You Can't Sit on Two Chairs

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02/01/22 • 75 min

Important Updates

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.

College Gym Update

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

GYMTERNET NEWS

Why Artur Dalaloyan's fake social media retirement has everyone talking, college and cocktails, gymnast authors, and more.

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Important Updates

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.

College Gym Update

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

GYMTERNET NEWS

Why Artur Dalaloyan's fake social media retirement has everyone talking, college and cocktails, gymnast authors, and more.

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COLLEGE UPDATES

The unitard revolution comes to college gymnastics from Naimah Muhammad.
Jade Carey sets an Oregon State all-around record while Jordan Chiles cheers her on.
Checking in on the Baumann Family Olympics
Georgia has five straight falls on beam
What we actually know—and don't know—about the UCLA situation
Crooked or Correct: Leanne Wong gets 9.825 for this Podkopayeva
Plus, we fix all the routine composition (you're welcome) and discuss Jordan Chiles' vault change and Brooklyn Moors' beam debut
Rage-o-Meter triple-header: This week, we're not having ANY of these BS "program records," free-range children on the loose, and crooked floor lines
Must-watch routines from Lex Ortega and Sam Phillips
An update on the greatest freshman college gymnastics class of all time from Suni Lee to Grace Mcusker and Ana Padurariu.

GYMTERNET NEWS

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We discuss the Peggy Liddick suspension (read the full tribunal decision here), Konnor McClain's allegations against her former coach and the Game Over Commission's final recommendations.

College Gym Update

A midterm report card: Thoughts, reflections and lessons learned so far in the college gymnastics season, 10s, and these broken live scoring pages
Without a real choreographer, are pose-a-thon teams denying gymnasts a chance to go viral and therefore maximize their NIL profit potential?
10.000S FOR EVERYBODY. We discuss the weekend of 11 perfect scores in college gymnastics and to devise a plan to differentiate between ideal and simply not-a-deduction
Anyone who's anyone got a 39.825 in the all-around, and we take on a new routine that we need to fix to make it a 10.
Michigan's historic score, and what other teams would need to do to reach that level
We desperately try to make SABOTAGE happen
Plus, history made in men's college gymnastics while Reyna Guggino (VT, Michigan) got the second, ever leadoff 10 in a college gymnastics meet. The first was Grace Glenn (UCLA, beam in 2020)

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