243: Senate Bill 534

IN THE NEWS

In the news, Uncle Tim, Spencer and Jessica chat about:

• The American Cup & Nastia Cup:
  • Our favorite routines of the weekend from Yul Moldauer and Colbi Flory's beam to Sam Oldham floor
  • The Bart Deurloo Story - crotch vs pommel horse
  • Elite Code trends e.g., Dos Santos no pause before acro skill on beam, front tumbling and wolf turns-in-a-row-hell
  • Which was better: American Cup, Nastia Cup or any NCAA meet
  • Ignorant things Al Trautwig said
  • The Nastia Interview about Nassar
• NCAA Update (43:10)
  • Highlights and DII/III teams beating DI teams, Cal's bar dismounts
  • Spencer explains why George Washington is the hipster gymnastics team
  • Eye Roll of the Week Award
  • Crack or Correct : Ohashi's 10 on beam and Gnat vs. McMurtry vault, Rachel Schick beam

GYMTERNET NEWS

Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet include:

• Aly Raisman's coach, Mihai Brestyan, is the new Australian national team coach.
• Romanian, Swedish, Canadian and Russian news
• Simone Biles broke her rib on the post-Olympic tour but didn't get a diagnosis for two and a half weeks!
• USA Gymnastics Sexual Abuse Investigation:
  • LEGISLATION: Senator Diane Feinstein introduced her bill (S534), read the text of the bill here and her press release here.
  • Call your representative (find them here) to thank or tell them to pass this bill!
  • To support the victims use hashtag #GymJaneDoe
  • THE DOCUMENTS:
    • A judge released 5,600 pages of court records detailing how USAGym handled sexual abuse allegations over 10 years
    • Allow a convicted sex offender to keep his membership? A USA Gymnastics regional chairman supported that
    • Here's USAGym's statement on the decision to release 54 administrative files related to sexual misconduct
    • "The coach is as much a member as the athlete," President Steve Penny testified in records re: sex abuse
    • The unsealed documents include emails from USA Gymnastics to coaches, FBI Interviews, and more
  • Feedback:
    • Why was the FBI so slow to investigate Larry Nassar?
    • Letter from a transgender gymnast
    • Defamation vs. banning abusers

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• 222: New King
• 223: Tasha Schwikert
• 224: Age of the Pegan
• 226: FIG Regime Change
• 227: Jane Doe2 Sues Karolyis
• 229: All Good Things Come To Those Who Cowboy
• 234: Chris Brooks
• 233: Danell Leyva 2016
• 232: Conflict of Interest
• 235: Happy 2017!
• 240: Chalkography
• 239: Elite Canada, Reykjavik & NCAA
• 56: Preventing Abuse in Gymnastics