GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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GymCastic Podcast is a weekly gymnastics talk show. The hosts interview people who love gymnastics almost as much as we do, discuss the latest news, events and offensive leotard fashion.

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Congressional Hearings and ...

09.21.2021

Jessica went to Simone Biles GOAT tour rehearsals and HAS to tell you about what she saw, how it's different from—and so much less lame than—every other tour, and how many times she cried (it was a lot). Aly Raisman, ...

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09.21.2021 Congressional Hearings and GOAT Tour Preview Jessica went to Simone Biles GOAT tour rehearsals and HAS to tell you about what she saw, how it's different from—and so much less lame than—every other tour, and how many times she cried (it was a lot). Aly Raisman, ...
09.14.2021 2000 Olympic Trials (Group Commission) [deep breath] this week, the collective nightmare that was the 2000 Olympic Trials. We discuss: The breaking news that there actually was official selection criteria, and it was technically followed. Shannon's comeback. The way the commentators talk about Alyssa Beckerman. ...
09.09.2021 The History of US Olympic Trials Controversies (Commissioned) How US gymnastics teams were selected and all the major scandals. 1980 - Olympic boycott hypocrisy and what happens when gymnasts tie for the last spot? 1984 - The case of Dianne Durham and the Olympic petition. 1988 - The ...
08.30.2021 How to Stage a Gymnastics Protest Imagine a gymnast-led revolt a la Stick It in support of Morgan Hurd not being advanced to Olympic Trials. We discuss the chances something like this could actually happen, then go full fan fiction on how it could have played ...
08.24.2021 Tokyo Olympics Recap BEST OF: Suni to Vanessa Ferrari to Nagornyy trying to crawl inside a wall, to unbroken ties. Simone Biles vs. Twisties: Reflecting on how it played out, how the media narrative evolved, and what would have happened if this were ...
08.19.2021 A Quitter's Try - The CNN Parkettes Documentary A Quitters Try: A deep dive into the 2002-2003 CNN Parkettes Documentary called Achieving The Perfect 10. Is Parkettes is a terror palace of nightmares as described in Jennifer Sey's book and literally filmed here or as folks inside Parkettes ...
08.12.2021 Best of GymCastic: 80s Fight! The Greatest Gymnastics Rivalries of the 1980’s: pre-80’s setting for all the Romanian Soviet dramatics: including the 1977 ROMANIAN PROTEST WALKOUT! Nellie Kim NEVER getting over the failure of the world to recognize that she and Nadia got the first ...
08.03.2021 Tokyo Olympics Event Finals Day 3: Beam, High Bar, PBars Simone returned to the podium and didn’t die on her beam dismount; Larisa Iordache's scratch; Chenchen definitive beam queen; we break down every beam routine; a historic medal for Turkey on Pbars from Arican, Zou regained his p-bars crown; Sam ...
08.02.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Event Finals Day Two Event Finals for Women's Floor, Men's Vault and Rings. Jade Carey is an Olympic Champion! Historic Olympic medal for Armenia with Artur Davtyan’s bronze on vault. 30 year old, Vanessa Ferrari finally has an Olympic medal! Shin won gold with ...
08.01.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Event Finals Day One Men's FX and PH Women's VT and Bars. 1st Olympic Champ in gymnastics for Israel - Dolgypyat! Brazil's 1st ever Olympic Champion in women’s gymnastics, Rebeca Andrade ! Yeo Seojeong with the 1st ever South Korean women’s Olympic medal! Nina ...
07.29.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Women's All Around Final All the details you didn't see on tv, direct from Tokyo. Sunisa Lee almost flew off bars but WISELY changed both her floor and beam routines to become the first ever Asian American, Hmong, all around Olympics Champion. Rebeca Andrade ...
07.28.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Mens AA Final Details from the last dramatic rotation, the surprise .3 neutral deduction for Xiao Ruoteng, what Nagorny said about his third place place finish and our updates on Simone scratching from AA Finals.
07.27.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Women's Gymnastics Team Final Groundbreaking moment when Simone scratched for mental health reasons. Russia winning team gold for the first time EVER! British winning bronze for the first time in 90+ years! Heroic moments abound in this super competitive, mega exciting women's team final.
07.26.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Men's Team Final Nikita Nagornyy's smart improvisation won gold for Russia. The Sam Mikulak Artur Dalaloyan hug that gave us all the international world peace feels. A rotation by rotation recap!
07.25.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Women's Qualifying Simone didn't have her best competition, Rebeca Andrade placed second AA. The US finished behind Russia by more than a point going into Team Finals. Defending Olympic medalists failed to even make finals including Sanne Wevers on beam. Danusia Francis ...
