264: 2017 PG Championships Mega Recap

2017 US Elite National Championships

• Results, the stick and vault bonus disclaimer, plus E and D winners. (1:48)
• Award Ceremony (6:11)
  • The 2017 Jessica O'Beirne Pussilanimouses Will Never Be Heroes Award to Sienna Robinson
  • The Best New Accidental Skill Award to Jordan Chiles
  • The Living Legend Hero Team Captain Award to Aly Raisman
  • The Wrong Answer Award to Nastia Liukin and Tim Daggett
  • The Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Fall Award to Leah Clapper once, and twice
  • The Funniest How I Learned This Skill Award to Emily Gaskins
  • The What Could Possibly Go Wrong Award to John Macready. Again.
• Women's junior competition (37:35)
  • Maile O'Keefe is a hit machine with room to upgrade
  • Emma Malabuyo is the real deal in the competition floor and off
  • "THE GAGE JUNIORS" is the new "hello."
    • Kara Eaker's 9.250 beam E is the highest non-vault E score of the whole meet
    • Leanne Wong held her L turn position for 88 minutes and it was breathtaking
    • JaFree Scott shows how to Arabian on beam
  • Adeline Kenlin did her Podkopayeva! Or is it a Faux-dkopayeva?
  • Jay Jay Marshall has all the skills and is planning an upgrade revolution
  • Anya Pilgrim's casual Patterson
  • Gabby Perea has the highest bars D score in the world
  • Olivia Hollingsworth and how to do a double Arabian
  • Fake inbar skills and fake dismounts: an oncoming epidemic?
• Women's senior competition (1:04:27)
  • Ragan Smith only won by 3 and a half points. Simone would be so disappointed
  • The Smith Floor Controversy of '17
    • The problem with using "Dixie"
    • The problem with using wolf whistles
    • Did we like it anyway?
  • Jordan Chiles comes back from Classic with a triumphant second place
  • Riley McCusker hit a lovely 8 for 8 and got third even with downgrades
  • The epic greatness of Trinity Thomas on floor, with a 2.5 stepout, a butterfly, and swashbuckling!
  • Did Morgan Hurd really have a "bad" meet?
    • The problem with NBC's adoption obsession
    • Her BRILLIANT floor-routine theme (everyone else, take notes)
    • The latest entry in the Morgiboo Book Club.
  • Marissa Oakley's phenomenal bars
  • Jade Carey
    • The best she has looked on floor so far this year
    • Did Amanar problems hurt her worlds chances?
  • Ashton Locklear – where does she fit right now?
  • Our WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS dream teams
    • We found the nation of feelings, so that feelings can send a team to worlds
• Men's senior competition (1:37:15)
  • The US men's worlds team is Moldauer, Mikulak, Whittenburg, Penev, Naddour and Kimble
  • Alternates are Modi, Bower, and Van Wicklen
  • And Spencer would like to know what's the meaning of all this!!!!
  • Jessica has the inside scoop from Brett McClure on his process
  • Our highlights
    • Sam Mikulak's high bar and 0.5 neutral deduction
    • Marvin Kimble's comeback story of the century
    • Colin Van Wicklen's day 1 Dragulescu
    • Whittenburg nailed his Ri Se Gwang on the second day
    • Eddie Penev did one of his best floor routines ever and made the worlds team

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