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World Championships Liverpool Preview
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
10/25/22 • 105 min
- We discuss the women's and men's A-List celebrities of worlds whom we expect to come home with the most medals, from Rebeca Andrade to Zhang Boheng, from Shilese Jones to Hashimoto Daiki.
- Going out on a limb for the new breakout stars of worlds, the ones we haven't been talking about...until now.
- We pick the one athlete who NEEDS THIS, whose talent and gymnastics integrity warrants finally breaking through for a medal at this year's world championship.
- Women's team: Do the injuries on Italy's team change the worlds medal picture?
- Men's team: Is this the US men's best chance for a team medal?
- Women's all-around: Can anyone stop Andrade?
- Men's all-around: The Zhang/Hashimoto rivalry is only just beginning
- Events: Why uneven bars is going to be the hardest gold medal to win, why beam provides the best chance for an unknown medalist, and why this is the age of parallel bars
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- Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
- 10th Anniversary Reunion Show
- Worlds Team Shake-up
- US Men's World Selection (Day 1) & World Cup Update
- Paris World Cup Review
- What the F Is Artistry?
- World Challenge Cups Are So In Right Now
- The World Championship Field Is Set
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Women's Team Final live from the Paris Olympic Games
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
07/30/24 • 73 min
- The first women's Olympic Champions have been crowed. We will discuss all the details!
- What the U.S. team has decided to call themselves, hint F.A.A.F.O.
- The meeting the U.S. team had last night that helped them win today
- How Italy won their glorious silver
- Flavia's fall and why she looked like a wrestler on her way to helping Brazil win their Olympic bronze.
- More moments from the press conference and why the U.S. team had us in stitches.
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- Men's Team Final Live From The Paris Olympic Games
- Women's Qualifying Live From The Paris Olympic Games
- Men's Qualifying Live From The Paris Olympic Games
- Women’s Podium Training Live From The Paris Olympic Games
- Sarah Voss (GER) Lyme Diagnosis ahead of Paris
- Paris Olympic Preview and Olympic Judging Evaluation System (part two)
- Judging The Judges: How Ju...
You Can't Sit on Two Chairs
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
02/01/22 • 75 min
- USAG compliance investigator job
- Welcome to Beijing: The Song!
- Calling for an NCAA-funded study on Achilles tears in college gymnastics and weeping for the Achilles we lost this week.
- UCLA: Marz Frazier and Sekai Wright gave an interview about what's happening at UCLA. We discuss what they said, the broad leadership failures that led to this point, and what should be done now.
- Leanne Wong won the freshman 10.000 sweepstakes
- How Florida's 198.250 was all Spencer's doing and not the gymnasts
- Suni Lee made her all-around debut, and we talk about the power of pickles
- Jade Carey hasn't scored under 9.9 all season
- Jordan Chiles made her beam and floor debut and isn't shirking the difficulty
- Spencer blows a gasket about Brooklyn Moors' floor score
- Plus, the saga of Georgia's beam, Auburn defeating Alabama, the best team vaulting performance in gymnastics history, and the most college gymnastics ailment of all time
- Why Artur Dalaloyan's fake social media retirement has everyone talking, college and cocktails, gymnast authors, and more.
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- College & Cocktails: Week Four
- Blame It on the Ectoplasm
- College & Cocktails: Week Three
- Equality and...Not Equality
- College & Cocktails: Week Two
- College & Cocktails: The Friday Night NCAA Gymnastics Meet Post-Show
- Behind The Scenes: Hello 2022
- The Greatest Freshman Class of All Time
- Goodbye 2021 and a Happy New Code to All
- Spitfire: The Movie (Commissioned)
- Nadia: The Movie (Commissioned)
204: Day One 2016 Women's Olympic Trials
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
07/09/16 • 83 min
In the news, Uncle Tim, Spencer, Lauren, Lindsey Green, Jennifer Lacopelli and Jessica chat about:
- Kittia-Gate: Christian Gallardo has been coaching Gabby instead of Kittia.
- Statement from Natalie Hawkins, Gabrielle Douglas’ mother:"Gabrielle hasn't made a coaching change. Christian Gallardo has been Gabrielle's coach since she arrived at Buckeye. Since there is only to be one coach alongside Gabrielle throughout the Olympic process, Christian is that coach based on their longtime coach/athlete bond, chemistry and strength together."