07.24.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Men's Gymnastics Qualifications Men's qualifications: our instant take after watching a day full of heartbreak (Kohei), triumph (Japan, Yoder and Rhys) and amazing careers come to an end (Epke)
07.22.2021 Tokyo Olympics: WAG Podium Training Olympic gymnast, Luciana Alvarado from Costa Rica kneels for Black Lives Matter during the choreography for her floor routine. This it the first known Black Lives Matter artistic expression ever used in an elite gymnastics routine. Simone Biles lands the ...
07.21.2021 Tokyo 2020: MAG Podium Training Kara Eaker and the case of the positive alternate test. Did British Gymnastics break the rules? Dalaloyan did vault and floor three months post-op on an achilles tear. The vault acted like a bridge troll who didn't want anyone to ...
07.13.2021 Olympic Preview Part 2; Justice for Bower and Juda All-Around and event final Olympic previews for artistic gymnastics, qualification day stars to watch, USAG steps in it again violating their own procedures, which US Olympian won't have a coach; predicting nonsense people will find to complain about Simone Biles ...
07.07.2021 Tokyo Olympics Women's Gymnastics Team Preview Today, we preview the 12 teams qualified to the women's competition at the Olympics: who's on them, expectations, storylines, and medal hopes. All your US questions post-trials in a rapid-fire Q&A. Well, medium-fire. OK, slow-fire. Plus what happened to Charlotte ...
06.30.2021 Olympic Trials Party and Postmortem The 4th spot: Why "going by the scores" and "going by the all-around standings" are NOT the same thingSunisa Lee outscored Simone on day 2. We gush about her everything, with a reminder about gymnastics goldfish memories. Jordan Chiles is ...
06.28.2021 We Have Olympic Teams Our instant take live from St. Louis at Olympic Trials. Why didn't USAG take the top scoring team? What the athletes had to say. Why Simone Biles cried after beam, it's not what you think it is. Why we can't ...
06.26.2021 Olympic Trials Day One Our immediate reactions to night one of the women's and men's Olympic Trials including: the top scoring team after day one; the MAG second vault score investigation; Simone's double double beam dismount; the standing ovation; what you didn't see in ...
06.22.2021 31 Olympics Gymternet News Minisode Be sure to check out our US Olympic Trials Preview, where we make the case for every athlete Canada and France name Olympic teams. Coaching news out of the Netherlands. The first Chinese Olympic test produced more questions than answers. ...
06.20.2021 Olympic Trials Preview: The Case for Every Athlete Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee and who will get the final two spots? Leanne Wong, Grace McCalllum, DiCello, Skinner, Riley? We make a case for all 18 women's athletes and all the men including. Favorites for the +1 spot, ...
06.15.2021 Gymnastics International: It's Not Nabs! Updates on the US trials petition drama and the statement from USAG saying Tom Forster "misspoke" which only provoke more questions A palate cleanser of Laurie Hernandez's skill reveals. A deeper dive into the Becky Downie situation and how she ...
06.10.2021 2021 US Nationals Recap, Starring Petition Drama Morgan Hurd was not advanced to Olympic Trials. We discuss what Tom Forster said to the press about it, the confusion USAG fully brought on itself, and whether that decision actually makes sense. Simone Biles. Gushing about the best parts ...
06.07.2021 Day Two Women's Gymnastics Championships 2021 The Morgan Hurd petition controversy, what we know and what we do not. Why Simone didn't do her Yurchenko double pike tonight. What happened to Shane Wiskus on HB. Riley's 15.1 on bars. Suni UB score controversy. Jordan Chiles belonging. ...
06.05.2021 Day One Women's Gymnastics Championships 2021 We discuss the results, the history makers this week from Jade Carey's triple twisting double layout to Olivierias arabian double pike out at Pan Ams; what the highest scoring 3-up-3-count team would be based on day one results and how ...
06.02.2021 Don't Sign National Team Agreement Until You Listen The USAG National Team Agreement as long been a point of contention for athletes and parents. On the eve of US Championships when the US National Team will be named, Jessica talked to attorneys Jaime Santos, partner at Goodwin in ...
06.01.2021 U.S. Nationals Preview plus Kyle Shewfelt on his new book, Make It Happen The biggest questions we have heading into nationals—featuring Konnor McClain's sudden gym move, Riley McCusker's injury status, whether Sunisa Lee will do the all-around, and who's going to write the worst article about Simone's vault. MAN THINGS: Kensley tells us ...
05.25.2021 Simone Biles Yurchenko Double Pike Has Landed and US Classic Review Simone Biles officially debuted the Yurchenko double pike. We discuss how awesome it is, and Spencer has 84 things to say about the D score. What Tom Forster, US High Performance Coordinator, said when Jessica asked if USAG would fight ...
05.18.2021 US Classic Preview Starring Chellsie and Simone Justice for Mai! At 24 Murakami Mai made the Japanese Olympic team. New Code is out. Our highlights and lowlights. Important PSA re: chilling out. It's not the end of the world if your favorite makes a mistake. Expectations do ...
