354: American Cup and Jesolo Explosion

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• Men's Program Clarification (4:55): Paul Ruggeri is the new athlete representative on the USAG Board of Directors. Steven Legendre is still the athlete advocate representative for the men's team.

THE MEETS!

American Cup – Women (7:39)

• LEANNNEEE WONNNNG THE END
  • Fact-checking Jessica's feelings, brought to you by Uncle Tim (!!!!)
  • Why someone needs to get Armine a Spotify subscription
• Kim Bui is a bars NINJA and Jessica has a plan to get her an Olympic medal
• Grace McCallum will do Grace McCallum every single Grace McCallum for Grace McCallum points. How she rode being Grace McCallum to the E-score title
• TIE FOR BRONZE between Black and Murakami
  • There were four whole world-medal-level gymnasts at the top of their games fighting for medals. At AMERICAN CUP. You guys.
• The true winner of the meet: the NBC trio's Night of Honesty during commercial breaks (27:45)

American Cup – Men (32:42)

• MATH NERD RAGE: Spencer discusses how Moldauer and Mikulak really should have tied, except the FIG doesn't know how to math good. It's the strongest he's ever felt about anything.
• Moldauer did Moldauer, and Mikulak did Mikulak
• Jessica scores Ma Yue's stick celebration and has a theory about Bart's performance that involves Bambi

Jesolo – Seniors (50:17)

• Sunisa Lee is HERE! She won the AA with 56.466—WITH A FALL
• In which we learn what led Jessica to scream "THEY'RE DOING IT" in the middle of a Best Buy and then start crying.
• Ting Ting for silver. We break down her NCAA-performance floor routine and her most glorious beam
• Emma Malabuyo took bronze as the most consistent competitor of the whole meet, making us forget all about the back problems of 2018
• Qi Qi is everything, and Italy has one allowable bars composition, but it's AMAZING

Jesolo – Juniors (1:07:10)

• AHHHH KONNOR MCCLAIN AHHHH
  • She won the junior AA title and proved an understanding of slapstick comedy far beyond her years
• Everyone is obsessed with Guan Chenchen on floor
• We have a moment about the Russian juniors. More like seven moments (1:11:46)
  • Vladislava Urazova won the hairstyle award again — and also like the AA silver or whatever
  • Elena Gerasimova's fantasy gymnastics video game beam routine is EVERYTHING
  • Viktoria Listunova is the people's floor champion and has set a new standard for getting into a wolf turn position

NCAA (1:20:51)

• Perfect 40 Watch
  • What kept Kyla "Kayla" Ross from a Perfect 40 on Sunday, and a discussion of whether she will get it before the end of her career
  • We have national championships sign plans involving one Brenna "McDowell."
  • When your floor routine makes your coach break into a spontaneous college salute, you know it was a win

FURTHER READING

• Ranking Watch: Week 9
• Sunday Live Blog – March 3, 2019
• Saturday Live Blog – March 2, 2019
• Elite Live Blog – American Cup/Jesolo
• Friday Live Blog – March 1, 2019
• Things Are Happening – March 1, 2019
• National Team Rankings – March 2019
• Best NCAA Team Scores

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