IN THE NEWS

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

• The University of North Carolina gymnastics team is hosting an LGBTQ Community Support meet on Friday, January 20th.
  • UNC is home of Morgan Lane and this beam series
• Artistic themes for floor routines that absolutely need to be performed ASAP (4:24)
• The NCAA Recap:
  • Oklahoma (15:51)
    • Chayse Capps beam 9.975 vs Peng Peng beam
    • Most controversial comments made by Kelly Garrison (Steves) Funderburk
  • Florida (27:16)
    • Rachel Slocum's vault
      • McMurtry is 4th member of Club DTY
      • Kennedy Baker and her Dos Santos are anchoring floor
      • Amelia Hundley happiness bars
      • Mollie Korth of Kentucky, Belarus call her up FX
  • Alabama ( 35:06)
    • Kiana Winston's 9.950 bar routine
    • Aja Sims police siren floor routine
  • Windy City Invitational (43:08)
  • The strangest trend in NCAA right now - teams running behind the vaulter (39:30)
  • The most controversial scores of the week (41:38): Ashleigh Gnat LSU 10 for her DTY vault and Chayse Capps UB 9.9

GYMTERNET NEWS

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

• Simone Biles interviewed by Tom Hanks on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
• Eythora, Oleg, Mikulak and Ragan Smith headline the American Cup
  • Qualification rules for all-around World Cups explained (1:00:41)
• Nile Wilson injured
• Aliya Mustafina is with child
• Trampoline Parks are bad.
• FEEDBACK your hilarious letters and solutions to all problems gym nerd (1:11:31):
  • How to watch NCAA meets if you live outside of the US: Slingtv international package and lets you add SEC and Pac12 for about $25/month or NastiaFan101take12
  • Why do college gymnasts sit in a straddle conga line after the meet?
  • Simone Biles & Aly Raisman will appear in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition and are treated completely differently than men for doing so.
  • A newbie Fantasy NCAA gym player has created super villain nicknames for his entire roster.
• RAGE-O-METER: Leotard sizes and panty peek-a-boo.

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