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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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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. Tackling all things gymnastics and performance sport, from physical preparation and psychology, to nutrition and lifestyle, this podcast is a must ...
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Don't peel off the bar! The Gripcast: Gymnastics Unfiltered is where you find unfiltered, intriguing, and informative dialogue on the ins and outs of gymnastics and life. Swing by and stick it with us on our weekly Wednesday podcast! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gymnastunitedinc/support
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She Was Robbed: Gymnastics' Biggest Medal Thefts
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SHE WAS ROBBED! Today, we take on the most dramatic, heinous, unforgettable robberies in gymnastics history and declare who really should have won that gold (or bronze). The 1992 Olympic All-Around: Was Shannon robbed??? The 1988 Olympic All-Around: Was Silivas robbed??? Un-American Heresy: We reassess the 1984 Olympic final and 2011 worlds all-aro…
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The Pan-American Championships saw the US women win team gold alongside a stellar performance from the Mexican women's team that earned silver We continue gushing about Mexico's meet (the vault difficulty! the dramatic bars! the leap completion!) and assess how they would have stacked up at worlds last year Which fan favorites qualified to worlds a…
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Logistical Sweating and the Emma Spence Interview
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Emma Spence Interview Tokyo Olympic alternate, Emma Spence, represented Canada at the 2022 World Championships and Commonwealth Games winning bronze in the team event at both competitions. The World bronze was the Canadian women's first team medal ever. Emma is currently a gymnast at Nebraska while serving on the FIG Safeguarding Working Group. We …
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The Best Beam Routines All other apparatuses take a seat. Today is a beam day. We discuss what makes beam the best apparatus and the qualities consistent across history's greatest beam routines The best overall beam routines, starring Yang Bo, Li Li, Fan Ye, Tatiana Lysenko, Kui Yuanyuan, and Chen Cuiting Honors for excellence in specific fields of…
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Today, we update and revisit some of our favorite busted gymnastics myths—and bust some new myths as well Myths that sound too crazy to be true, naked gymnastics edition Dumb crap left over by haters about periods, height, and lines Who REALLY scored the first perfect 10? The myth of the "candle" mount and the "Liukin" Fighting for justice for Olga…
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How to Get Your Favorite Gymnast to Paris 2024 Olympics
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How to Get to Paris The gymnastics qualification journey for the 2024 Paris Olympics is already underway, and we're here with a full explainer of the pathways for team and individuals. We'll explain what's different from the 2020 qualification process, answering important questions like, how do Lynnzee Brown and Oksana Chusovitina make the Olympics…
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"They Are Made of Something I Am Not": 2023 NCAA Championships
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Oklahoma won its 6th title by .150 over Florida. We discuss whether this makes sense, the perils of recency bias, and the exquisite joys of motivational lying Trinity tied the all-time 10s record in her final competition and we relive the journey of watching Trinity during the warmup periods this weekend The semifinals, UCLA being eliminated with a…
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NCAA Nationals Preview It's NCAA Nationals this week! We look at the competition from a few angles: the eagle-eyed view from the second tier, the view from the fan section, and the view from the judges table, to examine what we expect to see, what the fans want to see, and what the judges should be seeing. Is Florida still a top favorite, what do C…
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Juicy, Juicy Controversy: A Regionals Recap
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NCAA Regionals The Denver regional broke us. We delve into what happened with the tiebreak and what happens when the results don't match what you see with your open eyes A brief intermission from fury for important honors in the field of coach outfits and stick celebration violence Back to controversy with Oklahoma counting a fall on beam and still…
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Elimination Nation: The NCAA Regionals Preview
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NCAA Regionals Preview It's elimination season. 36 becomes 16. 16 becomes 8. We break down the regional championships, renaming each one to give it a more accurate title, assigning the official regional agents of chaos, and profiling key matchups—like Kentucky vs Alabama, Cal vs Michigan State, and the Denver regional vs the judges. All the individ…
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The Brody Malone injury, Russia missing a critical deadline, Trinity Watch, and neutral deduction drama dominated the news this week Plus, NCAA regional assignments are out. We decide which semifinal is the group of death, learn some new pronunciations from the selection show, and explain why Arizona should start a rebellion Meet News Josc Roberson…
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The GymCastic Postseason Sermon featuring Jenny Hansen
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NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS LIVE SHOW On sale now for Club Gym Nerd members with discount. Discount expires on March 24th when tickets go on sale to general public. Headlines The latest on Suni Lee's and Jordan Chiles' competition plans Should Jordan's vault this week have been a 10??????? Haleigh Bryant got 3 perfect 10s in a single meet Plus, Oklahoma sai…
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NCAA Gymnastics Week 9 Florida didn't put up full-strength lineups against Oklahoma and it was the talk of the town. The people were triggered! We discuss why it felt like a letdown and missed opportunity, make the argument in favor of Florida, and generally fix the problems with the NCAA schedule Heroes don't need capes, but they do need vault col…
