what's happening next week |
| 1:37.4 | So no regular show next week because instead you're getting two |
| 1:42.0 | episodes from |
| 1:43.5 | World team trials. So it works like it normally does |
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