214: Rio Women's Olympic Team Final

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08/10/16 • 67 min

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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.

GYMTERNET NEWS

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!

CONTEST: A winner every other podcast in August!

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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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.

GYMTERNET NEWS

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!

CONTEST: A winner every other podcast in August!

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213: Rio Men's Olympic Team Finals

In the news, Uncle Tim, Spencer, and Jessica chat about:

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Each team's performances discussed in depth from elated medalists champions Japan, Russia to defeated suicide squad, China.
- Vault judges huge error/cheating 8.7 E score for Chopin. Are they cursed because they switched from Li Ning appare?
- Great Britan: even if Louis hadn't fallen on pommel horse it would have been close but they would have lost to China even if he had stayed on. They lost the bronze by 1.37 deficit. Every deduction counts. This wasn't a single gymnasts fault.
- Team USA does the usual Team USA with three major errors.
- Team Brazil performed great but didn't have the scoring potential to medal and seemed defeated after Sasaki's knee issues after high bar.
- Germany did great only .062 lower than their prelims score, even without Toba
- Ukraine gave us a collective WTF when they failed to compete 3 people on each event, even though they had four team members capable for doing all-around? We discuss their explanation which left us scratching our heads, possible conspiracy and revenge theories.
What won today, a huge D (difficulty score) or a sexy, slick E (execution score)?
- China had the highest average D score CHN - 6.622 but Olympic Team Champions Japan had the highest average execution scores: JPN: 8.633
Worst moment: Al Trautwig tweets about Simone's biological grandparents who adopted her when she was a toddler,"They may be mom and dad, but they are NOT her parents."

GYMTERNET NEWS

Round-up of the latest news from Rio includes-

Women's prelims follow up - Gabby vs. Aly, what Mihai and Raisman did right where Gabby and Buckeye faltered.
Brazilian gymternet rumors Flavia will be Galieva'd in all-around finals
Al Trautwig in trouble with NBC for his anti-adoption comments with a side of veiled racism. Read details here
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!CONTEST: A winner every other podcast in August!

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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215: Rio Men's Olympic All-Around Final

IN THE NEWS

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In the news,Uncle Tim and Jessica chat about:

What won today, a huge D (difficulty score), E (execution score) or both?
Full recap of every single team in the final, details, scores, and moments we loved from:
- King Kohei with the gorgeous form
- Oleg Verniaev despite everything Ukraine has been through and not having a FLOOR, he wins silver
- Max Whitlock kicked glandular fever in the nuts! Mono sufferers rejoice!
- Details on the top gymnast of the day and complete devastation from Jessica over Cuba's Manrique Larduet and her moment from Andreas Bretschneider!
Our favorite not-gymnastics moments from Oleg Stepko's fire leotard to Kohei's kind heart to the men having to safety pin up their pants.

GYMTERNET NEWS

Round-up of the latest news from Rio includes:

Gabby issues statement about the most ridiculous thing ever.
The future of Aliya Mustafina and her former coach, Alexander Alexandrov.
International Gymnastics magazine reports that Yuri Van Gelder will try to sue his federation.
ONGOING Reports that USA Gymnastics has repeatedly failed to report abuse cases:
- “Four U.S. senators wrote a letter to USA Gymnastics President Steve Penny on Friday, expressing “deep concern” about the organization’s handling of sex abuse allegations about coaches” – IndyStar
- USA Today has an excellent explanation about this issue in the article titled, "Sexual Predators Left Off the Banned List"
- ESPN's "I was raped by my coach" article.
  - "When I look back at this, it makes me feel very frustrated by USA Gymnastics. I often think that I could have been saved if its policies were different. It all comes from the leadership down, and unless the leadership stands up and says, "We are not going to tolerate this," nothing will change*. It needs to say, "Anyone who crosses a toe over the line we're drawing here is going to be out. You will be banned. We'll talk to our sister organizations, and you won't be able to find a loophole and have access to kids. You can't run a gymnastics camp."
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!

CONTEST: A winner every other podcast in August!

Yesterday's winner was :@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 ...