- If Laurie Hernandez is selected, will she *really* be the first Latina gymnast to make the U.S. Olympic team in 30 years?
- We review the night 1 of the Olympic Trials – gymnast by gymnast.
- Finally, we discuss Simone's hilarious Tide commercial, which is Jessica's favorite thing ever
- 187: McKayla Maroney
- Getting to the Games: A Checklist
- 201: Men’s Olympic Trials and P&G Champs Preview
- Gymbuster: Domestic vs. International Scoring
- 200: Alicia Sacramone
- 162: Wrap Up of the 2015 P&G Championships
- 161: Women’s Finals Recap with Aimee Boorman and Christian Gallardo
- 160: PG Championships Women’s Prelims Recap
- 77: Aly Raisman
- Episode 48: Kyla Ross
- Episode 58: Charlotte Drury, Fall Euro Series & NCAA De-commits
- Episode 31: Elise Ray
- 148: Shannon Miller
- Episode 28: Kristen Maloney
- Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches
- Episode 55: Worlds Wrap Up & Ferlito-Gate
- Episode 54: Event Finals Recap from 2013 World Championships
- Episode 53: All Around Finals Recap from Antwerp World Championships
- Episode 52: Triumph & Heartbreak Prelims Recap from Antwerp Worlds
- 114: Fallout From Gymnastike’s Handling of Maroney Hack & Tumble Episodes 3 and 4 with special guest Jenni Pinches!
- Episode 16: Elizabeth Price
- 146: Taylor Rice and The 2015 NCAA Championships
- Episode 9: Chellsie Memmel, Swiss Cup & FIG Presidential Proposals
- Episode 37: Julie Zetlin
- 151: Danell Leyva
- 81: Jenny Hansen
130: Mary Anne Mez Monckton
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
12/17/14 • 89 min
Mary-Anne Monckton doing her aerial layout series on beam. Photo by Nadia Boyce.
The 20 year-old is a student of the sport, should probably be a in the next episode of The Hard Way To Success, she still loves gymnastics despite seven surgeries, she gym nerded-out because she made a beam final with Catalina Ponor, is inspired by the number of women (20 and older) who held their own in the all-around final in Nanning -- she is Australia's Mary-Anne Monckton! Emma and Jessica discuss the following gymnerdery with Miss Mez:
- Why she hated gymnastics at first and being chosen like Nadia at age 7.
- Surviving seven surgeries with her love for gymnastics intact!
- Trying not to freak out while competing in beam finals with her gymnastics idol, Catalina Ponor.
- Thinking the wrong score was posted when she placed second to Larissa Iordache on beam in Doha.
- Her description of the beloved post-beam finals celebration with Ellie at the Commonwealth Games.
- Tales from Nanning, food report, her favorite competitors there and her opinion on the tie-breaking procedures for finals.
- Being coached by the infamous, Ju-Ping Tian.
- Explaining her desire to do American NCAA gymnastics to her Australian mother.
- Why she became a student of the sport (AKA super gym nerd), not just an athlete.
- Jet lag tips everyone can use.
- Her thoughts on Australian Gymnastics Jail and how the team Glasgow Commonwealth Games were chosen.
- She tells the most endearing Peggy Liddick story you will ever hear and shares Peggy's sage advice.
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- 108: The Commonwealth Games
- 124: Event Finals at the 2014 World Championships
- 123: All Around Finals at the 2014 World Championships
- 122: Team Finals at the 2014 World Championships
- 121: Qualifications Recap from the 2014 World Championships
- 120: The World Championships Preview Show
- 101: Olivia Vivian
- 96: Australian Nationals & Men’s European Championships
Liverpool World Championships Women's Day One Qualifying
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
10/29/22 • 23 min
Liverpool World Championships 2022
Women's Qualification Day One
Everything that you didn't see because the rights holders aren't streaming the freakin' OLYMPIC qualifier here in England. Tonight, Belgium, USA, Spain and Romania competed for spots in finals.
