GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast17 Des 2025

2025 Opportunity for Comedy Awards + Alabama vs Georgia Drama the Documentary Skipped

Our favorite moments from the virtual live show with Cecile Landi and Levi, (watch highlights here) our 2025 Opportunity for Comedy Awards, two college mini-commissions where we delve into all the Alabama-Georgia drama that never made it into the Suzanne and Sarah documentary.
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(5:25) 2025 Opportunities for Comedy Awards

The ''OH HELL NO I am not going out of bounds'' award
Eastern Michigan and West Virginia both contending for the ''you understood the assignment'' award
Why Leila Vasilieva is getting the ''Wolf Turn Protest Award''
Recognizing Zoey Molomo as the winner of the ''Olly Hogben Unintentional Dismount'' award
The impact of Courtney McCool's right heel and why it deserves to win the ''Style Accessory of the Year'' award
What would this show even be if we didn't have at least six candidates for the ''Fall of the Year'' award
Which country wins our ''awkward moment of the year'' award
Giorgia Villa, Angela Andreoli, and Martina Maggio making us feel seen with mic issues on a live broadcast

32:05 GYMTERNET NEWS

ICYMI the FIG has rebranded themselves as World Gymnastics. Are there any big changes to come from this?
How are the NCAA pre-season intrasquad meets looking?
- Georgia looked goooood
  - What insights did Cecile give us about Camarah Williams and JaFree Scott at the live show?
- UCLA looked very UCLA in December
- Kayla DiCello is so back
- Ana Barbosu is going to dominate at Stanford
Nina Derwael was knighted and granted the grade of Grand Officier of the Order of Leopold by King Phillippe as recognition for her gymnastics career

45:29 MINI-COMMISSION: One Per Event Dream Team

Using only gymnasts from the past three years, selecting gymnasts from any team, who would be on our ideal college gymnastics teams?

1:07:11 MINI-COMMISSION: Alabama-Georgia Drama

We go into depth as to how the Georgia-Alabama started, the back and forth between the teams, and of course the outfits and ''stereotypes'' of each team
- The dog bite incident
How dominant were these teams in the SEC and nationally?
What legacies do these teams carry on that are still applicable today?
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Spencer's essential website The Balance Beam Situation
- GIFs of the Week and Meet schedule with links.
Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
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