250: Cluj European Championships

IN THE NEWS

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

• European Championships (2:00):
  • Results Finals Day One, Finals Day Two
  • Broken heart moments
  • Euros highlights and lowlights:
    • Devillard won the vault title with a Rudi + DTY
    • Dragulescu won the FX title in Cluj
    • Angelina Melnkiova (RUS) coming back from heartbreak to win floor.
    • Nina Derwael UB win 14.633 (6.1), first ever for Belgium!
    • Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) mindset perspective.
    • Braegger (14.933 / 6.8) slayed Cluj with this HB
    • Oleg won another PB gold!
    • Ponor winning beam gold at home.
    • Maria Paseka had a 9.95 in NCAA, stuck cold DTY
    • Eremina near face-plant on beam
  • The Massive scoring error on Ponro's floor routine that took 30 minutes to correct (25:06)
  • Our favorite skills, combos or single routines
    • Oleg not dying, even though he balked on his HB dismount
    • Artur Dalaloyan (RUS) TTY
    • Belyavskiy took PH gold when Berki incurred a 0.3 deduction for mounting late!
    • Evangelia Plyta bars - Maloney + Deltchev, Tkachev + Gienger
    • Ana Filipa Martins (PRT) return to competition
    • Best combo: Paseka vault + reaction lady ("State Bird of the Gymternet" is Euros vault gif lady)
    • Mr. 6-feet-tall Shatilov is back with a double front pike half out
    • Vendula Merkova's (CZE) Onodi to Y turn; kicking booty spin, on beam
  • Shennanigans (43:50):
    • Bellu making his old athletes do abs in Cluj
    • How media etiquette differes from country to country
    • Crowd reactions and fans
    • Valentina Rodionenko is blaming the judges for the WAG AA results
• Men's NCAA Championship (59:00)
  • Oklahoma finishes perfect season with third straight national championship
  • Why Anthony McCallum's back-to-back NCAA vault title is so impressive
  • Air Force gymnast, Tim Wang, made history at NCAA Championships
  • Hazing on the Air Force gymnastics team: Cadets, coach were punished after investigation

GYMTERNET NEWS

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

• Head coach Danna Durante fired from University of Georgia (1:06:48)
  • 3 gymnasts dismissed from Georgia's team
  • Dismissal of gymnasts not the right solution, handled poorly by Georgia
• Lacy Dagen, Ashley Hiller granted releases from Florida and Jazzy Foberg is going to Florida early
• USA Gymnastics Sexual Abuse Investigation (1:17:24):
  • Joe Catrambone arrested and jailed for alleged sexual and physical abuse at Atlantic Coast Gymnastics in New Jersey
    • US Elite gymnast, Margzetta Frazier and her family reported Joe Catrambone's verbal abuse in 2015.
    • Tina Frazer talked to us about why she thinks this situation could have been avoided.
  • Nassar:
    • 3 more MSU Title IX inquires find Nassar violated policies
    • Appeals court won't toss lawsuit against USA Gymnastics
    • Nassar's abuse didn't stop with the USAGym team; it apparently has affected the Romanian National Team, too
    • Doctor at center of USA Gymnastics scandal left warning signs at Michigan State
    • Nassar's foundation appears to have violated state law since 2014
    • After Nassar: A community responds to a local face shrouded in national scandal
    • Newest accuser in Nassar case says she was sexually abused in 1992
    • Karmerin Moore Video explaining how Nassar asked to videotape her at age 13
    • Radio interview with Nassar supporter who had intravaginal adjustment
• More Gymternet News (1:27:35):
  • Mihai's thoughts on his first National Team Camp in Australia
  • 16-year-old Russian elite gymnast claims coaching neglect resulted in hip replacement
  • Thema Williams's multi-million dollar lawsuit against the Trinidad and Tobago Gymnastics Federation will proceed
  • Ashleigh Gnat can casually do an Amanar
  • Nadia controversy
  • Gymnastics legend Nadia Comaneci defends Ilie Nastase after shameful Fed Cup outburst
  • Gymnastics great Nadia blasts 'offensive' Nastase
  • We pitch Disney shows for Laurie Hernandez (spoiler alert, we all hate live action Disney kids TV shows)

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