214: Rio Women's Olympic Team Final
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
08/10/16 • 67 min
In the news, Australian national team member, Commonwealth Games and World Cup medalist, Mary-Anne "Mez" Monckton, Spencer, Stefane and Jessica chat about:
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- What won today, a huge D (difficulty score), (execution score) or both?
- D SCORE - 1) USA 76.1, 2) CHN 75.2, 3) GBR 73.7 4)RUS 72.6, 5) JPN 72.1, 6) BRA 71.2, 7) GER 69.6, 8) NED 67.8
- E SCORE - 1) USA 108.797, 2) NED 105.047, 3) RUS 104.482, 4) GER 104.072, 5) JPN 102.671, 6) CHN 101.703, 7) GB 101.162, 8) BRA 100.987
- Full recap of every single team in the final, details, scores, and moments we loved from:
- US with Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas becoming the only US women with three Olympics gold medals
- Russia being 1000% better than prelims and bringing the D on bars and vault
- China winning bronze despite counting two falls and their best gymnast, Shang being sick.
- Japan coming in 4th with hit after hit after hit and jumping for joy after their bars rotation.
- The British bringing the big D and going for all of their difficulty, not watering down like pusillanimouses to place fifth.
- Germany outscoring Russia and China on two events with gorgeous and difficult bars in their technicolor dream-neon leos.
- The Netherlands proving that athlete welfare and beauty can conquer in gymnastics.
- Brazil enjoying their Olympic moment with huge difficulty and The Flavia Factor.
- Our favorite not-gymnastics moments from the Japanese elation to Aliya Mustafina being soooo Queen Mustafina.
Round-up of the latest news from Rio includes-
- What does Mez think of the safety issues around the mic transponder being taped to the middle of the underside of the beam?
- According to the AP, NBC ordered Trautwig to delete his anti-adoption tweet where he insisted Simone’s parents were not her parents. Now, past US Olympians are reminding us of the long history of being disrespectful to US athletes
- NBC's tv ratings are down, hum wonder why?
- Yuri Van Gelder out of rings final and sent home for drinking.
- Jerks are body shaming a gymnast and they should STFU.
- NBC has streaming covering and a daily online gymnastics recap show called the Daily Dismount. We are obsessed with how good they are! Jim Watson, Courtney Kupets and Jonathan Horton #Jhortney 4 eva!
Today's winner is :@E_Score_Whore on Twitter wrote: I choose Dominique Moceanu, so she can coach me to greatness in my fav event - inner tube floating. What: The Bronze Movie Watch Party Kits (gym bag with goodies and the movie), "The End of the Perfect 10" book, a U.S. Olympic Trials T-shirt, or GRAND PRIZE*: A Bronze Movie gym bag filled with real props used in the film and a one-of-a-kind Aliya Mustafina, handmade cross-stitch by Spanny Tampson. How: Tweet, Instagram, Voicemail or Tumblr tag us and use the hashtag #BronzeContest to tell us which retired gymnast you would want to coach you, The Bronze style, to Olympic glory and why? Winners Announced: On every other podcast for the entire month of August! Starting with the women's podium training podcast. Grand Prize Deadline: August 21st at midnight. Open to Club Gym Nerd members only*
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Cocktails and College: NCAA Gymnastics Meet Post-Show
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
01/08/22 • 64 min
Normally, Friday podcasts are just for Club Gym Nerd members, who can watch the podcast being recorded and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. In celebration of the greatest freshman class in the history of college gymnastics, today’s episode was live for everyone.
The greatest freshman class of all time start their college gymnastics careers tonight! The freshman competing this season have 25 World/Olympic medals combined. Join GymCastic for the first Friday night post-meet podcast of the season. We will discuss Olympic AA Champion Sunisa Lee's debut for Auburn; Olympic medalist Grace McCallum with World medalist Kara Eaker at Utah; the stacked university of Florida freshman AA World Champion Morgan Hurd with fellow team World Champion Riley McCusker. and world medalist Leanne Wong.