05.12.2021 Chinese Champs plus Project K Decoding Romanian Secret Police Files on The Karolyis with Dr. Simona Petracovschi PROJECT K: The Romanian Secret Police Files on the Karolyis. Interview with Prof. Petracovschi, discussing the relationship between the Securitate and the athletes in communist Romania. Chinese Championships breakdown.British Gymnastics Olympic Trials: In Australia news, the Human Rights Commission report ...
05.06.2021 Jessica Bendinger Interview The screen writer of Bring It On and director of the hit gymnastics movie Stick It on scary NYC punk shows in the 1980's and of course legendary punk band, Bad Brains who get a nod in the movie. Pitching ...
04.27.2021 Unitard Revolution Four more Olympic spots have been clinched, including by Larisa Iordache (ROM)! We discuss her valiant triumph over kidney infection, her intent on giving us all heart attacks, her fast-forward award acceptance speech, and...maybe a little about the scoring.Nikita Nagornyy's ...
04.20.2021 NCAA Championships Recap and Jaime Santos Esq explains the NCAA case before the Supreme Court USAG says Jade can reject her nominative spot and go for a Team spot at Trials. We have questions. Deanna Hong is producing the Laurie Hernandez portion of a new docuseries called Golden.Michigan becomes the 7th team to win a ...
04.13.2021 Soviet Gymnastics: Not the Specter of Evil (Commissioned) What do you think of when you think of Soviet gymnastics? Dominance? Ballet? Caviar? How the Soviet Union changed the game immediately upon attending the Olympics for the first time. Top 10 Soviet Gymnasts of All Time. Prof. O'Beirne's history ...
04.13.2021 2021 NCAA Championship Preview We preview the action, with expectations for each teams and key gymnasts to watch. SEMIFINAL I: Florida, Michigan, Cal, Minnesota. The semifinal of gymternet darlings What does a victory look like for these teams? What should our expectations be for ...
04.06.2021 Regionals Got Weird Who advanced to nationals and who didn't Is competing back-to-back(-to-back) days unfair to the athletes? We HAVE to talk about that beam judging.An injury apocalypse and vault balk-pocalypse .The Case of the Georgia Floor Lines. Evan Manivong's vaccine card vault ...
03.30.2021 All About Aly (Commissioned) A true champions of the sport, Aly Raisman. Consistency, muscles, cardio. Owning things we thought about Aly when we first saw her as a junior elite that turned out to be false. Her 2010 American Cup performance. The "mini-Alicia" years, ...
03.24.2021 Conference Championship of Upsets USAG announced the 18-member US women's national team. We discuss why Konnor McClain and Skye Blakely aren't on it and whether it matters. The NCAA conference championships had UPSETTTTTTTS. Denver beat OU after OU's apocalyptic floor rotation and hilarious OOB ...
03.18.2021 Anna Pavlova: History and Heartbreak (Commissioned) This week's episode has been commissioned by Dr. Ben, who asked for an episode on the fascinating history of Anna Pavlova, who blessed us with her flexibility, artistry, and power, yet who heartbreakingly remained off the podium in many major ...
03.15.2021 Gymnastics International 5: 2021 Russian Championships Celebrating the Big 3 Viktoria Listunova – National champion, queen of vault faces. Vladislava Urazova – All-around silver, bringing back the beam mount SERIES. Angelina Melnikova – Won floor even though she thought she wasn't ready. The Challengers: Yana Vorona ...
03.09.2021 Everyone Should Get a 5 Except Lexy Ramler Massive conflict of interest in the USAG bankruptcy case. Daniels Report didn't even interview the Karolyis. Sigh.The FIG has added clarifications to the Olympic qualification documents. The athletes are writing a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER to USAG urging a change of ...
03.02.2021 Would You Say That to a Russian's Face? Winter Cup Review Jordan Chiles is your AA champ, Laurie Hernandez comeback was glorious.It happened. We gush about Jordan Chiles' 57 !) AA to win, Shilese Jones, Sunisa Lee's new bars routine and all her Sanne variations, and of course the triumphant return ...
02.23.2021 Winter Cup Preview: NOW with women WINTER CUP It's coming. This weekend. We preview the women's competition...and then later in the episode actually get the real roster...don't worry about it. Laurie Hernandez is starting her comeback. What are our expectations? Plus, Sunisa Lee, Riley McCusker, Konnor ...
02.15.2021 Celery Beam Simone showed a competition-ready Yurchenko double pike on 60 Minutes. We discuss what it should be valued and how we're preparing for the injustice of it all, plus the inevitable fact-checking when civilians try to talk about gymnastics. The legacy ...
02.10.2021 Gym Nerd School 102: College Gymnastics In the second class of the Gym Nerd School series this semester, we explain rules, myths, scandals, and important gym nerd history while answering your questions about women's college gymnastics. From outfits to broadcasts to teams to 10s. The NCAA ...
02.02.2021 Kyla 'The Boss' Ross Interview Olympic, World, and NCAA Champion Kyla Ross joins us this week! We discuss: What it's like returning as undergraduate coach this season after her own senior year was cut short, her current coaching duties, the weirdness of preseason this year, ...

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