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Winter Cup This was the year the women truly understood the meaning of Winter Cup: Falling We discuss Lexi Zeiss going full Ellie Black on this meet, the importance of being Nola Matthews, and our breakout stars—and breakout comedians—of the women's senior session (with some Cottbus thrown in for luck) Whose floor routines escaped THE WRATH OF DONA…
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Headline News Starting with the good stuff: This Def happened from Haruka Nakamura (JPN) Now to the bad: Al Fong is under SafeSport investigation with 40 allegations spanning decades. We discuss why on earth this investigation has taken 2.5 years so far and whether it is acceptable to take a break from an investigation for the Olympics. John Roethl…
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EP074 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Janelle McDonald
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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NCAA Headlines Grace McCallum was injured on vault at the Meet No One Could See Correct or Corrupt: The judging incident in Florida. We discuss how this (and all the other judging problems at this competition) might have even happened and why it was allowed to stand, why it matters, why overscoring gymnasts isn't actually a kindness, and why there'…
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EP073 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Charlotte Downing
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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There was a special guest at the women's national team camp this week. How do we feel about this? And what do we hope was said? Morgan Hurd discussed her potentially misdiagnosed knee injury in the run up to the Tokyo Olympics. Bart Deurloo announced his retirement. We pay tribute. NCAA Week 5 Friday featured the most 10s given out in a single day …
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EP072 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Dean Leak
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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What Happens in the Air, Stays in the Air
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SURVEY We want your opinion! Tell us what you think here. EXTRA CLUB CONTENT Club Gym Nerd members can watch the video version of the show, join us for live podcasts once a week, get extended and early releases of interviews, and have early access to live show tickets. Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this episode. …
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BONUS CONTENT Week One of College & Cocktails: The Friday Night NCAA Gymnastics Post-Meet Show is available to sample (even if you aren't a Club Gym Nerd member yet). Watch or listen here. Club Gym Nerd members can watch the video version of the show, join us for live podcasts once a week, get extended and early releases of interviews, and have ear…
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EXTRA CLUB CONTENT Week One of College & Cocktails: The Friday Night NCAA Gymnastics Post-Meet Show is available to sample (even if you aren't a Club Gym Nerd member yet). Watch or listen here. Club Gym Nerd members can watch the video version of the show, join us for live podcasts once a week, get extended and early releases of interviews, and hav…
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EXCLUSIVE CLUB CONTENT College & Cocktails: The Friday Night NCAA Gymnastics Post-Meet Show is available to to sample even if you aren't a Club Gym Nerd member yet. Watch or listen here. Club Gym Nerd members can watch the video version of the show, join us for live podcasts once a week, get extended and early releases of interviews, get early acce…
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EP071 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Barb Fraser
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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THE NADIA MOVIE Lies, lies, and more lies! For today's commissioned episode, we watched the 1984 made-for-TV movie Nadia, a Very Highly Extremely Unauthorized biography of Nadia Comaneci, and we seriously just can't with it. We discuss: Things that definitely 100% happened and aren't lies at all, like Bela Karolyi creepily discovering Nadia at rece…
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EP070 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Danusia Francis-Reid OLY
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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Project K Episode 2: Interview with Nadia & The Secret Police Author Dr. Stejarel Olaru Part Two
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EP069 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Cody Royle
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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Project K: Interview with Nadia & The Secret Police Author Dr. Stejarel Olaru
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Nadia and the Secret Police Today, the start of Project K, our dive into the files and transcripts from "Operation Olympia," the Romanian secret police's multi-year surveillance project investigating the Karolyis. We have the first part of Jessica's interview with Dr. Stej Olaru, whose book Nadia and the Secret Police is currently available for pre…
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EP068 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Richard Husseiny
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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Headline News This week, Morgan Hurd blessed us with a double layout to make it all better, and we have a preview of our major exposé Project K—where gymnastics and spycraft run into each other at full speed inside 1970s Romania—which will finally be coming to your ears over the next two weeks. NCAA Preview We're one month out from the NCAA season,…
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Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to watch this episode. Not a member? Join here Headline News Since we've been gone... Suni Lee announced her impending returning to elite, Sydney Barros registered a nationality switch, and there are big big changes to the US men's resident program in Colorado Springs. Meet News The post-worlds period brou…
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EP067 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Dr Emma Ross
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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The History of Olympic Trials Controversies
