GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast14 Mai 2019

363: Five Is the New Four ...Is the New Five

ALL GYMTERNET NEWS, ALL THE TIME

Dumpster fire news
- It has been yet another terrible month for USAG (a theme???)
- The Li Li Today interview disaster
- The further mess of the botched hiring of Edward Nyman
  - Whose side are we on here? And is it no one's? (It's no one's)
  - A deep dive into the unprofessional incompetence of everyone ever
- Seriously Terin? The Terin Humphrey Facebook nonsense.
- The disastrous, unacceptable debacle that was Mary Lou's latest TV appearance
NCAA Coaching Musical Chairs (41:20)
- Jordyn Wieber is the new head coach at Arkansas
  - What do we think of this move? Is 23 too young to be a head coach? And most importantly, should Chris Brooks be her assistant?
- Chris Waller has been named head coach at UCLA
  - What does a successful Chris Waller tenure look like? We discuss both results and bras. Guess who brought up which topic.
- More from the NCAA coaching carousel, including all the changes at Utah
Olympic and World Championship news (55:30)
- Olympic teams are returning to FIVE (count 'em five) members in 2024. We have extensive thoughts and further proposals, some of them radical
- World championships will cap the number of competitors and introduce a qualification process starting in 2022.
- There are really strict leotard rules for team and individual competitors in 2020 for some reason.
- DRAH-MAAAAAA in the awarding of 2023 worlds. It involves taking people to court over a lack of numerical specificity in deadlines. Spencer is in heaven.
- Important robot judging news.
PLUS
- At the Heart of Gold is now available on HBO. Jessica tells us about the premiere, and we discuss overall thoughts and play "what we've learned since."
- Olympic. Channel. Svetlana. Khorkina. Documentary.
- New recruiting rules in NCAA (finally!)
- Diego Hypolito comes out
- Jordan Schwikert, Alyssa Baumann, and Tasha Schwikert have testified in TX about a MeToo bill
- Simone does her second SI Swimsuit Shoot, and Jessica explains to Spencer why it actually matters

Chinese Nationals!!! (1:36:32)
- Tingting is the national AA champion and UB champion—and is also brilliantly Netherlands-ing the crap out of floor
- The craziness of event finals, where Fan Yilin missed on bars, everybody fell on beam, and Zhang Jin had the most sad-larious floor leap miss-save in history.
- SHANG CHUNSONG won the floor title, but the true winner was her shirt
- World tumbling champion Jia Fangfang has made huge strides on floor
- We have three new perfect junior obsessions: Ou Yushan, Luo Rui, and Guan Chenchen, who is a silly little goose who is dancing constantly
- Plus, the most perfect PBars routine ever.

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