323: Miss Val Retires, Inside Men's Doha Selection, and the MLT Debrief

CONTEST

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THE BIG STORIES

• Miss Val will retire after the 2019 season (3:30)
  • Nostalgia for the age of larger-than-life coaches
  • What does UCLA do now? And is it a knife fight for the head coach position?
• MLT interview - the aftermath (20:20)
  • How Jessica feels about it now and why she never wants to do it again
  • "This is a sense in which reconciliation can serve as a powerful force for societal healing. But at the same time, these negative consequences on the individual psyche are still there."
  • Reactions, regrets, impressions, hopes, frustrations, and feedback
  • What Jetter and her dad had to say
• Kensley attended US men's selection camp and has ALL THE SCOOPS (59:40)
  • Mikulak, Moldauer, Yoder, Modi, and Van Wicklen will go to Doha
  • Why Whittenburg was left off the national team
  • Marvin Kimble drama-things
  • Why Brett McClure is scared of the Olympic tour
  • The trashy gym and mismatched equipment the US men have to use

MEET NEWS

• Pan American Championships (1:31:13)
  • Dominance from the US women (duh)
  • Grace McCallum's world championships chances
  • Trinity Thomas makes history
  • Don't sleep on Team Mexico
  • JUSTICE FOR THE WOMEN OF CUBA
  • The US men won with consistency
  • Manrique was the Manrique of the meet
• Becky Downie is doing a 6.6 BARS ROUTINE

GYMTERNET NEWS (1:46:29)

• Ropes and Gray is delayed until the end of 2018
• Mary Lou Retton is on Dancing with the Stars
  • ......
  • Lobbied Senator Feinstein against the SafeSport bill
• Alyssa Beckerman with Inside Gym: "You hear a lot that Larry Nassar was a tumor on an otherwise perfect system and… NO! Larry preyed upon a broken system." Note to MLR
• FYI: World Championships is canceled
  • Celine Van Gerner and Eythora Thorsdottir will not compete
  • Bram Verhofstad didn't make the Dutch men's team
  • Coline Devillard is out for France
• The Thema Williams trial has begun
• Peyton Ernst is retiring
• Stacey Ervin did a WWE something or other

FURTHER READING

US Men – World Championship Selection The Miss Val Show Pan American Championships – What Happened There?

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