GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast18 Tammi 2017

236: Dream Theme Floor Routines

IN THE NEWS

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

The University of North Carolina gymnastics team is hosting an LGBTQ Community Support meet on Friday, January 20th.
- UNC is home of Morgan Lane and this beam series
Artistic themes for floor routines that absolutely need to be performed ASAP (4:24)
The NCAA Recap:
- Oklahoma (15:51)
  - Chayse Capps beam 9.975 vs Peng Peng beam
  - Most controversial comments made by Kelly Garrison (Steves) Funderburk
- Florida (27:16)
  - Rachel Slocum's vault
    - McMurtry is 4th member of Club DTY
    - Kennedy Baker and her Dos Santos are anchoring floor
    - Amelia Hundley happiness bars
    - Mollie Korth of Kentucky, Belarus call her up FX
- Alabama ( 35:06)
  - Kiana Winston's 9.950 bar routine
  - Aja Sims police siren floor routine
- Windy City Invitational (43:08)
- The strangest trend in NCAA right now - teams running behind the vaulter (39:30)
- The most controversial scores of the week (41:38): Ashleigh Gnat LSU 10 for her DTY vault and Chayse Capps UB 9.9

GYMTERNET NEWS

Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet include:

Simone Biles interviewed by Tom Hanks on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
Eythora, Oleg, Mikulak and Ragan Smith headline the American Cup
- Qualification rules for all-around World Cups explained (1:00:41)
Nile Wilson injured
Aliya Mustafina is with child
Trampoline Parks are bad.
FEEDBACK your hilarious letters and solutions to all problems gym nerd (1:11:31):
- How to watch NCAA meets if you live outside of the US: Slingtv international package and lets you add SEC and Pac12 for about $25/month or NastiaFan101take12
- Why do college gymnasts sit in a straddle conga line after the meet?
- Simone Biles & Aly Raisman will appear in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition and are treated completely differently than men for doing so.
- A newbie Fantasy NCAA gym player has created super villain nicknames for his entire roster.
RAGE-O-METER: Leotard sizes and panty peek-a-boo.

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