Wendy Bruce Martin on 1992 Barcelona Olympics Recap
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
12/31/21 • 117 min
Dr. Uncle Tim PhD, Spencer, Jessica and very special guest, 1992 U.S. Olympic medalist, Wendy Bruce Martin chat about the 1992 Olympics Games in Barcelona:
- The pre-Olympic Climate:
- How the end of the Cold War shaped the Games
- The media pressure on Kim Zmeskal and the heartbreaking life of Svetlana Boginkaya after the 1988 Olympics.
- Kim Kelly and the shadiest U.S. Olympic Team selection of all time. (6:00)
- Wedgie-gate, was it fair to punish three athletes for ill-fitting leotards? (16:00)
- Uncle Tim's 1992 Code of Points and Competition Rules Quiz-Mageddon! (23:00)
- The magic of the 1992 broadcast that included interviews with every controversial figure.
- The Competition (42:00):
- Compulsories that took our breath away and should we still have them? Exhibit A: Vanda Hădărean (ROM) or Gruneneva (Unified Team). Eastern Bloc beauty.
- The judging crack epidemic of 1992. Exhibit B: Christina Bontas's 9.9 beam routine.
- Kim Zmeskal fell on beam and the world didn't actually end.
- The glory of North Korea, Kim Gwang Suk on bars. All praise the dear leader.
- Team Finals (1:02:00)
- Kerri Strug's family fashion.
- The Karolyi double back set on beam, AKA freeze in mid-air before flip.
- U.S. and Australian leotards.
- Why Wendy felt embarrassed of her bronze medal for too long.
- The All-Around Final (1:16:00)
- Galieva-Gate
- The most common skills of the quad and the routines that were way ahead of their time, like Tatiana Lysenko (Unified).
- Luisa Portocarrera (CAN/GTM), beam goddess. Watch it here.
- Shannon Miller vs. Tatiana Gutsu showdown. Was the judging fair? We decide. (1:26:00)
- Event Finals (1:29:19)
- Tatiana Lysenko's double twisting yurchenko vs. the world; the 1992 vault final.
- The Beam Final: Li Lu - press handstand to HEALY to arch pose! Pour out some Yang Bo. Lysenko's backspin, Shannon Miller. One of the greatest beam finals of all time.
- The Bars Final: The bars medalists got air on the bars that were super close together. Lu Li got mega air and Kim Gwang Suk - TKATCHEV TO COUNTER KIM! WHAT?!
- The Floor Final: Lavinia Milosovici's Romanian tumbling greatness, Henrietta Onodi's triple full, Gutsu's split leg double layout, so much genius!
- Shenanigans and the Legacy of the 1992 Olympics (1:43:05)
- Steve Nunno's motivational poster quotes.
- Bela Karolyi or Donald Trump quotes quiz.
- The training schedule for the U.S. Team. Yes, two-a-day practices.
- The new breed of positive coaches. (1:51:53)
- For a deep dive into how Shannon Miller won Olympic Trials while Kim Zmeskal had the higher scores: The History of Olympic Trials Controversies podcast.
- Wendy Bruce-Martin is the new head coach of Swiss women's artistic gymnastics national team
- Claudia Miller (Shannon Miller's mom), wrote a book called, "My Child My Hero." A gym nerd must-read.
- Here is that Australian team 1992 compulsories leotard [caption id="attachment_36688" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Australia aboriginal (?) inspired 1992 compulsory leotard[/caption]
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Authorized Neutral Athletes
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
11/14/23 • 76 min
- Gabby is heading to national team camp!
- The FIG released its ad hoc requirements for Russian and Belarusian participation in meets in 2024. We ask the important question: does anyone actually meet these requirements?
- Tom Farden has been placed on administrative leave by Utah, which they say is due to recent behavior "not related to student-athlete welfare."
- NCAA Signing Day! We run through which top elites will be competing for which schools and who won the Most Famous Names sweepstakes
- Jade Carey and Yul Moldauer won the title at Swiss Cup, but the real winner was Spencer, who gets to discuss the strategy of Swiss Cup again
- USAG released the selection committee minutes for the 2022 World team and we feel like something is still missing...
- Today, we have a mini-commission from Club Gym Nerd member Anthony, who ordered a segment all about Listunova—her achievements through the years, from junior world champion, to the Olympics, to now.
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The average episode length on GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast is 81 minutes.
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The first episode of GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast was released on Sep 14, 2012.
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