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OLYMPIC TRIALS CONTROVERSIES This week, we have a commission from Club Gym Nerd member Jasmine, who asked for an episode on the history of US Olympic Trials—how teams were selected and all the major scandals. And there have been plenty. 1980 - Olympic boycott hypocrisy and what happens when gymnasts tie for the last spot? (Or have alligators?) 1984…
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2000 Olympic Trials This week, we have a group commission from Brianna, Stephanie, Atwood, Laura, Karla, and Emma, all about [deep breath] 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. The significance of 2000 Trials as t…
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EP066 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Jason Laird
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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Liverpool World Championships Event Finals and Mega Worlds Recap
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Liverpool World Championships 2022 Event Finals & Mega Worlds Recap We'll discuss both days of event finals, the breaking (?) of the white leo curse and our favorite and least favorite moments of this World Championships.LOGIN TO JOIN US LIVE Club Gym Nerd members can ask questions live, watch the podcast being recorded, see the gymnastics we discu…
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Liverpool World Championships Men's AA Final
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Liverpool World Championships 2022 Men's All-Around Final Carlos Yulo invented a new skill on vault while Asher Hong did a no-handed giant on high bar. All the details and we answer your questions about women's all around final. LOGIN TO JOIN US LIVE Club Gym Nerd members can ask questions live, watch the podcast being recorded, see the gymnastics …
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Liverpool World Championships Women's AA Final
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Liverpool World Championships 2022 Women's All-Around Final Rebeca Andrade (BRA) is finally the world all-around champion! Shilese Jones (USA) and her arabian won silver and for the first time ever, a British gymnast is on the all-around podium, Jessica Gadirova. LOGIN TO JOIN US LIVE Club Gym Nerd members can ask questions live, watch the podcast …
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EP065 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Richard Shorter
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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Liverpool World Championships Men's Team Final
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Liverpool World Championships 2022 Men's Team Final Did they fix the leak? Why didn't Donnell Whittenburg vault? Did China make a miraculous comeback? LOGIN TO JOIN US LIVE Club Gym Nerd members can ask questions live, watch the podcast being recorded, see the gymnastics we discuss, plus get access to all of our exclusive interviews and Behind The …
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Liverpool World Championships Women's Team Final
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Liverpool World Championships 2022 Women's Team Final The leak on the beam that may or may not have affected the results of the competition. USA won six teams golds in a row (a World record), The British got their highest-ever team medal at Worlds and Canada got their first team medal! Plus the amazing success of Japan and the heartbreak of so many…
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Liverpool World Championships Men's Qualifying
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Liverpool World Championships 2022 Men's Qualification Day Yet another near death experience on vault today and China maybe have lost an all-around mid-meet. We'll discuss the meet, the standout performances and what you didn't see on the live stream. Join us live at 11:45pm-ish local time. LOGIN TO JOIN US LIVE LIVERPOOL LIVE SHOW TICKETS ON SALE …
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Liverpool World Championships Women's Qualifying Day Two
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Liverpool World Championships 2022 Women's Qualification Day Two Italy, Brazil, China, British, France, Netherlands, Japan, S. Korea, Hungary, competed for spots in finals. The beam witch was in full effect and there were some scary moments on vault. We'll discuss it all! Join us live at 11:50pm-ish local time. LIVERPOOL LIVE SHOW TICKETS ON SALE N…
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Liverpool World Championships Women's Day One Qualifying
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Liverpool World Championships 2022 Women's Qualification Day One Everything that you didn't see because the rights holders aren't streaming the freakin' OLYMPIC qualifier here in England. Tonight, Belgium, USA, Spain and Romania competed for spots in finals.By GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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Liverpool World Championships Podium Training Day Two
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LIVERPOOL LIVE SHOW TICKETS ON SALE NOW Podium Training Day Two Everything that happened at the second day of women's podium training from Brazil China, Japan, to new baby German team, plus the British and Italian superstars. JOIN CLUB GYM NERD World Championships Viewer's Guide Join Club Gym Nerd (or give it as a gift!) for access to weekly Behind…
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Liverpool World Championships Podium Training Day One
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LIVERPOOL LIVE SHOW TICKETS ON SALE NOW Join Us Live Club Gym Nerd members can ask questions live, watch the podcast being recorded, see the gymnastics we discuss, plus get access to all of our exclusive interviews and Behind The Scenes episodes. Here's how to ask questions live.Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this…
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World Championships Liverpool Preview
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LIVERPOOL LIVE SHOW TICKETS ON SALE NOW World Championships Preview We discuss the women's and men's A-List celebrities of worlds whom we expect to come home with the most medals, from Rebeca Andrade to Zhang Boheng, from Shilese Jones to Hashimoto Daiki. Going out on a limb for the new breakout stars of worlds, the ones we haven't been talking abo…
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Everything that happened in Katy, Texas at the US Women's World Team Trials, a full analysis of the team and alternates, performance highlights and what you didn't see on the live stream. LIVERPOOL LIVE SHOW TICKETS ON SALE NOWBy GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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