GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast22 Jan 2019

348: Break the Beam, Literally

COLLEGE GYMNASTICS (03:36)

SEC excitement won the day on Friday. We ask: is there actually a way to make wins and losses matter in college, or is it just a nice idea?
- Plus, Ruby's shriek of joy, Alexa Al-Hameed's Tkatchev, the Priessman/Hundley friendship featurette for people with feelings, Finnegan being all Finnegan, and Baumann being all Baumann
- Crack or correct: Lexie Priessman's 9.825 VT (8:08) and Trinity Thomas's 9.950 FX
Sabrina Vega literally broke the beam in Georgia (or it bowed to her greatness)
Spencer has no words for the insane scoring at the UCLA/Arizona State meet.
Oklahoma scores 197.000, which is like 193.000 for Oklahoma
- Maggie Nichols out with a bruised heel
- Crack or correct: Anastasia Webb's 9.950 on beam (45:20)
McKenna Merrell-Giles wins the hilarious beam fall award, and what's the deal with Skinner's scores?
Random stick-themed nonsense of the week: Oregon State's stick chainsaw, and Illinois' stick STICK
Shout outs to Arden Hudson of Ball State for vaulting a handspring repulsion 2/1, and Sophia Hyderally of Alaska for her magical floor.
Crack or correct: Ona Loper's 9.750 vault, New Hampshire's 49.425 beam rotation ((1:24:00)

ADVICE CORNER (1:08:59)

What is proper meet etiquette? Jessica and Spencer have some...differing views about how one should behave in the audience at a gymnastics competition. As you might imagine.

GYMTERNET NEWS (1:26:44)

John Engler finally resigned from MSU
Kathryn Carson has a board update. Everything is great apparently, unless you ask anyone
US women have national team camp at EVO this week, and there's drama over who got invited and who did not
TRIGGER WARNING: The trouble with SafeSport
Rosters are out for the Stuttgart AA world cup (SIMONE AND ALIYA) and Melbourne event world cup

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