Welcome to Behind The Scenes! Today are watching the at U.S. Championships in Ft. Worth featuring Olympic all-around champions, Simone Biles and Suni Lee alongside their multi-World and Olympic medal winning teammates. We are  answering your questions live  (view it right here, on the page, login to your Club Gym Nerd account to reveal the member podcast). Here's how to ask questions live. Can't make it live? Add all the exclusive Club Gym Nerd bonus content to your favorite podcast player -  instructions here. Not a member? Join here. We discuss:

• Simone, Simone, Simone
• What Cecile Landi had to say about the TV wire holder tripping Jordan Chiles and clotheslinning the WCC team 
• The rise of Skye Blakely
• Shilese's decision to withdraw and petition to Trials and other scratches
• Results of the Washington Post's Highest Scoring Olympic Team Machine and other potential iterations
• Plus, alllllll the behind the scenes stories about how Simone embarrassed herself so much she literally hit the deck laughing

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• Highest scoring team machine from Emily Giambalvo at the Washington Post
• Will Graves story on “Simone Biles is not “cured.” Let’s start there. A cure implies finality. An ultimate and decisive victory.”

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