GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast23 Jul 2019

377: CAPES The US Classic Senior Review

US CLASSIC

Overall impressions
- This meet was goooooooood. It's Classic. It's not supposed to be this good.
- Jessica talks about happiness and feelings and a kinder, gentler gymnastics
- The broadcast: Tim said "dickmount," the Tim Daggett/Tom Forster passive-aggressive showdown about over-competing that we wanted to last forever, and much more
Listen. The WCC gymnasts walked out in capes. Simone had BILES on her back. All of our dreams are coming true. Obviously this has given us other signature leo ideas.
Simone's floor upgrades. I mean. Guys. We need to talk about this. For a while.
Event Queens of E: Simone's vault, McCusker's bars, Simone's beam and McCusker's beam, and McCusker's floor
- Honorable mention to Hurd's bars, Trinity's bars, and Gilstrap's next-level floor leaps
Scoring records and our problems with the execution evaluation
The Pan Ams team has been named. Spencer has some concerns about the selection approach, and we need to commune about the absence of Sunisa on the team despite this.
Our pre-meet mysteries: How MyKayla Skinner, Jordan Chiles, Faith Torrez, and Gabby Perea answered the questions we had going in, and our theories about Skinner's floor
You heard right: We're gushing about something Jade Carey did choreographically
Plus, the GAGEs did GAGE things, Morgan is right on track, and TRINITY TRINITY TRINITY
Emma Malabuyo pulled out with a broken tibia. We discuss the Texas Dreams injury situation.
We invented a new term "MenCAA" please adjust your phrasing accordingly from now on.

GYMTERNET NEWS

OK, there's not that much time for gymternet news this week, but we just had to discuss the Maria Caire/UCLA story.

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